From: James M. Atkinson (jmatk@tscm.com)
Date: Sat Dec 06 2003 - 15:34:58 PST
I have had really good luck with mutli-fuel torpedo type heater to warm
up engines.
The 60-125k BTU units by reddi-heat work very well, and you can get them
from Lowes or home depot, plus the unit can be modified to draw fuel from
the main tanks, and the burner installed on the passenger side wheel well.
Hint, the heaters operate on AC, so what you can do is all a light times to
turn the heaters on and off at specific times... or use a 24 v to 120 volt
inverter.
Add a right angle tube to direct the heat into the swing fire port.
Paint with high tempature paint to match truck
-jma
At 12:44 PM 12/6/2003, Bruce Kalin wrote:
>Has anyone had experience with the "oil pan pad" type heaters? This
>company offers a 1000 watt unit that is supposed to bring the oil temp
>from -40 to +60 F in a couple of hours. Their reasoning is that it is
>better to warm the oil, and let the heat rise, than it is to warm the
>engine, and allow it to start with frozen oil. It seems to make sense to
>me that warm oil is much better than frozen oil. Certainly the
>installation of these heater pads is far simpler than any other method.
>http://www.engineheaters.com/advantages.htm
>Do the hot water heaters actually warm the oil?
>
>Thanks for any suggestions,
>Bruce
>
>--
>Bruce Kalin
>USMC MTA, MVPA, MTANJ, NCMVPA
>USMC M35A2C w/w &
>M105
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