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I wouldn't actually mind this feature, especially for utility, offroad, or emergency type vehicles. Imagine camping overnight in the middle of nowehere and your interior light flattens your battery for example. It wouldn't be hard to add, just make the scissor jack handle a bit sturdier and cut a hole in the bumper. Why not?
there is no chance im strong enough for a modern engine.
omg the kickstart on my bike nearly kills me
Back when hand cranked engines were popular/common you'd often have engines rated at 40-50psi per cylinder of compression
Today you commonly have something like 170-180psi per cylinder on standard 4-cylinder passenger cars... you can only imagine how much harder that is to crank, not to mention all the other stuff you have to crank around through the serpentine belt
And lets not get started on diesels. An old Toyota 2L-engine will easily have 500psi per cylinder on all four, meaning a total of possibly 2000psi
You can hand crank start a Tiger tank.
It has an interia starter, a big flywheel spins up and then gets engaged to start it.
Pretty sure most/all kickstart bikes have auto decompression, the mechanism is pretty basic. And I'm thinking for a vehicle like this, fixing remote powerlines or fighting bushfires or something. It'd be a good feature to have.
ok id like to see you cold start my bike with the kicker
have fun with almost no flywheel and 11.5:1 compression
my old man's 56' Ferguson tractor has a crank with only about 25-30psi and it is a fucking animal to crank start it, not to mention when it kicks backwards it can pull your arm off before you can even blink. Good luck trying to start a modern engine, even with something to decompress the cylinders
Lmao what is that
Yeah, its a solution that works fine on bikes because they have small, light engines without anything other than the engine itself, an alternator and perhaps a water pump to pull around. They are also pretty much only used in warmer climates where starting an engine is easier
As for why its not really used; its another thing that will complicate the engine, and since modern cars already draw a lot of power they need big batteries, and as such its much simpler and more production-cost effective to not have these mechanism incorporated.
Lets also mention that modern electric starters are very reliable, and actually do not need all that much power as long as the battery is able to give enough "power" - it may be a bit low on actual capacity, but a healthy battery can often still give the small surge of power needed to start it
If I was super worried about that happening I'd just bring an emergency start booster - I'd much prefer to have one of those in the back than a pressure-valve that might also fail and leave you with no compression, which is something I consider a somewhat bigger issue than the risk of ending up low on power because you were retarded enough to drain its power. Thats the reason why people who do serious overlanding usually have dual-battery setups, and perhaps even extra big AGM/deep cycle batteries that they keep charged while driving, but disconnect when camping and use to power their appliances, effectively removing the risk of you using up the cars power
Even old hand cranked cars with low compression could easily break your arm if it backfires. I'd hate to see what a modern engine would do.
Imagine Cleetus
Cleetus lives in Alabama
Cleetus, who lives in Alabama, has a farm
On this farm he lives with his wife, and his sister.
His wife and sister is the same person.
Cleetus has an old beat-up Ford F350
The aforementioned F350 has a 7.3l Power Stroke engine
One day the starter on the F350 goes
Cleetus has coincidentally spent this months welfare on light beer and pay-per-view pornographic titles
Cleetus has an idea
And that is the pretext for the news story about the 42 year old Alabama citizen who was found split in half by his truck, while a California hitchhiker was found impaled by a 6 foot breaker bar to a redwood tree
Yeah, would like to see you cold start my bike with the kicker, almost no flywheel and 11.8:1 compression
I'm assuming that's your KTM? I'm not really worried unless your carb isn't tuned properly.
When is the last time you heard a car backfire while starting? Oh, you probably haven't...
If you have the fuel and ignition system tuned correctly, there is zero chance of it backfiring.
>alabama
>redwoods
Check your reading comprehension mate, he said California after Alabama
>what is using a decompression valve correctly
If you knew how to find TDC, turn the engine slightly past TDC then give it a solid kick it would be easy to start your bike. Don't tell me you're one of those spergs that just wildly kicks away and bitches that it's difficult to kick start? Even with auto decompression you should still do it the way I described.
Or maybe just carry a jump box
I chuckled a bit.
>a total of possibly 2000psi
retard tripfag is retarded
>that engine rumble
Some of the old cats had a pull startable pony motor.
I presumed he meant a hitch hiker bound for California not that a breaker bar flung itself fifteen hundred miles.
neat vid. neat bulldozer. Get a load of that gated shifter :)
These were the last ones I am aware of to have them on the domestic market.
This guy seems to have a ton of cool shit.
Funny you mention old jap diesels.
My uncle had a Nissan TD27 marinised in a boat. If the battery went dead at sea he would pull the rocker cover, stick broken up bits of hacksaw blade between the rockers and intake valves and spin the motor up with an hand crank then pull the hacksaw blades one by one.
The majority of people would probably not be able to had start engines over 1.8l displacement plus they don't want to get sued when someone does it wrong and breaks both there hands. Modern compression ratios are a lot higher.
old vw bugs (1200cc) had the option to crank start, but you can do with any model using a strap on the dynamo or alternator.
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I have messed up electrics in my 27 years old car. Crank start would be a god send feature.
Especially with small 1043 cc engine.
Right now I am limited to pushing whole car...
Russia might as well be Alabama with snow, from all I've seen since they stopped being commie.