Perkins cold start

[davidkerryedwards]

What kind of fuel do you have in there? If you dont have a winter fuel in
there, I'd put a lot of
Power Service in the stop the fuel from gelling. You may need to hit the
auxilliary battery
switch to get enough juice to fire it up. Those are cold temperatures to get a
diesel started.
You probably have series glow plugs in the engine and they are just not as
efficient at
starting an engine as parallel plugs since they lose of lot of energy through
the heavy wires
connecting the plugs. Also, if you don't have synthetic oil in the engine it is
hard to get it to
spin fast enough to start at those temperatures.

Kerry
82 FC 35
Denver

--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Ernest Ekberg"
wrote:
>
> The temps are supposed to be - 0 here. i have tried to start my Perkins
> by depressing the stop button- to activate the glow plugs. this seems
> to make the voltage drop to below 10 and she will crank, smoke, but not
> catch and start- any clues? Ernie- 83PT40 in dismal cold Montana-
> getting ready to head home
>