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| | | | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 215 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 215 | Just wonderd how many of you have actualy hand cranked your truck.
I start my 46 all the time that way wen theres not qite anuff battery to turn it over and dont have any 6 volt vehicles nearby | | | | | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 926 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 926 | I drove a 1924 Dodge for a couple of years,and hand cranked it until I got the starter/generator chain fixed. It was easy,only 4 cylinders with real low compression. | | | | | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,144 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,144 | I've hand crank started my 38 1.5 ton, but mostly use the electric start. Heard too many stories of folks being injured by kick back. It is more of a novelty for me I have the crank so every once in a while i have to try it. | | | | | Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 687 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 687 | No!! But hand cranked a lot of old tractors. The MTA was the worse bust a normal mans arm easily. JD side wheel crank doesn't count. That was 2 easy.  popcorn The Truth is Out There (Still have an old Farmall B we crank every once in a while) | | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | have not hand cranked my truck, never really wanted to, it is enough just to reach for the foot-starter, now this morning I did have some trouble with my gas edger,, I hand cranked and gave up on it,,,,Fred
Redryder pixMy HotrodA veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life."I am fighting cancer and I am winning the fight | Pain is part of life; misery is an option. | | | | | Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 1,682 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 1,682 | I noticed my '46 two ton has the spot for the hand crank, and a little snap on piece that pops off the grill to slide the crank into, but I never tried it.
Mostly because I dont have the crank!
You can bet that if i'd had the crank back before I got the flywheel ring gear replaced, i'd have tried it!
an idea is only stupid if you think about it rationally.
| | | | | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,144 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,144 | I was lucky the crank, lugwrench, and jack were still under the seat when I bought my truck. | | | | | Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 331 Member | | Member Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 331 | Before I took my 40 GMC apart that is the only way I would start it. People really get a kick out of it. Starts first crank every time. Just make sure you leave your thumb out, like your hitch hiking, that way if it does kick back the crank will spin in your hand and not break your thumb | | | | | Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,445 Moderator - The Electrical Bay | | Moderator - The Electrical Bay Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,445 | I've got a crank.. i keep it hanging in my garage along with my collection of rare hood ornaments.
I hand cranked the old 216 before I yanked it out, but it was beyond starting by that time.
Another quality post.
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| | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,875 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,875 | I've got a 1936 Allis-Chalmers WC that has no choice, hand-crank only, because there's no starter motor. Electric start was "optional equipment" on that one!
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
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| | | | | Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 332 Big Bolt Shop Curmudgeon | | Big Bolt Shop Curmudgeon Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 332 |
Drivin' down a 2 lane country road in a stovebolt.....cowboy, it don't get no better than this!
1946 1-1/2 ton Chevy
"Ol Blue", or "THE BIG 'UN"
| | | | | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,107 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,107 | i was looking down between the radiator and the fan and i noticed there is a spot for a crank but no hole for it to pass on out to the front for cranking | | | | | Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,233 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,233 | Hey Hotrod Lincoln, I have a AC-WC Speed patrol (Road Grader) that's also hand ckank only. Have you ever seen an "Un-Styled" Speed Patrol? I've seen a few "Sryled" ones, but never "Un-Styled" I'm looking for info... Thanks, Mike B  | | | | | Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 35 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 35 | tried to hand crank my ´53 volvo t33 tractor,but the loader was in the way,so I couldn´t get enough "omph" to start it.
car nut for life!
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