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Old Jan 21, 2014 | 02:33 PM
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Originally Posted by jeffreydsilver
Fuel stabilizer will do NOTHING for a sluggish start. My money would be on the battery going bad but like stated you should do a cleaning of the cable connections and a full charge first.
yessir thanks a lot I checked the battery and the HD service dept checked the bat with meter, and was good. Can the battery still be bad? It started Saturday after it warmed up to about 50ish
 
Old Jan 21, 2014 | 02:34 PM
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Bottom line is it should crank whatever oil is in it.

If the battery is good, and it's that cold, you need a larger capacity battery.
As in more amps.
 
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