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1) Not on any car made since electric start was perfected. Not only is it dangerous, but a modern car wirh a dead battery won't be able to run properly anyways, and then there's the issue that in a modern front wheel drive car, where would the crank go? A hole in the fender?
2) Compression ratio of a diesel engine is way too high for crank start. If I rotate the crank of my toyota 2.4L diesel engine with a wrench, it takes way more force than a gas engine.. I don't think I could do it fast enough to actually start the engine.
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