How to start a tank during extreme conditions | Arsenalen Swedish Tankmuseum 

Grandfathers always find a solution! :D

It is really easy, light fire under engine agreed, put burning rag in air intake, find six friends and the starting crank, OK I prefer grandfathers idea after all !

Back in my day we put the horses in sleeping bags to keep them warm.

If they had a heater garage then they had not needed too. We had a oil burner running 24/7 in the garage :) Only since oil heating got to expensive did we not do that. Honestly it is a descent idea to do it noways too. Just keeping the oil indoors is enough to make sure the engine is running lubricated. Just wait so the oil get down to the pan and GO! ;) If it is to "dirty" to be on the stove, well then new oil is needed anyways. (if you care about the engine) So it also can be heated on a stove for better effect- Only problem is the part of getting under the car and drain hot oil. And forgetting to put it back before starting ofc. Probably also bad for the oil plug. And plastic cover in the way of the engine.

@@TheDiner50 They certainly would have liked a heated garage, but money was scarce on the Canadian prairies in the 1940's.

@@kw9849 Or on the front during the war...

Do iiiiiit :D

Tsja, my Suzuki also just started in -25 on the first crank without preheater.

@@bartjanflikkema My Opel Manta -77, back in the old days, started in - 44 C after an weekend standing still. My friends Ford Granada we had too tow for several KM before it "started", the oil pressure wouldn`t rise. Yes, this was in Norway in Finnmark county.

@@janhugo That's indeed a bit more north compared to south Sweden where I live. Although Målilla is also known for both hot and cold weather records 🤔

The grass is always greener... Those same folks who live down in the sunbelt would gladly trade you some of their Summer heat for some of your Winter Ice & Snow... Or, if you really want to darken somebody's day, the not quite freezing wind driven rain with the muddy slush of not quite melted snow...

Yes. Lovely to have to use the snowblower for 45 min to get to work. And for another 45min to get back up from work. Worst of all are, lots of snow and -2 to 0 C.. The snow is like clay, slippery hard to get rid of, heavy and sticks to everything.

This year was a mild one here in Romania too. But we experience easily under -25°C in some winters.

I used to work with the Sk60 (trainer jet) as a technician in Swedish Air Force in the early 90's and spent quite a lot of time in northern Sweden when the pilot aspirants did their advanced training. Negative 30 were common in january and december. One morning we had -42. We NEVER canceled any flights because of cold weather. We used diesel blower heaters to pre-warm the engines of the planes and we used the same procedures as discribed in this video to pre-heat our cars and trucks. Also really important to check the fuel for water condensation, both for the aircraft as well as other vehicles and machines. Any water condensation must be drained to not cause ice blockage of the fuel system. Now I live a more comfortable life in southern Sweden where we rarely have temperatures below -5, -10. This year though we had around two weeks of below -10.

@@mrSkandalpolisen I was in Sweden once, a few years ago, during an exchange with a school near Stokholm, tho when I was there the weather was beautiful, spring almoust, and it was like January i think xd except one day when it was raining and 5 degrees max. Still, I know you bois up there are used to it but for me.. for the past like 10 years I have become a summer (or more like autumn? always raining heh) child

Lmao we had - 20 in my area for weeks this year. Very cool ngl

Air moisture and wind have a strong impact on how you experience cold. On a foggy day, when it was -5, I thought about turning back home and get my thickest gloves. During my arctic warfare training, I once went out when it was -25c with only a t-shirt and berret on my upper body, and my rifle strapped to my back. It didn't feel cold in the slightest, because it was so dry.

In Italy, diesel is a mix a bit more prone to low temperatures. I have a small hardware store in a village in the Alps, and I sell a lot of "diesel antifreeze" to people that came from 'downhill'. It's just lighter fuel to mix into the thicker diesel. The gas pump here sell "artic diesel" in winter.

In the northern US and Canada diesel is cut with Kerosene for the winter. Right at the pump it's a 60/40 split and that is good to about -30C. I work in freight transport and we keep rescue treatment stocked. Besides the fuel gelling, any water in the fuel freezes and clogs fuel filters.

