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Message: <blockquote data-quote="robmints" data-source="post: 11668" data-attributes="member: 1353"><p>Hey Aaron. I don't even have a SS but it sounds like fuel gelling. If these things don't have a fuel heater it will not ever warm up. It needs an additive to keep it from gelling in the first place or store it in a warmer environment or heat it up before you use it. Lots of people use the winter Power Service and like it. I live in MD and my truck has a fuel heater and I plug in over night. That still would not save me on a cold night but the winter fuel already has some additive in it. Bio diesel will gell up quicker than dino. It is hard to get a handle on what is going on until you know what is in your tank. I don't know if pulling some out and setting a thin layer of it in a dish or jar would tell you anything or not. I would safely heat the machine up with a torpedo or other heat source and add some winter additive and run it so the treated fuel was sure to be well mixed and through the system. On a different but related subject I'm kind of goofy but I run synthetic lubes in everything I own that can be reasonably switched. That way the temp of the hydraulic or lube oil would be things you could cross off the list because the syn is much less likely to thicken, but the guys here will need to tell us new guys if changing over a SS is practical or recommended.</p></blockquote><p></p>