I'm kinda curious on how low it can go before my truck won't start. So far it's been starting okay, glow plugs twice, press the clutch pedal down,wait till it wants to catch, then pull the timing advance, and give it a little throttle. So far it's started as low as -27oC [no wind chill]. No block heater [next year] but i use Total 5-30 synthetic. Call me sick but i find it fun when it's really cold.
I'm kinda curious on how low it can go before my truck won't start. So far it's been starting okay, glow plugs twice, press the clutch pedal down,wait till it wants to catch, then pull the timing advance, and give it a little throttle. So far it's started as low as -27oC [no wind chill]. No block heater [next year] but i use Total 5-30 synthetic. Call me sick but i find it fun when it's really cold.
Ooooo 5-30, thats thin stuff!
I'm looking forward to switching to synthetic when my rings seat.
I'm worried about comp. ratios with my aaz head on my 1.6td block.
It's not even below freezing where i live and im curious to try it at the ski hill after sitting very cold up there for 6-8 hours. It still wouldn't be -27 though.
Unless it was a good POW day :wink:
-39 is pretty cold, it was -36 at 6:30 this morning at my house ( 1/2 hour north of ottawa )
environment canada is calling for -40 tonight :shock:
I can't believe how freezing the east coast is right now. It's sunny and warm on the west coast right now and we're on the same parallel. The roofs are steaming as i type this and the fog is finally lifting with the hot sun.
I guess its sunny there too, just blisteringly cold.
Ha, -40... last night i was worried if it would get to 0 because i have straight water in my car right now sitting in the driveway. It was about +1 so i plugged the block heater in. When i drove my Pops to the train station the Golf was covered in frozen dew. I guess at -40 there is no dew...
Hey Smokey, what is the scoop on the sun in the winter in your area? Heard that it is cloudy/ misty most of the winter there, is that just the vancouver area ? never bin there in the winter. are you effected by the flooding we see on the news??
Mark
The flooding is crazy but i'll get to that.
Yeah it's misty and foggy most of the winter, or raining. It's a wet cold that feels like is seeps into your bones not the dry stinging cold of the praries (i lived in Winnipeg too for 7 years). Because it rains so much in the winter if it does get below zero we get lots of snow. For the month of Dec. there was like 3-4 feet of snow around but it all melted when it warmed up to +10C and has flooded everything. It feels quite warm. Today i was walking around the uni. campus in jeans and a T and didn't feel cold at all. The heating hasn't come on in the house very much at all today because all the south west of the houses here are covered in windows
it's quite warm in the house actually just from the sun going through the windows.
I'm not effected by the flooding because i live on a mountain. If you google earth Abbotsford, and then look at Eagle, Glen and McKee mountain (north east of where google earth takes you) i live in one of the subdivisions on those mountains. But if you look at the flats down at the bottom to the north of the city it was all completely flooded. The roads are raised anyways but there was still 30+ cms of water on some of them so to go the train station in Mission my dad and I had to go around the flats. Hey, at least it's good for the cranberry farmers... oh wait the season is over. I guess flooding just sucks in general :roll: But i prefer this over -40 weather! It's the California of the USA hahahha except on like the 49th parallel?
The flooding is really really bad closer to Van city. Richmond really bad because it's on a delta i believe.
This flooding however is nothing like the good ol' Asinaboine (spelling i know is wrong) river in Winnipeg though.
Not sure who cold weather tests their vehicles in Timmins anymore. GM tests in Kapuskasing (another hour+ north). Used to run 10w30 synth going up there; block heater and blocked off the rad up front. Not unusual to drop into the -40s up there. Synth tranny fluid was not an option if you wanted to shift or you had to let it start and idle until warm before you'd muscle it through the gears.
Down here in the banana-belt of Ontario, it's -26c with that nasty ol' Alberta clipper coming through. If my poor Jetta had brass ones....
does anyone else use the radiator block method?If i sit at a light when its 0 degrees the engine cools way down even after a good romp
does anyone else use the radiator block method?If i sit at a light when its 0 degrees the engine cools way down even after a good romp
a good thermostat should solve your cooling problem. the rushing air will cool the oil filter up front though, so it couldn't hurt by partially blocking the rad. just be cognizant of temperature (coolant, and outside air)