RAM 3500 cold start -17F Minnesota
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- RAM cold start -17F
Update 5/11/2020: Truck wasn't starting back in Jan/2019 due to bad diesel from a station in Alexandria MN that's now out of business. As of now truck has 299,500 miles and it running great. Not putting on as many miles recently as I've been remodeling our cabin instead of driving around buying campers/tractors/etc. Will post update video in a few days. Oh, subscribe now please.
fter being out for one night, not plugged in, with exhaust brake turned on to "auto"mode.
High idle kicks in right away as does the exhaust brake to get things warmed up quicker.
Routine for RAM in cold start = start, drive... once coolant temp hits 130F you'll see the windows defrost. Once you hit 170F or so you'll have a comfortable cabin temp.
Too many videos on cold start for RAM Cummins 6.7. They just start. I've started my truck at -42F by Finland, MN with no issues.
This is actual air temp not windchill which doesn't apply to trucks.
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That exhaust brake sounds absolutely insane, like a jet
Fellow Minnesotan here (born and raised). I came here for the video, and heard the crunch of the snow. That's how you can tell how cold and dry that weather was! Great video!
220k+ miles. You've been working the hell out of it.
Goddammit. For a gas that would already been close to retirement age.
At 259,000 as of this morning.... 12/17/2018
Grizz 2 262,000 on my 5.7 hemi
@@tedwardo123 dang man what do you do for work?
tedwardo123 that's so awesome man
@Max Steel I believe in the video he says it's a 2015 but you'll have to check to make sure.
220k+ miles. The truck still looks like new. Dam I’m surprised
Ram's are solid trucks, contrary to popular belief.
@@InfiniteSith136 Ford= Ford owner's recommend Dodge😎
Yea because the resolution is shit!
The Joker I will say, I love my ram but on my 17 the paint seems to be ungodly thin. 😕
@@zaneeturner397 I can't speak for the newer models. They're okay, but I prefer everything pre-2005, all the way back to the days of the D150 and the Power Ram. First and second generation Ram's were probably the best Dodge ever made.
-17 in texas if it got that cold the state would shut down
Quinn Ey seriously, a bunch of snowflakes down here
Depends on where, the panhandle sees single digits every year so -10 wouldn't be too much out of the ordinary
But Houston? Holy shit haha
@@forc3ofxf3ar51 Utilities would freeze they don't bury them deep in the warm states
Negative 17 Farenheit?? That's cute.
- A Canadian
We had -60 up here last year
The sound of a cummins on a cold start is definitely the best
It's awesome you're racking up the miles. I think it's cool once in a while to see people get up in the millage. Should be proud that you can keep a truck nice looking and in good running shape with high miles!
The only thing I learned from this video, is to no live in Minnesota
that an if you dont feel like dickin around with your vehicle to start it dont own a diesel
😂😂
-4 here right now lol
@@smutgod6125 🤯🥶
I would love to live up there, I hate everything about warm weather. But I love Georgia too much just not the weather
It's so cold your camera went into potato mode to conserve energy!
I have to say that's really impressive. Started up as good as a gas engine. Well, done
That thing starting up legit made me laugh out loud (in a good way). It sounded like the damn polar express
dude me too haha
As long as itz agood way....u might have dodge owners so upset about it that they might go about the day worrying that u laughed in a bad way.Then what?
Scott try the Barbie camper express trucks....they are painted pink and won't hurt anybodys feelings.
You know it’s cold when the snow crunches like that while you’re walking 🥶 nice truck!
@@username8644 thanks for the analysis weatherman
Now that is how a diesel engine in a truck should start no matter how cold it is. I had a 1998 12 valve Cummins and I never plugged it in the only thing I would do is cycle the glow plugs 2 time's and it would fire right up.
Actually that's pretty impressive
Next winter I'm hoping to video a start up near Ely, MN when it's minus 40 or 50 F
My dad had a hunting cabin in Ely. Coldest Ive started was -42f a couple hours away in Glennallen AK.
