Massey Ferguson Perkins V8 Light Pro Coldstart!!! Tons of ether!!!

Pulling Tractors can be hard to start on occasion.

[@apismellifera1000]

I love it when the headers on both side go from red, orange, yellow, then close to white hot at the end of a pull

[@deeremeyer1749]

Yeah. Wasting all that heat upstream of the turbo is COOL! If you're a mechanical moron.

[@deeremeyer1749]

You can see both sides at once?

[@nevinbontrager8828]

Ahhh still the only thing i buy from the John deere store. ETHER!

[@mirfieldautomotivespareslt5233]

looking good!

[@boardtodeath46]

Interesting, I don’t know my ford powerstroke was just as modified.. but I only use 1 can

[@Tchristman100]

Why do you keep spraying ether when it is running?

[@bigfluppus5461]

Because it’s not warm enough, they won’t run cold on just diesel

[@Oxizee]

@@bigfluppus5461 also diesel engines doesnt need sparks, they use glowplugs and compression right?

[@davelowets]

@@Oxizee That's right....

[@mytmousemalibu]

Normally a stock unmodified diesel in decent shape doesn't need ether. All these diesel tractors & trucks have had a lot of modifications done to them. They typically have lowered the compression a bunch to be able to cram more boost into it. They also have massive amounts more fuel with big injection pumps & injectors. They don't perform/inject very well at idle/low revs. The combination of low compression, big fuel system and no boost at idle, the engines can't make enough compressive heat to efficiently ignite the diesel. Lot of incomplete combustion, making all the white smoke. The ether is needed to get it started and warmed up. Once it's hot, the engines can run without feeding it ether.

[@kyrablue7034]

Dose that cause any damage and why so much

[@richardchambers3533]

The compression is low enough, that the diesel fuel won't ignite on start up. So they spray about 4 cans of ether to get the engine running.

[@derekvanbrugge8612]

Because the timing is so far advanced and the cam is so aggressive that when cold it will not combust the diesel as it would when warm. Also these things get rebuilt basically every year so they don't care.

[@bmdbigfeet1031]

Spraying all that ether in ain't nothing compared to what they're gonna do to it. Lol

[@TheElderOne2003]

@@bmdbigfeet1031 they are just getting her ready for the massive thrashing that is to come.

[@bmdbigfeet1031]

@@TheElderOne2003 that was my point

[@______-id5ud]

Nothing better than listening to good old American horsepower!

[@Janx101]

Ummm … is that good old American horsepower out of the Perkins engine? Perkins that originated in England? …. Or good old American horsepower because it’s in a Massey Ferguson? … originally a English/Canadian joint effort? 😉👍

[@______-id5ud]

@@Janx101 MERICA!!!

[@michaeloedy1568]

Yeah. Ferguson-Brown and then the popular Ford-Ferguson tractors were produced in Coventry England and Massey-Harris was headquartered in Ontario, Canada. The merger in 1953 made them the second largest ag equipment producer behind IH at the time. The Coventry factory closed in the late 90’s I think. I have a 2011 Massey Ferguson that was made in France. Part of that whole EU partnership. It’s a good rig though. 10 years old and nothing but fluid changes and filters.

[@notdustinschatz9357]

It's actually bloody good English horsepower

[@tcmtech7515]

False advertising. Only a JD would take that much either to get started on a summer day.

[@misters2837]

You never owned any IHC tractors...I guess... (Or a 903 Cummins in a Truck)

[@tcmtech7515]

@@misters2837 I have owned several. Including an IH 560 diesel with over 6000 hours. Never needed to either any of them until it got well below freezing.

[@davelowets]

Try an old Ford 7.3 idi.... Them bastards can sometimes take a GOOD ole huff off the Cosby in a Can before they will fire off once they get sum miles under their belt.