I will have to second (or third) the ether issue, unless you are trying to start a cold diesel engine on the north slope, there is no need for ether. And no need whatsoever anywhere for a gasoline engine. If it won't fire on gas, it ain't gonna fire. Which by the way is where those huge 503 GMCs came from, gas engines started more reliably in cold weather. Which was important in the fire trucks. We had a diesel forklift up in alaska when I went up one spring it had quit. It wouldn't start well during the winter, so they shot it with ether every time they started it. I don't recall exactly what it did to it, other than it blew one of the liners down into the block quite a bit, blew the head gasket, and broke the top ring lands on a couple of pistons. They were pretty sheepish when I showed them how to turn the key back to turn on the glow plugs.....
