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Heating intake air....
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Originally Posted by airbus
Warm air might help to get it started at 20F and below. I thought about trying a hair dryer for that purpose this coming winter but I decided to just hook up the block heater.
I think if the compression is low due to excessive wear (high milage), it's probably just not getting hot enough inside the cylinder to ignite. Maybe warm air helps.
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Heating the intake air helps, big time, for cold starts.....
Cummins/Dodge use the "toaster elements" as mentioned in another post in this thread, they simply heat the intake air......just never, ever use ether with that system.....
I use a heat gun (industrial hair dryer) to start my tractor on cold mornings, my German schlepper (tractor) has no glow plugs...does have a fuel cold prime pump that squirts a bit of fuel just ahead of the intake valve.....I just stick the heat gun into the air intake, leave it to warm the air cleaner for a bit......and then start......
SB
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