Diesel insignia refusing to start in cold

[Turbo]

the best is take the air filter off get an oily rag light it and stick it over the intake and crank the engine black smoke goes in with a bit of flame and off it goes used to start my twin lister with it in winter

We used to start our old db tractor like that in the winter.

 

[Melvyn Best]

We used to start our old db tractor like that in the winter.

I remember my dads drivers having to start his fleet of BMC Lorry’s using a burning rag over the air inlet in the 60s

 

[dave h 2]

Ah! The queue of stuck trucks on the A1, all going somewhere called 'the North' with little fires under the fuel tanks on the news in 63.

 

[Erie Fred]

-8f when I got up today, drove inland a few miles, gas station clerk said it was -18f when she came in this morning.

 

[Erie Fred]

Here is cold....