I managed to start a Morris Minor Traveller with a crank handle when I was about 7! Bloody hard going though, and the kickback was deeply unpleasant.
Proper engines - those were the days...
Yesterday, my Daewoo Lanos ECM computer decided to throw a fit and, although the car had done 4 journeys that day, it locked the malfunction light on and refused to inject fuel (based on sniffing the exhaust whilst SWMBO was cranking it - ooerr Missus). Lots of fuel and pump OK...
Piddled around with it for 3 hours, reseating connectors. Gave up in disgust. Read most of the workshop manual I got off some bloke on CD, which is missing some finer points for my '98 model... Pushed it into the garage today, with the aim of testing the sensors etc to see if any had gone open circuit, gave it one last crank and the old toad started first time.
Been fine today. Think I'll have to get Vauxhall to do an ECM diag on it, see if it's logged anything. Unfortunately it's got an GM/ALDL diag port - if it were the more modern OBD-II, which later Lanos's have, I might have got a copy of ScanTool - would be fun to see what's going on...
Bastard over-complicated electronics...
Tim