Diesel engines are pretty different to gas engines, and that extends to cold starts. Cold starts can somewhat hurt a diesel engine, but it's not that simple.

The best solution to cold weather diesel starting problems is to avoid them by being prepared for cold weather before it happens. Diesel engines are harder to start in cold weather because they ...

The 15W-40 crude that most engines use typically thickens in cold temperatures, and this increased viscosity can lead to starting difficulty and insufficient lubrication of bearings and other ...

Akram R. Zahdeh, Naeim Henein, Diesel Engine Cold Starting: White Smoke, SAE Transactions, Vol. 101, Section 3: JOURNAL OF ENGINES (1992), pp. 50-61 ...

Combustion instability is investigated during the cold starting of a single cylinder, direct injection, 4-stroke-cycle, air-cooled diesel engine. The experiments covered fuels of different properties ...

There are cold starts, and then there's this cacophony of sounds you get when trying to start a diesel truck at 30-below-zero.