Try this one! Las Vegas to LA 100+ outside we waited until dark.
I am driving a one ton Ford flatbed late seventies model (gutless).
I have 500 gallons of Jet-A on the back, towing a 40' trailer with
a Bell Jet Ranger ( $300,000 helicopter 70' price). Windows open
heater on and behind a semi full of smelly pigs. I couldn't get by
him not enough power to pass on the hills, and he was speeding
up on the downhill. I bet he was laughing his ---off . I finally gave up
somewhere around the state line couldn't stand it anymore.
Roadster comment: I am cleaning my garage again. Bob came by
and saw it said his wife would never let him get away with a garage
that messy. I am now repackaging and making a spreadsheet with
all my roadster content.
Mike
Hayden Lake, Idaho
Still wondering what happened to winter !
nalevine@dcn.davis.ca.us wrote:
> Oh, that's pretty whimpy ;-), I used the same technique to help get me from
> LA to Vegas in the '70s but it was 110+ outside, windows open, heater fan on
> high, but I was a lot younger then...
>
> Neil Levine
> SPL311-06576
>
> >Robert-
> >
> >Well, you almost got it right... it's engine coolant that circulates
> through the heat
> >exchanger/mini rad unit. It's already hot (as long as the engine is warmed
> up), the fan
> >blows air across the heater, picking up heat from the engine coolant and
> warming the cab.
> >
> >Incidentally, the extra engine cooling capacity of a cabin heater spared me
> a boil-over
> >once in my PL521 ('70 Datsun truck) going over Pacheco Pass, a pretty heavy
> climb (in
> >Central California, crossing from the Central Valley to the Santa Clara
> Valley/South SF
> >Bay region). I opened the heater valve full open and turned the fan up to
> high speed. Got
> >beastly hot in the cab (it was 90+ deg. out), even with the windows open,
> but it got me to
> >a service station under my own power, instead of on the hook...
> >
> >Gary McCormick
> >San Jose, CA
>
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