@@tedwardo123 ok, it's next winter, lol.
@@tedwardo123 ok it's next winter
@@tedwardo123 patiently waiting
I live in Florida. Watching this was literally painful. How do you even survive up there?!!
SlipF18 BustedFlush it’s good for you, seek discomfort. humans are not meant to be as comfortable and complacent all the time.
Prodriver33 I live in Canada and it actually just sucks being in frigid cold 6 months out of the year (or more)
I'll take the cold over our Florida heat. It gets so shitty and sticky here that every summer I think I gotta move.
Grizz 2 I’ve been to hot and humid climates. And It’s better than the cold. The cold in my city is so cold it hurts your face just to go outside. If at any point in time you don’t have proper clothing, you become hypothermic in 20 minutes or less. Winter’s can keep people indoors for weeks on end. It’s torturous and depressing
@@KevAlberta True, but this past summer it sucked going outside here. 91-95 with humidity. It's like you're in a sauna constantly. It sucks and hard to get any work done. Granted, frigid cold is as bad or worse, but at least you can control the temperature with clothing. When it's hot, it's hot, you can't really make yourself cooler but to go inside the AC. Moderated climates are the best. Florida is great in the late fall and winter, but Spring and Summer, get out of Dodge.
For a minute it sounded like it was a runaway
When the snow crunches like that...you know its damn cold. Awesome truck!!
Wouldn't it be better for the engine if you plugged in the block heater? Super cold starts are the major wear on engines.
Yes... better if I put in the heated shop behind the truck in the video OR plug it in over night.
tedwardo123
Well why didn’t you just say you had a heated shop in the description? Your sarcasm is not appreciated.
@@Oreo_5oh Not sarcasm.. made video to demonstrate cold start. Doesn't represent what I do with the truck every time it's cold out. Sometimes you park in a place with no electricity or a shop near bye like up North snowmobiling and cold start can't be avoided.
Good luck
@@Oreo_5oh a plug or a heated shop might not always be avaiable. I can't pulling my truck in at work. They have cold weather starting aids for a reason
Best cold start I've seen in years
Minnesota is cold....nice truck can't believe mileage in 4years . Great video👍🏻🇺🇸
Can you update us on the miles, if you still have the truck ?
Read the description he has a update
1987jeepyj thanks
As a fellow Minnesotan I knew it was around that temperature. How? The sound of the snow when you moved around. All I am think of is when I walked to school years ago and I remember sticking my face inside my coat and listening to that crunch.
Hell I remember that crunchy powder snow in Ohio going to school as well. I’m sure not as often as Minnesota but down here in Tennessee even a hint of single digit temps they cancel every school, and god forbid they have an inch of snow in the forecast here.
This is why my dad has only bought Dodge/Ram diesel for central MN winters for almost all my life.
Sweet music to my ears 👂
Put your mudflaps back on, man. I had to replace my grill and the AC condenser because a dually without flaps kicked up a 2" rock...
Thanks... did put the mud flaps back on a few months ago. Need to have them or your trailer will get dented on dirt roads.
@@tedwardo123 I feel your trailers pain, lol. Thanks, man
231mac don’t tailgate people then
Damn, small world, you're that guy that got mad over the GToger drumbeats thing on a dashcam channel.
@@ixionn563 Lol I just came from that video
My Duramax needed some badly needed TLC. Money being an issue it was neglected, shame on me. It wouldn’t start even at zero. Did all the needed TLC and now it starts on the coldest days. A well maintained diesel will start on the coldest of days. Cummins although do start well in those subzero temps. As far as seat heaters, my diesel ones heat way faster than my Avalanche ones.
As a kid we had a 4cylinder dasher diesel. Never got above freezing on cold winter days. North of Thief River Falls to you. I see guys running snowplows with a diesel pickups, seems like a waste of money considering how diesels hate sub 0 conditions
There were times my 2010 2500 would be outside cuz I could not get it in the garage and did not plug in or was at work at - 10 or so here in Colo. it would fire up as the intake heater helps! My 1994 would start but it struggled just like all the old manual pumps did. The electronics help these new ones!
