👴"Back in my day, we didn't have block heaters!"🤣 Actually, some of the old-timers around here have talked about how their parents drained the oil from the automobile engines each night & kept it in metal cannisters next to the fireplace. In the mornings, the warm motor oil was poured back into the engines & they fired right up.
My grandfather would start a metal can of barbecue briquettes in the garage. Next he would put the can under the farm tractor, them go inside eat breakfast. After breakfast he would start the tractor .
Yep, one of my old friends did that. He'd be around 80 years old now. He'd pull the battery and drain the oil until I installed a block heater for him. It was a ~68 C20 Chevy with a 350.
Back when I was a kid it used to hit about -30C in the winter and my dad modified the carb on his pickup so that it would idle at about 500RPM and he just left the engine running all the time. Only way to feed cattle in the Rocky Mountains.
Watched some Pakistani trucker documentary, dudes are totally nuts. They just start a full on bonfire under the truck, best part was there was already soot from the last time they did it.... Funny stuff, great upload as always.
That's true. Most of our country doesn't have freezing Temps. So when city dwellers from fertile plain lands have to go to some very cold areas of the country, they are generally ill equipped to tackle the harsh cold weather.
My father once put a jeep on fire when he was trying to start it in cold weather. He used to warm up the engine by a gas powered flaming heater in 1980s. One day the jeep caught fire and the whole engine bay was toasted 😜 He was tranferred for a construction project in some freezing area of the country during winters, as he was a civil engineer by profession.
I am a truck mechanic in Michigan, USA. I have had to do some sketchy stuff to get our diesel trucks started when it's -25°F. I have used turbo heaters and plywood around the cab to keep in the heat. I've also used a mini charcoal grill (kind of what you did last). Also used propane torch to heat the fuel lines
Old Swedish military vehicles used to have a auxiliary external heater core outside the enginebay made of thick copper connected as to provide free circulation. Its cover would fold down and you could place a hand pump operated kerosene blowtorch on it to blow into the unit and it would self circulate as it heated the coolant and fully heat up a truck engine to operating temps in half an hour..
I am glad to see disappearing batteries are not just a problem of the great city of Ashtabula, I have also had problems with gas evaporating overnight.
Lived in northern part of new York where we would get cold snaps for a week sometimes my car wouldn't start for days,a old German neighbor came out with an old metal drain pan filled it with charcoal briquets lit them up and slid the pan under the car,in a short while it was enough to warm the engine to get it started .Old timer ingenuity.p.s.put a old fender cover over the top of engine to keep the heat in.
In northern Ontario here, it used to be common to start a transport truck (western star, peterbuilt, ford, Mack...etc) with a propane tiger torch around the oil pan. Put tarps or felts around the front of the vehicle and start the torch. People have had to light a fire underneath the oilpan to warm it up too. Here we use to get -40, -45 in January.
Back in the 70's, my late father for his old Triumph Herald 13/60 borrowed from British Rail a kerosene points motor heater which on the railways were put under the various bits of the points prone to freezing keeping them warm and he would set it up about an hour or so before going to work and he never missed a day because of it. He used to leave the warmer on inside the garage whilst us in the house froze with the only heat from a tiny gas fire so we used to go stand in the warm garage lol He used to mix his own antifreeze, he got some nasty smelly stuff from British Rail used for anti-freezing in Scottish diesel's and mixed it with his usual stuff.
Wow! I used a vacuum cleaner hose to use the exhaust from one car, to heat the engine of another car back in 1979. It worked good... I once worked with a guy that lived where it gets to - 60° f in winter. He told me they'd leave their cars running all night... Very interesting video.
In the late 70s early 80s we put an inline heater and a block heater on my grandma's car. The inline heater went on the lower radiator hose,and had a pump and a heater unit and circulated the warmed water throughout the engine! Plugged into regular 110 extension cord. The motor started at like 60 degrees F. Had heat in a couple minutes.
The antifreeze method should be done only if you have the same coolant in each car. More modern engines with aluminium or different alloy in the engine block use specific coolant for each. In the Lada i think u can just put water and it will run :))). The exhaust method seems like the most practical and safe
In severe weather we used to park our 'important' equipment in front of the exhaust fans of our grain dryer, then on a cold morning we'd fire up the grain dryer and go off the feed the livestock. By the time we were done, those cold machines were nicely warm enough to start. Particularly useful in 1977 and '78 - That was a good old 'Almet' four decker/twin fan grain dryer, so only the small one of the range. Ran on diesel fuel, but guzzled about 7 gph! Saved us a lot of time and work, though.....
@Reloader 308 I had one too in 2009. An 1987 1,6 Diesel because i liked my fathers car. :-) I loved that car but it didn't liked the cold :-D . That car is one of my favorite. Now i have an 1996 Opel Corsa B 1,5 Isuzu Diesel. This is a really good car too.
@Reloader 308 I live in Hungary so here the cars average age somewhere 15 years, but it's not unusual if somebody use 25-35 years old cars as daily bases. 10 years ago were lots of Escorts here but nowadays getting few. The greatest problem these cars the rust, my escort is rusted away in 1,5 years. BTW. I sold my 1986 1,2 Opel Corsa A in last year. Unfortunately it wasn't worth saving that was in bad shape, the chassis was really corroded.
