From: James M. Atkinson (jmatk@tscm.com)
Date: Mon Dec 08 2003 - 08:26:22 PST
Here is the type and size of unit that I prefer.
http://www.lowes.com/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=97788-000000234-R55BT
http://www.reddyheat.com/reddy/products/r60.html
http://www.desaint.com/Lowes/pages/RH60.html
or
http://www.lowes.com/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=207220-234-RH170T
http://www.reddyheat.com/reddy/products/rh200vt.html
http://www.desaint.com/Lowes/pages/RH200.html
It mounts nicely on the drivers side wheel well, and you can use an elbow
to direct the heat into the engine compartment though the swing fire port.
If you go for a long term installation, you can remove the tank on the unit
and draw fuel right from your own vehicles fuel tank, but be sure to add
full METAL ducting to the front of the unit so you don't jam up the heater
with road grime. Also, you can draw the cold air from the inside of the cab
or engine compartment.
On the larger 5 ton type trucks you can up-size the heater, and add an air
intake cap that matches the air cap on the air filter.
I have found it helpful to split/divide the ducting so that 25% of the air
gets directed into the vehicles cab, and into the defroster tubing.
Optionally, you can just place one of these units on the ground (raised up
on a couple of cinder blocks) blowing hot air into the area on the drivers
side of the engine. Since heat rises, and the system is forced air you can
throw the heat about 8 feet out which does a great job of not only heating
the engine, but the oil pan and radiator as well.
Sorry, I should have mentioned all of this in my initial posting.
-jma
At 06:34 PM 12/6/2003, James M. Atkinson wrote:
>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.
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>Add a right angle tube to direct the heat into the swing fire port.
>
>Paint with high tempature paint to match truck
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>-jma
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>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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