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Originally Posted by NN5I
Many WW2 tanks had air-cooled radial engines nearly identical to aircraft engines. No freezing worries, but you'd sure like to be able to start them quickly. This was true of some Sherman tanks (Wright R-675), but other Shermans had Ford V8s or any of a considerable variety of other engines, some (such as the Chrysler multibank) really bizarre.
Shermans weren't the only tanks with radial engines, either.
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I have a friend with a Canadian tank it has a 9 cylinder radial air craft engine and it's not some thing you want to start right up. The drill was to hand crank it over 50 times after sitting over night! (crank in took kit) because all the oil would leak into the bottom cylinder!