Fast Learner
First Post
Your 72 pickup doesn't have a battery? What runs your starter motor, hamsters?
You can push-start a manual transmission diesel vehicle without any electricity. However, I can tell you from experience that it behooves you to make sure you always park on a hill, pointed downward.

However, finding any real quantities of non-degraded diesel fuel 15 years after a civilization collapse that happened today would be effectively impossible. I've read, anyway, that in the last decade refining both gasoline and diesel fuel has changed from the way it was mostly done for the previous 50 years or so, such that they get more fuel from a given quantity of oil but, as a side effect, fuel stability has decreased from as much as 10 or so years down to a mere 3-6 months. Degradation sets in very quickly; there's no way it'd be any good at all 15 years later.