At these temps I would definitely invest in an oil pan heater.
Great vid. I also have a 15 3500 srw ram. My seat heater works awesome. Never compared with a chevy, but they seem to work great!
What did that do for your performance and mileage with the delete kit?
Performance might be a little better... MPG is about the same. My reason to delete was to stop choking my engine/turbo/grid-heater with carbon and get rid of the DPF. The 70,000 mile service for the 6.7 is $800 around here to clean the carbon. My DIY delete was about $1500 including my MM3 programmer so I made my money back quickly avoiding the carbon-cleaning-service and buying DEF fluid.
**The dealer doesn't clean your grid heater when doing the 70K service, make sure they clean it as it'll get completely clogged eventually. OR do it yourself
Dodge Diesels are notorious for starting in cold weather lol, never had any problems with mine compared to my friend that had a Ford his truck would fog up the street he lived on.... I be like DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN LMAO
ike fun are you just mad your 7.3 wont start?
@@MikeHunt-ru2ol LOL my friend had the 7.3 I had a 6.7 dodge diesel started everytime no matter how cold it got here in Montana
ike fun lol are you mad that you’re brand loyal to brands with garb engines?
ike fun hey dumbass you do know international makes powerstroke and Isuzu makes Duramax
Bret Phillips before you call someone a dumbass the 6.7 powerstroke is all ford. No more international.
How does your coolant and oil temps reach high 30s 2 minutes after starting in -17? Mine reads low 20s in 15-20 degree weather and takes a few minutes to get in the 30s.... That's with 05w40. Seems like the truck had been started earlier in the day. Trans temp was reading -1. Not throwing shade just asking if had been running like a couple hours before?
He must drive that truck a lot! It looks pretty new for 220,000 miles on it. My dads 2004 suburban just hit 215,000 and he drives that thing for a living.
220k for a cummins thats just broke in. You wont see a duramax or a powerstroke in a tractor trailer.
jason lee but you will see internationals or Detroit’s soooooo
Absolutely fords biggest mistake was building there own diesel. Should of stayed with international.
jason lee international designed the power stroke thi
just gonna put this out there I have a f350 6.0 and its almost has 800k miles. you probably won't give a fuck but oh well
slerb ster no you don’t don’t lie its unbecoming
I have a 97 f350 7.3 powerstroke here in michigan. I bought an apcm for my truck so i can idle up. Never had it plugged in since i bought it 1.5 yrs ago. Replaced glow plugs and glow plug relay this year last year did the relay. I found out the glow plugs were bad when hit 40 degrees out and almost didnt start. Friend at work i towed his 99 over to the building cause wouldnt start after work without block heater. He hasnt driven it since to work until he fixes it wiring for glow plugs
tractorboy31 six in a row ready to go 8 in a v you probably sit down to pee
Cold start yes but the intake grid heater was cycled twice🤔
Not “full delete,” but good enough. Ha
@@lahoozer6694 deleting grid heaters is stupid and doesn't net power gains, neither does the other deletes unless you're building a track queen.
Painful cold. I live in St. Louis where it will routinely get into single digits and teens or overnight lows in January and February and at least a couple days a year it will dip below zero but minus 17 is a once every 100 years event. That seems like a regular winter day in MN from what I have heard and read. Minus 22 in the record for StL set in 1884. I remember minus 15 in 1982. Coldest ever for Missouri was minus 40 in Warsaw in 1905. Enough mindless ramblings about winter weather. That diesel seemed to start as well as any gas engine and with well over 200K on the clock even more impressive.
Highball is so right. It'd have taken 20 minutes of cranking and probably a jump start after you kill the batteries the first time around to get an old mechanical diesel started in those temps.
