How to start a car without starter. Is it possible to do?

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Talking of starting a bus - I was at Cricklewood bus garage once and Frank showed me this amazing starter unit - it was a portable battery pack about the size of a medium suitcase which effortlessly started a bus with no other battery fitted. Must have been special low resistance cells - they weren't big and they didn't last long but the cranking power was startling.

Tim (Remove NOSPAM. ( snipped-for-privacy@NOSPAMbtinternet.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

You would if the alternative was a long walk home.

An old fashioned starting handle would work! My dad rigged one for an Mazda Montrose last year 'cos he couldn't be arsed to haul out and fix the starter ring gear. He's a big lad so cranking the engine over in the morning wasn't too much of a problem but I can think of better things to do...

The stupidest car-starting stunt I've ever seen was a lady trying to use the can of EasiStart her husband had told her to get whilst smoking a cigarette over the carburettor inlet.

I shouted a warning over my shoulder as I scarpered.

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What you can do with them is spend half an hour charging the flat. Actually passing starting current down 'em is a waste of time.

A good set of leads will pass enough current to get a car going anyway.

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Adrian saying something like:

You could use 'em as a toaster and enjoy a nice hot buttered crumpet and a cup of tea while waiting.

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I'm curious about these things. What's in them that produces the current needed to start the engine, and how come they're so cheap and light?

They have a motorcycle size battery in them

mrcheerful

I've never seen one as big as a motorcycle!

...I'll get my coat.

--Nick.

Mike Tomlinson ( snipped-for-privacy@NOSPAM.jasper.org.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Charger circuitry, and a small compressor.

It's not exactly a big or good battery...

The one I've got claims 900 cranking amps, but it ain't going to last very long with even a small discharge.

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That's the one.

I know someone who did that with his Transit van out of his steepish driveway for a couple of mornings, but on the third morning he didn't make it. The van ran across the road, through a hedge and ended up in a front garden - where it stayed until the AA man who came could stop laughing for long enough to jump start it!

They never do do they?

Steve W

i tell you what, if i could, i'd drive a bus all the time :) much better handling than cars they are :) all mods cons, air suspension, whisper quite from the front end, and with all the wieght of the seats removed, plenty quick as well if you don't use super clean unsuplhered diesel :) almost 70 mph out of a normal road bus :)