[AT] "diesel" engines running backward

[Mike Sloane]

Speaking of which, I worked with a man whose family still owned a farm 
in India. He saw an image of a Field Marshal one cylinder diesel tractor 
on a Web page on my PC and said that his family still farmed with one. 
It was stared with a blank shotgun shell, and they had to make sure what 
the position of the piston when starting, or it would start running 
backwards. And you didn't know it was running backwards until the 
operator tried to go forward. I don't know if all that was true or not, 
but that is what he claimed.

Mike

dfolske at nccray.net wrote:
> I wish my 88 had a problem with the fuel tank filling up when running:)
> 
> On 6 Feb 2007 at 7:32, captneb wrote:
> 
> 
>>Lunchbox, a friend of mine, has an Oliver 88 that occasionally runs
>>backwards.  He says the big problem is the fuel tank then filling up and
>>overflowing.
>>
>>

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