Hi, from 1962 thru 1991 we had B414, 434, and 384 all with BD154 on our family farm. The only way to start the BD154 when temp drops below -5F was with coolant heater. You can put an inline heater in the lower rad hose easily. Plug heater in for 1 hour and your good to go. The BD154 is very hard on batteries for two reasons: it has a 22:1 compression ratio so requires lots of amps from batteries for glow plugs and for starter to roll engine, next reason is engine has lots of vibrations and causes battery plates to fail.
When we worked in our wood lot in the winter with the B414, we either had to drive it a mile and plug it in at an uncle's or leave in on a hill. If we left on a hill we would heat the glow plugs then let roll down the hill in 4th Hi, hit the starter and pop the clutch at the same time and it would always start even in -25F weather. Only danger was a deep snow fall and we would have to shovel some of the hill but usually if there was a pending snow fall we would drive it to my uncle's place and plug in the heater.
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