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Originally Posted by TimV
100W heater pad of 65degrees celcius for the gearbox oil pan. Dont know if i need to put isolation at the bottem, because both sides of the pad gets hot, and i want all the heat to go up.
If installed, it would look something like this, so probably a good idea to cover the heater with isolation?
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Iirc the instructions explicitly state that it should not be covered (or I would have covered the pad under my oil pan
when I insulated it
).
The energy which does not heat the oil pan or gearbox directly will warm the air, which will rise up along the block and stay in the engine bay (because it's insulated, remember?), so not all is wasted.
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Originally Posted by RedDevil
What about an engine air inlet heater?
That should help idling and running at low throttle when the engine is still cold. |
Some PSA diesels have an intake air warmer (not directly in the ducting, but at the bottom of the air filter box) for when the DPF is being burned out. I don't know whether it is also used during cold starts, but if you already have one, then hacking a manual switch should not be a problem.
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