This is exactly how my 12 valve sounds without the grid heater

started my '17 3500 @ -12* this morning in mn. cranked really hard but I was at my sisters so I wasn't able to plug it in overnight. still the best truck i've ever had. Love the videos, keep it up!

@85305

2 ай бұрын

You shouldn't have to plug in a properly operating 6.7 cummins for -12*.Should fire right up.

Paul I would like to know your thoughts on the recent Cummins recall. Thanks!

#65 hates the cold She was super tough to start when it's cold ..gotta love those cold starts

Amazing it started at that temperature

You can look at the BMP grid heater relocation kit it’s a heater element that goes in the intake horn still won’t be as strong as a stock grid heater but will help

Was not pleased with that temperature hahaha. Even my gasser was unhappy with these recent temps.

Probably should put a heater core on it I mean block heater or whatever it’s called probably be a lot better for the truck and not as hard

Sounds like 3 cylinder high idle. It’s all good.

That bio-blend crap they sell in many states doesn’t light off very well cold either. I can tell in my 7.3 Ford…lots of blue smoke on a 20-30 degree cold start that doesn’t clear up for a few minutes until the cylinders get some heat in them. Heavily winterized non-bio blend with a lot of kerosene and high cetane in it…hardly any. I have different fuel in my truck every day sometimes when I go to start it in the winter and notice a variety of cold start behavior. First thing I do is run over and look at the exhaust to see.

That smoke must have smell good

Cold started 04 6.0 at -35 yesterday was plugged in all night with anti gel additives fired up hard then ran for about 20 minutes then the filters completely froze up

@pddieselpower

6 ай бұрын

Dang. Crazy

My 11 cranked at -29 not plugged in and no anti jell 😅 Had to let her high idle for 25 min before driving 😂

Question: on cold starts do you start it and let the engine automatically go into high idle when it wants to ..... Or do you start it and immediately turn on high idle ? I always did it manually to warm up .... Lately I've been turning on the engine brake and just letting it idle itself up and down EB on and off just how it wants to

My 18 popped off at -33 not plugged in and I was fucking dumbfounded. It wasn’t happy but it did it

Why would you take the grid heater out if you live in cold weather.

I know absolutely nothing about this, I've lived in Florida all my 60 years , 😅 anything under 60 is full blown winter

That’s pretty rough for only 0. But at least you get lots of miles out of them

Glow plugs > grid heaters

15w40? And how long did it take to clear up?

@pddieselpower

6 ай бұрын

Took about 10min to run clean

@MrWhiteTank

6 ай бұрын

5w40 would help crank at the lower temps, correct?

What type of engine is your truck?

@repairvehicle

6 ай бұрын

6.7 Cummins

You should throw a Banks monster ram on there. Best of both worlds

@joshpodolsky7740

6 ай бұрын

Only thing is that thing is over 1 grand.

@repairvehicle

6 ай бұрын

What makes best of both worlds?

@JimmieABES

6 ай бұрын

@@repairvehicle You still maintain a “grid heater” and you get wide open air flow into the intake. Also gets rid of the damned bolt.

@repairvehicle

6 ай бұрын

@@JimmieABES what does wide open airflow improves? How do you think coil heater attaches in the banks, by the air or bolt?

@MrWhiteTank

6 ай бұрын

Banks Monster Ram is awesome and worth it. It replaces the stock grid heater with a high flow billet plate and uses a new coil heater. 😉

Is it def deleted?

@manny7972

6 ай бұрын

All his trucks are stock!

@aj06bolt12r

6 ай бұрын

100% stock FED

@BrandonLeech

6 ай бұрын

Lol yeah, slap a huge CA clean idle sticker on all them🤣

This has more to do with your larger injectors than the deleted grid heater.

@pddieselpower

6 ай бұрын

Yea. I agree. Also running synthetic blend not fully synthetic didn’t help.

@tnargdonald

6 ай бұрын

@@pddieselpower the oil is probably less of it. The truck also sounds like it might be in 3cylinder high idle. It could also be tuning. I have started my 18 and 06 plenty of times without waiting for grid heaters when it’s -10 to -15 out. Might run on 3 a few seconds and the runs fine. Both ridden hard and put up wet with tons of miles on them. 500K on the 06.

Not a great idea for any engine unless you’ve got some really thin synthetic oil in it.

All the guys amazed it started haven’t owned a Cummins guessing they are ford guys where if it gets below 60 you better be plugging it in and have a can of diesel crack on hand

I love pollution so much💨👞😋👍😄💀