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It never even crossed my mind after living with diesels in Washington and Kansas. I hope that I'm not screwed!
I've been fighting this the past few days with low temps -2 to low teens here in DFW. Had my '17 parked on slight incline with front end up. This truck came off the lot without a block heater. My first CTD without one. I will NEVER do that again. On that -2 morning I didn't think it was going to be able to pull the fuel up. I could only get it to run for a second or two. Thought for sure I had a gel problem. Batteries gave up. After a couple hours with the sun shine (still 8 degrees) and a jump start finally got it to stay running with a lot of sputtering--but it finally smoothed out. Went to my ranch and got the additive and parked in the drive with the front down hill. No problem since. Pretty sure I need new batteries, though.
The heater is installed, all CTDs come with them. You just need the cable from it to your bumper / extension cord.
Thanks Ostracize! I could have saved myself a lot of grief with a little research
The Ram Build website shows the actual heater plus the cord as the option so I thought there would be a lot more to installing it after built. That must be for the Hemi's?
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They dont pull the fuel the tank has a lift pump that pushes the fuel lol the direction you park does not matter
Glad I gave you an lol. A pump still has to move temperature thickened fuel. I believe that an incline increases the effort--gravity is an undeniable force on the planet that I live on.
An incline does not make a difference your talking gravity as if your pushing fuel hundreds of feet up... either the fuel will flow or it wont seeing as you got it started then fuel was not thickened or gelled as it would have stayed that way...
