it's going to be cold tonight.

12/7/2006 9:16:14 PM

thank you sir

12/7/2006 9:22:42 PM

I've got a piece of plastic and a trouble light on a tractor motor right now. It wouldn't run long enough to circulate the antifreeze.

12/7/2006 9:26:29 PM

Put a new plug on the block heater.

Topped off the antifreeze.

I hope she turns in the morning. All in all, that Cummins has hit every time in cold weather. Just like that. It helps that the Bosch VE injector pump goes to full fueling when shut down. So the engine gets a full throttle kick for a brief second on startup.

12/7/2006 10:36:24 PM

block heaters are awesome. if for nothing else, the nearly instant heat. no freezing your butt off till the engine warms up.

12/7/2006 10:41:20 PM

The bad thing is, I think my block heater is fuXORed.

I checked the resistance across the plug after I got it on, and it read infinity. Like it's burned out.

I plugged it in anyway. Maybe I'll be proven wrong in the morning, but a heating element like that should have registerable resistance especially using a multimeter with a 2M ohm range. So I'm thinking totally open circuit. Dammit. I'm looking online as we speak to try to get a replacement.

12/7/2006 10:46:07 PM

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"So the engine gets a full throttle kick "

which is what, 3800 maybe 4000 RPMs? lol

12/7/2006 10:46:21 PM

shut your thermostat down completely. who needs it anyway

12/7/2006 10:54:21 PM

^^not even...

12/7/2006 10:59:48 PM

Full fuel. Not full RPMs. Engine never revs that high at all. Just a puff of smoke, a brief surge, and she settles down to idle.

12/8/2006 12:01:45 AM

just get one of those universal heaters you tighten up in a freeze plug hole

12/8/2006 7:10:09 AM

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"block heaters are awesome. if for nothing else, the nearly instant heat. no freezing your butt off till the engine warms up."

shit i've been reading say the block heater will throw a cel if used above 0 degrees on the new LBZ duramax. don't know why. doesn't make much sense to me on why it would.

12/8/2006 12:38:12 PM

it was so cold this morning my power steering on the ram didnt want to work. let along the clutch pedal. but she fired right up

at least i can blame the smoke on the cold weather now harr

12/8/2006 12:59:20 PM

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"block heaters are awesome. if for nothing else, exponentially increasing electrolysis in your cooling system and deteriorating it to an unbelievable extent in a short amount of time"

12/8/2006 1:22:40 PM

my ass will doing the whole cooling system update this weekend all over again. fuck fluid jobs and fuck E36 shitty ass cooling parts.

12/8/2006 1:23:45 PM

our Case forklift didn't want to crank this morning- I had to wait for the sun to shine on it a while.

12/9/2006 4:55:00 PM

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"my ass will doing the whole cooling system update this weekend all over again. fuck fluid jobs and fuck E36 shitty ass cooling parts."

What are you bitching about now

12/9/2006 6:53:14 PM