so is it bad to drive it cold?
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use that trick on my bj62 , put x-fer in neutral , tranny in second and let her idle at 1000-1200 for 10 minutes and it makes a world of differance . It not only warms the tranny and x-fer oil it also helps the engine warm up quicker by putting a small load on her .
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The actual warming of the tranny is minimal.The churning and running of the lube through the gears warms it up a little from the mechanical action. Not a lot though. But it loosens up the stiff gear lube and lets it flow easier. This lets your syncros do their job and speed match the gears when you shift.
Back to the original post... It should only take a few seconds to maybe a minute for a 2F to be ready to roll at 30F. Your Weber may not have a manual choke, but it has an electric if not. Adjust it to choke more/longer. You may need to richen up your idle mixtire or even your primary jetting. If you are running a header and you don't have an intake manifold 'fluid heater"... Get one.
Back to the original post... It should only take a few seconds to maybe a minute for a 2F to be ready to roll at 30F. Your Weber may not have a manual choke, but it has an electric if not. Adjust it to choke more/longer. You may need to richen up your idle mixtire or even your primary jetting. If you are running a header and you don't have an intake manifold 'fluid heater"... Get one.
Good to see you on here Mark!
Putting the transfer in neutral and the tranny in gear might warm up the transfer oil a bit but doesn't change anything in the tranny. The gears on the tranny (at leatst the input shaft and the counter shaft) are spinning whenever your foot is off the clutch whether its in gear or not. Letting the truck idle for a few minutes warms up the engine and works the tranny oil.
I saw you yesterday driving down Washington. You looked cold. 
You looked like some damn Texas pansy who never saw snow before all bundled up. 
I was driving a friends Benz or I would have waved. he needed a reliable vehicle to drive into the city so he took my 10-year old beater LC and I drove his Mercedes.
Depends on what you mean by revved it up when you are warming your cruiser. 1500 RPM, no problem. 3000 RPM would be. Your truck should be driven once the oil is warm enough to circulate, a minute or two. Idle will not warm it up fast enough to pull off the choke and the engine will run too rich, building carbon deposits and getting fuel in the oil. You may want to check the choke operation on that Texas Weber. It may not be set up properly for he-man weather.
2Fs take a while to warm up. There's a lot of block there to get warm. The bonus is they take a long time to cool off as well.
Is there electric to your garage? Who pays for it? Sounds like a place to plug in a block heater.
I've moved the open shop day to Saturdays 10-2 now that football season is over.
Where's my damn sticker?
You looked like some damn Texas pansy who never saw snow before all bundled up. I was driving a friends Benz or I would have waved. he needed a reliable vehicle to drive into the city so he took my 10-year old beater LC and I drove his Mercedes. Depends on what you mean by revved it up when you are warming your cruiser. 1500 RPM, no problem. 3000 RPM would be. Your truck should be driven once the oil is warm enough to circulate, a minute or two. Idle will not warm it up fast enough to pull off the choke and the engine will run too rich, building carbon deposits and getting fuel in the oil. You may want to check the choke operation on that Texas Weber. It may not be set up properly for he-man weather.
2Fs take a while to warm up. There's a lot of block there to get warm. The bonus is they take a long time to cool off as well.
Is there electric to your garage? Who pays for it? Sounds like a place to plug in a block heater.
I've moved the open shop day to Saturdays 10-2 now that football season is over.
Where's my damn sticker?
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Gumby said:I saw you yesterday driving down Washington. You looked cold. %$#@^ You looked like some damn Texas pansy who never saw snow before all bundled up.
Depends on what you mean by revved it up when you are warming your cruiser. 1500 RPM, no problem. 3000 RPM would be. Your truck should be driven once the oil is warm enough to circulate, a minute or two. Idle will not warm it up fast enough to pull off the choke and the engine will run too rich, building carbon deposits and getting fuel in the oil. You may want to check the choke operation on that Texas Weber. It may not be set up properly for he-man weather.
2Fs take a while to warm up. There's a lot of block there to get warm. The bonus is they take a long time to cool off as well.
Is there electric to your garage? Who pays for it? Sounds like a place to plug in a block heater.
I've moved the open shop day to Saturdays 10-2 now that football season is over.
Where's my damn sticker?
harhar....yeah i was cold. my heater works well enough, but i AM a proud "pansy" texan as you put it. i think the weber is set up ok. so far it starts right up and idles around 600 very rough though, then it builds up to about 1500 and stays there until i tap the gas pedal it drops back down to 600 rpm. the total process takes about 5 minutes and i usually let warm for about 5 minutes more for good measure before taking off. i'm pretty impressed with it so far...it being a 20 year old truck and all. no electric in my garage and the wifey parks her car in there. i have to park mine outside. there is an outlet on my back porch, about 50 feet away, so i could run an extension for a block heater...which i am going to look into buying. i'm going to pick up your sticker today and will try to stop by the shop before 2pm. otherwise i'll catch you next saturday.
the colder i am, the closer i sit to the steering wheel...few years ago up north i was pretty much sitting in the steering wheel.
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weirde cause i do the same thing. i find myself hunched over the steering wheel too.
don't really know why either. i just find myself sitting up like that rather than leaned back like when its warm out....man i hate the cold!!!
don't really know why either. i just find myself sitting up like that rather than leaned back like when its warm out....man i hate the cold!!!
I do the same , otherwise I'd freeze my back off. Vinyl seats in my 45.I shattered my vinyl seats in an old volvo at -40 and then bought an interior warmer. A recirculating block heater will get you a nice warm interior quickly. petelowtideride said: