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Subject:Re: Fw: Subaru EJ20 Turbo Diesel
From:Scott Daniel
Date:Thu, 14 Nov 2013 14:04:13 -0800

Yes, but think of the pollution !

- all so we can buy that juice and drive around.  Lucky we can. Can't go
on forever though.

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 !
>