Frozen diesel can have a profound impact on your truck or vehicle, and preventing this situation is critical to your vehicle’s long-term health. From older vehicles to modern engines, freezing or gelled diesel is always a risk, and it can reduce performance, reliability and fuel efficiency. One excellent way to improve additive efficiency and reduce …

Cold weather places added demands on diesel engines—from fuel flow challenges to thicker lubricants and harder starts. Taking a proactive, science‑based approach to winter preparation helps maintain reliability, protect critical components, and reduce the risk of downtime when temperatures drop. Below, we break down practical, proven cold‑weather diesel maintenance considerations—covering fuel, oil, cooling systems, batteries, …

Winter and cold weather can really bring you down. Not only does it get dark earlier and become too cold out to do much, but your vehicle’s fuel economy just gets worse and worse. There are a lot of reasons why your fuel economy suffers in the winter, by some estimates fuel economy goes down …

Idling alone isn’t enough to prevent gelling in extremely cold conditions. In specific temperature ranges, diesel may thicken or “gel,” reducing vehicle efficiency, increasing engine strain and introducing potential for damage.  While it’s a common belief that idling your diesel vehicle can prevent gelling, the heat from idling is generally insufficient to keep the fuel …

What To Do If Your Diesel Fuel Gels If you drive a diesel vehicle, you must consider diesel fuel gelling as part of your preventive maintenance routine. Diesel fuel gelling occurs when the fuel thickens or ‘gels’ in cold temperatures, which can hinder the engine’s operations and significantly impact your vehicle’s ability to start. It is …

How to Start a Diesel in the Cold Since diesel engines need high temperatures to ignite their fuel, starting a diesel in the cold, known as a cold start, can be challenging. Thankfully, you can take some actions to make starting your vehicle easier.  Understanding how to start a diesel in the cold can help …

It is getting to that time of year when the temperature is dropping and diesels aren’t particularly fond of the cold weather, especially when it gets below 0° F. Treating fuel with an anti-gel should be pretty easy, you should be able to just dump it in and be on your way right? Well almost… …

Whoever called it the most wonderful time of the year needs to reevaluate themselves. Winter is dark, cold, and a pain in the butt to get anything done. Unless you plow snow for a living, you probably can’t wait for winter to be over. Winter is not only hard on you and your body, it’s …

When the seasons change, so should your maintenance on your vehicle. The transition from fall to winter is particularly important. As the road conditions become more hazardous with the icy signature of the winter months, keeping a careful eye on the state of your vehicles becomes crucial. To keep your vehicle running optimally, there are …