First good cold start of the year

[dieselgiant]

It was 31 degrees yesterday morning so I took a video of a cold start. It has custom 0/1 gauge battery cables, a new gear reduction starter, one new battery, and 8 working glow plugs. I thinks winter should be no problem but we'll see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cPA0wtnats

 

[icanfixall]

Sounds great to me.. Bring on the cold. I found this utube viedo after whtaching yours... Wow.... Shocking what some owners do not know about the idi engines...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGPcVsH7d9I&feature=related

 

[dieselgiant]

good grief. He's got more to worry about than a burnt up starter.

 

[zpd307]

31 isnt a cold start..... my 90 would start all day long until it got below 10. then it turned into a circus. with winter coming again, i am not going to miss it.

 

['94IDITurbo7.3]

31 isnt a cold start..... my 90 would start all day long until it got below 10. then it turned into a circus. with winter coming again, i am not going to miss it.

don't brag!

i can do that to...........with the block heater plugged in.

 

[GOOSE]

Goofy lets us be proud. Not bad at all for a cold block on a -4 deg morning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUz6P720IQc&feature=related

 

[dieselgiant]

31 isnt a cold start..... my 90 would start all day long until it got below 10. then it turned into a circus. with winter coming again, i am not going to miss it.

Yeah I bet mine could too

 

[itsacrazyasian]

31F isn't a cold start! I stuffed my truck into a freezer to make sure it will cold start when i'm in CO this winter.

 

[dieselgiant]

If its cold enough to need glow plugs to fire in a reasonable amount of time ... its a cold start.

 

[GOOSE]

If its cold enough to need glow plugs to fire in a reasonable amount of time ... its a cold start.

I hear about people that have a hard time starting in 60 deg weather. Don't worry, your truck sounds to be in good tune, nothing wrong with being proud of that.

 

[Black dawg]

I hear about people that have a hard time starting in 60 deg weather. Don't worry, your truck sounds to be in good tune, nothing wrong with being proud of that.

The 2 trucks I have, 1 starts easily down to 20deg, then takes some messing with any colder than that. The other truck will start on glowplugs and 2 tries in 90deg weather. Any colder than that and it needs help.

The 1st truck has 300ish compression, and the second has 400ish compression. ***?