You can handcrank an engine if the battery is dead?

[Chip Chester]

Originally Posted by dishdude

I looked up the only car I could possibly think of doing this with and sure enough...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQGv6RjxZkw

The sandals make it work.

[MIPS]

In any case, there needs to be enough voltage from somewhere to excite the coil and produce a spark. Cars with electric fuel pumps and engine computers would have that hurdle, too.

My Tracker on multiple occasions had the battery run down where it could be pushed but not cranked. As long as you could get the computer to wake up and pressurize the fuel system you were golden.
But that was a little TBI 1.6l Inline 4 from Japan. I wish you the best of luck trying that on a modern V6.

[dishdude]

Originally Posted by Chip Chester

The sandals make it work.

There was plenty of crack too