Bota at -8 degrees

[frank_f15]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Replaced that car with a Corvair )</font>

sorry other than u and me and a few others ain;t going to be many that remember the corvair /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[BIGUN]

I got a used ’63 Corvair in 1970. It was my first and worst car. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[Egon]

Oh I think I remember it. Ralph Nader sure had a go at it.

Egon

 

[Hoosier_Daddy]

AH Yes, the Corvair. Said to be the most unsafe car on the road at the time. As kids we didn't consider that a problem.

Then came the Pinto years later. I was a little older then and it was a car on the road to avoid.

I have my 69 Mach I which I have had since 70 and I think it has a drop in tank like the Pinto's did.

Life is definately a trade off.

Tom

 

[Old_Hickory]

Living in Alaska would make me want to consider getting a cab for my tractor. /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

Here is an unorthodox way I have used to start engines on very cold days(and it works great). IE: I had a 8 hp Tecumseh powered log splitter that set outside and an old Beaver III 16.5 diesel that set outside as well.On cold days in the single digits/teens the old wood splitter was a bear to pull the rope on and get started,the tractor would not start,here is what I done to get them started.
Fill 3 or 4 five gallon buckets full of hot tap water and have them filled and setting next to the log splitter or tractor and pour the water over the engine 2 to 3 buckets full and then immediately proceed to start the engines,it never failed to start the engines or cause me any other problems,go ahead and laugh but it worked for me and I would not hesitate to do it on my JD4400. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[kokopelli2]

couldnt that crack the block?

 

[Junkman]

The one problem that I see immediately is that if it doesn't start, then you have one big block of ice and no reasonable amount of additional hot water is going to thaw anything until spring when it all thaws.

 

[5030]

Junkman:

Here we go, about to embark on a trip down "nostalgia road". Just like my post on Triumph Motorcycles......

I had a buddy that I used to ride to high school with. He had a 1964 Corvair Monza with a Stewart Warner Gas heater. The Corvair was like a Volkswagen in as much as the heater was hot air off the manifolds (I believe). The gas heater worked pretty well, but on occasion would backfire and throw a flame out the outlet. It made for some interesting rides on winter mornings.

 

[Old_Hickory]

The engine block has never cracked and as far as the block of ice forming it all runs off of the engine and onto the ground immediately,you will not have a big block of ice.You might have some ice on the ground. This method warms things up enough the engine turns easier and when pulling the rope on the 8 HP engine it pulls a lot easier
It works for me and I would not hesitate to do it again.

 

[falconry]

Here's a guy's backhoe. He's off of the plowsite.com forum. Great place!

Blake
WA