Keep trying, and failing, to start engine - what am I doing wrong?

[The Grim Sleeper]

Tried a few burns since then with pure plasma in both loops from the bottom side auxiliary ports. The engine always runs good to start, but then the kPa equalizes in the hot loop and power output drops to nil. Anything I can do to counter that?

I've encountered this problem myself, both on Cog1 and Cog2, and never found a way to properly fix it. Adding more gas to the loops starts the engine back up again, but only for a while, and then you are out of canisters.
I have the vague impression that it is caused by opening the valves before adding gas to the pipes and starting the furnaces.
This is actually the reason I never wrote a troubleshoot-and-solve for the wiki; following the start-up procedure there To The Letter, taking special note of the valve order, is the only way I ever got a char-burn without this problem, and the only problem encountered after that was refilling the furnaces.


I haven't played engineer much (or at all) since I wrote that, which was 3 months ago.  I have looked at the changelog, but saw no mention of engine updates. Is this still a thing?

Did I mention that I wrote the engine start-up guide on the wiki, cause I wrote the engine start-up guide on the wiki, and I am going to tell everyone that I wrote the engine start-up guide on the wiki, because doing so inflated my ego, much like the gas in the engine, for which I wrote the start-up guide on the wiki, blablablabla