Posted by jdemaris on January 05, 2008 at 08:10:38 from (67.142.130.15):
In Reply to: diesel cold starting posted by KEH on January 05, 2008 at 06:58:32:
Many of the old diesels with electric starters (instead of pony motors) used hand-pumped fuel primers along with glow plugs - and they worked pretty good when setup properly. Deere had them on the 1010s and 2010s and they would start pretty good when all was right. My Allis Chalmers HD6 with a Buda diesel has the hand fuel primer as well as an ether injector.
Many later Deeres with direct-injection relied on automatic ether injection and hyraulic pump destrokers.
Cold starting was a big issue at our Deere dealership because we had many logger customers with dozers and skidders sitting out in the woods - with no electricity and temps down to minus 35 F. Many loggers would park their 350 or 450 dozers in creeks every night in water 2 feet deep. That kept the undercarriage from freezing solid and the engine a little warmer than the air - but made for some awful road-calls. Also no fun breaking the ice on top every morning to get the dozer out.
The reality was - in those cold temps - out in the woods - nothing started without help. Some of our customers installed propane or diesel fired block heaters and some used portable generators to run electric block heater.
One neat trick was using quick plug-in couplers to the cooling system. Many guys with pickup trucks would pull up to the jobsite - keep the truck engine running - and plug the truck cooling system into the one on the dozer or skidder. Then, the truck acted like a big pony motor and sent warm coolant over and got the engine warm enough to start.
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