I've been running in a newly rebuilt air cooled engine on my new fools
version of an engine stand.
I plumbed up the heater boxes with old vacuum cleaner hose and I now have
the worlds largest, most complex and expensive hand warmer.
The first run was at 2000 rpm for 15 minutes.
The engine didn't get warm enough to drop the oil pressure gauge off of 5
bar at 900 rpms, so I ran it in another 20 minutes and the oil finally
got hot.
I changed the oil, filter and cleaned the strainer.
Found that wonderful metallic designer oil I was expecting.
I recharged the new filter and squeezed in 4 quarts of 30 wt oil from
their plastic containers.
That 30 wt looks like STP when it gets down to about 30 degrees (f).
I'm still using that (f) so you Canadians don't think Texas is in the
Arctic.
I ran the engine another two hours at 2000 rpms ............. tachometers
with hour meters are nifty things for this, glad I got one.
I can't do any bragging about fuel economy, darn thing hasn't moved an
inch on three gallons of gas.
I can't feel my feet when I jump up and down but my hands are nice and
toasty warm.
By the way ................ One rebuilt CV Vanagon engine for sale. Long
block complete.
Time to put my toys away and take a nap.

Stan Wilder

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 15:23:55 EST JordanVw@aol.com writes:
In a message dated 1/23/03 12:51:15 PM Eastern Standard Time,
wilden1@JUNO.COM writes:

Its 33 degrees (f) here in Dallas

15 here in Pa..   went out to the van last night and opened the hatch and
the damn thing stuck open....couldnt close it..had to fumble to remove it
with numb fingers and a key and lots of 4 lettered words to close it..you
lose motor dexterity at those temps.. ..one of the hatch struts froze
up..      quite the opposite of what usually happens..   on a side note,
afterwards it was rather interesting (NOT) the phenomenon when my fingers
were the same color as my van (blue)   color coordinated! due to lack of
coordination..
chris  in pa where it's  "effin cold"