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With our old tractors that didn't have a block heater we used to use some leftover register ducting (for home forced air heating) and a 90 degree elbow propped under the oil pan with a brick. Then we would run a longer section out the side of the tractor ( 4 to 6 feet) and stick a tiger torch in that end. You could boil the oil in the pan in less than a half hour.
I seen a guy all his vehicles and tractors have extra hoses on the heater hose system that have hook ups like hydraulic hoses that way he can drive his pickup to the job site on cold days hook up the hoses to the tractor and let his pickup heat the tractor coolant so it starts right up and he doesn’t have to worry if it will start or even use starting fluid
They sell a very low power use low volume pump at hardware stores meant to keep the "warm" water circulating in a home so there is no wait time for warm water while washing your hands. It would be PERFECT for this application.
I found something that is world universal. Using a 3/4 inch reach spark plug to plug a 1/2 inch or 5/8 inch heater hose. Keep up the good work, and a happy healthy new year to you and yours.
I use something like that to heat my workshop and house. I live in a small home with a bedroom a main room and a bathroom with a workshop outside. I have a wood stove in the workshop. I have a copper coil running back and forth under the wood grate, and a 50 gallon barrel of water sitting next to it. I have a check valve on the inlet so that it can suck water in but has to blow it out the top into the barrel. After 3 or 4 hours I've got 50 gallons of 160 degree water which I can then pump into a radiator in the house and keep the house warm.
I had a ex-military vehicle here in Norway. And those are set up with external connections to the coolant system. Ready to hook up with valves. You could hook up to another running vehicle or small mobile petrol or diesel powered units designed to circulate and heat. So it defintively works if done right
As a small kid when I've been in Mongolia in late 80s, I remember my father had to make a fire under oil pan and rear diff in the winter before we could set of.
when a russian guy says :"weather is cold" that means: "weather is so cold, don't even try to figure how cold it is because even your freezer is hotter than the hottest temperature of the day here" pre-heater systems for cars exists but they work with the car's gasoline and aren't cheap
While you're freezing at -40 degrees Celsius, we in Quebec, Canada, have temperatures below 0 degrees Celsius and a Christmas without snow! Usually, we have the same temperatures as you.
A smudge pot is an oil-burning device used to prevent frost on fruit trees. It is usually placed between trees in an orchard and creates heat, smoke, carbon dioxide, and water vapor 1. The burning oil helps keep the orchard from cooling too much during cold snaps
Got a thumbs up from me you guys just keep having fun even in that cold . it worked that is the goal and pulled it off good deal no its time to go inside and warm the body up kudos guys and a happy new year full of good ideas and fun.
I was gonna say the same thing, or almost yell, "put some gloves on bro" to my TV screen. :) Man, -40 degrees is cold. For me, gloves go on when it is above freezing.
Wood, torch, electric, whatever. Principle will work well if optimized by physics of heat fluid convection within and through the engine geometry. Wood stove engine heater is very slavic approach. I like it !
on cold days, kickstarting my '67' harley, i'd plug an electric heater and tarp it off for 1/2 hour. anyone who knows the weight of the oil in those old things, knows it gets under 50, it's honey for sure. add that to kick start? well, but when i wanted to ride? i road..
With some fast swap connectors and a more compact and inclosed heater it would be a very nice independendent heater unit for any engine powered machine. Old army trucks used to have diesel dedicated webasto's to preheat the coolant and the engine at @60° for easy startup. Nowadays we have glowpluggs but the preheating sistem was better in my opinion,putting way less stress on the battery and the starter on very cold starts in freezing temps. Nice approach on the "McGyver" preheating system thou. Keep up the good work and the outside of box thinking in the new year too. Happy new year Garage 59!
Hmm. " _Lets install an overflow tank here!_ " *Looks at the spark plug plugging where the normal overflow tank should be plumbed to...* " _We initially thought the radiator cap would release excess pressure_ " -Spark Plug- *I'M STILL HERE*
Have the upper hose open above the header tank. You wont get flow from thermal convection alone. What you can do is boil the water in the flexi tube. The expansion will push water out the top hose. It will suck in cold water drom the bottom and repeat.
This system with a wood burning stove would be great. Get copper tubing and wrap it around the smoke stack of the stove get some quick disconnects. Then you could keep the car and the house warm with the same stove.
The top hose on the heater needs to go to the lower hose on the motor. Then the lower hose for the heater needs to go to the upper radiator hose. That way it opens the thermostat like normal
Ja sam jednom zavrto grijac od dizela u karter na cep gdje se ispusta ulje,auto je takodje bilo dizel golf 2.i spajo sam grijac sa ostalim,i dok grijaci odrade na nekih -15.pali kao da je +5.
How about a Solar panel preheater? Whit Super capacitors 3000 F 2.5v + over every 2 volt battery cell. Preheater that heat the oil in the engine when turn on heater, move able (Inside) Isolation plates. So you can hold heat in when cold and open up in hot engine.
A pan of charcoal sat under the engine would probably be less explodey, but I guess that's more likely to cook engine oil if not done right, and at worse, cook the whole car if something catastrophic happened... :P
Like Averna said, the driver side has its own heater core and an aux electric heater to help defrost the drivers side faster and creature comfort as a bonus.
I think if you installed a check valve so the coolant could flow through system. The way it is I don’t think coolant is flowing it’s just boiling in a small part of cooling system.
prob better off getting a kerocene blower heater and just blow the jet of heat onto the front rad for a good 10 , 15 miniutes perhaps. but not so close as to melt stuff.
Just a thought for a future experiment, l have seen videos where a truck was running on Fire wood!? It's can work, l first experienced this when someone said they saw a truck in North Korea running on wood, they use the exhaust gases from the fire....bit like what you did in the exhaust gas recycling experiment. I've seen a video of a guy in the U.S. doing it too. Be great experiment for Garage 54 as l know you be crazy enough to try n a Lada can run on hope alone as we all know 🤣. Good channel guys always entertaining 👍
-40? the only time on a thermastat that Celcius and Ferinheit shake hands and agree that it's cold af because -40C is -40F but I've been out in that kind of temps here in canada. I feel for ya.
