Ether is a bad idea. These trucks use a grid heater in the intake. You could seriously injure yourself or cause damage to your truck. Its ok as long as you disconnect the grids first.

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Glad it running again bud

 

yep ether is one of the worst thing you can do to a diesel,even without a grid heater it can damage rings and even pistons if enough is used

 

Yep. My dad has had hard starting problems with his 05 CTD dually for a few months. He decided to disconnect the grid heater and start using ether. As stubborn old farts often do, he went against my warnings on this, rather than just have it repaired at a proper licensed diesel shop or dealer. Well his truck just refuses to start at all. He's a cheap son-of-a-gun, but now has dumped hundreds of dollars into it. His so called "diesel mechanic buddies", 3 of them are a joke, and keep guessing what the issue is, so he dumps more money into it to no avail. There is doing it the right way, and doing it his way. His truck has not run in 3 weeks. Ether....no bueno!

 

i didnt use hardly any! just enough for it to fire. i know its not good for them.

 

It makes a great flamethrower tho

 

Oh yes!....

Buddy of mine has a parts Powerstroke and he decided to get it running, messed around for a bit then he pulls out this bottle of John Deere ether...
Big ol fire ball!

but dumb. All I did was stand back and watch his "genius"

 

Yep, Ether brings out the kid in all of us..........

 

that sounds like a gell up, and happen to my dad one time in his semi while going down the road and the company towed it back to there shop and warmed it up. some diesel 911 and it was all good