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Date:         Thu, 14 Nov 2013 13:48:11 -0800
Reply-To:     Scott Daniel <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Scott Daniel <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Organization: Cosmic Reminders
Subject:      Re: Fw: Subaru EJ20 Turbo Diesel
Comments: To: JRodgers <jrodgers113@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To:  <52853767.60507@gmail.com>
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I hear ya. I've been on the Icefields Parkway in Alberta in deep winter.. with no services or people anywhere around at all, and I left my turbodiesel vanagon running too.

That's one place I sure didn't want it to not restart for some reason.

so cold and remote....if it won't start up again, you die ! lol. Scott

On 11/14/2013 12:49 PM, JRodgers wrote: > In Alaska - we always left the diesels running in winter. Shut it off > long enough to get cold on a winters day - it might be spring before > you could start it again. LOL! Really - diesels were rarely shut down > in winter. And on the North Slope at the oil camps - never - all > winter. It's a major project to start one up when it's cold. And it > gets bloody cold up there. Spent a little time at Umiat - on the north > side of the Brooks range on the Slope. It was like minus 50 or so - > and in the little cabin the barrel stove was cherry red but there was > frost on the heads of the door nails inside the room. Diesels don't do > well there if they get a chill! > > John > > On 11/13/2013 5:17 PM, Scott Daniel wrote: >> it's all good .. >> just don't leave the damn things sitting around running ! >


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