"Bruce in Alaska" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Ted Bell" wrote:

When it's very cold I have a hard time cranking my diesel. I was
wondering if I put Tilley wicks saturated in meths around the
injectors
and lit them if it would warm up the injectors enough to vaporize the
fuel better. Anybody ever try it?

I'm Ted Bell!


You don't need to heat the FUEL, you need to heat the AIR......

It seems like that's the majority opinion. But no matter how hot the air
it won't burn all by itself. You must have atomized fuel injected into
the hot air. All the suggestions about pre-heating the air only make
sense provided the fuel hasn't turned to wax from the extreme cold. It's
quite difficult to inject wax, I would think. Wax doesn't burn until it
turns into a liquid. This is evident when one lights a candle. Once the
motor runs for a bit it heats the fuel quite nicely because of the way
it re-circulates it through the system. But what's to keep fuel that
might not be winterized properly from clogging up the works before it
gets warmed up? Maybe the answer is a fuel tank heater and a stout lever
on the fuel pump to pump the warm fuel round.

I'm Ted Bell!