PeteN
Silver Member
I haven't started the MT357 for 5 weeks and went to start it with outside temps around 30 F. Tractor sits inside an unheated pole shed with a trickle charger on the battery. Cranked over fine but had at least 3 failed starts. Then when it did try to run it had a few loud combustion knocks and killed. Next start the same loud knocks and then it kept running. Seemed to be fine after that and restarted normally the rest of the day. I know last winter I didn't run it for at least 3 weeks and didn't experience this issue. No faults occurred during this event. I'll be interested to see if this is a pattern or just an anomaly. Tractor has around 50hrs on it and does have conditioned winter fuel.