2 Oct
2009
2 Oct
'09
01:48
Philip Dowie wrote:
Also - as someone who owns a crank start car - crank starting a modern high-compression engine, assuming you physically could crank it, would probably qualify as a suicide attempt.
surely any hand crank would freewheel in the same way motorcycle kickstarters do... (acknolwedged old ones didn't, but......)
The crank clutch was no where near sophisticated back then. They would freewheel if the engine "caught" spinning forward. Many a leg and arm was broken when the engine kicked backward. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org