What's your favorite engine heater
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Topic: What's your favorite engine heater
Posted By: Osage_Orange
Subject: What's your favorite engine heater
Date Posted: 02 Feb 2011 at 10:45pm
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for a WD45? Temp in single digits today, went out to start the 45, and it just groaned. Going to have some type of heater for next round of cold/snow. I'm thinking of a frost plug heater, but maybe there is something that works better. (tractor sits in a shed with one side open, so it's like being outside, but protected from rain, etc.) ------------- Why is there never time to do it right the first time, but always time to go back and fix it? |
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Posted By: AC WD45
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2011 at 12:23am
The old fashioned way: ------------- German Shepherd dad 1957 Allis Chalmers WD45 #WD234847 1951 Allis Chalmers WD #WD88193 |
Posted By: AC WD45
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2011 at 12:25am
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Note the card board LOL ------------- German Shepherd dad 1957 Allis Chalmers WD45 #WD234847 1951 Allis Chalmers WD #WD88193 |
Posted By: Claus
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2011 at 12:38am
| I don't think that is going to help get it started in cold weather, might help keep you going in cold weather. |
Posted By: AC WD45
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2011 at 12:54am
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For getting it started? Ether, hand crank, foot clutch lock. make friends with it.
------------- German Shepherd dad 1957 Allis Chalmers WD45 #WD234847 1951 Allis Chalmers WD #WD88193 |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2011 at 1:41am
| block heater works the best i think! |
Posted By: Gary in Texas
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2011 at 5:55am
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How do you install a block heater, or frost plug on a WD?
I would think a tank or hose heater (CATS)? use heater hose or lower radiator hose?
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Posted By: Steve M C/IL
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2011 at 6:19am
| No freeze plugs in WC-D17.Takes a tank heater and some engineereing. |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2011 at 6:44am
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How about using an infrared light bulb as a heater? Like the ones for keeping chickens or french fries hot ?
Placed under the tractor, it should heat up the engine not the air ?
No risk of 'frost plug' problems.....especially in this weather !
------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2011 at 7:02am
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My favorite is a nice warm spring breeze maybe in May. ------------- -- --- .... .- -- -- .- -.. / .-- .- ... / .- / -- ..- .-. -.. . .-. .. -. --. / -.-. .... .. .-.. -.. / .-. .- .--. .. ... - Wink I am a Russian Bot |
Posted By: R.W
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2011 at 7:07am
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Salmander heater and tarp!
------------- In Search Of: 1958 Allis Chalmers D17 Diesel serial #9643D |
Posted By: wf32
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2011 at 7:08am
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cheap and easy heater is a magnetic heater and can move to different tractors as needed
Phil
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Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2011 at 7:12am
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I have always trusted the steel trouble light with a 100 watt bulb. I also have a dipstick heater that worked great in a pickup I had once. ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2011 at 7:16am
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Get a battery maintainer. If the battery has a full charge it will crank. I have them on everything that's not used on a regular basis. The batteries will also last longer if kept charged. ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
Posted By: Dakota Dave
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2011 at 7:49am
| Hook A tank heater into the block drain donw by the carb. run the return hose up to the plug in the left side of the water pump. only takes a few minutes to install. put a street L in the block and the barbed fitting into it. This way you won't have a kinked hose. I installed mine last winter when it was -20 F. I also have a tarp wrapped all the way around the engine. It started without it but you couldn't use it for 30 minutes. With the block heater plugged it about 30 minutes earler I can start and use it by the time I get the extension cord out of the way. |
Posted By: Chris/CT
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2011 at 8:11am
| Magnetic heater stuck on pan, tractor out of cold wind, warm oil, engine will crank better, and if all is tuned fire in 2-3 seconds, ready to work. |
Posted By: MNfarmerAC
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2011 at 8:54am
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I started my 170 at -15 one morning and that was after being town to -30 the night before with no heater. It has a new battery in it and I rebuilt the carb. Had to crank it a few times on full choke but she eventually took off. I would check the battery and make sure everything else is up to par... it should start. Mine sits under a roof but is open on two sides too.
------------- Brandon 1974 185 1977 185 |
Posted By: Brian Jasper co. Ia
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2011 at 9:43am
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0W-20 Mobil 1 oil in it and no heaters are needed. The CA starts easily and oil pressure builds quickly with Mobil 1.
------------- "Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian." Henry Ford |
Posted By: Chris/CT
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2011 at 10:07am
| Hear here on the Mobil 1, using 10/30 here in winter,20/50 racing formula hot months |
Posted By: j.w.freck
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2011 at 8:59pm
| on all of our 45,s on the farm in indiana,we had heaters installed in the drain ports of the block.it had an electric motor type pump that kept the water at about 70-80 degrees when plugged in on shut down.definitly need on on the 45 diesel |