As a resident of the U.S. State of North Dakota- one of it's few claims to fame that I am aware of is that this is where the electric block heater was invented.
Not that cold here in new Zealand, but fire stations keep the engines on the trucks in blankets, so when it's time to go, they're always warm and can get the hammer down as soon as the roller doors are up!
@@thoubias Auto-Start set to crank it up when it gets down to 10°f. 👴"Back in my day, we didn't have Auto-Starts! Hell, we didn't even have keys! If we wanted a warm car, we had to hot-wire it!"🤣
Thanks for the video, taught me why my ATV leaks oil bad, because I cold start it all the time and finally oil just flies out the exhaust and basically everywhere
My dad had a heating pad strapped to the oil pan of his car when he was a kid. When the alarm went off for school he would plug in an extension cord that came through his window for the heating pad and take a shower and eat, by the time he left the oil sump would be nice and warm.
Last winter my Jeep was froze oil frozen (10W30) and so I put hot water soaked towels on the fuel rail and kerosene heater as close to the oil pan as I could. I melted the air dam but it did work! Thanks for the videos, cheers!!
This was super fascinating. Living in Mother Russia. I can conclude that you have to adapt to cold weather quickly in order to bring home the money and to do your job. Very impressive video Team Garage 54. Thanx for sharing. Those ideas are very impressive. As an American I would have never thought of that has we have had a cold day like Mother Russia. Thanx again for sharing.
We had one of our local farmers, who modified his truck, tractor, and combines, with a modified heater hose system. He added hydraulic couplers to the heater hoses. On cold days, he would drive his truck to the combine in the field. He would connect the heater hoses between the two vehicles, and connect jumper cables. By the time he lubed up the combine, the truck engine warmed up the combine, and it would start right up.
Have definitely used an exhaust hose to warm an engine up before. First thing I thought of, second thing you did. Well because the Lada didn't need help. 😎👍
Hi, in the 1960's Helmut Fath sidecar racer would warm up is engine before a race with a small propane grill under the sump. I saw this myself at a race meeting in northern UK. Many thanks for your uploads.
Hi guys, I love your experiments and I have a ideea for you to try. I wanted to make a while ago a heat exchanger from the exhaust to the antifreeze small circuit (heater core and engine) like the EGR cooler but without restrictions of gases. I've seen it done on stoves exhaust with a copper pipe in serpentine form. The ideea is to quickly heat the engine at the operating temp for diesel engines and the overtemp scenario being coverd by a electro-valve before the heating area and two bi-metal termostats (for backup) controling the supply of valve. Ofcourse this additional antifreeze circuit must be in paralel with the original one in sort of bypass OR in series with second electro-valve which cuts the factory circuit. I am aware that there already are some glowplugs blocks for this purpose but they might kill a cold battery and alternator for home to work short distances. This heat exchanger with exhaust gases has no disadvantages and can be used all the time of the year for maximize engine performante, life and fuel economy. The supply from the battery to the valves must go thrue a rellay which will be energized by the ignition (KL15) signal. I know it sounds simple but the serpentine might me a issue concerning the coil diameter and pipe diameter not to be colapsed and not to restrict coolant flow too much. I would have done it my self but I don't have the time and the place to "wrap" the exhaust pipe in this cold weather. I hope to see you do it ! From Romania with love
It wasn't quite that cold, but I had a case front end loader that had water in the cylinders, and wouldn't even rotate. I took tarps, a diesel torpedo heater, covered the engine bay. After an hour, I was able to disconnect the fuel rail and that thing shot water out Hundreds of feet in the air. She's still running to this day! The company u work for almost sent it to the scrap yard that day. I said, let me mess with it for a few hours, if I can't start it, don't pay me for today. My boss agreed. When they saw me working with it by lunch, they just stared in amazement while I had a big grin on my face. Cause I sure as hell wasn't shoveling snow! On payday, I almost fainted as after my boss handed me my check, he also handed me a 500 dollar wad of cash and said thank you for saving us having to find a replacement machine.
I've used a Propane torch . lay it on the ground with the flame well inside a 2 or 3 foot piece of 3 inch heat duct pipe with a 90 * elbow on the end pointed up under the oil pan. The flame draws in air like a jet engine and produces a good flow of HOT air with no blower needed . Close the hood and give it 30 minutes.NOTE : propane does not atomize into gas well in vary cold temperatures, ALWAYS use a FULL propane tank and if at all possible warm it up , or keep it inside until you start your day. Varry safe as the flame is not under the motor and any possible leaking oil or fuel. Ontario Canada .
I remember back home in former Yugoslavia my dads diesel Jetta needed to be "warmed up" after sitting there in -30 for a few days. He would send my friend and I both with a heatgun to warm it up. Fun times.
Back in the day we had a box attached to the rad on the old Lincoln 200 we could blast it with the tiger torch. The heat would circulate the antifreeze.
I had a 4 cylinder dodge that would hit 115 lbs of oil pressure in winter, these (dodge Omni) where know for oil pump shafts for snapping in half in winter.
