Fuel gelled this morning...

[RoyBoy]

Only living things feel the wind chill. To your truck -10 is just -10. As much as some of us beleive our trucks are living things, that's not the case.

I've heard this before, (the wind chill part), and I disagree.
Park your truck, grill facing a 25 mph wind @ -10*F, and see how it starts.
Park your truck, on a calm night or behind the shed @ -10*F and see how it starts.
I bet the second one will start better...

Proving one of two things, either our trucks ARE living things , or the theory that only living things feel wind chill is incorrect.

Maybe better said, is that living things only feel wind chill, other things are still affected by it.

 

[Tail_Gunner]

Only living things feel the wind chill. To your truck -10 is just -10. As much as some of us beleive our trucks are living things, that's not the case.

I agree with Scot

To any inanimate, non-living thing, -10 is just that, -10. It will get no colder than -10 no matter how hard the wind/ wind chill is.

However, if you just got done driving your truck and it is -10 outside, but the wind is blowing with an equivalent wind-chill of -35, your truck will cool down to -10 a lot faster than it would have in a "no wind" condition.

If you get back behind the wheel an hour latter, the truck will be colder with the -35 wind chill, than in no wind with just the -10 alone. That is what wind chill does, cause an accelerated loss of heat than that of calm air. But in either case, it'll get no colder than -10, it's just a matter of how quickly it cools off.

It's the same thing as blowing on that hot spoon full of chilli. You blow on it to cool it faster. If you don't blow on it, it stays hot longer, and you get a scalded tongue.

 

[RoyBoy]

OK, you're right.

so it would be safe to say, with a -35 wind chill, your truck will gel up or start hard SOONER than if there was no wind chill.

I still think our trucks might be more living than we think, but I digress

 

[Tail_Gunner]

I still think our trucks might be more living than we think, but I digress

I sometimes talk to mine too!!

 

[Fire1]

I sometimes talk to mine too!!

That is normal, it is when the truck starts talking back that you have a problem.

 

[architect-builder]

It's the same thing as blowing on that hot spoon full of chilli. You blow on it to cool it faster. If you don't blow on it, it stays hot longer, and you get a scalded tongue.

With my Chili, you still get a scalded tongue, even when it's cold.

Luckily your filter did not get to this condition.

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That's what mine did (and a whole lot of other trucks, vans, semi's) last winter here. Stations waited too long to get their winter fuel and we had a major (and long) cold snap. There were dead trucks all over the place.

Glad yours was semi-minor!

Barrett