Battery

Sure is nice to have the 6volt battery when it is very cold out side! When you know it will turn over real slow. Maybe it will start an maybe it will not????? ?????

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My 6-volt 1948 8N started at -18 Farenheit yesterday AM...Slow to turn?...Ayuh...But she fires without a hitch...

Actually, "exciting a battery" , which means, turn on a small amount of draw for about a minute, will make the battery "warm-up" before HITTING THE STARTER. "flight Safety International, training classes for 20 yrs. So from their info. I always turn on the key and check for the current draw on the ammeter for about 1 min. Then hit starter. WORKS every time, when the barttery is "Stone COLD".

Hope this helps. REALLY

Well, I sorta do the same with my 1980 Ford Van, however, instead of a light bulb, I use a crankcast htr. (120v) from a refrigeration compressor. We call them belly band heaters. Just a long "worm clamp" that contains a heating element, which is clamped 'roiund the oil pan,with a 12 ft long power cord which I coil up and leave hand in the engine comaprtment.

When in THULE, GREENLAND yrs. ago. Oil heaters were quite common on all of the engines. We would dilute the oil on the acft (recip) with gasoline, just before "shut-down".

I caution against oil dilution procedure for the old N's, though. In our tractors, we "cut the oil with kerosene, though, only because we use coal oil in our lamps, most of the time.