My grandfather's brother drove a truck after World War II here in Finland, and in wintertime he made a fire under the engine on a metal plate every morning. I understand he would let the flames die out and then, when only the burning coals were left, he would insert the thing under the truck engine. The engine oils of the time were extremely viscose under low temperature.
Story time. So one winter when it was -30F in the afternoon i get a call from a friend to help see if I got help start his car (mid 90s Nissan) because he needed it out of the lot by tomorrow as they where planning the plow his apartment parking lot and any car left would get towed (most places let people know a couple weeks in advance). He also informed me that it was running really rough and he hadn't driven in it in like a month, and had been getting rides to work. Getting there the battery of course was dead, so I but my jumper cables on, and went inside his place for like 20 minutes while my car charged his battery. Going back out side I tried starting his car and it was turning over and sputter but would not stay running, after about 15 minutes of freezing my ass off I had an idea. I borrow is girl friends hairdryer and an extension cord. Luckily he was parked close to an outside outlet by the garages, and cranked it high and just left it pointed at the engine block and went inside for about 10 minutes. came back out and another 15 minutes of it sputtering running for a little bit longer and dying, it finally kept running but was running super rough like it was running on only two cylinders. Later he told me a shop said two coil packs had gone bad, so yes it was running on only two cylinders.
What we do in the bush, or at the farm is use 8' stove pipe with an elbow at the end, put it under the oil pan and stick a Tiger Torch in it. It'll should be thawed out from 1/2 hour to an hour. Depending how cold, and how long it sat for
That was all pretty clever. Dryer vent hose for the first one. A Lada performing a "transfusion" with a Toyota. ha ha ha Hope they have compatible coolants. "Charcoal" for the third one. If you used actual coal, something would be sure to melt. I've heard some stories about people using coal instead of wood and the results were amusing (to listen to). Sunshine works in mild cases. I had to start my lawn mower yesterday (0C / 32F) I always worry about damaging the engine in cold weather since I run straight SAE30 oil. I let the mower set in the sunshine for a few hours and it started without problem. I'll never complain about starting our cars, since the coldest we see is about 5F (-15C). Good old starting fluid, but my brother told me you use that on a modern diesel and it will blow the (plastic) manifold apart. Seems they now have a huge electric resistance heating element in the intake to heat the incoming air charge in cold weather. The starting fluid hits that and "BOOM". I always enjoy these videos. "107%" effective, I'll have to add that to my "set it to 11".
My neighbour had an old diesel truck sat for years. He decided to move it on the coldest morning we have had in either of our lifetimes. He put a disposable barbecue under it, new battery . It was fine.
We used to have a lot of ladas here in eastern Canada. Tough little cars with sketchy electrics. You never see them anymore, road salt has sent them back to mother nature.
I'm from the north end of minnesota, we had to be very creative on warming vehicle engines, charcoal grills worked well at -40f and lots of heat ( alcohol) in fuel tanks, it sucked but being born and raised their that's all you knew...😳🤔😁
We never experienced temps as low as -30 but as a kid my father used to put a paraffin oil sump heater under the Landover, it has a mesh top with 40 holes per square inch so flame could not pass through it. it worked a treat, if really bad the battery charger was put on trickle charger to warm it up as it was topped up. Never thought to use the exhaust of another engine or coolant fluid. I think a couple of Avery quick connectors fitted into each car's system and a set of hoses would be a good idea save having to undo hose clips and loose coolant fluid.
@@noisysilence2411 No, that is not how Skyline model numbers work. BNR32 (often informally shortened to "R32") refers specifically to the first generation GTR only. Other Skylines of the same generation that have the RB26 block, for example the RWD Skyline GTS, are not called BNR32.
Up here in yukon, Nw Canada, pulling the battery is common, often draining the coolant and engine oil to park on the stove would be done if power was not available.
When he was talking about warming up the race car I was thinking "I wonder if he'll warm one up with the other's coolant" lo and behold, that's exactly what he's doing. Sheeeeeeeeeeeesh
We ended up installing a "master switch" to the battery here in northern Canada, so far so good!!! I thought the blaze under the engine block was a myth, OMG i was laughing so hard when you guys actually did it !!!!!!!!
Hot coals under the engine works great, just make sure your engine isn't leaking too much oil or fuel, otherwise you could have a slight problem in your hands.
Not really.. Oil still gets thick and diesel too. -30°c is not a joke even to a new car. If the oil gets too thick, it cant flow and support the camshafts and other parts. Same is valid for modern cars. If you dont have specific diesel for arctic temperatures it will seperate its paraffine oil and clog the fuel filter.
You get used to it. When I lived in south africa I felt cold at +15. Now living in Siberia and I only complain about it being cold when it starts going past -20. But I'm more than capable of surviving outside at -40 no worries.
My grandfather had no antifreeze so, every night he would drain the cooling system so it could not freeze. It was hand cranked so the battery was not an issue. But to thin the oil enough so he could crank it over, he lit a fire under the engine and transmission.
