Heating it up slowly over a period of 3-4 hours seems like a better way to
go to me. Better to go from 20° to 80° and give all of the parts and fluids
time to warm up rather than blast it with 200° air for five minutes then
attempt to start.

"Kyle Boatright" wrote in message
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"Toks Desalu" wrote in message
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I remember reading an old article about preheater somewhere. A person who
wrote that article complained about the price of preheaters. So, he made
one
for himself for just 40 bucks. I can't remember how he did it, but I
think
he used blow dryer's components. I think the article came from Sport
Aviation. I thought I should mention this.

Toks Desalu

It is easy to do with a little ceramic forced air space heater. You can
get
one at Home Depot or Wal-Mart for $20. Add $10 worth of dryer vent
ducting,
a flange from the HVAC section, a few pop rivets, and you're ready to go.
Add a $10 timer and you're really rockin'.

The only downsides are that you can't heat an engine quickly with one (I'd
guess an hour or two to get any meaningful temperature increase) and
you've
gotta kludge up a way to route the air under the cowl.

KB