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 !
>