Cold weather starts

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by Gunner75, Jan 1, 2018.

  1. x1Heavy

    x1Heavy Road Train Member

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    I was a popeye myself. I was never much as a runt in them days a little light for most women lol. That was then. That started improving into the 30's. Or when the power steering became more common.

    I will never forget the spark of pain when that old volvo commodore crossed a curb at a angle one day, the front end promptly jerked the wheel this way stabbing me and when I got it back jerked the other way to stab me the back and spine.

    Someone yelled to me you Dumb *&^& Stop and then cross one wheel at a time. No wonder you are such a cry baby. Im so ashamed of you babies crying. Stop it. You are not dying. Get going yer late.

    And you wonder why I am the way I am lol.

    To this day I hate the commander COE and desire to melt one in the aluminum refractory shop.
     
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  3. Ezrider_48501

    Ezrider_48501 Road Train Member

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    i think society in general has gotten way too soft. people think any kind of discomfort is unacceptable if they break a sweat they think there going to die. they they get there panties in a bunch if you call them out on it or actually expect them to make any kind of sacrifice.
     
  4. MACK E-6

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    Winter is Cummins. :D

    Check out these two morons.

     
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  5. x1Heavy

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    That's interesting. Should have lost battery a long time ago. What is that NOISE behind the videotaper? Another vehicle?
     
  6. rearview

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    I always thought you pull open the valve, let the engine crank over as fast as it will go and push in the valve and hope she starts.

     
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  7. Ezrider_48501

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    my 2000 mack cold starting sub 0 not plugged in
     
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  8. x1Heavy

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    Is that mack equipped with a V8?

    I am liking the tag axle forward of the drives. Many possibilities
     
  9. Bean Jr.

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    They stopped putting v8s in trucks in the mid 80s. His truck is a post 2000. You can tell by the mirrors.
     
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  10. x1Heavy

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    Thank you Mr Bean. Much of what I kept up with pretty much stopped with a few exceptions post 2002.

    Darn it. Why do these killjoy engineers think it smart to take out V8's are they deliberately trying to make trucks the hall monitor everyone hates? (To paraphrase... I prefer a pretty bomb to a boring 18 wheeler.)
     
  11. Bean Jr.

    Bean Jr. Road Train Member

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    32° Fahrenheit is not that cold! You guys up there in the great White North use Celsius, dont you?

    Just joking! You probably converted
    I have read somewhere how vastly superior straight sixes are to v8 engines. I agree that it makes trucks into cookie cutters with different paint.
     
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