[AT] Yellow Farmall now cold starting

[Ralph Goff]

On 1/2/2011 11:14 PM, Rob Wilson wrote:
> In 1984 I bought a new diesel Chevette and paid $4500 out the door for it.
> Before you laugh it was one of the best running little cars I've ever owned.
> It only failed my twice in the 160,000 miles I drove it. Once while it was
> sitting at work for week while traveling and it was -12 when I got there. I
> jumped it and it took right off. My fault it had and old battery in it. The
> other was when we had record cold here in Ohio, it hit -35 and the little
> car sat out with a block heater. I went out and hopped in it and the shocks
> didn't move. I cranked it up and she fired up. It rattled but it was
> running. I went back in a told my wife I was off to work and headed out. I
> made it into town and onto the freeway when the fuel started gelling. It
> made it off the freeway and that was it until it got above zero a day later.
> Around here the only thing with a block heater standard is a diesel and no
> one ever orders a gas vehicle with one.
> Rob
>
Never having bought a new vehicle I can't say if a block heater is 
standard or optional equipment on   vehicles here . I would think they 
would be standard.
Just because an engine will start at extreme cold conditions does not 
mean its a good practice. Given a choice I will always use pre-heating 
(block heater) when its below zero mainly in the interests of the long 
term effects on the engine.

Ralph in Sask.