plugged in and a lengthy warm up makes her feel groovy. co-tradesmen's chebbies were announcing their piston slap loud and clear!!
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Speaking of piston slap, you shoulda heard this 6 liter ford start up at the hotel this morning. My god it sounded terrible, and he was plugged in. Something must have been up there.
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It depends which 'flash' they have. There are a couple that have addressed the rough run on start up. One involved the injectors 'buzzing' so to speak after shut down to remove the excessive oil and the other involved an inductive type of heat strategy. Both make a huge difference in that run quality on cold starts. Of course, oil viscosity still is a variable.
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Always in a heated shop. The truck will idle up to about 1000 rpm when its cold then drop back to low idle. I did that high idle mod that revs it up to 1200 and keeps it there - much better when really crunchy out. I run 0/40 synthetic for the winter and it will rattle some but it will do a bit of a chugging when its cold started but not bad. Mine has the latest flash where it used some type of inductive heat strategy to preheat the injectors and it makes a difference. It doesnt have quite as much of that 'knuka - nuka - nuka' sound of a 7.3 but like I said, it kind of dos a few 'chugs' till things level out. I think this engine uses sensors to adjust timing, fuel delivery, etc as well as some other parameters and it takes a few seconds of running and oil flow for it to decide where it should have things set.
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For you all in All points frozen.... Have you ever seen/used a heater like this??
we dont get much below zero down here, but I'm thinking of another use for it...
http://www.jcwhitney.com/autoparts/P...001484/c-10614
we dont get much below zero down here, but I'm thinking of another use for it...
http://www.jcwhitney.com/autoparts/P...001484/c-10614
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These are quite common especially for truck, farm and construction equipment diesel engines. They work well as long as the heater is at or below the coolant level.
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Originally Posted by Fomoko1
These are quite common especially for truck, farm and construction equipment diesel engines. They work well as long as the heater is at or below the coolant level.
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It maybe too small for that, I think it`ll take too long to get all the water up to temp if it ever does. It all depends on the outside temperature and the size of your hot tub.