Randy
A few things.
1. Good battery.
2. Convert from the looptype glow plugs to the filement type
mercedessource.com has a conversion around 100 dollars US and an easy job.
Biggest thing you can do.
3. Block heater. If you do not have one get one and put it in lower
radiator hose. KAT makes them or replace on in you block if not working
4. Battery warmer. When it gets real cold 10 F or less I use a 110volt
heating pad (which does not have auto shutoff) and I wrap the battery and
putt a blanket or something to insulate the thing
5 Get a 110 volt timer to feed an extention cord with multiply plugs.
Hope this helps/Tom Scordato
1979 240D
----- Original Message -----
From: "R A Bennell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 4:14 PM
Subject: [MBZ] cold(er) weather starting issues?
My old 115 300D was not happy about starting last evening. It is near 0 C
here so about 32 F. It has been raining,
blowing, and sometimes snowing a little here for the past week or more - a
miserable October compared to last year
when it was quite nice. We are way below normal temperatures.
In any event, I had not run the car for a few days and it was sitting on
the street in front of my house. I tried
to start it last night and it would not go. It fired on a couple of
cylinders but would not catch and run. The
battery is obviously good as I cranked and cranked but it just did not
want to catch. I stopped and tried again
several times and on each of the subsequent tries the glow plug light only
stayed on for a few seconds as opposed
to the usual time. I ultimately pulled out the block heater cord and
plugged it in for an hour and it then started
like it was summer time.
So, my question to those of you more experienced with these sorts of
things, is, do I have some bad glow plugs
or??? I got most of a set ( a long story) of new glow plugs from Rusty but
have not changed any at this time. It
seemed odd to me that it sounded like only a couple of cylinders were
trying to catch. I am no expert on diesels
but I would say the car ran fine all summer and it did not seem to lack in
power etc once I got it running last
night. I also wondered about valve adjustment etc. I have been negligent
in the sense that I have gathered the
stuff to do the valves (tools and gasket) but have yet to actually get to
it. What else would cause it to be
unhappy about starting? I should think one could count on it to start in
colder weather than that. I don't drive it
in the winter so I never tried to start it in cold weather last year.
Randy
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