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I live where it is super cold. Many nights it is around -30 degrees celcius.
I’m wondering if anyone has used the warming pads you can plug in like a block heater but for oil pans or batteries and how well they work.
I think there’s a Wolverine brand that makes them, but there are also others.
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This is great. I had a question on this I’d been wondering about.
I have a 2003 PT Cruiser. It used to have the cheapest antifreeze money could buy in it. It wasn’t overheating but the antifreeze had been in there for 5 years and where I live it is often -30 celcius at night. So I took the old antifreeze out, flushed the system with water and filled it with the factory recommended HOAT antifreeze (can you do a video on what the hell HOAT is and why it is supposedly better?) So now that I’ve got the HOAT in it it’s doing something strange. It gets up to operating temp and whenever the fan kicks on, which I’m assuming is tied to the thermostat, the engine temp drops quite a bit (on the temp gauge in the dash). With the old stuff in it it never moved once it was heated up, now it will show a drop in temp of about 1/8 of the distance of the whole gauge when the fan comes on and then creep back up to the middle (operating temp) in a minute.
Is this fine? A sign of doom? Did I do something wrong when I switched antifreeze?
The HOAT I bought was the premixed Zerex G-05 brand. The reservoir is showing the coolant is at exactly the right level.
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This is great. I had a question on this I’d been wondering about.
I have a 2003 PT Cruiser. It used to have the cheapest antifreeze money could buy in it. It wasn’t overheating but the antifreeze had been in there for 5 years and where I live it is often -30 celcius at night. So I took the old antifreeze out, flushed the system with water and filled it with the factory recommended HOAT antifreeze (can you do a video on what the hell HOAT is and why it is supposedly better?) So now that I’ve got the HOAT in it it’s doing something strange. It gets up to operating temp and whenever the fan kicks on, which I’m assuming is tied to the thermostat, the engine temp drops quite a bit (on the temp gauge in the dash). With the old stuff in it it never moved once it was heated up, now it will show a drop in temp of about 1/8 of the distance of the whole gauge when the fan comes on and then creep back up to the middle (operating temp) in a minute.
Is this fine? A sign of doom? Did I do something wrong when I switched antifreeze?
The HOAT I bought was the premixed Zerex G-05 brand. The reservoir is showing the coolant is at exactly the right level.
Thanks
New theory.
It’s not the starter at all. It’s the power steering pump. I had the pressure hose to the rack replaced during the summer and my mechanic put some stop leak in to keep me from having to replace the rack, which had a small leak. But the stop leak stuff often gets thicker when it’s cold and it’s really cold here. -25 celcius right now. I’m in Canada. So the pump is freaking out and being noisy because the fluid is way thicker than it should be til the car heats up.
I knew it had to be something to do with freezing because the colder it got the worse the noise was and the less time it could sit before making the noise again.
Too cold to work in my unheated garage, I’m taking the car to my mechanic next week for some suspension stuff and I’ll get him to look at it.
Eric: If you read this… here’s a video you could do. How to turn an unheated garage into a place you could actually work in the winter.
Thanks.
New theory.
It’s not the starter at all. It’s the power steering pump. I had the pressure hose to the rack replaced during the summer and my mechanic put some stop leak in to keep me from having to replace the rack, which had a small leak. But the stop leak stuff often gets thicker when it’s cold and it’s really cold here. -25 celcius right now. I’m in Canada. So the pump is freaking out and being noisy because the fluid is way thicker than it should be til the car heats up.
I knew it had to be something to do with freezing because the colder it got the worse the noise was and the less time it could sit before making the noise again.
Too cold to work in my unheated garage, I’m taking the car to my mechanic next week for some suspension stuff and I’ll get him to look at it.
Eric: If you read this… here’s a video you could do. How to turn an unheated garage into a place you could actually work in the winter.
Thanks.
It’s a 2003 PT cruiser non-turbo. The old starter wasn’t shimmed so I didn’t shim the replacement.
Some more research has led to me think its more of a whirring that a grinding. The teeth are sticking to the flywheel and that’s causing the starter to keep spinning post-crank. But it doesn’t sound like anything breaking. I recorded the sound, I’ll try and post it tomorrow. Thanks.
It’s a 2003 PT cruiser non-turbo. The old starter wasn’t shimmed so I didn’t shim the replacement.
Some more research has led to me think its more of a whirring that a grinding. The teeth are sticking to the flywheel and that’s causing the starter to keep spinning post-crank. But it doesn’t sound like anything breaking. I recorded the sound, I’ll try and post it tomorrow. Thanks.
I tried that test and was only showing 0.25 amps of draw. I assumed that wouldn’t be enough to cause a problem.
I tried that test and was only showing 0.25 amps of draw. I assumed that wouldn’t be enough to cause a problem.
Right, but a car with 75,000k on it wouldn’t suddenly require shims only when it is cold out. Would it?
I guess I’m saying the lack of shims (it had none on the old starter) wouldn’t be related to starting issues with temperature or sitting time. Unless they would, but if you think they would, could you please explain how.
Thanks!
Right, but a car with 75,000k on it wouldn’t suddenly require shims only when it is cold out. Would it?
I guess I’m saying the lack of shims (it had none on the old starter) wouldn’t be related to starting issues with temperature or sitting time. Unless they would, but if you think they would, could you please explain how.
Thanks!