Anyone use Arctic Fox fuel tank heater with TK Evolution?

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  1. RunningAces

    RunningAces Road Train Member

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    What are those covers? Do they just stop ice build up on the radiator?
     
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  3. Crude Truckin'

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    Keep heat in the radiator.
     
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  4. RunningAces

    RunningAces Road Train Member

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    Thanks, how cold does it need to get to put something like that on?
     
  5. jason6541

    jason6541 Road Train Member

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    I have a carrier apu I just leave it on battery monitor mode and set my timer to start and warm up the truck 2 hours before I intend to leave. I can usually get non biodiesel and rarely treat fuel. Unless -15 below or colder I usually fill up with treated fuel so no need for me to treat fuel. Truck starts just fine up to -25 in this situation.
    Load test on batteries and do voltage drop test and clean all terminal 2 times a year . I run 3 DD15 engines and have yet to have a problem with any of the trucks starting even after a week of cold soak
     
  6. jason6541

    jason6541 Road Train Member

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    Engine manual for DD15 engines only recommend the winter fronts for 0 deg or colder. Removed for anything warmer. The new engines run hotter than the older ones.
     
  7. Crude Truckin'

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    Depends for me. If it's in the teens during the day, I'll throw it on. In the fall I take it off and put it back on a lot because of the wild temp swings here in the northern plains.
     
  8. Midwest Trucker

    Midwest Trucker Road Train Member

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    What initially took me down this path of fuel tank heaters and winter grills to mount the cover was this...

    I had a truck with treated fuel, and let it idle all night long. All was good until about 3 hours up the road to the north it was -10 with -30 windchill and the fuel was gel’ing up from just the tank to the engine. All of the cold air coming in the grill at that temp and above 60 mph just wouldn’t work. I had never had a truck go down while in the middle of operating.

    So, warmer fuel in the tank with less air flow through the front was the solution for me.

    I personally throw it on around 15 degrees and below.
     
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  9. lester

    lester Midwest's #1 Feed Hauler

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    When you can't keep your engine warm enough. Its about negative 10 here now and I'm still running about 190 without one
     
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