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1. Re: Crank (score: 1)
Author: Thomas Wiencek <wiencek@anl.gov>
Date: 01 Mar 2002 08:56:59 -0600
One more safety item. Always crank with an open hand (palm up). If the car back fires you can break your wrist!!! It will not work with a discharged battery if the car has an alternator, as some curr
/html/alpines/2002-03/msg00003.html (7,234 bytes)

2. Re: Crank (score: 1)
Author: Lloyd Elliott <lloydel@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 07:14:21 -0800
I would like to try this. Does anybody have an extra crank? Lloyd
/html/alpines/2002-03/msg00004.html (6,246 bytes)

3. Crank (score: 1)
Author: Lloyd Elliott <lloydel@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 09:00:52 -0800
Can you really start an Alpine with a crank? The owners manual refers to doing so, but does not give a procedure. Might be nice if the battery is discharged. How do you do it? Lloyd
/html/alpines/2002-02/msg00347.html (7,044 bytes)

4. RE: Crank (score: 1)
Author: "Berghult, Bob" <bob.berghult@lmco.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 12:16:08 -0500
I had to do it many times when I had my Series I, but that was 40 years age and I can't even remember how I got to work this morning. But, all kidding aside, yes, it did work just fine. Just make sur
/html/alpines/2002-02/msg00348.html (7,734 bytes)

5. Re: Crank (score: 1)
Author: Marc James Small <msmall@infi.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 12:23:05 -0500
It will not work with a discharged battery if the car has an alternator, as some current is required to "flash the field". To start: -- set handbrake (vital!) -- put car in neutral (vital!) -- pull c
/html/alpines/2002-02/msg00349.html (7,778 bytes)

6. Re: Crank (score: 1)
Author: "Ian Spencer" <SpenceIC@Healthall.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 12:56:06 -0500
Sure... insert crank and go to it! Your engine has to have the correct harmonic balancer nut on it to work. A lot of engines I see today have it replaced with a standard hex head nut. Ian Spencer Cli
/html/alpines/2002-02/msg00350.html (7,516 bytes)

7. Re: Crank (score: 1)
Author: "Steven L. Finberg" <w1gsl@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:39:30 -0500
You certainly can start an Alpine by hand, Have done it many times... The procedure below is ecentially correct with one very important style/ safety addition. When grasping the starting handle be ca
/html/alpines/2002-02/msg00351.html (10,551 bytes)

8. Re: Crank (score: 1)
Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 08:36:05 +1100
Astonishingly, this is one part that the DPO had NOT replaced/lost on my car Vic S3 (formerly wrong gas cap, wrong oil cap, wrong brake drum retainer nuts, wrong horn ring, various missing rubber bit
/html/alpines/2002-02/msg00352.html (7,772 bytes)

9. Re: Crank (score: 1)
Author: chuck nicodemus <armorseal@spiretech.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 15:30:54 -0800
I might add Piners, unless you are on an uphill drag, pushing works wonders uphill er too, She may enjoy the air. ~(8=) cheers chuck with no crank but the wife has strong legs.
/html/alpines/2002-02/msg00357.html (7,224 bytes)

10. Re: Crank (score: 1)
Author: Bill Mounce <bmounce@bellatlantic.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 19:23:22 -0500
I was amused, at the age of 18, that my car not only had the provision for crank start, but acutally HAD the crank in the trunk! Incidentally, you note that you should be careful when the car starts
/html/alpines/2002-02/msg00359.html (8,450 bytes)

11. Re: Crank (score: 1)
Author: Alex McGregor <awmcgregor@shaw.ca>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 18:55:03 -0600
You guys make me feel old. Back in the 60's (that's 1960's) I ran the family farm and had a MM tractor that didn't have electric start, my brother still uses it a bit. Crank + magneto. You had to wor
/html/alpines/2002-02/msg00360.html (9,024 bytes)

12. Re: Crank (score: 1)
Author: Marc James Small <msmall@infi.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 19:51:08 -0500
In Which is precisely why I urged caution on those doing this. I have also hand-cranked a Model T. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +276/343-7315 Cha robh b`s fir gun ghr`s fir!
/html/alpines/2002-02/msg00361.html (7,408 bytes)


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