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Cold-weather starting hijinks 200 1991

posted by  Owned by Velma on  Tue Dec 29 10:13 CST 2009
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So, yay, winter. When it's in the teens or below Klanki starts up just fine, but the idle just after starting seems high, even when it's warmed up. I mean it goes up to maybe 1400rpm then settles back down to idle in a few seconds. Is this normal? Seems to me that on a bone-cold 5°F engine you wouldn't want the revs much over the bare minimum til the oil gets pushed around a bit.

Also changed the dino-oil for Mobil1 5W30 today... seems to idle more smoothly afterwards but maybe that's just my imagination. Will change it for 10W30 in the spring, if that ever gets here.






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