I've never found a temp yet that my 601 won't start at. Might find out this
winter...
I used to fart around with double glow in the 240D, lately I've been just
glowing and waiting another 20 seconds or so after the light goes out, then
crank until it starts which so far it always does even down in the teens. Thats
with conventional oil. If I can get another leak or two fixed I'll put the
Mobil 1 to it and not worry down to 0F... I do use the block heater at home,
I've got a timer setup which is super handy...
-Curt
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 12:55:18 -0500
From: "Dwight E. Giles, Jr" <degco...@cox.net>
To: "'Mercedes Discussion List'" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Subject: [MBZ] glowing in the cold
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Yesterday morning at 14F I fired my OM602 off with only one glow-barely
turned a revolution. Different from the other OM 616 I had which I would
double glow in the teens and sometimes triple glow when the single digits
arrived. I do have block heater on the 300D (OM 602) but don't use it or
need to.
On my current 240D I have a jury rigged manual GP relay system-Fred
recognizes the relay as a Ford relay of some kind. Anyway I just hold the
button for 30, 60, 90 or however many seconds-also can use it as an
afterglow of sorts for a little bit.
Dwight
Dwight E. Giles, Jr.
1978 240D 4 speed. 218K + miles.?
1990 300D 2.5t 170K miles.
Wickford, RI
This a.m. it was 27 deg F. Glowed the '87 once until the glow plug
relay shut off, then re-started the relay, let her glow for another 20
seconds or so and she fired up fairly quickly. Big cloud of smoke.
-Max
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