Re: What\'s your warmup time?
Point taken, but, keep in mind (as another had mentioned), that warming up the engine oil with a heater does nothing to warm the hydro fluid. Running the engine does start the hydro pump and would warm the fluid (and the oil). I would be very inclined to have the hydro fluid warmed before starting to work it. In the winter (even after a significant warm up) I notice that the hydro seems sluggish. After working a while, it comes around.
As to the rabbit.. I think that issue speaks solely to poor design. All the mecho-voo doo in the world won't save you from a poor design.
Seems anything designed for efficiency ends up costing more and thus being less efficient. I have a front load washer that leaked (three times and is leaking now again) that burned out a motor board and ruined a shock. I have a furnace with an auto closing damper that ruins the draft and causes the chimney to cool and condense (that ruined my chimney). And the rabbit that should by all rights have been a gasoline engine, was converted to diesel to save gas (thus energy). Care to guess how much energy it took to run the tools and machines to make all those iron heads? If that had been a gas rabbit (as the original engineer had designed it), you'd have likely never had a problem.
Point taken, but, keep in mind (as another had mentioned), that warming up the engine oil with a heater does nothing to warm the hydro fluid. Running the engine does start the hydro pump and would warm the fluid (and the oil). I would be very inclined to have the hydro fluid warmed before starting to work it. In the winter (even after a significant warm up) I notice that the hydro seems sluggish. After working a while, it comes around.
As to the rabbit.. I think that issue speaks solely to poor design. All the mecho-voo doo in the world won't save you from a poor design.
Seems anything designed for efficiency ends up costing more and thus being less efficient. I have a front load washer that leaked (three times and is leaking now again) that burned out a motor board and ruined a shock. I have a furnace with an auto closing damper that ruins the draft and causes the chimney to cool and condense (that ruined my chimney). And the rabbit that should by all rights have been a gasoline engine, was converted to diesel to save gas (thus energy). Care to guess how much energy it took to run the tools and machines to make all those iron heads? If that had been a gas rabbit (as the original engineer had designed it), you'd have likely never had a problem.