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arider@bellsouth.net

Mon, Jan 1, 2001 10:03 PM

This weekend I attempted to start my Detroits, after sitting for about a
month disabled due to a new oil filtering and changing system was installed.
I was short on time and had to give up without starting them.
Does anyone have any tips or experience to share on slow or no starts in
cold weather?
After a bad experience with a tractor years ago, I don't use starting fluid.

Bob Clinkenbeard
Twin Screws Enterprises

To accomplish a great task you must act....and dream.

TWIN SCREWS 1964 Chris Craft Roamer 56
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This weekend I attempted to start my Detroits, after sitting for about a month disabled due to a new oil filtering and changing system was installed. I was short on time and had to give up without starting them. Does anyone have any tips or experience to share on slow or no starts in cold weather? After a bad experience with a tractor years ago, I don't use starting fluid. Bob Clinkenbeard Twin Screws Enterprises To accomplish a great task you must act....and dream. TWIN SCREWS 1964 Chris Craft Roamer 56 Photos http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=163724&a=1673119

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cculotta@iamerica.net

Mon, Jan 1, 2001 10:10 PM

arider wrote:

Does anyone have any tips or experience to share on slow or no starts in
cold weather?

Bob,
As you said Do Not ever use starting fluid!
If the engines do not have preheats on them ( even If they do) heat the
intake air with a light bulb.
Also heat the engine room by whatever means that you have. I use my
incandescent light bulbs.
One switch in the pilot house turns on 6 bulbs in the engine room. These
left on over nt. has it warm as toast , with the engine room vents
closed.

CCC
Charles C. Culotta
Patterson, La.
95 Miles West of New Orleans
On ICW

arider wrote: > > > Does anyone have any tips or experience to share on slow or no starts in > cold weather? > Bob, As you said Do Not ever use starting fluid! If the engines do not have preheats on them ( even If they do) heat the intake air with a light bulb. Also heat the engine room by whatever means that you have. I use my incandescent light bulbs. One switch in the pilot house turns on 6 bulbs in the engine room. These left on over nt. has it warm as toast , with the engine room vents closed. CCC Charles C. Culotta Patterson, La. 95 Miles West of New Orleans On ICW

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aepmem@bahamas.net.bs

Mon, Jan 1, 2001 10:14 PM

Try the hot air from a hair dryer or some such device in the intake. It
would help to remove the air filter element while doing this.

Maurice Marwood
aepmem@bahamas.net.bs

Does anyone have any tips or experience to share on slow or no starts in
cold weather?
After a bad experience with a tractor years ago, I don't use starting fluid.
Bob Clinkenbeard

Try the hot air from a hair dryer or some such device in the intake. It would help to remove the air filter element while doing this. Maurice Marwood aepmem@bahamas.net.bs Does anyone have any tips or experience to share on slow or no starts in cold weather? After a bad experience with a tractor years ago, I don't use starting fluid. Bob Clinkenbeard

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scaramouche@tvo.org

Tue, Jan 2, 2001 2:01 AM

arider@bellsouth.net writes:

After a bad experience with a tractor years ago, I don't use
starting fluid.

Yeah I know about missing eyebrows. I have used WD40 successfully and
cigarettes on engines equipped for that (SABB).
Then again I constantly get this message from my friends on the net:
"Go South Young Man!"

arider@bellsouth.net writes: >After a bad experience with a tractor years ago, I don't use >starting fluid. Yeah I know about missing eyebrows. I have used WD40 successfully and cigarettes on engines equipped for that (SABB). Then again I constantly get this message from my friends on the net: "Go South Young Man!"

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shaunsweeney@telus.net

Wed, Jan 3, 2001 10:11 PM

My solution was to install an Webasto fired hot water system which is also
plumbed into both engines. Plan B might be block or oil heaters. Just
think about how hard it was on your poor old engine(s) to get started up
cold in the dead of winter. Brrrrrr!

Shaun aboard Rana III
GB 46 Alaskan
lying Nanaimo

My solution was to install an Webasto fired hot water system which is also plumbed into both engines. Plan B might be block or oil heaters. Just think about how hard it was on your poor old engine(s) to get started up cold in the dead of winter. Brrrrrr! Shaun aboard Rana III GB 46 Alaskan lying Nanaimo

trawlers@lists.trawlering.com

TWL: Any cold starting tips for my DD's?