Cadillac Diesel -20° Cold Start
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- Опубліковано 18 січ 2022
- Cold start of a 1982 Cadillac Sedan Deville with a factory 350 diesel V8 on a -20°C Canadian winter morning.
Considering this engine is 40 years old, hasn't been plugged in and is known for bad starting in the cold I am very pleased with how it did!
Maybe these engines aren't so bad after all... - Авто та транспорт
Oh yes that diesel sound is like music to my ears, I love it, I had an Oldsmobile Diesel years ago and I loved it and miss it to this day!!
I love the sound of an old IDI diesel V8, especially when its cold
I live in South Africa and would love a car like this.
Love these old diesel GM cars. GM as usual cheaped out on small, but vital things to make these a lot more reliable. This has been discussed at length. When running right, they were amazing especially on the highway for mileage. We had the 5.7 diesels in the family and well over 30 (imperial) miles per gallon was the norm during long distance drives. We had experience from past diesels (Mercedes, Peugeot) so we knew the increased maintenance diesels needed, plus water separators were added to the 5.7s. Oil changes were done maximum at 5000 km's - 3200 miles. Perhaps we were lucky, but never had a head gasket go, maybe the mainly long distance highway driving/constant speeds played a part, but it seems many other folks were having problems. Nice looking Cadillac!
Woah wait a minute you’re in Ontario. So there *is* still 5.7 diesel cars floating around here. Interesting. God I want one so bad lol.
I've yet to see one on the streets other than mine ;)
@@BoysToysAndAFarm ☹️ let me be hopeful ok!!! 🤣😂 I was actually looking today … still nothing lol. There was one about a year or so ago. I really hope the next one that comes up I’ll be able to grab.
Dude, your oil pressure was at zero........
Plus, I'd never run a gem like that in the winter. That's a warm weather toy!
I like that Cadillac with the things so I think I have never had one with to do so before but I like that one I wish I had one
Sounds like a friggin monster truck!
Pour a bottle of Howes into it before filling it up with diesel the day before a polar vortex and drive it for 10 miles before parking it overnight so the treatment is all the way up into the lines and injectors when you shut it off for the night. Helps also to park the car on the opposite side from the direction of the wind of the house or a wood fence or shed.
Started a lot faster than my Jeep at -27C! Except mine stayed running ;)
Yes, diesel fuel gelling is a problem at that temperature if it is not blended correctly.
Good start
Time to invest in a block heater son and stanedyen fuel additive
Love it. Those awful gauges tho
Diesels get very angry when they can't get fuel.
You got any driving videos of this?
My olds ninety-eight came with a fuel heater on the pipe between lift pump and fuel filter box. I never run it in winter though so i have not experienced gelled fuel in a 350D.
Like other said, need some fuel treatment for cold winters. I have a diesel Mercedes of the same era and the owners manual says to run it on a mix of 80% diesel 20% kerosene in cold temperatures (and up to 30-40% kerosene in extreme cold). I guess the additives weren't available back then.
not too bad at all. especially for a 40 yr old diesel that people call "gArBagE" Most who have No idea how to even work on or service a light duty diesel.
By 82 the 350 Olds diesel was a substantially better engine, namely the LF9 "DX", which had a much more durable camshaft, injector pump, injectors, fuel lines, bottom-end, revised head and cap bolts and head gaskets. It might have still been based on the same basic architecture and design, but it was effectively a different engine. It's sad, because DX version of the LF9 is reliable and solid engine, but the initial version of the LF9 was so terrible that its reputation was unrecoverable, despite later versions being quite good.
Reality was GM rushed the LF9 out the door with only a year of real-world testing. Testing that was primarily done via police cruisers and taxis with relatively controlled fuel quality, which completely failed to catch the problems with thermal cycling, lubricant breakdown, failure to adhere to servicing guidelines and the impacts of poor-quality diesel (namely water contamination). Taxis and police cars, which tend to run or idle or not be shutoff for long periods (especially back then), and are generally maintained on a rigid service schedule, were a poor general consumer proxy for diesel engine testing.
With today's very high-quality diesel fuel, these later LF9 variants not only run well, but they also run surprisingly clean. It's unfortunate that GM didn't ship the DX variant to begin with, as it would likely have changed the entire trajectory of diesel cars in the North American market.
A bottle of Diesel fuel treatment will fix that right up.
What...No engine block heater...SMH.
Block heater broken :(
That's not really all that cold, had this happen to my 2003 Volkswagen Jetta diesel, ended up that the fuel filter was full of water and it was a block of ice, unfortunately they're not set up to easily drain the water, new fuel filter fired right up and ran fine.
Minus 2 Celsius not -20
Nope it was -20 Celsius; thermometer is in the video :)
Ur cute bro
Not a M.Y. 1982 front grille.
Body is 84, engine is 82
I didn't know any of these things still ran. Oh. Wait. This one doesn't either.
Please remove completely the annoying background music and your vid will be perfect.