@@Vince_A_Bull Diesel slush. A friend of mine didn't listen to my advice regarding keeping the tank near full during the winter. Of course he got lots of condensation and water in the fuel that turned into slush as the temperature plummeted. Lots of work and 2 days in a wam garage to get the old G20 going again.

We are conditioned to it from birth. I would personally have it really hard in tropical climates, and I can't understand how you or Australians survive your climates either XD

I am Norwegian, i cant anderstand howe you stand +40C! 😁

When my dad was young he experienced -48c / -56f in northern Sweden and during the night the electricity went out, fortunately they had several stoves to keep some heat inside the house, the next morning they investigated why they were lacking electricity and discovered that the incomming powerline had contracted so much due to the cold that it had broken right off! The next summer they changed the entire powerline and found small holes in the insulator where my father had pierced it with throwing darts (Missed the target board) =D So it wasnt only becouse of the cold but both causes together broke the powerline ;)

@@mortensandmoen5208 in the place where I live in northern Italy we can have peaks of +40 in summer and -20 in the clear winter nights.

@@georgesmith5708 -20 is no problem +40 is a big problem!!!

Nope. They never stopped the engine for that long. EDIT: And no need for the C at -40.

@@gummansgubbe6225 what do you mean?

@@gummansgubbe6225 Even though -40 is the point where the centigrade and fahrenheit scales meet I still think it's nice to specify.

Dieselmotorer har inga tändstift.

@@DennisKarlsson Nu tänkte jag specifikt på exv volvos valpar och de tidigare bensinmotorförsedda lastbilarna !

@@TheStefanskoglund1 ok, jag har aldrig behövt värma tändstift. Aldrig hört talas om det ens. Det har räckt med att de är torra, rena och har rätt gap.

I know what you mean, even though those engine heaters were gone by my time. One exercise I was on for two weeks in the woods, the warmest during the whole thing was -32C in the day. Don't know if it hit -45, but close to it. We had those modern inflatable tents with electric heaters, and we had to crawl out and refill diesel in the generators. Once the generator broke down and we had to fix it in the dark, got cold real quick. What got to me the most was how dry the air becomes when it's already bone dry from the cold and then you run it through an electric heater. Woke up completely dehydrated all the time. Eventually I ended up bunking with the patrolling soldiers, because they ran an old school wood stove in their tent. Way better.

If the battery is from 1984 too, I dont think that would help much.

Oh, I reminded my self, the first batch of BV206 with the Mercedes 5 straight cylinder was not a good engine, they couldn`t take the "heat", but the straight 6 could.

We will cove the Sugga later on, stay tuned.

In Sweden only the real "strong" people can drink it since there is an additive in it that makes you vomit :-)

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Man förlitade sig på självcirkulation i de mindre systemen.

Läste ett inlägg om T-Ford som beskriver det hela med en mening "Istället för en pump för kylarvätska förlitade man sig på konceptet om termisk självcirkulation, dock var inte alltid motorerna införstådda med detta koncept " 🤣🤣

some boring countries did that. Where is the fun and the diesel aftertaste, I ask.

You can be selective about were you park. I like to park on the "high" ground if possible. Rolling down hill to start is a good trick.

And if they don't carry extra, insulated batteries for that or if you forget to hook it up to a outdoor power outlet before you go inside in the evening, that feature is useless too in northern Scandinavia, Russia and Canada.

@@SonsOfLorgar Well ,not necessarily, the cold battery can supply a smaller current until it heats up. But in general it is better to have bigger and better battery (or even better, two) in vehicles used in cold. For example Japanese manufacturers do that a lot, they put double batteries in many of their diesel cars sold in the arctic. Correct type of oil is also very important in cold. It must have good W rating. Then if the vehicle has glow plugs, their good condition is very important.

@@SonsOfLorgar The Swedish TGB40 truck had insulated battery compartment with electrical heating under the batteries, it took a few watts of power from the batteries when temperature was under 5 C. So no power outlet needed unless you parked the truck for weeks.

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