Add a secondary air damper just beyond where the torch sits this allows additional air into the tube burning the propane earlier also adding fine mesh inside the cap plate will help
You could try mimicking an infrared heater by getting some pretty close mesh wire forming it into a cylinder and capping it with a lid in place of your exhaust system.. After some time the wire will heat up enough to basically be the ignition source and stop any residual fuel burn.
Hitting the block with a blowtorch is one of our preferred methods of warming the tractors up out at the farm I work at, glad to see someone doing it a whole lot safer then us lol
It'll be less likely to torch your truck if you put a chimney cap on it. As in weld a 5 or 6 inch square on some lil stilts on top so the flame hits it and goes horizontal. Can do holes or a logo still just bigger and higher cap on there.🤠
Personally I just park whatever truck I’m driving inside when it’s going to be really cold. This is just something I want for when I want a truck to be ready to start in short notice
I don’t live in real cold but we get snaps down real low. My tractor doesn’t have a block heater, but I’ve cranked it at -24 with my kerosine space heater. Only had to run it like 20 minutes
Pay for the electric block heater. It's a much more effective, safer way too warm. Your block, especially when you consider overheating. The oil in the bottom of the oil PAN. I know I've done it. Turned a bunch of my oil into sludge. When I took the oil PAN off, I could not believe How much burnt oil was stuck to the bottom of the oil pan.
CATs only take a hit of ether down to -25... then they plug in one 750watt heater, for the batteries at -38... 1" ntp coil intake grid heaters, those are expensive... 50 below.
A word of advice if you live anywhere where it's cold you might want to get a gas engine. A diesel is going to cost you money either with a block heater, a torch, batteries, starting fluid, etc. you don't need to get all gas trucks just one for the winter😂🤣
Why would you not use a block heater on a gas engine? I use a block heater to spare the engine some unnecessary wear..not just to make the engine start.
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Better off with functional glow plugs. I also use a heat gun in the air box for about 5 min before cranking.
I've never thought about using a heat gun for the intake, I will try this now
Add a secondary air damper just beyond where the torch sits this allows additional air into the tube burning the propane earlier also adding fine mesh inside the cap plate will help
Use a propane salamander put a duct on it to direct it on the oilpan. No open flames burning the paint off of your oil pan
You could try mimicking an infrared heater by getting some pretty close mesh wire forming it into a cylinder and capping it with a lid in place of your exhaust system.. After some time the wire will heat up enough to basically be the ignition source and stop any residual fuel burn.
heating up the metal intake pipe helps a little as well but I'm sure if you can keep the propane from icing up that will be your go to in the winter
I would just suggest you installing diesel water heater and oil circulator heat exchanger so it heats the oil aswell
Hitting the block with a blowtorch is one of our preferred methods of warming the tractors up out at the farm I work at, glad to see someone doing it a whole lot safer then us lol
It'll be less likely to torch your truck if you put a chimney cap on it. As in weld a 5 or 6 inch square on some lil stilts on top so the flame hits it and goes horizontal. Can do holes or a logo still just bigger and higher cap on there.🤠
Almost wants a baffle in it to slow that down a tad to get more air less flame out the top ?
Seems like it'd be less hassle to just run an extension cord to an electric block heater... maybe with a timer on it as some have suggested.
Personally I just park whatever truck I’m driving inside when it’s going to be really cold. This is just something I want for when I want a truck to be ready to start in short notice
Why not install an intake heater?
Nice video man, keep it up! 👍
Thank you for the support!
We used fire for this. 😂😂😂
I don’t live in real cold but we get snaps down real low. My tractor doesn’t have a block heater, but I’ve cranked it at -24 with my kerosine space heater. Only had to run it like 20 minutes
Talkin people who’ve been to the moon degrees btw ;)
9:24 Is that an insulated thermos?
Yes hahahaja
I use a torpedo heater
I put my block heater on a timer comes on at 4 am and I start at 7:30 am nice n toasty, and only $10-$15 a month more on my electric bill
Pay for the electric block heater.
It's a much more effective, safer way too warm. Your block, especially when you consider overheating. The oil in the bottom of the oil PAN. I know I've done it. Turned a bunch of my oil into sludge. When I took the oil PAN off, I could not believe How much burnt oil was stuck to the bottom of the oil pan.
CATs only take a hit of ether down to -25... then they plug in one 750watt heater, for the batteries at -38... 1" ntp coil intake grid heaters, those are expensive... 50 below.
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A word of advice if you live anywhere where it's cold you might want to get a gas engine. A diesel is going to cost you money either with a block heater, a torch, batteries, starting fluid, etc. you don't need to get all gas trucks just one for the winter😂🤣
Why would you not use a block heater on a gas engine? I use a block heater to spare the engine some unnecessary wear..not just to make the engine start.
@@estranged85 Because it's extra work and cost for relatively little gain? I doubt you'd meaningfully extend the life of your engine in that way.