so just making sure there are guys out there running with out the fuel heater in below freezing temps with out problems

 

I moose hunt in -20 so I need it but warmer climates do not. Replacement direct from cummins is only $60 including gaskets and new screen. Dodge wants $400 for the element alone.

 

I have never had a problem with mine. It doesn't usually get much below freezing here, but if it's going to be in the 30's or less I plug it in every night and it fires right up and runs great the next morning. I didn't always do this, the first year I had it I didn't even know it was there because someone had zip tied the plug so far up behind the headlight. That winter sucked. If I didn't drive it every day it didn't want to start, and when it finally did it ran like crap until it warmed up a bit. If it was much below 40 it didn't want to start, if it was below freezing sometimes it wouldn't start at all. I was running the best diesel additive we know of at the time too. Every since I started plugging it in at night, I have had absolutely zero issues like these, no problems with the heater itself, and haven't run an additive in three years. If I lived down south where there isn't a winter I wouldn't have any use for it, but I really don't see why anyone would remove it and I definitely couldn't live without it unless I found something better to replace it with, but at this point I see no reason to look.

 

5 gallon of kerosene and fill the rest with diesel will help when it gets real cold, its get down to -30 where i live I have an oil pan heater and the block heater shell start rite up, I also run powerservice too. Also a Radiator tarp will help..

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I also have a PCM programmed for the cold.. Love it. High idle after 10 degrees and after -30 its 3 cylinder run till 90 degree coolant.

 

Yeah, the PCM sounds nice. One advantage to the 24V I guess.