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Hot air gun?

Drago

Drago

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A few post ago I was half kidding about using a flaming oil soaked rag on the end of a stick to start a cold 6.5. Someone suggested using a hot air gun. Just supposing for a moment my glow plugs aren't working do you guys think that it my start? It would be easy to do with a NatAsp 6.5, anybody actually try it?
 
Yep works good. Hair drier works unless your wife is a good shot, but heat gun gets hotter. That's how cummins work is a heat coil, no glowplugs.
 
So the wife's hair dryer should go along right next to the extra fuel filters and jumper cables?
 
Iv'e tried it,didn't work and fried the heat gun from leaving it on way to long. Was one of my motors with a very low compression ratio,and a cam with overlap. Put new glow plugs in and it started fine.
 
just supposing I had a dead glow plug or two, how long would it take to warm up and stop smoking?
 
A lot of military cold start systems have a fuel nozzle and coil and ignitor (basically a spark plug) in the intake. You push the cold start button while turning the engine over and if ambient temperature is low enough it sprays fuel across the ignitor and shoots a flame into the intake, preheating the air so that when it's compressed the cold engine will start. A lot of the time on equipment with bad glow plugs the operators would bypass the temperature sensor so that the cold start would fire at any temperature and get it running that way.
 
Drago said:
just supposing I had a dead glow plug or two, how long would it take to warm up and stop smoking?
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Depends on how quick you load it up. Idling it might take a while. Mine would clear in about of mile of rural easy driving in 30's F.
 
Wouldn't it be just easier to have the starting system in good working order?

Are you in extremely low temps or something?
 
both my trucks are in good working order, but shat happens on the road and in between paydays
 
My truck stop smoking in 15-30sec w/ 300k on it. I keep it plugged in and sometimes don't even attempt the glows. W/ glows I get quicker start and stops missing when the glows recycle first time . It's been below 20*f (daytime) here for over a week.

I take my 95 to town for a load of feed and coffee every morning, then my family comes and grabs what they need off of it.

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Warm intake air works good on DI diesels but not on IDI's.
 
My findings has been with a block heating coil in each bank (water jacket) is the way to go. Besides the obvious wattage increase, it is a more even heat. Heats faster.

In the morning when I flip the switch on the coffee pot, the trucks block heaters gets the juice. Smoke free starts in about an hour at 15-20*F
 
Haha, no, I gotta walk 10 feet after the coffee pot, (note coffee is first) and flip the switch on the wall to fire the truck heaters.
 
schiker said:
Depends on how quick you load it up. Idling it might take a while. Mine would clear in about of mile of rural easy driving in 30's F.
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That was with old dying insta heat glows. With the current ac 60g's I don't notice smoke after initial clearing puff but I don't have many cold starts yet this year and out of commission right now to double check with cold front.
 
schiker said:
Depends on how quick you load it up. Idling it might take a while. Mine would clear in about of mile of rural easy driving in 30's F.
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That was with old dying insta heat glows. With the current ac 60g's I don't notice smoke after initial clearing puff but I don't have many cold starts yet this year and out of commission right now to double check with cold front.
 
Have fired both the 95 NA and the 95 Chevy around 20* with no plug in and they both fire with zero smoke. The 95 Chevy has 60gs with about 6mos and 30k on them. It also has the Heath cold climate package with extended glow time. The NA I do not have a clue what is in there.
 
3500GMC said:
My findings has been with a block heating coil in each bank (water jacket) is the way to go. Besides the obvious wattage increase, it is a more even heat. Heats faster.

In the morning when I flip the switch on the coffee pot, the trucks block heaters gets the juice. Smoke free starts in about an hour at 15-20*F
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I bought a water heater timer years ago and wired it to an outlet just for my truck and my wife's car (also a diesel). I had it set to come on about 2 hours before I left for work. It was great and I used it for years - until I retired. Now I pretty much use the same system as you do (right down to the coffee being a critical first). The timer doesn't get used much anymore and I don't mind.

A few years ago when I was hunting a guy came in the camp asking for a jump start. Said it was too cold and his battery didn't have enough juice to turn over the corn binder engine in his Ford. I have one of those little 110V Honda suitcase generators that also does 12 volts so grabbed it. Weather was hovering around 0F so I fired up the generator and plugged in his block heater and hooked up the 12V to the battery, ran it for about 1/2 hour, and it fired right up. He said it never started that easy and that he had never used the block heater - Didn't even know about it ("I wondered what that plug was for"). Cool thing is that he is a gunsmith and has a shop not far from me. He has hot blued the parts for two shotguns I've rebuilt and won't take my money, so that has worked out nice.
 
3500GMC said:
Haha, no, I gotta walk 10 feet after the coffee pot, (note coffee is first) and flip the switch on the wall to fire the truck heaters.
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I take the lazy route:
> plug in the truck to a cord that has an inline timer *and* thermostat when I get home.
> timer turns on two hours earler than I usually leave (and off three hours after I would have left, just in case).
> thermostat turns On if the temperature is under 40F*, so if it is warmer than 40*F I save the $0.10.

Sure, do not have to pre-heat the beast, but we have had another thread where it is just nice to do so.
 
JayTheCPA said:
I take the lazy route:
> plug in the truck to a cord that has an inline timer *and* thermostat when I get home.
> timer turns on two hours earler than I usually leave (and off three hours after I would have left, just in case).
> thermostat turns On if the temperature is under 40F*, so if it is warmer than 40*F I save the $0.10.

Sure, do not have to pre-heat the beast, but we have had another thread where it is just nice to do so.
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I'm on duty 24/7, 365.

I plug it in when I came home and unplug it when I leave.

On all the time.

Makes winter tolerable, rattle goes away almost instantly and I have comfortable heat after about 300 feet down the road. 1000W heater. Keeps the snow melted on the hood edges.

But I've become a "winter softie" in my later years. I also have a Cadillac heated steering wheel and heated seats....:)
 
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