Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 15:21:00 -0500
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From: "bill (w.r.) crick" <crick@bnr.ca>
Subject: re:VANAGON digest 814
>Winter Van Starting Tip:
>
> Take the space heater that you normally leave in your van to preheat
>your interior (my landlord pays electricity and I have a GFI outlet)
>and put it in your engine compartment. Take some cloth type items and
>stuff them into your air vents.
>
> In about an hour, you will have a toasty warm preheated engine. This got
>me going when it was like -20F (COLD) so I could go jumpstart all of my friends
>
>
>Don't try any of this if you are afraid of starting your car on fire, but I fig
>it was too damned cold for a fire to possibly start....
>
>Matt
Or you could use a light bulb. I used to put a 250W light with a foil
reflector under the oil pan.
I had planned to make some air intake vent plugs, and put the light in
the engine compartment but didn't get around to it. That was
when I was also paranoid about getting snow in the vents when parked outside
at work today. I pictured styrofoam plugs. I was going to get
my wife to get me some of the bright red 8" long "Remove Before Flight"
streamers that they use on aircraft control locks so I remembered
to remove them;-)
I thought it would look neat in the parking lot;-0
It also would have gone with the bumper sticker which was on the van when
I got it. it states "WARNING! This Equipment Emits X-RAYs When Energized"
complete with a purple radiation symbol;-)
Bill Crick
76 Type II
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