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Old 02-15-2016, 11:02 AM
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Tonight will be single digit again. I will try starting it again tomorrow morning the same way except I will warm the fuel filters and IP first with a hair dryer for 10 minutes. If it starts and idles, can we say it was gelled fuel?
Last night was much warmer and went down to single digit (9 F) for only 1 hour. By the time I tried starting it was up to 17 F so I tried first w/o heating the fuel filter, gave it 30 seconds of glow and it started immediately and idled just fine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go8Bls-8z5w

Safe to say the engine stalling after start yesterday was due to filter blockage from gelled fuel.
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