Odd cold start. How many times do you cycle the grid heater?

Odd cold start. How many times do you cycle the grid heater?

11-16-2005, 10:29 PM

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JasonCzerak

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Odd cold start. How many times do you cycle the grid heater?

19 degrees all day long... parked for 8 hours. Rather windy, but blowing at the back of the truck.

Glow plugs cycled once. waited a second, crank the motor over. A little on the long side but fired on about 5 cylinders, and right to high idle of 1000rpms. Lots of white smoke for about 15 seconds.

The last time this happened was when she was parked in 5-0 degrees and wind right at the grill for 12 + hours. and I cycled the heater twice and took a good 2 minutes to calm down to a nice 1000rpm idle.

Guess I should of cycled things twice?

When the highs start to be at < 20 like this all day. I"m going to see about the block heater at work for about 2 hours prior to leaving...

--EDIT: My boss is awesome.

Just had a quick chat about the block heater on days <20.. maybe more so <25. I have permission to setup a timer and some cords to run my block heater for a few hours prior to leaving work

Good, no more long warm ups and cold drives 1/2 home.... well alot less colder

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