-31 Cold Start

A real cold start of my 6.9 IDI, non gated Banks equipped in this one, no glow plug controller either...
Temp as you can see is freakin cold... Truck is plugged in of course. This is a glow plug only start, with a single group 31 battery.

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[MasterTenku]

Why do Canadians love showing cold start videos? Why not just heat it up first so you can start it without damaging the fuck out of your motor?

[f100swb]

@MasterTenku What exactly do you mean by heat it up first? It IS plugged in in this video, Are you implying I should be tarping the thing and sticking a herman nelson under there for a few hours every time I start it in the cold? Yes, a Webasto or Espar heater would work much better than the electric immersion heater, but, there is no justification in putting a $1500 heater on a $300 truck.

It gets cold here, and life doesn't stop because it's cold, get over it.

[f100swb]

If it was "damaging the fuck" out of our engines, then why do I not own a truck with less than 175K miles(the one in this video is the lowest) and they all with the exception of my gas engined truck have factory installed engines that have never had any major work? My 96 F250 has 222K miles, my 96 F350 has 227K, my 92 Dodge Cummins has 466K, and my gas truck had 279K on the oem engine when I did a performance build on current one. With the proper lubes and fuels there are no issues.

[samsungfan1041]

im not a big diesle guy, but why does it do this. glow plugs, fuel gell? what gives?

[f100swb]

@samsungfan1041 Diesel combustion theory is quite a bit different than that of a gasoline engine. With no actual ignition system, they rely soley on the superheating of air by the compression stroke to ignite the fuel. Glow Plugs and Grid Heaters exist to preheat the air to make it easier to start the initial explosion, in the intake in the case of a grid heater, in the cylinder in the case of glow plugs.

[f100swb]

@samsungfan1041 In the case of fuel gelling, fuel oil contains wax, with summer blends containing more. As temperatures go down, the wax will crystalize and drop out of suspension, thus plugging up filters and small passages in the fuel system. Lighter grades of fuel oil(diesel is #2) contain less wax, but also less BTU value(energy.)

Winter blend fuels mix #2 diesel with #1, or even go as far as straight #1 mixed with lighter fuels and anti gel additives in some ocations(I get that here.)

[f100swb]

@madetthew Diesel mechanic since 1996? just the way you type, combined with your lack of ability to read and comprehend does not represent you as being old enough to possibly have been a mechanic for the past 15 years. Besides, according to your profile, that would mean you've been a mechanic since you were 6...

[mare710]

@CrawlinB2 what about health care?

[yamahonkawazuki]

@f100swb i always thought the glow plugs, inititated hte combustion. " lit it off" for lack of a better term. then compression took over. somewheres aroudn 20 to 1 Eh?

[MasterTenku]

@4strokesruleme YES! precisely

[4strokesruleme]

@MasterTenku so you mean we should keep them runnig all winter

[s154x4]

@CrawlinB2 I really don't think Americans are better then Canadians. Or people from any other country for that matter.

[CrawlinB2]

@s154x4

we are blood thirsty...... like warriors.

and we are better. Land of the free home of the brave.

[s154x4]

Man I love my cummins I would never do that to it. BTW master I'm Canadian and 18btw and Always use the grids and plug it in. don't go stereo typing Canadians. I can think of a few about Americans to. You guys sure are war hungry for one and for some odd unknown reason think your better then the rest of the world.

[xIpodTouchGoeroex]

i use no block heater or plug in or whatever and my jeep starts with -20C without a problem lol