T&T: Hand turning an engine

[patrick Benvenutti]

There were Lister Diesel crank start fuel pumps on all of the Stone fuel 
barges in the MS River down in New Orleans for years.  Short of sinking an 
old Lister you aren't gona kill that motor.


>From: "Faure, Marin" <marin.faure at boeing.com>
>To: <trawlers-and-trawlering at lists.samurai.com>
>Subject: T&T:  Hand turning an engine
>Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:53:16 -0700
>
> >I challenge anyone to try to start any diesel engine by turning it by
>hand with a ratchet/bar, even if it is hot.
>
>The good-size, air-cooled, three-cylinder Lister diesels used in some
>narrowboats (canal boats) in the UK can be started by hand with a crank
>that attaches to the flywheel.   BUT..... there is a compression release
>on (I think) two of the cylinders that MUST be used in order to pull a
>piston up hard enough in its cylinder with the crank to ignite the fuel
>mixture.  The hand-crank method was for emergency use only--- we've
>never had to do it but I know it can be done.  But this is a different
>deal that slowly turning over a diesel by hand to set the valve
>clearances.
>
>______________________________
>C. Marin Faure
>GB36-403 "La Perouse"
>Bellingham, Washington
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