Winterizing your truck and preparing yourself and your equipment for winter weather
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- Опубликовано: 25 окт 2019
- #winter #winterdriving #coldweather
Welcome to another DIY SEMI video. Preparing your equipment for winter is important. In this video I will cover some basics to prepare yourself and your equipment for cold weather conditions.
Doing all this before the cold sets in will make your life way easier.
I will cover such topics as:
treating your fuel
caring for your air system
checking your batteries
preparing your tires
oil
and other cold weather preps 
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Great video!
You have a nice manner about you and are very easy to understand, I appreciate you. Very good tips on the human side about helping others. My hat is off.
Happy new year!!!! Thanks for your kindness
im watching this as my gelled up truck thaws out in the garage....
Do you have an apu? We're you supposed to keep manually starting your truck like every 3 hours breaking up your sleep? I hope not....and then you build air and then have to drain the air from your air tanks. You can never get a full night's sleep in the weather when it's below zero temperatures.
Great video and thank you for all the great advice! I've been driving 3 years and just started as an owner op. I laughed at your comment about calling service truck for everything (since it's "free") because I was definitely "that guy". But the last 2 years of driving driving watching videos like this I now am proud to say I do most of my own work on the truck when it's not something too difficult like an EGR cooler or SCR.
I know they get a lot of hate and you probably may agree with the hate. But if you do have money to spare throw it at getting some good tire socks. They do just as well to get you out of stuck situations like at truck stops with much less effort to take on and back off again (5 minutes a tire). I'll chain up in bad situations or mountains or deep snow but in situations you can't chain like road covered in a very thin sheet of black Ice they work wonders. I've helped pick up many drivers stranded for the night on side of road because the ice caused 0 traction and the road conditions weren't ideal for chains as they would chew up your tires (no snow or padding). The socks are perfect for these situations. Albeit rare they do happen and come in handy for emergencies like that. I don't suggest you replace a good set of chains with them but they do serve a purpose in winter.
You are always , a good source off information.!!
Thanks
Solid advice driver I agree with everything you said. I’m from Illinois and it can get pretty cold here too. Couple things i would emphasize is make sure you know what fuel your buying, bio is terrible under 10 degrees. Also air system maintenance is huge. When it’s cold any amount of moisture will give you problems. One other thing i do is carry a bag of kitty litter or oil dry, it can really help you get out of a slippery spot when you can’t get traction. Stay safe and drive on brother! Oh and keep the cb on 19!
Professional driver tips from a professional driver .
Rainx wipes for mirrors.
When it's that cold I idle all night.
I can't with my truck because the company told me that they weren't going to take the idle engine shut down off.
Great video my friend, thank you, I shared it with a few of my friends
Thank you!
Great information! Be prepared 🙂
I carry 2 gallons of number 1 diesel in jugs just for changing the fuel filters
Really appreciate the info. Few things I wasn’t aware of like what type of fuel additive to buy to throw in the trash lol
Good information. Thanks DIY.
Yes, great video
Nice video
Good one
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Thanks man very informative,, I am stuck here in South Dakota with i90 west closed, blizzard conditions and unreal situation. Fortunately for me I am from Florida but I got my 16 Pete 579 ready for this trip,
My question is, is it better to leave my engine idling or just turn it of windchill here make temp around 5. I have full tank of fuel with anti gel in the tank. Also fueled in ND
Leave it running. That's dangerous conditions
I know right !! Donner Summit! Snow storm! 2020 !Flip flops and shorts?????? Can’t believe they are driving a Truck? makes me wonder what else they don’t have commonsense about the truck they are driving??
Four people were butt hurt by the truth. :-)
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Dislike for sound levels i almost died