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jim78

wrote:
On Jun 2, 8:00 am, HK wrote:
Richard Casady wrote:
On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 20:38:07 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
remember my dad having an aluminum boat when I was a kid. It had a
Mercury 115 "tower of power"
Neightbor has a aluminum boat since 1970 or so. Has a tall Merc 100
hp. I am pretty sure he pull starts it. I have started a 109
Graymarine by stomping on a crank stuck in a nut on the front of the
crankshaft. Started first kick every time. We trashed the starter
when the key stuck at start. Got a cream separator crank at a
junkyard, and put a cross pin in the end of it. We swapped in a Buick
V-6 and lost that capability. A friend had one of the first of the
Land Cruisers and it had a crank, as did my Land Rover. Why don't all
the smaller cars have one?
Casady
Because a crank wouldn't start a modern car, even a small one, without
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Holy ****! This from someone who claimed at one time to have a
mechanical engineering degree!!! Why wouldn't a crank start a "modern
car"? With electronic ignition and fuel injection "modern cars" start
much easier than carberator and points/condenser engines.

I love it when Harry hints at being knowledgeable about something. He is
such a doofus.