Push-Starting a 360 With Dead Battery

Nah mate, you wouldn't do any damage When you replace your battery make sure you get your charging system checked over

 

you should be ok. the owners manual even states you can push start an F1 car in the event of a dead battery.

 

HUH

 

In the old days, I used push start in the highest gear...ei 5th/6th.

Worked for me on a couple different cars and bikes.

Interesting that push starting is in the manual.

 

the owners manual for a 360 with the F1 transmission says you can push start it if the battery is dead.

 

How do you do that? What is the proceedure?

 

The battery can't be really "dead" or you won't have fuel injection or spark.

 

That's what I was thinking

 

ill have to read it again. it was worded very confusing.


ill post it up here word for word later today.

 

Thanks Steve

 

PUSH DEPARTURE

In the event of malfunctioning of the starting system, a "push departure" is possible, procedure as follows:

-Perform the "System Start-Up" phase;
-request "UP" when vehicle is gaining speed with the gearshift in "N".

In any case, avoid this procedure except in event of emergency!!!

 

Thanks for the great info Steve

It just seems weird that you could actually push start a auto trans thats all, but I reckon that this would only work with a charged battery after you primed the F1 system, I would imagine a dead/discharged battery you would be unable to push start a F1.

Maybe someone here has actually done this and could chime in?

 

yeah. the system would have to be primed.

the reason push starting a standard automatic doesnt work is the torque converter. cant lock the trans to the engine.

 

I thought so, Spot on Steve

Thats why me and Billy Bob were like HUH

 

I am thinking that you are correct if you have no alarm.

 

I was not thinking torque converter. F1's don't have this but I did not know the car would shift to anything except park or neutral if the engine was off. I did not know you could hit the stater and shift a rolling F1 to 2nd gear anf gas it to get it to start. It is good to know you can. I wonder what the car's alarm system thinks when the engine is off though. Perhaps there is feedback to the alarm system that prevented the poster with the 360 manual to start in 2nd gear. You can have a basically dead car with decent alternator and bump start a manual trans in 99% of trys.