Left my car at MSP all week. It started.
Left my car at MSP all week. It started.
Just picked up my Land Cruiser yesterday in Milwaukee, Started right up. Was -20 or so when I started it, had been sitting since Tuesday AM outside in the wind.
Its a modern car, it should start no problem. Was not disappointed.
It was around 5 degrees yesterday and I made the mistake of leaving my lunch in the truck. Water bottle frozen solid, sandwich frozen, granola bar too hard to chew. Good times. Stopped at Wendy's on the way home and wife was pissed I wasn't hungry at dinner time. Diesel F350 started right up a -5 with those new batteries thou.
aircooled said:Do what the Russians did in WWII to get their planes started in winter:
They pulled off the cowlings off and lit a fire under the engine!
(They also dumped gas into the oil)
Russians weren't the only ones that did that. Some old recip aircraft dump gas into the oil reservoir automatically. The gas will boil out of the oil.
With modern synthetic oils, shouldn't need to do much heating if at all. If running dino then maybe. Make sure antifreeze is correctly mixed as that is what is most likely to freeze. Actually, any system that is known to get water in it. Brakes for example, pedal may be hard to push. I've heard of the trick about turning headlights on for a few minutes before starting the engine to get the electrons flowing in the battery. It does work, amazingly. Quality gas and/or add some type of alcohol to the gas. Used to use Heet, 1 bottle in the tank at every fill up when I lived in Fairbanks Alaska. At the temps being mentioned in this thread, if you do drive in it be prepared for a stiff & bumpy ride for a few miles. Tires will be frozen with a flat spot and shocks could possibly be frozen too. Had it happen on my K5 once or twice but only at around -50.
All this cold weather stuff came up again this past week for me. I spent last week in Anchorage, Alaska. And it was warmer there than most of the lower 48. Was between +30 to +35 all week.
If you live somewhere with e10 in your gas there is no need for HEET. In a 20 gallon tank, you already have 2 gallons of alcohol in it. What’s another 12oz?
Here in AK, no pump fuel has ethanol. Corn doesn’t grow here but oil does. Even then very rarely do people actually use those products anymore.
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