Yeah, it was fun this morning at a balmy 5F with a windchill of probably around -10F or less. It was quite windy. Yeah, my battery is definitely toast. What amazed me was just how slow the engine can crank and still start. my brother just swapped out his like 4 year old Subaru battery (I'm guessing like 350CCA's, maybe it's more) so I used the jumper cables to add some capacity to the Benz battery (cause the 100amp jump start function on the charger wouldn't budge it) Oh, and I did leave the block heater plugged in all night. I'm gonna have to check it with my kill-a-watt cause it didn't seem like any difference this morning, it was a good 15 minutes or so before I saw any movement on the temp gauge. ANYWAY... With that little Suby battery jumpered in (after I took the jumper cables out to the shop and used the brush on the grinder wheel to clean the rust off as I couldn't get them to connect at ALL prior to that) It woud at least turn the engine over, but I can't imagine it was anything more than 100RPM. But I let it try a few times just for kicks. I'll be darned if about 5 seconds in it started to sputter and within around 10 seconds was actually running! Hopefully it will be a bit warmer at lunch time when I head home and that Sube battery will get me to life again and then I can figure out what I'm doing battery -wise.
Do you have to take the air cleaner off to change the battery? Levi On 12/7/06, Marshall Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
LT Don wrote: > I was about to say that Marshall settled this for me last winter, but I see > that he has settled it again in 2006. > > But I do challenge him on one point -- given sufficiently low temps (not > seen normally seen in PA but commonly seen in northwest IA) wind chill > continues to matter, because it determines how damn'd cold you feel while > jump-starting your diesel after it has sat outside your workplace for nine > hours. (We are talking sub-ZeroF temps here.) Can't dispute that! I've spent a morning or two at 20 below (F) starting a wife's diesel that had sat outside in a hospital parking lot all night! Marshall -- Marshall Booth Ph.D. Ass't Prof. (ret.) Univ of Pittsburgh School of Medicine [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
