Engine start question...

[Lee Bradley]

That was a military cold start system. I drove a self-propelled 155.  Allis Chalmers used a diesel fired heater on the 3,4 and 6-71s dd in their crawler tractors built in the 1940's. It was mounted on the air chamber in place of one the covers. In the 1950, they went to a ether system.

[bevans6]

We had M-109 self propelled 155's too, but I never drove one.  My engine is (or was before I got at it) the exact same spec as the M-109 engine, but being from an M-110 self-propelled howitzer it had the turbo hung off the back.  The M-109 had it hung off the side so it would have been about 100 hours less to convert to a bus engine...

Good to hear from another Gunner.

Brian