Run the truck all night in negative temps or plug it in?

It was mentioned before but it's not necessarily a thing you know in the south. If your brakes do freeze because you had to drop the trailer or something like that the solution is easy. You get under there with the brakes released and a 2# sledge and hit the drum that's stuck. A free drum rings like a bell but a stuck one thuds. You hit it in a few places around the rim and it will eventually ring too. Better that flat spotting a tire or 8.

 

New Era in Williston

 

I run the north east, weekly Wisconsin too. Someday I will discover the lanes in Texas, but I need to learn their growing season too.

 

I'm in upstate NY. Its not unusual for it to go below zero here at night in the winter. I run 4 battery systems in both my trucks, a must in my opinion. One is a 3406e and the other is a c15. I can leave them sitting overnight and all day and they will start without being plugged in. I drain the wet tank daily at the end of the day. Never have any troubles with air system. If I see single digit temps in the forecast I add the power service in the white bottle to the tanks. Never had a gel up but once in a blue moon ill get some ice in the line that eventually thaws out. Another good reason to run a fuel pressure gauge.

 

I had mine running for 29 hours Friday into Saturday. (5 was driving) Treated the fuel myself but still wasn’t taking the chance. Decided to shut it off yesterday evening. . It just sat for 28 hours and I just fired it up 15 minutes ago. Not plugged in where I park. She fired up pretty easy and without either. Maybe I worry for nothing.

1998 FLD120 with Series 60. Leaking lots of oil from a cracked front cover (thanks engine guy)

 

Got down to -5 and the wind was brutal. Windchill was -35 at one point. Its 13 now.

 

You could get lucky and you could lose. It really is a crap shoot. I have bad luck so 20 people have no issues and mine would gel up solid. Guys in Canada or Western US can have no issues and I will have problems at 25 degrees. Just the way it is lol.

 

The younger generation doesn’t believe in this way ……..