NYC Freeze Crank No start Need Advice

Yeah plug it in.

 

Yeah she needs some heat. Block heater or a fuel fired coolant heater.

 

Without a block heater or a coolant heater, you have to crank it continuously non stop until it makes enough heat from compression to ignite the fuel. Can literally take a full minute or longer of uninterrupted cranking, assuming the started doesn't burn out first.
Ether starting fluid sprayed into the intake can help a lot. I had a truck that had an ether start injection system built right into the truck. It used to run the ice roads before I got it.

 

Being a Detroit it needs to see enough rpm before it will fire in the fuel ... Could be srs and trs sensor related ..

 

1) You need a block heater. A fuel heater should be a must in NY as well.

2) Get synthetic oil in it. I have had numerous trucks(and diesel cars) that were hard starting that were fixed by running synthetic oil in the winter.

 

Well plug her in or buy those block heater sticker pads. But seeing that nyc does not see 15f often maybe keep pull starting her.

 

You can get a diesel fired coolant heater if you can't plug in. But it uses battery power so they need to be in good shape. Fire it up and do your pre trip and it should start by the time your finished.

 

Plug it in. My Series 60 would flatten the batteries trying to start it below about 15 degrees, but plugged in would happily start well into the -20's. The key for me seemed to be keeping the coolant temp somewhere in the 100-degree range, which my block heater had no trouble doing. But then, mine had 1.2 million miles on it and was tired.

 

First what type n grade of Motor Oil are you using over the Winter months.

During those polar vortex periods do you treat your fuel to the temperature. A few Stations use additives to their fuel bringing the gel point: -10. Fuel inside the tanks will stay warmer than fuel inside fuel line, fuel filter or water fuel separator, (fuel/water separator units by design will gel the fastest.)