I've never found a temp yet that my 601 won't start at. Might find out this winter...
I used to fart around with double glow in the 240D, lately I've been just glowing and waiting another 20 seconds or so after the light goes out, then crank until it starts which so far it always does even down in the teens. Thats with conventional oil. If I can get another leak or two fixed I'll put the Mobil 1 to it and not worry down to 0F... I do use the block heater at home, I've got a timer setup which is super handy... -Curt Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 12:55:18 -0500 From: "Dwight E. Giles, Jr" <degco...@cox.net> To: "'Mercedes Discussion List'" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: [MBZ] glowing in the cold Message-ID: <00a301ca8d67$13f435c0$3bdca1...@net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Yesterday morning at 14F I fired my OM602 off with only one glow-barely turned a revolution. Different from the other OM 616 I had which I would double glow in the teens and sometimes triple glow when the single digits arrived. I do have block heater on the 300D (OM 602) but don't use it or need to. On my current 240D I have a jury rigged manual GP relay system-Fred recognizes the relay as a Ford relay of some kind. Anyway I just hold the button for 30, 60, 90 or however many seconds-also can use it as an afterglow of sorts for a little bit. Dwight Dwight E. Giles, Jr. 1978 240D 4 speed. 218K + miles.? 1990 300D 2.5t 170K miles. Wickford, RI This a.m. it was 27 deg F. Glowed the '87 once until the glow plug relay shut off, then re-started the relay, let her glow for another 20 seconds or so and she fired up fairly quickly. Big cloud of smoke. -Max _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com