Wrong
Can always depend on your Cummins.👍🏻
Dane Boro Bobby turned gay and bought a power stroke
Interesting your comment on the seat heat. My 03 Laramie with stock seat heaters on hi will feel heat in a minute and in three minutes you are cooking.
where are you located that you only had -17? I am an hour north of the twin cities and we had -40 on several neighbors thermometers and a -38 by another guy.
my 15 had some gelling issue. I plug it in so starting is a non issue. talked to our fuel guy at east central diesel and he says they have a baldwin filter that has a little bigger micron rating then stock so its less sensitive to gelling.
my 2003 would pop off at -20 without an issue at all.
The best cold start videos are of trucks from before the dash would tell you the temperature....
Gotta love dodge for their factory remote start, it’s so clutch
Cash m ford chevy and dodge all have them depending on the options you get.
Al Bar I know, but this is dodge video so that’s why I didn’t mention ford or Chevy😂
Cash m Right.. but it kind of made it sound like you were saying only dodge has it, that’s all.
My 97 12v would not have started near that easy. If she did pop off she’d be one grumpy old girl... puking out a giant cloud of smoke
I love diesel ⛽️ ❤️
My 37s would never survive this lol. California is its home.
known good batteries (two years old or less), quality fuel and fresh filters are critical in winter time starts
Drives around the world for a living.
I will never understand why people don't have block heaters!
Those of us that dont have half an hour every morning to let our trucks warm actually use them
Bro I’ve -20 cold started my 12 valve and it wasn’t happy up here in Canada we got down to -40 more northern
Wish I could be behind the exhaust pipe and inhale the exhaust fumes when you cold start:)
A Caterpillar 3406B is always the best sounding engine when it's cold outside.
It got -41 in Algona Iowa I think -17 fine. Everyone in Minnesota say “oh we can handle cold weather.” Bet
Nonsense... summertime.... there's a guy in Fairbanks -37 I'm going to watch his video!
*I have 2008 dodge 2500 turbo diesel I can not complain is it amazing dude*
You never plug in the block heater? Works wonders.
I don't miss the brutal Minnesota winter's at all, not much better here in North Iowa either
Downside on mine was when i deleted it it took a lot longer to warm up... made me want an Espar
Good 2 know about how quickly seat heaters work....compared 2 chevy no less.
That's the BEST and easiest cold start I've seen for a diesel. Impressive.
I have a 014 Ram 2500 full delete and started in pretty cold weather and never had that much smoke. Just a little if any at start and goes away
Bunch of haters here. I think that Ram is awesome !
It's awesome as long as the transmission is the Aisin. RFE stands for Run the Fuck Elsewhere; everyone I talked to who owns them says they've been through multiple transmissions.
Don't give it the 2 preheats, just start it.
Nice truck dude
Like the dodge ram I have two 3500 and there the reason why I got them like you video
If I ever own another diesel I will power up the block heater. Well worth it.
Imho the companies should give catalitic coverters also with delete pipes , the problem with trucks is DEF, EGR and DPF , not good catalitic coverters.
My diesel car has only cats on and works fantastic
Do a full 5" straight or dont touch it at all.
@@f3arful Nah, I know lots of people running DPF /EGR delete and still kats on ,at least 200cell kats.
It has no sense deleting everything.
I'm surprised your oil pressure is only showing 53 psi on a cold start like this. I think on the earlier trucks oil pressure can easily hit 100 psi with non-synthetic 15w-40 oil on such a cold start. I know nothing about the newer trucks, so maybe they have some kind of bypass circuit to ensure full oil flow?
Could listen to that turbo all day
That’s his engine brake
Looks brand new for 220k+
could be the pressure regulator as far as your fuel pressure issue goes. if thats the case thats a new fuel rail as the regulator is built into the rail.
Do these newer trucks do 3-cylinder idle? The later ECM flash programs for the 1998-2002 24 valve trucks had that capability. It was noisy as hell, but it worked well to warm up an extremely cold engine.
A deleted truck and that thing is a nice rig buddy! 👍
Back in the 1980 this shit ain't starting with our some work.
