Diesel won't start with low air. Entegra MH
Never seen this before. Brand new Entegra Insignia, with keyless ignition and Spartan chassis, disables the engine start sequence if the air pressure is low. We were trying unsuccessfully today to...
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wa8yxm wrote:romore wrote:
How else would you build air? That seems a strange way of doing things.
Ah that is a good question.... So here is a story
A trucking company had a serious issue with theft from one of their terminals. So at night they backed the trucks up to the terminal doors blocking them and drained the air tanks.. The Trucks were AIR START. which is to say the starters run on compressed air. NOT on electricity. And it locked the brakes as well.
Well in the AM they brought out the air hose and aired 'em back up from an external compressor.
Eliminated the theft since the doors were blocked.
All well and good if you're parked at a truck terminal next to a handy air compressor. But for a motor home that's going to be sitting in a campground somewhere, maybe not so good...
