3.9 overheating

Dave Liquorice · Jun 26, 2005

On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 15:46:19 +0100, Austin Shackles wrote:

>>>> Wonder how big the "starter motor" is on that engine?
>>>
>>> That's the nice thing - it hasn't got one.

It must have some means of starting and an energy source for that
method. Hence putting "start motor" in quotes...

> Seriously, though... I imagine it's done with compressed air.

That would be my guess as well.

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Richard · Jun 27, 2005

The starter motor on our GT is a V12 Detroit Diesel - 16l I think.

"Dave Liquorice" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 08:30:56 +0100, Austin Shackles wrote:
>
>>> GT cheating stick to diesels 14 cyl Wartsila-Sulzer RTA96-C, 82MW
>>> or there abouts. B-)
>>
>> http://www.bath.ac.uk/~ccsshb/12cyl/
>>
>> for example?
>
> Thats the one, I *like* **BIG** engineering. If I hadn't gone into
> broadcasting I'd may well have gone into power distribution. 1000A at
> 500kV sort of stuff...
>
> Wonder how big the "starter motor" is on that engine?
>
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> Dave. pam is missing e-mail
>
>
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