Start while plugged in?

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  1. Silentshifter83

    Silentshifter83 Bobtail Member

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    ⬆️⬆️⬆️ Yes if your lucky and your fuel hasnt gelled. If it does start when its that cold, it will ping and sputter and puff blue smoke for 10 minutes causing unknown amounts of premature wear on your engine. 3 ways of avoiding it would be; carry and extension cord, run your apu, or keep your engine idled at 800-1,100 rpm.
     
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    cough cough cough cough sputter xputter sputter cough rattle spoutter cough... if there is a inversion layer just above, it will generate a blue cloud gassing all your friendly row sleepers end to end....

    Wait until the chugging starts. Then you know shes getting warmer ready for battle.
     
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    Yep and after an hour of swapping fuel filters with popsicles for fingers, charging batteries, and cranking and praying she will finally start to pop off. Which comes into a close 2nd of watching your first kid being born.

    Youtube cold diesel starts. You get the drift after 5 minutes.
     
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    Did not know this. Will the short from the heater , short the starter just from being plugged in or only while trying to start truck.
     
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    But NOT if you have glow plugs or a grid heater in the intake... bad things happen.
     
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    Ya'll must live up north...that must be real tough with all the cold and sub-freezing temps!
     
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