Gibson Transport

how cold is cold? lol i work for them.
i went to start my truck up one morning there... it was about -25 C out. this was about 3 years ago, dropped the truck off, went home on a day that was +14 out. and it didnt say it was gonna get cold, but it did.. over 5 days it dropped that much. but the old beast of a truck fired up first try, and not being plugged in! made some unholy noises and smoked abit... kinda sounds like the wife.. but it still fired up.

now really. these last few winters have kinda warm, and we dont usually plug them in.. never found out why really. i know if its really cold and the truck is gonna be sittin for awhile someone will come around and start them up here and there. but im never there long enough to have any problems.

 

we got block heaters on em, but at least to my knowledge, theres not alot of outlets near were we park em. if there is, ive never noticed. i usually run straight through the winter, and dont park/go home often during the 3 months of winter we now get.. hah

 

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There is at least 1 fuel enhancer that allows shut down of engine for the night and yields instant start-up next morning so maybe that's the answer.

 

Sorry to bump an old thread but I thought I would throw this out there. I have a Whebasto engine heater on my truck. It's hooked up to my coolant lines and on a very super cold day, I can flip a switch in my cab to turn the heater on that feeds off of fuel from my passengers side tank. If you leave it for a couple of hours, heated coolant is circulated through the engine so it starts up as though it was +20 outside.

It's possible that Gibbys has these things as well.

 

I work for them and they have/had espar,Wabasto or ether start systems for the really cold starts

 

ether start?? I though that was a thing of the past. No modern engine mfr. approves the use of ether!

 

All our modern trucks use Wabasto and Espars. The few 05s we have came from frieghtliner with ether start solution systems. The old Detroit 60series

 

Engine webasto are great cab nice and warm when you get in truck