Looks like new pal
The exhaust brake doesn't do anything in park. It only activates when you are in gear and let your foot off the accelerator pedal. Read your owners manual it will explain it in more detail
Vanes on turbo change position for variable geometry. (VGT) Exhaust Brake technically is only when your moving.... but the turbo does the same thing to put more load on the motor when warming up. So, speaking of reading... look for the diesel supplement manual and find the passage " "Engine idle speed will automatically increase to 1,000 RPM and engage the Variable Geometry Turbocharger at low coolant temperatures to improve engine warm- up"" VGT = Exhaust Brake = faster warm ups.
@@tedwardo123 Well, I guess I learned something new! Guess I should have done my homework before commenting, I will blame it on being an old-school diesel guy .....
@@JS-pj5sb Old school is good!!!!
You could hear the exhaust break engage shortly after starting. The high pitch whining is not heard without the exhaust break engaged during warmups. It makes a huge difference in how fast the motor warms up.
I love that sound ... This is my first winter with my 2017 2500 with the 6.7 I'm ready for some cold weather ...
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You don't need to lock your damn doors before remote start! My dealer told me I had too, it's a fuckin lie!!!!
The door beep is fucking annoying but nice truck. In my dads Chevy we figured out how to remove the seat belt dinger, hate those safeties like we’re not fuckin retarded we know if the doors are opened or our seatbelts are off.
A thought , I've not tried it because I live in NC. Put that truck in neutral while warming it up.
Great look truck sounds good too
Nice video! How long have you had the truck deleted for? I have an 18' 3500 with 11k miles on it and I want to delete it? Also what tuning do you run ?
Im starting to like the ram
Cool video THANKS:,).
Skip too 2:50 for engine start
I could tell the temp by the sound of the snow crunching under your feet. Source? Fellow Minnesotan, Skol Vikes.
Cyber truck will always start , as there’s never bad electricity or fuel filter woes.
Watching Tesla's charge up at Walmart doesn't look like fun. Maybe someday there will be viable options for electric trucks. Need to have 500 mile range, and ability to charge to full-range in 10 minutes. That's how long it takes to fill my diesel tank. Also needs 500 mile range when -20F.... lots of battery juice used on electric cars for heat here in Minnesota. Good testing grounds up here in that regard.
Meanwhile my 04 Ram 1500 5.7 has had the most difficult time starting at 30 degrees or under. With only 126k on it.
Are you using any fuel additives?
No additives, conventional oil, at 265,000 miles and running strong. But then again my suburbans with the 5.3 used to go 350,000 miles before need a rebuild.
And we have
As of today 1/29/2019 I'm using additives... might be rear fuel filter housing heater is broken for some reason.
hello, can i borrow a part of your video for my compilation? of course I put a link to your original video in the description :)
Go ahead!
Sweet video for sure technology is mi t my 96 12v hated winter would take a good solid 10 plus minutes on a good day,66mm turbo 191 dvs valves marine injectors 5 in straight pipe big tonka intake ats triple disc torque converter an 35's the new rams got me thinking tho.
Love the sound
Dodge is known for shitty heaters. Mine idles for a full 10 minutes b4 it gets warm. It actually does't throw good heat until I'm actually driving it.
I started mine at - 40, polar vortex days
Started my gas engine in 32degree Fahrenheit....boom What now? My vid got so many views and nobody cares.
Tony Koelsch my old Subaru starts in -40 -50 every day all winter... I’ve never taken video or told anyone. Why?
So what
Is it bad to start the engine with the engine break on ? Is it normal to have white smoke coming out in cold temperatures like that?
Trucks at 352,000 miles as of now 9/2022... Engine brake is actually the turbo with turbo-vanes moving to put a load on the engine. It's auto so you don't turn this off or on. It's normal to have white smoke when cold...
I don't comment on videos but this one was good.
Ayy my dad has the same truck he loves it too
Does your exhaust brake come on automatically it doesn’t in my 2018.