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July 6th, 2015. The US Army had coolant heaters on the smaller diesel locomotives, using a kerosene burning heater to pre heat the engine block's coolant, but universally those locomotives back then had the same Cat V-12 as a lot of bulldozers, maxing out at about 250 HP per engine for...

July 5th, 2015. Generally, I only had the flame heater fail once, and replaced it with a new unit, ended the cold weather starting issues for the engine, and when I replaced the starter motor due to a worn out solenoid, ended the cold weather starting issues pretty much permanently. As regards...

Ever work on a 567, 645 or 710 (inches per cylinder displacements) GM diesel engine (locomotive)? I believe that you will find no ether starting systems on the first two engines and very probably none on the last series. Besides the Army knew that these trucks would have to start in -10,-20 and...

July 2nd, 2015. Me, I always preferred the flame heaters if working, all you needed was a battery to crank the truck and fuel to burn.... With the ether, if you are out and don't have a spare can, you have a non starting truck, plus ether is harder on the diesel engine. The machine is a...