# Can you start a Diesel engine without electricity?

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/can-you-start-a-diesel-engine-without-electricity/111266>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [January 13, 2018, 5:39pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/can-you-start-a-diesel-engine-without-electricity/111266 "2018-01-13T17:39:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![DanCitizen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/dancitizen/32/10640_2.png) [@DanCitizen](https://community.cartalk.com/u/DanCitizen)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2018, 5:44pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/can-you-start-a-diesel-engine-without-electricity/111266/3 "2018-01-13T17:44:21Z")

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Honestly, it’s so much more informative and fun here because people know heir stuff and the back and forth is so helpful.

Here is the original thread:

> [@Does a car need electricity to run?](https://community.cartalk.com/t/does-a-car-need-electricity-to-run/80613/87):
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> Hey everyone, back to this thread after a couple years. Book is going well. Wanted to confirm what I learned from you all before about starting and running a Diesel engine car without electricity. The truck I chose was a 1946 Dodge Power Wagon with a Cummins Diesel engine. To start it, the character sticks a blow torch into where the glow plug was. Would that work?

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