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RE: Difficult starting

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Subject: RE: Difficult starting
From: Gernot Vonhoegen <gernot.vonhoegen@stir.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 13:38:51 +0100
I know of a device to squirt stuff called Start Pilot into the carbs
from the drivers seat, basically a pvc line going to a spray can with
some alcohol and to the carbs. Commercially available, no joke.

Gernot

> ----------
> From:         Allen Nugent[SMTP:A.Nugent@unsw.edu.au]
> Reply To:     Allen Nugent
> Sent:         Thursday, April 02, 1998 2:05 AM
> To:   Sumner Weisman
> Cc:   triumphs@autox.team.net
> Subject:      Re: Difficult starting
> 
> 
> Sumner,
> 
> At 09:03 1/04/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >Aside from rigging up a cable that squirts some starting fluid into
> the
> >carbs, actuated from the driver's seat (just kidding) -- what else
> should I
> >try?
> 
> Back in Canada, one of my mates kept his Simca engine warm at nights
> with an
> electric blanket. (He forgot about it one morning, though: chopped the
> blanket to bits with the fan, bent or broke a fan blade or two, and
> blew the
> circut breaker in the garage!)
> 
> Allen Nugent
> Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering
> University of New South Wales
> Sydney  2052  Australia
> 

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