In my country indonesia 26°C to 34°C is the average temperature, in rainy season sometimes it reach 19°C to 26°C, and that feel cold for me, what about -30°C in your country?... maybe hot day in your country feel cold for me 🥶
Hey im in the process of waiting fir the block to thaw out where can i get a thermometer and what temp does it needs to be before i try started the vehicle again?
Wow. I'm from Louisiana in the USA. I thought I wouldntake heat for granted. It gets over 100f in the summer often. We try our best to get rid of heat here!
My grandpa grew up on a farm in rural Ontario, he told me they would light a fire under the model T in the winter to start it on especially cold days, horses were preferred by the the old timers then "20s 30s" for that and other reasons
When I was traveling in my bus , I camped in some -20c weather. Started that 8.2 Detroit (no glow plugs or block heater) by putting a hairdryer powered by a generator in the intake 🤣
After shutting down we would pour gas in the crankcase start the engine up again till you see the oil pressure drop then shut it off. Will start the next morning like it was July. Used it in the Canadian northern bush and barren lands. The aircraft also used this method but they had a formula to go by depending on the temp. Pumped the gas directly from their fuel tanks
We build a bit of a fire under the old Case 1294 in the winter before we start it. - It's just common practice for us... - Till the fire department showed up.
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👴"Back in my day, we didn't have block heaters!"🤣
Actually, some of the old-timers around here have talked about how their parents drained the oil from the automobile engines each night & kept it in metal cannisters next to the fireplace. In the mornings, the warm motor oil was poured back into the engines & they fired right up.
Thats insane !
@@kap1526 seriously! Holy S...
I put my car battery next to my shoes, next to the front door, when temperatures drop below freezing. All use 5w-20 synthetic oil in the winter.
My grandfather would start a metal can of barbecue briquettes in the garage. Next he would put the can under the farm tractor, them go inside eat breakfast. After breakfast he would start the tractor .
Yep, one of my old friends did that. He'd be around 80 years old now. He'd pull the battery and drain the oil until I installed a block heater for him. It was a ~68 C20 Chevy with a 350.
17:03 omg look at those suspension arms
at least they look awesome :D
Its normal i think:)
They tried making suspension arms out of rebar here: ruclips.net/video/VJPj6vPhVfA/видео.html
(not translated yet AFAIK)
@@wayshot molodets
probably stronger than original...
Back when I was a kid it used to hit about -30C in the winter and my dad modified the carb on his pickup so that it would idle at about 500RPM and he just left the engine running all the time. Only way to feed cattle in the Rocky Mountains.
Wouldn't it stall the engine?
Big trucks have low idle feature just for this 😂
Glaze the bores a treat!
This is how vehicles are to be treated. Worked hard
@@neill4133 No glazing on a carbed engine - its petrol.
That red lada looks like it's in good shape.
yeah until they do some crazy stuff again :D
..after some crazy tests i am not sure about that:)
Strange......
This 2106 is the one they are restore
Won't be satisfied if they ruin it
This video is so entertaining! Garage54 is unlike any other channel I have ever watched. English translator works great and thank you for that
Lol that's a dude 😉
"so which car do we warm up with coal, the plexiglas one of course"
Are those front control arms made of rebar? 🤣🤣😂😂👍👍
They made an episod about those. Not translated yet.
Hahahaha...that's what I was gonna say!👋😂👌lmfao!
Can't believe I watch 3/4 of this....interesting though.
Quality repair
They are so creative 😂😂
Honestly the lada looks in good condition I think it deserves to be taken care of.
Sure:)
This red 2106 is car they're restoring , rather than destroy
@@televisionandcheese really
Watched some Pakistani trucker documentary, dudes are totally nuts. They just start a full on bonfire under the truck, best part was there was already soot from the last time they did it.... Funny stuff, great upload as always.
I've seen truckers use bags of charcoal under fuel tanks of their trucks.
That's true. Most of our country doesn't have freezing Temps. So when city dwellers from fertile plain lands have to go to some very cold areas of the country, they are generally ill equipped to tackle the harsh cold weather.
My father once put a jeep on fire when he was trying to start it in cold weather. He used to warm up the engine by a gas powered flaming heater in 1980s. One day the jeep caught fire and the whole engine bay was toasted 😜
He was tranferred for a construction project in some freezing area of the country during winters, as he was a civil engineer by profession.
I am a truck mechanic in Michigan, USA. I have had to do some sketchy stuff to get our diesel trucks started when it's -25°F. I have used turbo heaters and plywood around the cab to keep in the heat. I've also used a mini charcoal grill (kind of what you did last). Also used propane torch to heat the fuel lines
Old Swedish military vehicles used to have a auxiliary external heater core outside the enginebay made of thick copper connected as to provide free circulation. Its cover would fold down and you could place a hand pump operated kerosene blowtorch on it to blow into the unit and it would self circulate as it heated the coolant and fully heat up a truck engine to operating temps in half an hour..
In Finnish army we can circulate coolant from vehicle to vehicle, just like they did in video.
@@juhomaki-petaja really! I had no idea that was a real thing, fascinating!
They should bring it back
I am glad to see disappearing batteries are not just a problem of the great city of Ashtabula, I have also had problems with gas evaporating overnight.
I put a locking gas cap on my pickup and started getting 20 percent better mileage.
