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  1. Marcel

    17 Deg F. Startup

    North You can have those Florida mosquitos and hurricanes. I will take the colors of Autumn and the deep snows of the great northern wilderness. Tracking moose on snowshoes or the tree sap crackling in the dead of winter. Waterfalls swelling from the rains of spring. That is for me.:cookoo:
  2. Marcel

    17 Deg F. Startup

    I have read page 2-84 in the TM 9-2320-361-10 and will try again using these instructions today. It is +5 deg F. Okay, I successfully started my 5-ton dump this morning using the approved cold start method stated in the above technical manual. It took five 10 second bursts using the starter in...
  3. Marcel

    17 Deg F. Startup

    Upper Enchanted.
  4. Marcel

    17 Deg F. Startup

    Good point green jeepster. I bought the 750 watt water pump heater so perhaps that will suffice. Western Maine gets pretty cold so I'll find out when I get there I guess. MikeOn--- Cranking the starter with the manifold heater on wasn't doing it. I was wasting battery juice and taxing the...
  5. Marcel

    17 Deg F. Startup

    I own a 5 ton multifuel dump whistler with an LDS engine. It has been sitting in my back yard for about 2 months without me starting it. Today the temperature is 17 Degrees F. and I wanted to see if it would start up in the cold. I began by engaging the manifold heater for about one minute and...
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