zek405

I live in Alaska and I don't have a garage. Needless to say my truck spends a lot of time idling. My truck has stalled a couple times while driving down the road, but it always comes right back to life...today it died completely. I have a half of tank of gas, so I'm not worried there. I thought I'd heard somewhere that on these new diesels its not good to let them idle for a long time b/c it will clog up the injector heads. If this is true can I just buy some injector cleaner to put in when I fuel up or do I possibly have a bigger problem? It is pretty cold outside...we're talking -20 to -50 this last week, so I'm hoping too that this is just a side effect of the extreme cold. Any advice out there b/c I'm not the most knowledgable about this subject. Thanks.

My truck: '05 2500 4x4 CTD with a winter front currently installed.

fbx22

add some power service additive to each fill up. That should help. The white jugs have anti gel in them and the silver ones dont. I run the silver jugs year round. Where its minus 50 up there you might try the white jugs. THey are available at walmart. Hope that helps. I used to live up there and had more vehicle issues in 4 years than Ive had anywhere else in my life I cant see that the injectors would clog while driving down the road but I dunno Where are you buying the fuel up there?

fbx22

might also have the dealer set the high idle feature so it can idle at higher rpms and eliminate the unburned fuel issues

zek405

I'm in the military, so I buy all my fuel on Fort Wainwright b/c I know that their diesel is rated to -40.

fbx22

yeah their fuel should be pretty good. I think they get it from Sourdough.