Lived in northern part of new York where we would get cold snaps for a week sometimes my car wouldn't start for days,a old German neighbor came out with an old metal drain pan filled it with charcoal briquets lit them up and slid the pan under the car,in a short while it was enough to warm the engine to get it started .Old timer ingenuity.p.s.put a old fender cover over the top of engine to keep the heat in.
In northern Ontario here, it used to be common to start a transport truck (western star, peterbuilt, ford, Mack...etc) with a propane tiger torch around the oil pan. Put tarps or felts around the front of the vehicle and start the torch. People have had to light a fire underneath the oilpan to warm it up too. Here we use to get -40, -45 in January.
Garage 54 next month: "Turning Саратов fridges into car air conditioner".
Back in the 70's, my late father for his old Triumph Herald 13/60 borrowed from British Rail a kerosene points motor heater which on the railways were put under the various bits of the points prone to freezing keeping them warm and he would set it up about an hour or so before going to work and he never missed a day because of it. He used to leave the warmer on inside the garage whilst us in the house froze with the only heat from a tiny gas fire so we used to go stand in the warm garage lol He used to mix his own antifreeze, he got some nasty smelly stuff from British Rail used for anti-freezing in Scottish diesel's and mixed it with his usual stuff.
Wow! I used a vacuum cleaner hose to use the exhaust from one car, to heat the engine of another car back in 1979.
It worked good...
I once worked with a guy that lived where it gets to - 60° f in winter. He told me they'd leave their cars running all night...
Very interesting video.
Yea, in those temperatures there is pretty much no starting it again.
Use the exhaust to heat the house 😂
Yeah its common practice in cold regions of Russia like Yakutsk
@@nesp_phieti Russia I know little about. Siberia I know gets frigid. That's all I know....
A R32 Skyline with an 3SGE Beams engine, only in russia i guess.
I think they put R32's face to Altezza
@@Piyomaru111 I'm pretty sure it's an genuine R32 with a 3GSE + speedo from an Altezza but who knows.
Huh??
@@LMSCa18det The swap was so crean (including the speedometer) that I thought it was face swap
Probably faster than the RB20 it came with
Here in Canada I have used a Habachi BBQ grill under the car with cardboard around the outside of the car to block the wind.
So typical:)
Man that is wild . Living in California we don't even realize what ppl go through
In the late 70s early 80s we put an inline heater and a block heater on my grandma's car. The inline heater went on the lower radiator hose,and had a pump and a heater unit and circulated the warmed water throughout the engine! Plugged into regular 110 extension cord. The motor started at like 60 degrees F. Had heat in a couple minutes.
This might be the most shockingly reasonable g54 vid ever!
The antifreeze method should be done only if you have the same coolant in each car. More modern engines with aluminium or different alloy in the engine block use specific coolant for each. In the Lada i think u can just put water and it will run :))). The exhaust method seems like the most practical and safe
In severe weather we used to park our 'important' equipment in front of the exhaust fans of our grain dryer, then on a cold morning we'd fire up the grain dryer and go off the feed the livestock. By the time we were done, those cold machines were nicely warm enough to start. Particularly useful in 1977 and '78 - That was a good old 'Almet' four decker/twin fan grain dryer, so only the small one of the range. Ran on diesel fuel, but guzzled about 7 gph! Saved us a lot of time and work, though.....
Farming, working smarter, not harder.
@@robertheinkel6225 You got that right!
Toyota: freezes stiffer than Han Solo.
Lada: Is it chilly? I'm maybe a little chilly.
My father used an aluminum sheet bended to an arch and put under a petrol lamp to heat up our 1985 Ford Escort diesel at under -20 °C.
@Reloader 308 I had one too in 2009. An 1987 1,6 Diesel because i liked my fathers car. :-) I loved that car but it didn't liked the cold :-D . That car is one of my favorite. Now i have an 1996 Opel Corsa B 1,5 Isuzu Diesel. This is a really good car too.
@Reloader 308 I live in Hungary so here the cars average age somewhere 15 years, but it's not unusual if somebody use 25-35 years old cars as daily bases. 10 years ago were lots of Escorts here but nowadays getting few. The greatest problem these cars the rust, my escort is rusted away in 1,5 years. BTW. I sold my 1986 1,2 Opel Corsa A in last year. Unfortunately it wasn't worth saving that was in bad shape, the chassis was really corroded.
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@@TielSong0509 I have 1995 diesel corsa 1.5. Agree, its the best diesel i have ever owned--26 years old but start all the time :)
Where the hell do I get a garage 54 barbecue?!
You mean a blown Lada exhaust?
As a resident of the U.S. State of North Dakota- one of it's few claims to fame that I am aware of is that this is where the electric block heater was invented.
If you don't plug your car in it Minot start.
@@paulwoodman5131
Why not Minot? 🤔
Freezin's the reason!🥶
Not that cold here in new Zealand, but fire stations keep the engines on the trucks in blankets, so when it's time to go, they're always warm and can get the hammer down as soon as the roller doors are up!
I dunno where it was invented, but I still gotta be happy for my car has got one.
