plugging in for cold weather ??

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Jan 17, 2004 | 08:12 AM

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Redleg

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From: Bristol Michigan

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Originally posted by Tartarus
Redleg -- I've got that magnetic heater you saw in Tractor Supply. 200 watts and I stick it to the bottom of the pan on cold nights. Works very well, especially with the synthetic I run -- yeah, I know it's overkill, but . . . .

I've got under-the-hood ambient air gauges around the filter & turbo -- at about 15*F with the block heater and the magnetic heater running all night, the ambient underhood air up near the air filter is 54*F. No problem starting, obviously, and the grid heaters don't cycle very long at all.

I was thinking of sticking one on my rear diff, my grid heaters don't even come on after being plugged in all night. Goos for the battery. I'm sure the oil gets quite toasty. I put my tools on the engine when I work under the hood, to keep the tools from freezing my hands. Might be one in a billion chance, but I always kinda had a concern about a heating element making direct contact with the oil. Probably the only questionable area of the heater would be outside of the dipstick tube anyway.