Block Heator

[lvmci]

Also less smoke on startup, with a preheated engine, lvmci...

[Lin]

I have only used it down into the 30's.  I found an hour quite adequate.

[buswarrior]

You can leave it plugged in for as long as you want to pay for the electricity...?

Plug it in for an hour, or less, depending on outside temps, and off you go.

Safety first! Many bus engine sized block heaters use significant power. No coiled up cables, good quality and condition cord and ends. If there is heat at the plug-in, think hard about swapping a fresh outlet, the contacts inside get beat-up too...

X2 for a system of reminders to not drive away plugged in. There's 2 kinds of busnuts: those who have driven away with something deployed, and those who haven't, YET...

Happy coaching!
Buswarrior

[Scott & Heather]

Or do it my way: squirt squirt of the starting fluid and fire away 🔥


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[eagle19952]

Or do it my way: squirt squirt of the starting fluid and fire away 🔥


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oh no  .... you have to know you are a rebel.

using ether is easy. while squirting it into your engine, you simply chant Do know harm, and it won't 

[PP]

We were going up Hwy 101 a couple of weeks ago and were behind a newer Holiday Rambler. His umbilical cord was dragging behind (about 20 feet of it) and the plug was gone from the end. When we slowed down through a small town, I laid on the air horns to get his attention, but he just kept going. Figured there wasn't anything he could have done at that point anyway. I wonder if sparks flew when it ripped out of the pod 
Will and Wife

[chessie4905]

Ether will start it quick, however thick oil doesn't flow well and can cause lack of Lubrication for a second or two. But there are times when electricity isn't available or you don't have something like a webasto.

[thomasinnv]

Ether will start it quick, however thick oil doesn't flow well and can cause lack of Lubrication for a second or two. But there are times when electricity isn't available or you don't have something like a website.

Is there a website for starting a cold diesel now? Lol

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[sledhead]

a cookie sheet and a bag of charcoal works great

dave

[eagle19952]

a cookie sheet and a bag of charcoal works great

dave

a weed burner some propane and 12 feet of 4" stove pipe with a 90 works faster.

[Gary Hatt - Publisher BCM]

These work well too.  350,000 BTU.  Give it about 60 seconds and you will be up and running.  

[Jim Eh.]

oh no  .... you have to know you are a rebel.

using ether is easy. while squirting it into your engine, you simply chant Do know harm, and it won't 

Just put your wallet between your finger and the spray nozzle!

[eagle19952]

Just put your wallet between your finger and the spray nozzle!

myth.
I have witnessed, sold, and used cases of ether in my career in the Arctic with no ill effects.
granted, i wouldn't use it against pre heaters.
but detroits don't have those.

I know, you and everyone else is right and I am wrong, so save that.

[Scott & Heather]

Lol. Donald was razzing us. But yes, all of these scary blow up stories using either haven't deterred me. And I'm two buses, and almost 70,000 Bus miles in so far.


But I do use a block heater when I have one.


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[Geoff]

I've been rebuilding diesels since 1975 and I know exactly what ether does.  It should only be used as a last resort when your batteries have one last crank in them.