@@thoubias
Auto-Start set to crank it up when it gets down to 10°f.
👴"Back in my day, we didn't have Auto-Starts! Hell, we didn't even have keys! If we wanted a warm car, we had to hot-wire it!"🤣
Thanks for the video, taught me why my ATV leaks oil bad, because I cold start it all the time and finally oil just flies out the exhaust and basically everywhere
My dad had a heating pad strapped to the oil pan of his car when he was a kid. When the alarm went off for school he would plug in an extension cord that came through his window for the heating pad and take a shower and eat, by the time he left the oil sump would be nice and warm.
These videos are brilliant!!
Please keep them coming
Last winter my Jeep was froze oil frozen (10W30) and so I put hot water soaked towels on the fuel rail and kerosene heater as close to the oil pan as I could. I melted the air dam but it did work! Thanks for the videos, cheers!!
I used a Coleman stove under the oil pan in Montana. After the vehicle starts I put the stove inside to thaw the rest of it.
This was super fascinating. Living in Mother Russia. I can conclude that you have to adapt to cold weather quickly in order to bring home the money and to do your job. Very impressive video Team Garage 54. Thanx for sharing. Those ideas are very impressive. As an American I would have never thought of that has we have had a cold day like Mother Russia. Thanx again for sharing.
We had one of our local farmers, who modified his truck, tractor, and combines, with a modified heater hose system. He added hydraulic couplers to the heater hoses. On cold days, he would drive his truck to the combine in the field. He would connect the heater hoses between the two vehicles, and connect jumper cables. By the time he lubed up the combine, the truck engine warmed up the combine, and it would start right up.
Have definitely used an exhaust hose to warm an engine up before. First thing I thought of, second thing you did. Well because the Lada didn't need help. 😎👍
I had a couple dipstick heaters to plug in and replace the dipstick with just to keep the oil warm.
my FIRST car was a LADA 1500... it NEVER let me down. it was always blowing warm air in summer, and warm in the winter great made
Nice fence you've put up in the back of the lot. What is that nice looking older building in the background, it looks to be nicely maintained.
I have to use a heat cannon on my old diesel here in Norway now. -25c every night. and no glowplugs :-P
Hi, in the 1960's Helmut Fath sidecar racer would warm up is engine before a race with a small propane grill under the sump. I saw this myself at a race meeting in northern UK. Many thanks for your uploads.
Hi guys, I love your experiments and I have a ideea for you to try.
I wanted to make a while ago a heat exchanger from the exhaust to the antifreeze small circuit (heater core and engine) like the EGR cooler but without restrictions of gases. I've seen it done on stoves exhaust with a copper pipe in serpentine form. The ideea is to quickly heat the engine at the operating temp for diesel engines and the overtemp scenario being coverd by a electro-valve before the heating area and two bi-metal termostats (for backup) controling the supply of valve. Ofcourse this additional antifreeze circuit must be in paralel with the original one in sort of bypass OR in series with second electro-valve which cuts the factory circuit.
I am aware that there already are some glowplugs blocks for this purpose but they might kill a cold battery and alternator for home to work short distances.
This heat exchanger with exhaust gases has no disadvantages and can be used all the time of the year for maximize engine performante, life and fuel economy.
The supply from the battery to the valves must go thrue a rellay which will be energized by the ignition (KL15) signal.
I know it sounds simple but the serpentine might me a issue concerning the coil diameter and pipe diameter not to be colapsed and not to restrict coolant flow too much.
I would have done it my self but I don't have the time and the place to "wrap" the exhaust pipe in this cold weather.
I hope to see you do it !
From Romania with love
It wasn't quite that cold, but I had a case front end loader that had water in the cylinders, and wouldn't even rotate. I took tarps, a diesel torpedo heater, covered the engine bay. After an hour, I was able to disconnect the fuel rail and that thing shot water out Hundreds of feet in the air. She's still running to this day! The company u work for almost sent it to the scrap yard that day. I said, let me mess with it for a few hours, if I can't start it, don't pay me for today. My boss agreed. When they saw me working with it by lunch, they just stared in amazement while I had a big grin on my face. Cause I sure as hell wasn't shoveling snow! On payday, I almost fainted as after my boss handed me my check, he also handed me a 500 dollar wad of cash and said thank you for saving us having to find a replacement machine.
I've used a Propane torch . lay it on the ground with the flame well inside a 2 or 3 foot piece of 3 inch heat duct pipe with a 90 * elbow on the end pointed up under the oil pan. The flame draws in air like a jet engine and produces a good flow of HOT air with no blower needed . Close the hood and give it 30 minutes.NOTE : propane does not atomize into gas well in vary cold temperatures, ALWAYS use a FULL propane tank and if at all possible warm it up , or keep it inside until you start your day. Varry safe as the flame is not under the motor and any possible leaking oil or fuel. Ontario Canada .
I remember when my dad made a wood piece to hold an electric iron to the oil pan!
Thank You for translating the videos!! so entertaining!
I remember back home in former Yugoslavia my dads diesel Jetta needed to be "warmed up" after sitting there in -30 for a few days. He would send my friend and I both with a heatgun to warm it up. Fun times.
