Posted by The tractor vet on February 27, 2014 at 07:38:17 from (75.19.125.103):
In Reply to: Cold weather start posted by Why Worry on February 27, 2014 at 07:08:16:
On your tractor here i am no expert as i have only worked on two . On a normal diesel engine letting them run is the fact that you need to keep cylinder temps up so that the fuel is burnt and not washing the cylinder wall from unburnt fuel . On a liquid cooled diesel the experts use to say water temp should stay above 170 and idle speed should be above 1000 RPM . Back in the day of trucking in this weather my truck got started on Monday morning and was never shut down till late Friday or early Saturday . At night or when ever ya had a chance to lay down and get some sleep to keep engine temp up i had a air switch that i could close the shutters inft. of the rad. and i would set the hand throttle for that sweet spot where the engine vibration was smoothed out and on my truck it was around 1250 and fall into the bunk and die . Engine temp stayed around 180-to 190 . For your air cooled man i don't know what to tell ya . Build a platform in ft. of the tractor high enough to set a space heater on it to blew into the air box and warm it up before you try and start it ??? Take up Residents in Air e Zonie for the winter ??
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