Truck refuses to start

Exactly! Even fresh batteries loose a bunch of power when it's below 0 everyday. The fuel or filters may be froze too.

Get those batteries inside to room temp and then put a charger on them.

A block heater is a good idea too.

 

Get a generator , plug in block heater and put charger on battries, wait a few hours and give it a try, if it spins and won't start then check for fuel gelling.

 

Take the batteries home and put them in the oven at 200 degrees for 1 hour that will warm them up.No I was just kiddimg do not do that

 

You should drop a few bucks and get your truck towed to a heated shop and let it warm up in there for 24 hours or so. Once you get it started, don't shut it off when the temp is below 30 degrees.

 

Below 30?

My truck would have been running nonstop since November if that was the case.

 

why tow it to a garage all he needs to do is rent a generator and a space heater,throw a tarp over the engine plug a battery charger into the generator change the fuel filters and fill them with power service or Howells or kerosene let it charge and heat for about an hour and it should start. Do not give it any starting fluid

 

if it has a block heater plug that into the generator also

 

If your charging the batteries with a 4 wheeler in that kind of cold then good luck getting them to charge at all. If your pulling a reefer, open the doors on the unit and connect the positive on both the reefer battery and truck battery only. No need to connect the negative as the 5th wheel will provide the ground. Start her up and let'er run. May take a couple hours of running to get enough charge. If its cold then you will need to turn the defrost on the unit on and set it to 70 degrees. I had to do this when the cold killed my batteries at the TA in Gary a few years ago.

 

I would not even have tried to start it to begin with. Should have waited till 20 f to have a chance. You can always pull start it , need some juice in the batteries though.