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Originally Posted by sd300td
It's printed in the owner's manual of these cars for cold starts. Just one pump, then crank. It seems to help with starting my car in the morning, but like I said, Socal weather isn't really cold enough to matter. It's a matter of cranking for 1 second when using the one pump method vs. 3 seconds without.
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My '83 300SD's owners manual said for cold weather starts; before cranking slowly push the pedal to the floor, release, them push the pedal to the floor hold it there, glow it, crank it, then slowly release the pedal after it starts firing on it's own and gains RPM. The only addition I made to this was glowing it twice before cranking - the double glow-cycling makes a huge difference in starting in my experience on that vintage MB diesel. The owners manual went with the car when I sold it in '99 - but it was very specific in it's procedural cold weather starting.