wired1000
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Hey all,
Was just looking a month or two into the future... at the certainty that one of these Chicago winter days will leave me out in the cold... way-below zero... and my M1009 will just not start. I bought an electric freeze-plug type block heater which I'll install soon, but I have a new job at a Fortune 500 company (let's say it rhymes with "Hee Hee") research lab and I have a feeling that it's too corporate a place for me to run an extension cord out to the parking lot without arousing the ire of some up-tight manager...
So, for sure, I'll get stuck *there* about 45 minutes from home. Ugh. Sadly my truck did not come with a military fuel-fired coolant heater.
BUT!!! What if I installed one of these camping-style Liquid Propane Tankless Water heaters?
I could hook it to one of those little camping Propane tanks and mount it somewhere under the hood... (the heater, not the propane tank) maybe hook up an electric pump to circulate the coolant through it and the engine. There are a few similar types of heater all for $100-150. I really think this could work!![Big grin :D :D](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Has anyone done this or have some thoughts?
Was just looking a month or two into the future... at the certainty that one of these Chicago winter days will leave me out in the cold... way-below zero... and my M1009 will just not start. I bought an electric freeze-plug type block heater which I'll install soon, but I have a new job at a Fortune 500 company (let's say it rhymes with "Hee Hee") research lab and I have a feeling that it's too corporate a place for me to run an extension cord out to the parking lot without arousing the ire of some up-tight manager...
So, for sure, I'll get stuck *there* about 45 minutes from home. Ugh. Sadly my truck did not come with a military fuel-fired coolant heater.
BUT!!! What if I installed one of these camping-style Liquid Propane Tankless Water heaters?
I could hook it to one of those little camping Propane tanks and mount it somewhere under the hood... (the heater, not the propane tank) maybe hook up an electric pump to circulate the coolant through it and the engine. There are a few similar types of heater all for $100-150. I really think this could work!
Has anyone done this or have some thoughts?