Re: [Chrysler300] Gentlemen, start your engines (if you can)

[c300c@xxxxxxx]

Hi  Rich,
 
NEVER, I mean NEVER use ether starting fluid to start your C-300.   It's a 
beautiful car and I would hate to hear you have melted the pistons in it,  using 
ether. I lost two diesel engines in heavy equipment directly as a result  of 
using ether starting fluid.  Ether strips the lubricant from the  cylinder 
walls and rings, and creates abnormal loads on the pistons, rings,  bearings and 
crankshaft. Result: ruined engine. Use gas as a primer if you need  one. ( 
With the air cleaners in place ).
 
Gary Hagy,  Hamburg, PA

300-C
300-C Conv.
300-E
300-G  Conv.

 
 
In a message dated 5/24/2007 5:58:34 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,  
c300@xxxxxxx writes:
 
Diameter or gage of the battery cable was also deemed important.  As  a quick
fix to a failed lead battery end of the ground cable, I purchased a  standard
cable of proper length (and RED as a REMINDER).  It was for a  12-Volt system
and about 1/2 the diameter of the original.

My 1955  C-300 starts great and on the first couple of revolutions IF it has
fuel in  the carbs and glass filter bowls.  Sometimes this fuel stays there
and  sometimes it disappears.  My fuel pump is an original rebuilt  with
current materials, but I do believe that sometimes the check valve  within it
may leak back.

Several of you have counseled me to add an  electric fuel pump, wired up for
intermittent action at starting.   Others recommend carb overhauls to
eliminate leakage from them to the  manifold.  Both these recommendations
seem reasonable.  I have a  good, strong HD Group 2 battery that will crank
long enough to get gas to the  carbs, even when it seems the whole system is
empty.  I sometimes prime  the system with starting fluid to save time and
wear and tear on the starting  system, but that is a PIA and often takes
twice to establish normal fuel  flow.

My car came to me with two manual chokes that appear to be made to  replace
the automatic choke internals.  The car spent its working life  in Colorado
so perhaps the previous owner had the same problems.  He  kept the car about
30 years, so he must have loved it in spite of its  slow-starting problems.
Chrysler even noted this and went to 12 Volt systems  the next year.  I don't
recall hearing or reading of poor starting  problems with the '56-'58 hemi's.

That's it for  starters

C-300'ly,
Rich Barber
Brentwood, CA
1955  C-300

-----Original Message-----
From: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  [mailto:Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Narve Nordanger
Sent:  Thursday, May 24, 2007 7:30 AM
To: artc@xxxxxxxxxxx; 300 Club
Subject: SV:  [Chrysler300] slow starting 55 new yorker

The issue has been discussed  previously on this list, try to look 6 months
back.

How about new  battery cables (corrosion tends to creep into them, creating
increased  restistance and less cranking power), rebuilt carbs (did alot for
me). The  starter normally anyhow cranks slowly, especially when hot.

In the old  days I always carried a 12V spare battery and some heavy jumping
cables with  me, if nothing else helped that would do the trick. Especially
handy when  travelling by ferry where engines had to be switched off during
transit, and  everybody else was waiting for you to start up on arrival.
Eventually, I got  tired of pushing the C-300 off the ferry... Best story was
actually when  pulled over by law for speeding (inherent with 300s?), and
they afterwards  had to give me 12V starting help to clear the area for  new
"customers".

Nowadays I am not that fond of pushing cars, so I try  to plan ahead and
never stop the engine unless time to cool  down.

Narve in Norway
22 years of 6V Chrysler experience

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Fra: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  [mailto:Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]På;
vegne av Art Cragnotti
Sendt: 24. mai 2007 15:52
Til: 300 Club
Emne: [Chrysler300]  slow starting 55 new yorker


Hi Gang, Art here, In addition to  my 300G I also have a newly restored
'55 new yorker. It's a crapshoot  whether it will start at ahy given time.
The motor turns over very  slowly like a weak battery, especially when hot.
I still have the 6  volt system and have tried everything.rebuilt
starter,new
selanoid  and relay and a new battery. I know these cars started better
than
this when new so why not now. Ary suggestions??. This is probably a  common
problem and I hope somebody has a solution.

Thanks Art






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