Diesel fuel doesn't freeze like water does. Typically what you will
see is the formation of wax particles that "freeze" out before the
whole container goes solid, and they will quickly plug a filter,
causing fuel starvation. I suspect you had just enough heat in the
engine compartment to get some fuel through after it sat for a while,
along with the leakage through the wax.
Peter
On Jan 15, 2009, at 10:46 PM, Craig McCluskey wrote:
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:21:53 -0600 Loren Faeth
<lfa...@leadingchange.com>
wrote:
Bzzt
Gelled fuel classic symptoms
I disagree. If it were gelled, how could I get it started in the first
place (the car was outside in the cold and entirely, including the
fuel
tank, very cold)? And why would sitting just a few minutes allow it
to be
started again and driven for awhile?
Craig
At 10:10 PM 1/15/2009, you wrote:
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:42:07 -0600 Peter Frederick
<psf...@earthlink.net> wrote:
The 300D cranked up this morning with absolutely no problems -- ran
the GP til the light went out, waiting 10 sec or so, cranked for
about 2 sec and it was running on all six instantly.
No really rattle, no smoke to speak of.
Should be -1F in the morning, hope this works again!
When we lived in the Black Forest north of Colorado Springs, it was
-24F one day. I DID get the '72 220D with series plugs started, but
found that after driving a couple miles or so, the engine would
stop.
If I waited a few minutes, I could re-start it and drive some
more. I
decided that wasn't a good way to go to work (not to mention
starting
it at the end of the day) and turned around and went home.
My theory at the time was that the COLD air chilled the cylinder
walls,
causing it to stop and waiting awhile allowed the rest of the engine
(which was warmed up) to heat them back up.
Craig
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