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    spiderbones Posts: 1, Reputation: 1
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    Dec 17, 2009, 04:20 AM
    Ford diesel cold weather starting problems
    My 96 F250 7.3 diesel started for about 30 seconds then died. It was in very cold weather -40 below. So I then changed my fuel filter and added 911 to my filter resevoire.and it still didn't start. Could have I pushed gelled fuel into my pumps?
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    Dec 17, 2009, 08:40 AM

    That's very possible. Here's a link I recently wrote that may help:

    https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/cars-t...ml#post1985158

    If you have more than one fuel filter, I would change both of them.
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    Dec 17, 2009, 09:30 PM

    Are you using bio diesel or waste veg oil ? Bio diesel should be fine but waste veg oil will be thicker and may not go through the pump in cold weather.
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