how do I jump start a diesel!?

[wasted wages]

What's the best way to jump start a diesel?

by push starting it...

 

[Russell]

Good advise for cold starting. I am as well a Northern Field Mechanic working on CAT.

If you cant get to the starter or just dont feel like rolling in the dirt hook up your booster cables, run the boosting vehicle at a elivated idle and just sit back and relax for 20mins before attempting to start it.

There are all sorts of tricks for getting a diesel to start, some are better then others for both sucess and engine life

Hi Ben!

Good to see ya around these parts

As mentioned above, oil pan heaters friggin rock on any engine in the cold! My Duramax starts like it is summer time with heaters on the pan, coolant and batteries. Even at -50C (-58F)!

 

[89GMCK5]

-50C WTF!!!! I don't miss that stuff at all.

 

[Russell]

Only a couple more months till we get that cold around here...

 

[thelynx]

Hey Russell

uhhhggg I cant wait...

Yes heat is defiantly key, try starting an onld HEUI Cat 3516(69L) in that temp!
But those have air starters so that wouldnt apply to this thread!

 

[DEMON44]

As long as the heui can fire with that tar in it they call oil at those temps.


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