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Apr 25, 2010 | 05:47 PM

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utjer

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Is it possible?

So here where I work we were talking about push starting vehicles with a dead battery and a manual transmission. It got me thinking if it was even possible on a 6.0 because you needing to get the glow plugs warm to fire it which you couldnt do with a dead battery. Is it possible or have any of you tried it?

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Apr 25, 2010 | 06:13 PM

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I'm not an expert, but I'd say that it would not work without the glow plugs. I've read where others have push started a smaller diesel car, but I don't think they needed as much compression.

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Apr 25, 2010 | 06:34 PM

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You are going to have to have some electrical source to fire the injectors. The alternator doesn't produce current for quite a bit of time AFTER start up, so I'd say it would be a useless effort. No electricity, no spool valve movement to allow HPO to fire the injector

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Apr 26, 2010 | 10:31 AM

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That is what I was thinking. Thanks guys.

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