Why not just use fuel line heaters, and tank heaters if necessary? (By the way, there's a lot of dross in this thread - the original message on diesel fuel isn't relevant to cold weather starting, it should have been snipped, there were four sets of footers at the bottom, should also have been snipped - 112 lines of excess baggage x 1150 users = 128,800 wasted lines. Have a care! - Thanks. )
Keith >Were do you live? It used to be in Land Crusiers ( in Canada ) had duel >heavy duty batteries for starting. > >Here in Colorado Springs, my father was told by his mechanic to add a little >gasoline to the tank before pumping the diesel. I think that it about 1 or 2 >qts of gasoline to a tank of diesel to thin it out a fraction. He used this >method for 3-5 years before his VW was totaled. > >I have heard of a method, that uses touline, to make biodiesel easier to >start in winter, but it is only something I have heard, and not yet used my >self ( I don't own a diesel yet ). This or the gasoline method might work >for SVO or WVO as well, I don't know. > >Greg H. > >Greg H. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Michael Henry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> >Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 08:49 >Subject: [biofuel] cold weather starting > > > > I've actually just bought my first diesel car, and this is one of my > > main concerns (as I said, I don't really know anything!) - If I go > > skiing and can't plug my car in, for the day or sometimes even for a few > > days, do you have tips on starting it when I want to get home? Is this > > something I need to worry about? Sounds like you have lots of > > experience, and I really don't know what to expect going into my first > > winter with a diesel. When I get that far, I'm also planning to mix > > biodiesel with petro diesel to reduce cold weather starting problems. Is > > that a good solution? > > > > While it may not be a real problem at all, It may be a percieved problem > > with diesel - for people like me who don't know much about it but what > > they've heard. The effect can be the same. > > > > Mike > > > > Hakan Falk wrote: > > > > >I had diesel cars the last 26 years as private vehicle, both in Sweden >and > > >after I moved to middle and southern Europe. In Sweden it was often minus > > >25 Celsius in the winter and minus 15 Celsius in Central Europe. The only > > >time I had serious problem was one time when I was skiing in Sweden and >it > > >was minus 40 Celsius for a couple of days. Had to heat it up and then put > > >20% Kerosene in the tank. Could not ski anyway, since the risk for bad > > >frostbites was too big. > > > > > >Hakan > > > > > >PS. during the same period I had gasoline company cars. > > > > > > > > >At 10:34 AM 12/10/2002 -0500, you wrote: > > > > > >>I don't really know what I'm talking about, but from a Canadian > > >>perspective I think diesel is widely considered a "dirty" fuel (and it > > >>sounds like the truth of this is what you're researching), but also it's > > >>hard to start when it's minus 20 degrees, which is a real, if > > >>surmountable, problem in this climate - this second point would also > > >>apply to some areas in the US. > > >> > > >>Mike Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
