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rzucker said:
I know what you mean. I just checked the online list... Me and 59 "guests", Maybe the "guests" should sign on and interact?
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That's why I made the comment some posts ago about three to four members being on here at one time. And anything you add Jason is welcomed.

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rzucker

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I love starting a cold diesel with a torch, only three times today.:D

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Yup. I think I've used nearly 40 lbs. of propane this last week. And I just racked my right knee and wrist pretty well in the new snow covering the ice patches... In my own driveway. :bangh
 
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rzucker

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Truck Shop said:
How much snow up your way RZ? 16'' here with -1 last night.

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We only have around 8" but it's been drifting the roads shut and been bitter cold. -10 today. I was actually out on a customer's grader busting drifts for him and the neighboring dairy so they could spread liquid cow doo. Some things have to be done no matter what.
 
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JasonG said:
I'm reminded of a Russian picture of a guy with a wood fire built under the front of some piece of equipment.
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When it gets this cold I don't even bother with trying to crank them over with out removing the hump hose to the intake manifold and use a torch
to preheat the air in the intake. By the third revolution there running, always works for me. I don't like changing starters and batteries in a snow bank.;)

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rzucker

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Truck Shop said:
When it gets this cold I don't even bother with trying to crank them over with out removing the hump hose to the intake manifold and use a torch
to preheat the air in the intake. By the third revolution there running, always works for me. I don't like changing starters and batteries in a snow bank.;)

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Yup, been heating heads and intake manifolds with the weedburner. But... Had a guy watch me do that last week and he did it himself on a JD 8400 tractor and he melted the weatherpack terminals that control the injection pump. Oops. Changing the plug bodies in the cold is not fun.
 
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Longhood

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We use a 5 inch exhaust turnout about 2 1/2 feet long with a tiger torch (weed burner) with the tip of the torch just inside the square cut end of the pipe the flow creates a natural blast of hot air. We just slide the pipe under the truck or machine so that the hot blast hits the bottom of the oil sump and then up the sides of the engine.
after about an hour the fire up like a cool spring day. of course a hot air supply to the intake would help the process a long way too.
 
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Because most of the engines in our trucks are series 60's, there is one problem. The oil pans are made of plastic, bad idea to heat them.:badi

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Always wondered why engine builders bother with one stinking cubic inch, call it even 500 and forget it. Wranglers only

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