That IS quite the set up - but if it works... and depending on how often you actually need to fire up the old girl in the depths of winterFUTZ wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2025 5:27 pm Yeah, A big thanks to David
Not the easiest starting at -20 C degrees.
https://youtube.com/shorts/vZMB8BAe_i0?feature=shared
Wintertime and heavy equipment can be challenging - Over the years I've seen a wide variety of approaches - coolant heaters in the block or spliced into a coolant line, adhesive silicone heating pads, magnetic heaters - all work good when you are close to a source of power,
For logging equipment in the bush we often installed webasto style coolant heaters for the engine - often added an extra line so we could run warm coolant through the hydraulic tank... slickest trick I saw was a company in northern BC that had installed heater hose extensions on their machines with quick couplers on the ends. They would drive up with their service truck, plug extension hoses into the couplers on the truck and let it idle, circulating warm coolant between truck and machine.