I know that this is a serious problem and that there are safer and better ways to preheat this engine but when I was a little guy I remember a customer of my grandfathers had a similar problem but it was out in the middle of this snow covered field. He had been plowing and left it for the night and it snowed and froze and the owner couldn't get it to start. So he called grandpa and he called me out to help him picked up an old 55 gal drum and a bunch of wood and a few bricks. When we got out to the tractor everything was cold soaked and the tractor would barely turn over even putting a 12 volt jump on it. So gramps took the barrel over and set it beside the tractor and then took a big hammer and started beating on the edge of the drum to start kind of tucking it in at two places. Then he cut out the bottom with a cold chisel and a hammer. All said and done he set the barrel under the tractor and the bends kind of saddled the tractor and the oil pan was down in it. He then placed a couple of bricks under the bottom edge to both push the barrel up against the tractor and keep the barrel off the ground. He placed kindling under the barrel and lit it off and for the next what seemed to me hours but later gramps said it was only about an hour maybe two we sat there slowly feeding this little fire the wood he'd brought along. From time to time he'd pull his glove off and feel the top of the engine and pull the dipstick to check the warmth of the oil. Then the time came and he cranked the engine over. It spun like it was summer and fired off. I can still hear that old H model out there idling on that cold snowy silent day. I kind of yearn to hear it again from time to time. I asked gramps about the fuel catching fire and all, but he said, that we weren't going to let the flame get very big and the way he built the barrel all the heat and what little smoke was being held tight to the engine. I really miss that old man. Learned more by watching him about how to get things done than anyone can tell you. He never thought a question was silly and always took the time to answer it. When it came to tough homework from school, he was the one that would sit down and teach me. Not giving me the answers but teaching me how to go about thinking through an answer. It's funny that a couple of months ago I came across that old barrel out behind the old barn. It's all rusted and has holes in it from the rust and multiple times its contained a fire since that day, but every time I see it It reminds me of gramps. He died this date in 1977. He was 102 and the day before he died he finished an overhaul on a Cadillac engine and installed it and delivered it to the owner. He died of an undiagnosed brain tumor. May we all have the opportunity to build those kind of memories, and may we all be as willing to share our years of knowledge with those that desire to have it. LarryT
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