So has the cold weather tried to kill your landy yet?

ffourphantomfixer

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Name: Andrew Forrest

Re: So has the cold weather tried to kill your landy yet?

« Reply #15 on: December 10, 2010, 10:40:00 PM »

When i was in the R.A.F. they would use 50% derv and 50% parafin mix to stop the derv waxing, this mix was used in all vehicles and ground equipment with no reported problems, dont know how available parafin is these days tho, just a thought.
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genem

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Re: So has the cold weather tried to kill your landy yet?

« Reply #16 on: December 10, 2010, 10:53:10 PM »

We were using a 50/50 mix of diesel and aviation kerosene (AVTUR) in Bosnia - but even that started to wax. By December we had moved to 100% AVTUR, which was fine even at -32. No noticable effect on performance but then it was so icy you were not driving fast anyway !

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rangerovering

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Re: So has the cold weather tried to kill your landy yet?

« Reply #17 on: December 10, 2010, 11:01:52 PM »

Paraffin is around but don't know about bulk buying. Not sure if it is all that cheap either, and legally you would need to pay road duty on it too

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genem

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Re: So has the cold weather tried to kill your landy yet?

« Reply #18 on: December 10, 2010, 11:08:32 PM »

...and anyway, I thought the stuff on sale in the winter was supposed to be good down to at least -15 ?

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mike66

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Name: Mike Wheeler

Re: So has the cold weather tried to kill your landy yet?

« Reply #19 on: December 13, 2010, 11:12:52 PM »

Apparantly putting white spirit in your deisel stops it from waxing, don't what good it'll (or not) do to a td5 though! But if memory serves (the misty memorys from standard grade chemistry!) I'm sure its not that different to parrafin or kerosen.

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Scott110

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Re: So has the cold weather tried to kill your landy yet?

« Reply #20 on: December 14, 2010, 05:26:19 PM »

How do you know if your fuels waxing? is it lack of power,kangaroo jumping, engine death....
i just got a radiator muff still ran fine through the cold snap if not lacking in power a bit well alot but 19j gota forgive it.
no iregular runnign though apart from slightly low battery started fine.
Just curiouse incase i do get it and go nuts blaming the landy.

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Graeme

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Re: So has the cold weather tried to kill your landy yet?

« Reply #21 on: December 14, 2010, 06:16:51 PM »

engine will stop or splutter to a halt wont restart diesel will be waxed once you see it you will recocnise it heating the fuel will get you going again

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Scott110

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Re: So has the cold weather tried to kill your landy yet?

« Reply #22 on: December 14, 2010, 10:46:07 PM »

sounds nice
hope we dont get more cold snaps

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ruaritreble

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Re: So has the cold weather tried to kill your landy yet?

« Reply #23 on: December 15, 2010, 08:50:21 AM »

What about central oil, will that start to wax up?
I guess it sould be ok as pipe work is under ground & tank is such large quantity?
My dad always uses this as an alternative to parraffin. Not sure about chucking it in to the TD5.

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Graeme

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Re: So has the cold weather tried to kill your landy yet?

« Reply #24 on: December 15, 2010, 05:08:26 PM »

central oil

it is either kerosene or diesel ( red) and yes it does wax as well the diesel does anyway

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sthrifty

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Re: So has the cold weather tried to kill your landy yet?

« Reply #25 on: December 15, 2010, 05:23:07 PM »

we have had minus17 I just left greenhose heaters in motors all night no defrosting and nice and warm when you get in

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Scott110

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Re: So has the cold weather tried to kill your landy yet?

« Reply #26 on: December 17, 2010, 03:41:27 PM »

Ok
Tempted fait too much lol.
Cold last night jumped in this morning landy started fine idled fine then when i went to pull away lost all power kinda revved slightly went lumpy and died. Did start back up enough to reverse back into parking spot. Started it back up again it was lumpy trying to rev so i killed the ignition.
Is this waxing if so what has to be done now to get her running?.

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Graeme

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Re: So has the cold weather tried to kill your landy yet?

« Reply #27 on: December 17, 2010, 04:37:46 PM »

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jay2578

Re: So has the cold weather tried to kill your landy yet?

« Reply #28 on: December 17, 2010, 06:54:31 PM »

Sounds like waxing to me, need to warm things up.... maybe a blow heater under the bonnet for half an hour... also at night stick a blanket over he engine, just mind and take it out before starting it!

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Big Slippy

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Re: So has the cold weather tried to kill your landy yet?

« Reply #29 on: December 19, 2010, 06:41:10 PM »

After waxing last week, my fuel filter has a nice taylor made foam blanket worn all the time now.....no more probs.

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