Starting a car with a dead battery with a rope #2

[casaeger]

am i the old one that thinks jacking the car up and tieing a rope to a wheel is overkill why don't they just build a little speed up pushing it and drop the clutch ive done it on many a beater car

[TheFred1952]

that will not work if it's a automatic only if it's a stick same as push starting

[bmwbob86]

Lol at all the Americans commenting thinking every car in the world has Automatic transmission... This is the same thing as bump starting a car, just with the wheels in the air and using a rope to turn over the engine.

[hondaslave]

a dead battery means=dead....fake

[jonnielahti]

in sovijet russia, car starts you!

[TheMisterDeeJay24]

Not that difficult of a concept. You have someone drop it in gear or pop the clutch AFTER the rope is pulled. No different than push or pull starting a vehicle. Seen it done more than once with diesel trucks & semi tractors on a cold day. Hook up a chain, pull it & build up speed then drop it in gear. This is just a variation of the same concept.

[323brendan]

push it into the lake



[6emees]

Looks like a good idea for the case you are on your own end no help nearby to push or give you a jumpstart. Does the other wheel have to be lifted up too, or will differential keep it in place?

[magnum9987]

Fake. You can hear the starter motor for christs sake

[gigobait]

@magnum9987 LOL

[TahreyUK]

@magnum9987 If your starter motor sounds like that, you should get it replaced ASAP

[TheAstro30]

@magnum9987 you obviously have no idea how manual transmissions and mechanics work

[magnum9987]

@TheAstro30 Oh really? You can't even tell if this is a manual. And, you can't start a manual car without putting the tranny into neutral, which not only separates the engine from the wheels, but completely disengages the starter system, including the ignition. And if I don't know anything about manual transmissions, how come I've taken one apart and put it back together? How come I go to an advanced technical school? Since I obviously don't know anything about mechanics. Thats sarcasm, you know

[bladerizer]

@magnum9987 Fine by me if you go to a fancy school, papers don't make a man smart. Cars have been pull-started for nearly a century now, not to mention pushing. Both of those methods need the transmission to be in gear. And yet the ignition works. Cars with automatic transmissions cannot be pull started, by the way...

Seems to me that you consider yourself well-taught at mechanics, however in reality you don't have much common sense, it seems. And yet you take an offensive stand at others.

[magnum9987]

@bladerizer Perhaps you didn't see what I actually said. I have taken apart and put together a manual transmission several times. I installed one into a car. In the US at least, manual cars come with a neutral safety switch. These will not let manual cars start unless the car is in neutral, or the if the clutch pedal is engaged, both of which separate the engine from the tranny. I do not know if European cars have these as standard, and if they don't, then yes, a pull start would work.

[bladerizer]

@magnum9987 It might be so in the US, yes. I must admit I don't know about European cars much, but Russian cars do not have this switch. Luckily - otherwise there'd have been a lot of trouble getting around in the 80's-90's, when there was a deficit of car batteries everywere across the wide USSR.

[opferte]

@magnum9987 The neutral safety switch disables the starter motor only. It does not disable the ignition.

[bladerizer]

@magnum9987 So? Even if the starter can't crank the engine, it'll still help with the starting. It's not fake, it's a known trick for starting older, better cars.

[RTdeluxe]

@magnum9987 lmao, pretty quite starter then u dumb fuck

[ELijahKan10]

@magnum9987 no you cant

[NICKMProductions]

I bet it only works on Lada's.

[gigobait]

@NICKMProductions It will work on other cars too, Lada's aren't so different from other cars.

[TahreyUK]

@gigobait No different from pull-starting a lawnmower or chainsaw, just that you've got the gearbox in-between. I had a go at doing it on my old VW one time, just with a torque wrench on the hub bolt... XD

(didn't go well - not enough speed, too much kickback... a rope, however... wish I'd thought of that)

[a86rallychamp]

@TahreyUK

yep...but if u rotate the engine after its compression state then less kickback....

we do start race mopeds engine using similar tecnique.....hehehehehe

[wvargas41]

Say what?

[Craphaelo]

if the rope get your hand...you will lost it or die...watch out!

[bobesfanchi]

does the gear have to be in neutral?

[Koalakunkku]

@bobesfanchi ofc not :)

[AKAtheA]

@bobesfanchi wouldn't work...has to in gear...

[Veikra]

@bobesfanchi If the transmission is in neutral, the engine can't turn the wheels, so do you think the wheel can turn the engine if the transmission is in neutral?