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Originally Posted by Old Mechanic
My well insulated garage 35X21 is under the left side of my house. Parking the cars in the garage allows the cars (and bikes) to heat the garage in winter. In summer when it is already hot enough, I have a $4 yardsale squirrel cage fan I used to keep myself cool when working in the garage when it is hot. It also serves to blow out the excess heat from the vehicles in summer. The garage seldom drops below 50 degrees in winter, even when outside temps are in the 20s.
Just park the larger vehicle in the garage and let all of the heat warm up the garage.
Heating up a 50 gallon reservoir would cause the truck to run cold for a very long time and cost you a lot more in fuel overall. The heat in the vehile that you would lose anyway is basically free energy if you can utilize it for garage heating.
A simple solar thermosyphon heating system would also help, if you have enough sunlight to justify the cost.
regards
Mech
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You brought some very good points.
My first problem is the truck won't fit in my garage. My garage is 20' 6" long and my truck is about 21' 3" due to the ext cab and long box.
Last year I did notice how nice my wife's car would heat up the garage during winter months. So her car will contribute to heating this winter. During summer months I have her park it out side until it cools down at night then bring it in to keep the garage temperature nice and cool around 70 degrees.
As far as taking along time to heat up the water on the truck my thoughts are to run a tee with a smaller with control valve on the heater hose return line. So most of the flow would return back to the radiator. It would take some time to heat the 50 gallons but I usually run the truck for 8 hours or more on my longer routes and on the shorter routes I would deactivate the system. I would also incorporate a massive grill block during the winter months.
"thermosyphon heating system" not to sure what this is???
We don't get to much sun light during the winter. But I do get a lot of wind I could use.
