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Old 12-13-2010, 10:57 PM
kerry kerry is offline
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Originally Posted by JEBalles View Post
You don't want to fry the starter though. I crank for 10 seconds at a time, then glow again a few times.
MB designed the starters to run for long periods of time in cold weather. The MB manuals say to keep cranking it until it starts and to use the starter to keep it running on a few cylinders until enough are firing to keep it going. Gassers are a different matter.
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