Hydraulic system heater

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Wayne

Phillips/Temro "zerostart" makes all sorts of cold weather equipment, tank heaters, block heaters, threaded immersion heaters, etc.. Some are rated for coolant, some for oil, some for both.

There are a couple of other brands, too.

I have their catalog at hand, and there's a whole page of the treaded immersion heaters, listed by size (thread size and length) and wattage.

Any auto parts store or heavy truck place up here in the frozen North will have a catalog, and access to order the heaters.

They have a website. You have to "drill" down through several screens, but, eventually, you can view the "cold weather starting products" catalog on-line, in .pdf format.

Once you get into the catalog, go to "threaded immersion heaters".

(There is a section listing block heaters, by application, for ag and industrial, too.)

• Heat it UP!

I can tell you what will work, but you can not have an oil or fuel leak, not even a little one. Fill about 3 cast iron fry pans with charcoal, get it glowing, place it under tractor within 6" of castings. Put up plywood wind breaks. It will warm it up, but is it worth it?

Sounds as though you have moisture from condensation in that oil, drain the system, flush the system, then fill with new hytran and install new filter. Further more if you don't work the tractor hard enough to get it warmed up at any given day, you will have the same old problem this time next year.

This is one of the pitfalls of big tractors doing little jobs in cold weather. This is why I always kept a skid steer and a Farmall Super A around even when I owned a 560, 656 1066, etc. If the tractor isn't working hard it's best off parked. This is exactly why you folks rebuild diesel engines at 4,000 hours when they should be lasting 15,000 hours.

Give Bermuda Ken a call and see if there was anything made for the 806 that would be similar. 1-866-FARMALL

Take a few minutes, spend the money and change out that filter/oil.

Allan

As nat said, fix the problem, not make more for yourself..

If you're thinking that warming the oil is somehow "fixing" a problem you're having... It's only masking it, and it's only a matter of time before the whole thing goes belly-up on you.

There's no specific commercial product designed for the "large frame" IH tractors, or any IH tractor that I'm aware of. Whatever you do is going to be a cob-job.

Putting a heater in the filter cover will only warm the oil in the filter. The best place to warm the oil is in the reservoir, but I am not aware of any preexisting hole in the transmission large enough to install a useful heater.

If you're going to tear the tractor down to have a hole machined for a heater, you may as well just get the hydraulic problem fixed. It'd be cheaper.