Back in the day we had a box attached to the rad on the old Lincoln 200 we could blast it with the tiger torch. The heat would circulate the antifreeze.
I had a 4 cylinder dodge that would hit 115 lbs of oil pressure in winter, these (dodge Omni) where know for oil pump shafts for snapping in half in winter.
Common problem in some VW/Audi engines too
My grandfather's brother drove a truck after World War II here in Finland, and in wintertime he made a fire under the engine on a metal plate every morning. I understand he would let the flames die out and then, when only the burning coals were left, he would insert the thing under the truck engine. The engine oils of the time were extremely viscose under low temperature.
Love these types of vids!
Story time. So one winter when it was -30F in the afternoon i get a call from a friend to help see if I got help start his car (mid 90s Nissan) because he needed it out of the lot by tomorrow as they where planning the plow his apartment parking lot and any car left would get towed (most places let people know a couple weeks in advance). He also informed me that it was running really rough and he hadn't driven in it in like a month, and had been getting rides to work. Getting there the battery of course was dead, so I but my jumper cables on, and went inside his place for like 20 minutes while my car charged his battery. Going back out side I tried starting his car and it was turning over and sputter but would not stay running, after about 15 minutes of freezing my ass off I had an idea. I borrow is girl friends hairdryer and an extension cord. Luckily he was parked close to an outside outlet by the garages, and cranked it high and just left it pointed at the engine block and went inside for about 10 minutes. came back out and another 15 minutes of it sputtering running for a little bit longer and dying, it finally kept running but was running super rough like it was running on only two cylinders. Later he told me a shop said two coil packs had gone bad, so yes it was running on only two cylinders.
What we do in the bush, or at the farm is use 8' stove pipe with an elbow at the end, put it under the oil pan and stick a Tiger Torch in it. It'll should be thawed out from 1/2 hour to an hour. Depending how cold, and how long it sat for
Nice video production. Good work guys!
i love this channel!! hello from the USA!
That was all pretty clever.
Dryer vent hose for the first one.
A Lada performing a "transfusion" with a Toyota. ha ha ha Hope they have compatible coolants.
"Charcoal" for the third one. If you used actual coal, something would be sure to melt. I've heard some stories about people using coal instead of wood and the results were amusing (to listen to).
Sunshine works in mild cases. I had to start my lawn mower yesterday (0C / 32F) I always worry about damaging the engine in cold weather since I run straight SAE30 oil. I let the mower set in the sunshine for a few hours and it started without problem.
I'll never complain about starting our cars, since the coldest we see is about 5F (-15C).
Good old starting fluid, but my brother told me you use that on a modern diesel and it will blow the (plastic) manifold apart. Seems they now have a huge electric resistance heating element in the intake to heat the incoming air charge in cold weather. The starting fluid hits that and "BOOM".
I always enjoy these videos.
"107%" effective, I'll have to add that to my "set it to 11".
My neighbour had an old diesel truck sat for years. He decided to move it on the coldest morning we have had in either of our lifetimes. He put a disposable barbecue under it, new battery . It was fine.
Hard core, -30 and you don't have gloves on!
Grant W. Whitwam -30C metal is cold even with gloves, tough guy :D
@@Karjis I hate it when it's that cold, like when you slam the door and the dash pad cracks.
@@grantw.whitwam9948 get a car with proper dash ;) But yeah it has been only -26 celsius where I live.
My thought exactly. Tough dude.
He's Russian!
We used to have a lot of ladas here in eastern Canada. Tough little cars with sketchy electrics. You never see them anymore, road salt has sent them back to mother nature.
In Alaska they would drain the fluids nightly, and set on a wood stove, then refill in morning, or cars would not start
I'm from the north end of minnesota, we had to be very creative on warming vehicle engines, charcoal grills worked well at -40f and lots of heat ( alcohol) in fuel tanks, it sucked but being born and raised their that's all you knew...😳🤔😁
We never experienced temps as low as -30 but as a kid my father used to put a paraffin oil sump heater under the Landover, it has a mesh top with 40 holes per square inch so flame could not pass through it. it worked a treat, if really bad the battery charger was put on trickle charger to warm it up as it was topped up. Never thought to use the exhaust of another engine or coolant fluid. I think a couple of Avery quick connectors fitted into each car's system and a set of hoses would be a good idea save having to undo hose clips and loose coolant fluid.
Very useful better than all non-sense videos that repeat same thing.👍
Back in the days, we kept fuel-based bunsen burners for this. Ofcouse, we had to slide under the car, but it did the job.
Hair dryer my weapon of choice. 10 minutes in engine part and 5 minutes in cabin part. Melting all windows in 5 minutes
I've seen heating elements inside radiators in Canada where they plug the car in, sounds like a good idea to me. : )
Very instructive video!
my dad used to have lada zhiguli and it started better in -20 degrees celsious than in summer
Nice Job. Joining the cooling systems is probably the best way But all was fun.
Another method is putting a PAR64 or other high-wattage lamp underneath the car, aimed at the underside of the block. Never tried it myself, though.
Halogen heater. 240 v mains. Takes 10 mins
I used 10 candles to warm and start up my diesel seat toledo once. Worked 107%
You are AMAZING brother!
