Cold (Fridid) Weather Start Diesel?????

Lynnmor wrote:


Where did anyone "insist" on a portable power source? Do whatever you want, but this is what Ford says:

It is recommended that the engine block heater be used for starting
when the temperature is -10°F (-23°C) or colder.

First, true it may be a Ford recommendation. But some-times and some-places, there is just no where to plug in.

And they start anyway. Mind you, it may run rough for a bit, and it may not like it, but it's gonna start.

Now for the insisting, well lets see;

there was Trackrig: On the Slope they have lots of electrical plug-ins (which the OP doesn't have out hunting) and if they don't, they'll let them idle 24 hrs a day.

there was RoyB: X2 on carrying a small generator with you when you are way back off the trails. Has saved my day too many times to count.

there was Lynnmor: Since you are in the "middle of nowhere" you might want to take along a small generator and battery charger if you have them.

Mind you, having a Honda 2000 along in good for other purposes, but it won't be needed to start the truck.

I used to live on the Canadian border, where it gets brutal cold. I was law enforcement and checking motels was part of my job. Many, many times parking lots full of rigs pulling snowmobile trailers. And many of these trucks I noted were diesels. Not plugged in, because no facilities existed to plug in.

And they all started the next morning. You have your new version diesel in good shape with batteries, fuel filter, proper fuel it IS going to start, irregardless of temperature.