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Cold weather and Diesel advise

Posted By: Chiles
Date: Tuesday, 20 December 2005, at 8:14 a.m.

Not a boat topic, but I bet one of the faithful have some ideas...

I have an old (82) 300SD Mercedes turbo diesel with over 230K miles. Even with new glow plugs, she just won't fire when the temp hits about 20 degrees or below. To help it along this time of year, I've been adding .5 gallons of gas to every tank full of diesel along with the Lucas diesel additive. This makes it about a 30 to 1 ratio of diesel to gas. It seems to help, but am I hurting anything? The previous owner did the same. I leave this car at the airport so the plug engine warmer is not an option.

Any thoughts?

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Cold weather and Diesel advise
Chiles -- Tuesday, 20 December 2005, at 8:14 a.m.

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Vic Roy -- Tuesday, 20 December 2005, at 8:28 a.m.

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Rawleigh -- Tuesday, 20 December 2005, at 10:08 a.m.

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Capt. Dave Kosh -- Tuesday, 20 December 2005, at 10:13 a.m.

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Harry Woods -- Tuesday, 20 December 2005, at 9:26 a.m.

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thuddd -- Tuesday, 20 December 2005, at 9:52 a.m.

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Rawleigh -- Tuesday, 20 December 2005, at 10:05 a.m.

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Joe Fikentscher -- Tuesday, 20 December 2005, at 11:47 a.m.

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Joe Fikentscher -- Tuesday, 20 December 2005, at 12:00 p.m.

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Chiles -- Tuesday, 20 December 2005, at 12:35 p.m.

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Chris Pague -- Tuesday, 20 December 2005, at 2:36 p.m.

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thuddd -- Tuesday, 20 December 2005, at 3:41 p.m.

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Chiles -- Tuesday, 20 December 2005, at 4:15 p.m.

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thuddd -- Tuesday, 20 December 2005, at 4:34 p.m.

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Rawleigh -- Tuesday, 20 December 2005, at 5:40 p.m.

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randall -- Tuesday, 20 December 2005, at 5:53 p.m.

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thuddd -- Tuesday, 20 December 2005, at 6:12 p.m.

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Chris Pague -- Tuesday, 20 December 2005, at 6:36 p.m.

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Chiles -- Tuesday, 20 December 2005, at 7:04 p.m.

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randall -- Tuesday, 20 December 2005, at 10:42 p.m.

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Doug Crowther -- Tuesday, 20 December 2005, at 7:07 p.m.

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thuddd -- Wednesday, 21 December 2005, at 8:14 a.m.

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Doug Crowther -- Wednesday, 21 December 2005, at 1:48 p.m.

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thuddd -- Wednesday, 21 December 2005, at 5:18 p.m.

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andre fourrier-Louisiana -- Thursday, 22 December 2005, at 10:26 p.m.

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thuddd -- Friday, 23 December 2005, at 8:08 p.m.

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Doug Crowther -- Monday, 26 December 2005, at 3:01 p.m.

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thuddd -- Tuesday, 27 December 2005, at 9:02 a.m.

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Doug Crowther -- Thursday, 29 December 2005, at 2:44 p.m.

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thuddd -- Thursday, 29 December 2005, at 4:46 p.m.

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thuddd -- Thursday, 29 December 2005, at 4:50 p.m.