Why i like oil pan heaters

[Wild one]

The video at 15 minutes is a bit long,but well worth watching.

What Oil Looks like inside an Engine at Minus 30 Degrees Celsius

The mad scientists at Garage 54 break out the clear oil pan, again, this time on a very cold car.

www.autoweek.com

 

[HEMIMANN]

Yup...being familiar with big diesel generators up there (tar sands, gold mines, etc.), they were usually started with oil, coolant and space heaters (batteries + propane heaters). No ether allowed for modern engines - compression ratios too high, and all directly injected, of course. No sure where fuel was sourced - I suspect they knew where how how to get higher cetane than USA junk fuel.

Axle gears and bucket hinge pins in mining / forestry machinery were the worst.

P.S. - the video looked like it was made in the Soviet Union, including the car. Ether start, carbureted, geez. Complete with the history of plastic oil pan manufacture. lol

 

[Wild one]

Yup...being familiar with big diesel generators up there (tar sands, gold mines, etc.), they were usually started with oil, coolant and space heaters (batteries + propane heaters). No ether allowed for modern engines - compression ratios too high, and all directly injected, of course. No sure where fuel was sourced - I suspect they knew where how how to get higher cetane than USA junk fuel.

Axle gears and bucket hinge pins in mining / forestry machinery were the worst.

P.S. - the video looked like it was made in the Soviet Union, including the car. Ether start, carbureted, geez. Complete with the history of plastic oil pan manufacture. lol

Leaf springs were another weak point once the temp gets down below -40.Bouncing down cut lines was always good for breaking a leaf spring or 2 once they got brittle in the cold.If you ran a Diesal out of fuel,it was a panic to get it running again,before it wouldn't start

 

[HEMIMANN]

Leaf springs were another weak point once the temp gets down below -40.Bouncing down cut lines was always good for breaking a leaf spring or 2 once they got brittle in the cold.If you ran a Diesal out of fuel,it was a panic to get it running again,before it wouldn't start

Remember waxing fuel filters? Man, I don't miss those days.

 

[Burla]

Pour Points matter, real cool vid rick.

Those eastern block garages are pretty cool on the internet, glad they have fixed the language thing on this one.