[AT] Easier to Start?

[charlie hill]

Yeah Ralph I’m aware that you have to have them up north.  Most winter 
mornings here a diesel will start but as you said, it sure makes it
easier and the engines are happier and live longer if you heat them up.

A friend of mine worked years ago for an air freight company that
hauled supplies into the oil fields at Prudhoe Bay.   I'm not exactly sure 
where they were based, obviously further south but still in a place
that stays frozen most of the year.  He told me that all of their company 
vehicles were (at that time) diesel Chevy Suburbans.   He said
they had a heated shop and once a month the Suburban would go into the shop 
where it was shut down and serviced.  When it was restarted
and driven out it didn't get cut off again for 30 days.  If for some reason 
it did get shut off or broke down it had to be hauled into the shop
and warmed up.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Ralph Goff
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2012 9:35 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Easier to Start?

On 7/21/2012 1:54 PM, charlie hill wrote:
> Back in the 70's I had an old GMC cab over road tractor with an 8V71
> detroit.  I was hauling mostly logs with it and occasionally a van load of
> chips or veneer.
> It had a block heater on it that looked just like a water heater element.
> It went directly into the water jacket of the engine block.  At night I
> would plug in the heater,
Charlie, that heater you describe is pretty much basic standard
equipment on most engines in this part of the world. It is the
difference between start and no start in the winter time. Lots of guys
like to brag that their diesels will start in winter without "plugging
in" and I guess they might. But the engine will be a lot happier and
live a longer trouble free life if it is heated up by plugging in, even
for a few hours.

Ralph in Sask.

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