That red Lada looks like it's in good shape.
3S-GE Beams engine in the r32?
Nice! 👍😉
That red 2103 is amazing, appreciate it!
One of my dream cars since my childhood, I wish I could have one! 🥺
That's 2106, 2103 has chrome grille.
That is not an R32. It is some non-GTR variant of that generation of Skyline.
@@Jupiter__001_ so it is an r32, but not a gtr
@@noisysilence2411 No, that is not how Skyline model numbers work. BNR32 (often informally shortened to "R32") refers specifically to the first generation GTR only. Other Skylines of the same generation that have the RB26 block, for example the RWD Skyline GTS, are not called BNR32.
Up here in yukon, Nw Canada, pulling the battery is common, often draining the coolant and engine oil to park on the stove would be done if power was not available.
When he was talking about warming up the race car I was thinking "I wonder if he'll warm one up with the other's coolant"
lo and behold, that's exactly what he's doing.
Sheeeeeeeeeeeesh
hey g54, can you test if a car can drive on 4 different rims/tyre sizes and combination, that would be fun to watch!
As long as its RWD and a open diff it wouldn't be that bad.
Not AWD.
This is a great idea!👍 I would love to see this.
It would definitely be interesting to see that
As an owner of awd car it wouldn't be fun to me. Watching transfer case and diffs explode(not literally).
We ended up installing a "master switch" to the battery here in northern Canada, so far so good!!!
I thought the blaze under the engine block was a myth, OMG i was laughing so hard when you guys actually did it !!!!!!!!
-30 and these boys are out working without gloves on! Hardy lads :)
The way I've heated engines, is to put a piece of stove pipe with a 90 degree elbow pointing at the engine, then put a propane torch at the other end.
Hot coals under the engine works great, just make sure your engine isn't leaking too much oil or fuel, otherwise you could have a slight problem in your hands.
Yeah and burn whole car:)
@@joe125ful it works if you keep an eye on it :D
@@JackPecker911 If*
No such problems here,we have 22celsium the winter,salutations from South Greece where the only think is cold is the icecube in cofee😂❤❤❤❤
I love it! Personified alley mechanics!
I never thought that it can be a problem to start a car in -30. Turns out that modern cars survive winter way better than those classics.
Not really.. Oil still gets thick and diesel too. -30°c is not a joke even to a new car. If the oil gets too thick, it cant flow and support the camshafts and other parts. Same is valid for modern cars. If you dont have specific diesel for arctic temperatures it will seperate its paraffine oil and clog the fuel filter.
They just looking relaxed at -30 degrees and Here me at 12 degrees feeling antartica.
You get used to it. When I lived in south africa I felt cold at +15. Now living in Siberia and I only complain about it being cold when it starts going past -20. But I'm more than capable of surviving outside at -40 no worries.
He might have drank some antifreeze
My grandfather had no antifreeze so, every night he would drain the cooling system so it could not freeze. It was hand cranked so the battery was not an issue. But to thin the oil enough so he could crank it over, he lit a fire under the engine and transmission.
That heater hose idea was very clever.
Wow that's a beautiful piece of Lada.
cool!, that car between the Toyota and the blue one has a BEAMS engine! thats an awesome engine!
In these conditions, make sure the windshield wipers are free before turning on the key or starting the vehicle.
In my country indonesia 26°C to 34°C is the average temperature, in rainy season sometimes it reach 19°C to 26°C, and that feel cold for me, what about -30°C in your country?... maybe hot day in your country feel cold for me 🥶
You get used to it
Do a suspension test and epoxy bushings. I came up with an idea and I am interested in endurance :D
LoL, suspension handmade from rebar! So Awesome! I love the Russian style. Greetings from Serbia!
I live in Alaska and I have used burn barrels and lit logs and pallets on fire around my trucks to warm them up before.
Hey im in the process of waiting fir the block to thaw out where can i get a thermometer and what temp does it needs to be before i try started the vehicle again?
Wow. I'm from Louisiana in the USA. I thought I wouldntake heat for granted. It gets over 100f in the summer often. We try our best to get rid of heat here!
Now modifying a water cooker to run on the car please, maybe a camping gas version to heat up the coolant?
Propane/ camping gas will not work at -30C
@@steffendhonau yes it will. Propane has a boiling point of -42°C, however butan "camping gas" will not work under 0°!
My grandpa grew up on a farm in rural Ontario, he told me they would light a fire under the model T in the winter to start it on especially cold days, horses were preferred by the the old timers then "20s 30s" for that and other reasons
When I was traveling in my bus , I camped in some -20c weather. Started that 8.2 Detroit (no glow plugs or block heater) by putting a hairdryer powered by a generator in the intake 🤣
After shutting down we would pour gas in the crankcase start the engine up again till you see the oil pressure drop then shut it off. Will start the next morning like it was July. Used it in the Canadian northern bush and barren lands. The aircraft also used this method but they had a formula to go by depending on the temp. Pumped the gas directly from their fuel tanks
We build a bit of a fire under the old Case 1294 in the winter before we start it. - It's just common practice for us... - Till the fire department showed up.