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Old 04-29-2010 | 08:20 PM
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kksiu2002
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The Brown truck delivered my Tower HD starter today. I plugged it into a 12-Ah Harborfreight battery, and it was barely able to spin the crank but too slowly to start the engine. I think maybe the Harbor battery is not fully charged. Anyhow, I then pulled out the battery from my Honda Accord. I know this one is fully charged for sure. Success! The CRRC-26 started. The Accord battery was barely able to start the CRRC; the starter struggled for a while. I think the engine was really tight. I never had to use an electric starter before; I just hope I can remember to bring it to the field from now on.

P.s. I let the engine idle for about 10 minutes, and then shut it down. As I'm typing this message, I can't remember whether I added oil into the gas or not.[X(] Well, I recently added 1/2 gallon into the gas can, which already had 1/4 gallon of 30:1 mix. So, if I had forgotten to add oil, the fuel in my can would have very low oil content, like 90:1. I hope there's no damage. The engine seemed to be running very strong.