[AT] Glow plugs

David Bruce davidbruce at yadtel.net
Sun Dec 20 10:57:37 PST 2015


Since cold weather and I don't get along so well either that is fine by 
me <g>. I will say that 3 cylinder Perkins in the MF 35D is one of the 
easiest starting diesel engines I've seen.

On 12/20/2015 7:55 AM, charlie hill wrote:
> Getting a little further off topic than road tractors but well on the point
> of cold weather and diesels.  I know a guy who used to work for
> an air cargo company that serviced the oil fields up in northern Alaska.
> This was in the early 80's I think.  He said all of their company vehicles
> were diesel Chevy Suburbans.  6.2 liter I think.  He said they NEVER
> turned them off.  They sat running all day while at work and all night
> in the parking lot of the motel where the crews lived.  Once a month
> they would drive them into a heated shop and shut them down and do
> a complete service job.  When they left the shop they ran until they
> came back in the next month.  I can remember a few times when we
> left some of our road tractors running over night as well.
>
> My point is that diesels and cold weather don't get along very well
> regardless of the size or brand.
>
> Charlie





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