You know, as I have been working on my "new" truck, and learning so much about these beautiful diesels...
It occurred to me one day that these old diesels, non powerstroke, without turbo... Would make ideal candidates for having running vehicles even if there were no batteries, or electronics.
A manual transmission would give you the capability of starting without a starter/battery.
You could use an old fashioned choke cable... Run that out to the IP. Drill a very small hole in the top of the IP. Remove the fuel solenoid. Run the choke cable in, and make it operate the fuel shutoff manually.
Worse case scenario, as well... Everyone else has already siphoned all the fuel from all the rest of those other vehicles sitting around... You can go around and drain the oil and trans fluid and use those as fuel...
Do something to warm the oil up. (Build a fire under the engine? I laugh, but it's been done...)
Pull the choke lever/button to open the fuel shutoff.
Put 'er in gear, and let it roll downhill.
I know it's probably not as simple as that, but it's an idea.
Anyone else have ideas on how to make these a very simple apocalypse-proof vehicle?
It occurred to me one day that these old diesels, non powerstroke, without turbo... Would make ideal candidates for having running vehicles even if there were no batteries, or electronics.
A manual transmission would give you the capability of starting without a starter/battery.
You could use an old fashioned choke cable... Run that out to the IP. Drill a very small hole in the top of the IP. Remove the fuel solenoid. Run the choke cable in, and make it operate the fuel shutoff manually.
Worse case scenario, as well... Everyone else has already siphoned all the fuel from all the rest of those other vehicles sitting around... You can go around and drain the oil and trans fluid and use those as fuel...
Do something to warm the oil up. (Build a fire under the engine? I laugh, but it's been done...)
Pull the choke lever/button to open the fuel shutoff.
Put 'er in gear, and let it roll downhill.
I know it's probably not as simple as that, but it's an idea.
Anyone else have ideas on how to make these a very simple apocalypse-proof vehicle?