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I have been driving heavy diesels for 30 years....retired from the teamsters..worked for a Chicago company where is does get cold.. K & R Delivery,if you are old enough and from Chicagoland.you may recognize the name......the reason it says to inject the either "while cranking" is because if you inject the either before hitting the starter it can suck to much either into one cylinder and pre-ignite on the compression stroke and kick backwards, which can do serious damage,,, from breaking teeth off the ring gear, to bending a connecting rod...not good,or if you're lucky just turn everything backwards in a big grinding hickup..instantly changing the direction of the engine and starter rotation...talk about G force....., don't do it....hit the starter, then give it a shot of either, and not much,just a half second or so,,,you will get the feel of it...this way the either is sprayed into a moving flow of air, and does not all go into one cylinder. Either in that tank is in liquid form, and when it is released, especially in cold weather, comes out as partly liquid, then boils to a vapor in the lower pressure, so you need movement of air to dilute the mixture so that is helps ignite the diesel fuel and doesn't just plain EXPLODE....Now the secret to starting a diesel in cold weather is 2 fold.....batteries at 10 degrees F have only 15% of the power that they have at 60 degrees..and the diesel ignites from compression HEAT, so in cold must be cranked faster than in warm weather,,,..so the heat blanket under the batteries is just about as important as the either....in fact, we did not hardly ever use the either....we plugged in the engine to 110vac...a block heater and a small battery charger...the block heater heats the oil or the coolant (depending on the kind you choose) we used the oil heater, and a small 2 to 6 amp battery charger, both permanently mounted and wired into the truck...plug in one cord to turn them on....the charger kept the batteries charged which creates heat in the battery...In the winter of 85 or 86 it got down to 28 degrees below Zero in Illinois,, 4 days before Christmas,,,,we did not have one starting failure or freezeup...if you only run your duece once a week or two , you shouldn;t keep it plugged in all the time.....but plug it in 24 hours before you want to start it in cold weather and it will go....
I have been driving heavy diesels for 30 years....retired from the teamsters..worked for a Chicago company where is does get cold.. K & R Delivery,if you are old enough and from Chicagoland.you may recognize the name......the reason it says to inject the either "while cranking" is because if you inject the either before hitting the starter it can suck to much either into one cylinder and pre-ignite on the compression stroke and kick backwards, which can do serious damage,,, from breaking teeth off the ring gear, to bending a connecting rod...not good,or if you're lucky just turn everything backwards in a big grinding hickup..instantly changing the direction of the engine and starter rotation...talk about G force....., don't do it....hit the starter, then give it a shot of either, and not much,just a half second or so,,,you will get the feel of it...this way the either is sprayed into a moving flow of air, and does not all go into one cylinder. Either in that tank is in liquid form, and when it is released, especially in cold weather, comes out as partly liquid, then boils to a vapor in the lower pressure, so you need movement of air to dilute the mixture so that is helps ignite the diesel fuel and doesn't just plain EXPLODE....Now the secret to starting a diesel in cold weather is 2 fold.....batteries at 10 degrees F have only 15% of the power that they have at 60 degrees..and the diesel ignites from compression HEAT, so in cold must be cranked faster than in warm weather,,,..so the heat blanket under the batteries is just about as important as the either....in fact, we did not hardly ever use the either....we plugged in the engine to 110vac...a block heater and a small battery charger...the block heater heats the oil or the coolant (depending on the kind you choose) we used the oil heater, and a small 2 to 6 amp battery charger, both permanently mounted and wired into the truck...plug in one cord to turn them on....the charger kept the batteries charged which creates heat in the battery...In the winter of 85 or 86 it got down to 28 degrees below Zero in Illinois,, 4 days before Christmas,,,,we did not have one starting failure or freezeup...if you only run your duece once a week or two , you shouldn;t keep it plugged in all the time.....but plug it in 24 hours before you want to start it in cold weather and it will go....
