Quote Originally Posted by IC2 View Post
......and I can assure you in cold weather a diesel WILL NOT start without glow plugs - as I can relate when my tractor wouldn't start last winter after a snow storm when the beasties that camped out in the engine compartment thought glow plug the wire insulation was better food then scrounging some spilled bird seed. Killed all three glow plugs plus a chipmunk who was still there when I tried to start it up to use the blower.

Now - if I could have used one of those starting shotgun shells
used to have a diesel rabbit - always ate glow plugs.
many times started it with lots and lots of hot water
poured over the cylinder head.