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Old 03-16-2013, 06:57 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Hmm. Grill blocks for cars work in the cold because it was designed to cope with heavy loads under high ambient temperature, and is overdimensioned in cold conditions.

The snow blower on the other hand is probably not optimized for tropical temperatures. I havent been to the subtropics very often, so bear with me, but I never saw snowblowers being used there at all.
So it may just be that the engine and its warm up time were designed just for winter conditions, and rushing the warm up puts it in a situation that was not anticipated by its designers. It will probably be fine, but you are venturing where no snowblower has gone before.
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