02-12-2021, 07:11 PM
My thoughts exactly. I packed up and made a run for it today.
Last night it was -6 wind chill outside. The coach stayed toasty warm inside.
I left the engine pre-heat on all night and it had no impact on starting. The engine was really slow turning over and did not want to crank. I merged batts to make sure I had plenty of power and cranked again for 15-20 seconds. The engine finally started and sputtered a bit before smoothing out. I need to research the engine pre-heat system. When the engine cranked, the silver leaf told me that the engine coolant was at 32f.
As I got going, I checked the fuel temperature on the silver leaf. It said 66f. I had no issue with fuel gelling.
I did run into a problem that should be added to this thread.... The cold weather affects things. Not those things! Things like your air bags.
My coach has the same problem that Richard talked about last week. Tag bags burping and loosing their air. I was moving through some construction very slowly and realized that I was leaning to the drivers side. I pulled over and was all the way down in the back drivers side. I manually raised the coach and the bag resealed and stayed inflated. I stopped a couple more times to check it but it stayed inflated. I am definitely gonna try Richard’s slime technique.
Again...stay safe and warm!
Bill
Last night it was -6 wind chill outside. The coach stayed toasty warm inside.
I left the engine pre-heat on all night and it had no impact on starting. The engine was really slow turning over and did not want to crank. I merged batts to make sure I had plenty of power and cranked again for 15-20 seconds. The engine finally started and sputtered a bit before smoothing out. I need to research the engine pre-heat system. When the engine cranked, the silver leaf told me that the engine coolant was at 32f.
As I got going, I checked the fuel temperature on the silver leaf. It said 66f. I had no issue with fuel gelling.
I did run into a problem that should be added to this thread.... The cold weather affects things. Not those things! Things like your air bags.
My coach has the same problem that Richard talked about last week. Tag bags burping and loosing their air. I was moving through some construction very slowly and realized that I was leaning to the drivers side. I pulled over and was all the way down in the back drivers side. I manually raised the coach and the bag resealed and stayed inflated. I stopped a couple more times to check it but it stayed inflated. I am definitely gonna try Richard’s slime technique.
Again...stay safe and warm!
Bill
Bill Johnson
Birmingham, Alabama