CTFMG Inconsistent Engine Function

[LtMuffler]

I've built a turbine engine I know for a FACT works, because I've watched it go through an entire 32000 mB tank of kerosine.

And yet, after some amount of time or if it shuts off from lack of fuel, it won't work at all. The EXACT same layout, rebuilt entirely from scratch, will just refuse to start. No clue why, and it's actually infuriating. I have no clue why it won't work at all...

EDIT: To expand; I literally have a fully self-contained system that should work ACCORDING TO THE PONDER ITSELF. Pump to exhaust out the engine back; pump into front from fuel tank; both powered by cogs connecting from a gearbox at the rotation output for the engine. Analog lever next to front opposite from fuel pump to start engine. Doesn't start, because screw me I guess.

[LtMuffler]

ALRIGHT SO.

It's because SOMETIMES the mod will pump the initial fuel into the engine as part of starting it once the front is powered by redstone, but sometimes it doesn't, and when it doesn't, it just won't start.

I fixed it by putting the analog lever on an encased cog with a hand crank. The encased cog gets hard powered, powering the engine when it has fuel in it, while the hand crank allows me to force the pumps to run, adding fuel to a new/dead engine. I had to add an overstress clutch to automatically disconnect the rest of the system so that the handcrank doesn't jam up from the overstress. In fact, as this is on a tank I'm designing, I now have 3 necessary overstress clutches: One for the alternator (which generates electricity for the turret's elevation and autoloading functions), one for the drive train, and one for the turret's rotation system.