I have a tip from you from a similar buw smaller agricultural diesel, If you can acess the cylinder, through the decompression apparatus, drop inside a small ball of cotton, the size of a pea. Cotton combusts at lower pressure than diesel and this tiny amount of heat will start it straight away!
There are no glow plugs on these motors, so this is a pretty normal cold start. They do have a decompression lever and a hand crank, but it's a bit of work to start manually. Once they're warm, they'll start right up.
yeah that would be killer on the arm, it started pretty good for a cold engine with no plugs, ive seen a tractor cranking over for like 45mins, it had burned out plugs...
Isn't it a bit excessive to run the starter for extended periods? I'm thinking it would probably be good to crank it over for 2 to 3 seconds and if it doesn't start up that time, Turn of the ignition, wait a few seconds and try again, Or are extended cranking periods normal for marine diesels like this?
@towhook I forgot about that.
ford9572 1 year ago
She's a runner!!!
ford9572 1 year ago
Was this a Spring first start after sitting for the winter?
divisioneight 2 years ago
english: nice sound we had an md6b but it crashed.
nederlands: mooi geluid wij hadden een md6b maar die is vastgelopen
groetjes, martijn
regards, martijn
martijnmuller2 2 years ago
Na de winterstalling de boot vorige week te water gelaten en de MD7A start als vanouds met 1 draai van het contactslot.
30 jaar oud. LOL! Belachelijk lange start op dit filmpje!
enigma01011 2 years ago
i have a volvo penta diesel model 2002 does anyone know if my motor has glow plugs?
dirtrider5001 3 years ago
Sound good! indeed!
gooseknack 3 years ago
I have a tip from you from a similar buw smaller agricultural diesel, If you can acess the cylinder, through the decompression apparatus, drop inside a small ball of cotton, the size of a pea. Cotton combusts at lower pressure than diesel and this tiny amount of heat will start it straight away!
proutsos 4 years ago
no glow plugs on those engines i assume? or wasn't started in a while/both...
mageac 4 years ago
There are no glow plugs on these motors, so this is a pretty normal cold start. They do have a decompression lever and a hand crank, but it's a bit of work to start manually. Once they're warm, they'll start right up.
Stellwagen 4 years ago
yeah that would be killer on the arm, it started pretty good for a cold engine with no plugs, ive seen a tractor cranking over for like 45mins, it had burned out plugs...
mageac 4 years ago
Isn't it a bit excessive to run the starter for extended periods? I'm thinking it would probably be good to crank it over for 2 to 3 seconds and if it doesn't start up that time, Turn of the ignition, wait a few seconds and try again, Or are extended cranking periods normal for marine diesels like this?
ford9572 2 years ago
@ford9572 It's ok for a starter to crank up to 30 seconds then it must cool down for 2 minutes before cranking again.
towhook 1 year ago