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Re: Cold Weather Ops
I just read the 65 degree comment, and from somebody else's post had Texas
stuck in my mind.
I have a milkhouse heater with an aluminum dryer vent hose.
It's bungeed to a small step ladder. I plug it in, and stick the hose into my
oil access door and walk out. It's been running all winter like that. I set the thermostat to trip somewhere between 30-40F in the hangar. This results
is a warm to the touch, but not hot engine all winter.
When the weather is typically above freezing (say 40+) I don't preheat. I
run 15W50 Aeroshell, and while it cranks a bit slow in cold(er) weather it
starts up, and I give it a decent warm up at idle before taxi.
Below freezing my engine (IO-240B) is pretty much impossible to start
without preheat.
Regards,
Jeff
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