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re: Any safety issues lighting a fire under your engine block?
Posted on 1/2/18 at 1:00 pm to Darth_Vader
Posted on 1/2/18 at 1:00 pm to Darth_Vader
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However, during WWII, particularly on on the eastern fronts quite common for fires to be lit under tank engines to warm them up.
Read the OP, this is in Houston.
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Posted on 1/2/18 at 1:00 pm to Tiger Ryno
Be sure to post your results on YouTube.
Posted on 1/2/18 at 1:00 pm to Tiger Ryno
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Where do they sale those?
Posted on 1/2/18 at 1:00 pm to Darth_Vader
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tank engines
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minivan
Relevant anecdote.
Posted on 1/2/18 at 1:00 pm to LCA131
Wilber. 
Posted on 1/2/18 at 1:05 pm to BRgetthenet
Dubya dubya ell
Posted on 1/2/18 at 1:06 pm to Cocotheape
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Relevant anecdote.
Agreed. Much of Honda’s quality and materials guidance comes from Nazi and Soviet main battle tank design documentation.
This post was edited on 1/2/18 at 1:09 pm
Posted on 1/2/18 at 1:06 pm to Cocotheape
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tank engines
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minivan
Relevant anecdote.
As odd as it sounds, WWII tank engines are not that dissimmilar to automotive engines today. Some even burned gasoline just as moden autos do.
And for the record, I’m not saying he should light a fire under his mini-van. All I did was point out this method has been done in the past.
Posted on 1/2/18 at 1:11 pm to Darth_Vader
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WWII
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not that dissimmilar
Look for plastics and digital electronics on the old tanks and let us know about it.
Posted on 1/2/18 at 1:18 pm to TheHarahanian
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Look for plastics and digital electronics on the old tanks and let us know about it.
Again, not as dissimalar as you’d think. For example there was an entire Panzer division on the Eastern Front that was effectively immobilized due to the fact they packed hay around the engine compartments of their Panzers as a form of insulation over the winter. Well this attracted rats who nested in the hay and started eating the wiring on the Panzers, thus immobilizing them.
Posted on 1/2/18 at 1:22 pm to Darth_Vader
All engines have required some wiring.
Modern vehicle engines are a complicated spaghetti of wiring, connectors, and vacuum lines that are either made of, or coated with plastics that didn’t exist on WWII engines and will easily melt.
Modern vehicle engines are a complicated spaghetti of wiring, connectors, and vacuum lines that are either made of, or coated with plastics that didn’t exist on WWII engines and will easily melt.
Posted on 1/2/18 at 1:25 pm to TheHarahanian
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All engines have required some wiring.
Modern vehicle engines are a complicated spaghetti of wiring, connectors, and vacuum lines that are either made of, or coated with plastics that didn’t exist on WWII engines and will easily melt.
I’ve worked on and around engines for over 20 years. I know all about what use to be on them andcwhats on them now. Again, I was not telling him to go light a fire under his mini-van. I even said that once already. I was just making a historic observation that this has been done in the past. Geese, dude. Chill out.
This post was edited on 1/2/18 at 1:27 pm
Posted on 1/2/18 at 1:33 pm to Tiger Ryno
Heat gun from any hardware store usually around $20
Posted on 1/2/18 at 1:40 pm to stout
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How do people fall for this troll thread?
Falling for and playing along are two different things.
Posted on 1/2/18 at 1:50 pm to Darth_Vader
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I see people are making fun of the idea of you doing this. However, during WWII, particularly on on the eastern front, it was quite common for fires to be lit under tank engines to warm them up.
And IIRC, those WWII Panzers also had plastic engine surrounds, computer management systems, and power steering fluid lines.
Posted on 1/2/18 at 2:26 pm to Tiger Ryno
Anti-freeze in the vehicle should be fine in most conditions.
I do have a friend that lives in Fairbanks, Alaska (no pics) and they all have this electric heater thing that sits on the engine block overnight.
I do have a friend that lives in Fairbanks, Alaska (no pics) and they all have this electric heater thing that sits on the engine block overnight.
Posted on 1/2/18 at 2:28 pm to Tiger Ryno
Where the hell do you live.
May be time to move little further south.
May be time to move little further south.
Posted on 1/2/18 at 2:29 pm to Darth_Vader
Well yeah, but most of us have advanced beyond the 1940’s
Posted on 1/2/18 at 2:32 pm to Ed Osteen
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Well yeah, but most of us have advanced beyond the 1940’s
Again, I’m fully aware. I made that comment because many were reacting to the OP like he was suggesting something crazy. The point of my post was that it was a practice that AT ONE TIME was not uncommon under certain circumstances.
My post was never intended to suggest he should attempt it now.
Posted on 1/3/18 at 8:15 am to Darth_Vader
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Again, not as dissimalar as you’d think. For example there was an entire Panzer division on the Eastern Front that was effectively immobilized due to the fact they packed hay around the engine compartments of their Panzers as a form of insulation over the winter. Well this attracted rats who nested in the hay and started eating the wiring on the Panzers, thus immobilizing them.
THAT happened everywhere...not just on tanks....there about ZERO similarities between these 2 scenarios other than they are both combustion engines
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