Back To The Teens

Damn! this morning, it was 17 out there!,I'm the kind og guy Who will
stay in a warming car,not go back inside & wait.Ions were never great
with immediate heat.

 

Block heater...
You used to be able to get either an electic heater that replaced the
dipstick or a cartridge heater that was spliced into one of the coolant
lines. Whitney carried them.

In the words of Garison Keillor - ...living in Minnesota and just having had
enough of the cold winters, he was going to get on the interstate heading
South and was not going to stop until someone asked what the electric plug
coming out of the engine compartment was for...."

 

Used to have them that replaced a freeze-out plug too...

 

Little known fact - the freeze out plugs are actually there as a means to
externally hold the sand casting forms which make the internal cooling
passage spaces when the block is cast. Once solidified, the sand/wax is
removed by steam cleaning, the access hole is machined (along with the
machining and boring of the entire block) and the freeze out plug installed.
Saturn had a process called the 'lost foam' (similar to 'lost wax' casting
process) that I didn't entirely understand. Lost foam was supposed to be an
alternate to sand casting that the rest of the industry uses.