Re: heating the engine

Posted by buickanddeere on November 09, 2006 at 18:53:21 from (209.240.120.248):

In Reply to: Re: heating the engine posted by joe moore on November 09, 2006 at 12:09:42:

A dipstick heater is for dipsticks. You can not heat the oil enough to matter. The wattage and surface area is too small.
A magnetic suface heater is still awful small at 300W. However a few of them on the oil pan when parked in an area where the wind isn't hitting the machine. That will at least thin out the mineral oil and allow fatser cranking. Or just use 5W30 Amsoil, Mobile 1 or Shell Totella synthetic oil and forget about having to pre-heat and thin the oil.
Are there any pipe plugs in the oil pan? There are high wattage heaters that can be screwed in and warm the oil.
As for the engine coolant. I would not want to weaken a cylinder head's seal with a funky bolt. The frost plug heater is often the cleanest, simplest choice.

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