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Old 06-27-2017, 09:23 AM   #17 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by teoman View Post
You could put an egr valve and have hot exhaust blow on to it. That would heat it up quickly.

Or maybe as one other poster said, modify a drain or fill plug to have a metal pipe loop that will circulate coolant and transfre heat directly to the oil.
Those are both interesting and good ideas. I'm pretty settled on my technique for this go around. However, if I do it to another vehicle in the future I'm sure there will be tweaks to be made. It would be great if this could be done in a way that you don't have to remove the transmission from the vehicle for instance, and using the drain/fill plugs would probably be a way to do that.
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