My 85 300 D was starting good all fall. I do keep it in an unheated, uninsulated garage. Just before christmas we had a real cold snap, down to about 5 degree F for 3 nights in a row. The first morning, the start was a little rough, but it was running with one glo plus a short second one. The second morning it never fired at all. I put it on the charger and even hooked onto the block heater, and tried it the next morning, total nothing. I couldn't believe it! I checked them with a meter and one or two checked like they should have worked. But on pulling them out of the head and checking them across the battery, not one of them developed any heat. With my new plugs it has been starting very good in the garage without the block heater, but I left it outside for 15 hours Saturday and when I tried to start it at 5 degrees, it took a lot of glowing and cranking. It finally fired up, but I really had been thinking that I was going to have to take a school bus home.

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