Post your cold starts, they’re fun to watch

Oledirtypearl86

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Next 10* or colder morning we get I'll post a cold start might be a few days it's overcast and supposed to snow so it's still warmer out than usual
 

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Mine are boring since I got new batteries. :p

Especially the other day when I used my block heater for the first time, for about 30 minutes. It started like it was warm with one manual cycle of the glow plugs around 13 seconds. My cold advance temp switch is broken but it honestly hasn't really mattered in almost 2 years since I accidentally broke one of the blade connections. Sometimes on very cold starts, it sputters and needs a little throttle for 2-3 seconds but then its fine.

It's not cold enough right now to record a start.

But here's the one I did a couple weeks ago with the brand new batteries. Most of the video is cycling the plugs with a short delay between cycles. It has Motorcraft plugs put in around October or November 2017.

May as well just jump to around the 1 minute mark in the video.

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My 6.9 throw out bearing likes to scream hello in cold mornings for 5 seconds.. just ignore that lol. Starts great first turn just always on 5 or 6 cylinders for a bit.

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This is my 7.3 before I had fixed all the glow plugs. 2 front ones were dead. It was -8F that night and only 5 in the am. Miracle it started at all with 2 glow plugs not working. Starts way better now. And I repaired all the rust on it, gives me some scars re watching this video. And my awful gauge setup back then.

Which somehow has over 12,000 views on youtube for some reason lol..
 

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Why do you guys choose to live in such cold places?

Lol I don't but I'm here now. Honestly you get used to it. I'm just in Pennsylvania but 45* and up is shorts and t shirt weather. Anything above 15 is jeans and a sweatshirt. Below that I'll actually wear my winter coat..
 
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'Cold' start here would be maybe high 30s on the worst day. Like any other day, if I let the GPs cycle, it'll fire off faster than any vehicle I've ever owned.

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I've got newer batteries, and glow plugs; so no issues with cold starts(within the last few years). The average high here in the winter is usually around 30*, often times in the teens. I remember growing up in Texas, and my dad putting cardboard in the radiator. I remember a lot of folks down there doing that, but up here, where it's colder, I don't see too many people, even with these older trucks doing that, just odd. Mine's never given me any problems heating up in the cold.

The truck along with everything else, if left for a couple weeks, runs the risk of the batteries draining in this cold. The Caveat to that though, is the fact of having lived in Arizona, the heat will do the same thing to batteries; zap'em.
 

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I've got newer batteries, and glow plugs; so no issues with cold starts(within the last few years). The average high here in the winter is usually around 30*, often times in the teens. I remember growing up in Texas, and my dad putting cardboard in the radiator. I remember a lot of folks down there doing that, but up here, where it's colder, I don't see too many people, even with these older trucks doing that, just odd. Mine's never given me any problems heating up in the cold.

The truck along with everything else, if left for a couple weeks, runs the risk of the batteries draining in this cold. The Caveat to that though, is the fact of having lived in Arizona, the heat will do the same thing to batteries; zap'em.

Lol come up north. I know I'll be blocking the airflow on my truck this weekend because I know at -15 my heater doesn't get warm enough to keep this inside of my windshield from freezing let alone me or my booger eaters warm if I block 75 % off I'm good to -35 after that I pull the cardboard out and in fold for 100% blockage on ait flow any colder than that I set my self on fire to keep warm
 

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Spent a majority of my life in Alaska, always had IDI’s in the family. I recall some crazy cold starts, Good times for sure.
If you look closely around the chrome by the hood you’ll see the snaps installed by Cal Worthington Ford of Anchorage back in Feb ‘83 for the radiator cover.
 

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Spent a majority of my life in Alaska, always had IDI’s in the family. I recall some crazy cold starts, Good times for sure.
If you look closely around the chrome by the hood you’ll see the snaps installed by Cal Worthington Ford of Anchorage back in Feb ‘83 for the radiator cover.

Ol' Worthless had a place in Anchorage? Never would have guessed that.
 

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