-- Any tips on how to start old diesels 300 after a cold night when parked on
the street where you can't plug it in?

-- Some ppl say one should use thin motor oil. what is recommended - 5-30? How
do these numbers work? they don't say on the containers, all of them from 5-30
to 20-50 say pretty much the same thing. i've heard that 15-40 is the only oil
one should use for diesels.

-- also, does anyone know what how much power (watts) the default engine block
heater draws? Should a 750W power inverter work, from a portable 12 Volt power
source? Also, for portable power sources/jump starters, what should be the
power or cold cranking amps?

lots of questions, probably asked and answered on this ng, so lots of thanks in
advance to whomever wants to handle one or more of them.

-- ps. here's one more - what's wrong when the engine stays cool - goes up to
like only 60 degrees instead of around 80, which is the reading I've seen on
mb's under normal driving conditions. this is important to me 'coz i want to
convert to the veggie oil fuel.