Nice! The old idi sure is a sweet sound! I have paid the price once for forgetting to plug it in overnight haha
Managed to get up the motivation to do a quick glow plug controller bypass switch, since the glow plug controller is one of the projects that needs replacing. Today is the coldest day we’ve had this winter, and the old 7.3 was NOT happy after sitting for near 9 hours in the parking lot at work. So now, I have control of the glow plugs and have far less to worry about with the cold weather. I do plan to swap to a momentary switch, I just didn’t have one on hand today and didn’t want to go get one and lose daylight (and warmth lol).
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Yeah I experimented yesterday by not plugging it in. Pretty sure the diesel gelled overnight (got down to 15). Plugged it in for about 2 hrs, cycled the glow plugs a few times, and still had to give her a snort of ether. My buddy’s powerstroke killed a starter and 2 batts (they were almost 6 years old though) and even in the afternoon when he finally got it cranked you could tell it wasn’t happy.
They were calling for 16 tonight but it seems it only made it to the low 20’s. I plugged in the block heater at 5pm and have let it run all night lol