"Wait to Start" time?

[jddaniel]

Lately here in North Texas, the temp has flucuated from near freezing to 70 degrees, so I've usually been hooking up the block heater overnight. But a few times at work or elswhere forgot to let the light go out before starting and see lots of white smoke on startup. I've noticed after unhooking the block heater in the morning, the wait times are short before starting and no white smoke, but when I forget to wait, lots of white smoke, am I hurting my engine by doing this? Have a couple of 12V B5. 9 on the farm with no pre-heater, but don't usually start them in cold weather, so not sure what the 24V in cold weather really needs to worry about?



P. S. passed a PowerStroke on the freeway today that was puking out white smoke a lot seemed to be every time he passed someone, put the hammer down at 70 and left him, no white smoke out of my 24V Cummins.



Thanks



JD

 

[Joe Mc]

Originally posted by jddaniel



P. S. passed a PowerStroke on the freeway today that was puking out white smoke a lot seemed to be every time he passed someone, put the hammer down at 70 and left him, no white smoke out of my 24V Cummins.

JD

Didn't you mean Power "Joke"? Try one from a dead stop sometime, you'll be surprised how quickly they get small in the rear view mirror('')



Plug it in, Plug it in, if you can't . . . . "wait to start" or you'll smoke every time till warm. More importantly, it's harder (and waers more) to start a cold engine than a warm one. 2 + 2 = 4.

 

[chuck3]

Wait to start light.

You should wait for the light to go off especially in the colder wheather, summer no big deal. Its better for your eng. lets the grid heaters warm up.

 

[Skibby]

warm-up

jddaniel,let it warm-up,wait till light goes out before starting the engine,you'll save from hurting the block!