[Roadsters] also slightly OT: Have a plan, 40 feels like 40

[Gary and Cindy Ault]

Remember to read that short paragraph in the back of the original owner's 
manual about putting a "muff" on the radiator to allow the temperature to 
approach normal in cold weather.  The one winter I drove my 2L here in 
Indiana, I used a piece of cardboard cut to press fit into the front of the 
radiator housing and block half of it.  I covered the cardboard with some 
sort of clear plastic cheet so it didn't dissolve.  130F-140F max went to 
180F, and the heater worked again.

Gary

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary McCormick" <gkmcc at sbcglobal.net>
To: " Fergus P (AS)O'Farrell" <Fergus.OFarrell at ngc.com>; 
<datsun-roadsters at autox.team.net>; "steven boortz" 
<vociferouschicanery at yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Roadsters] also slightly OT: Have a plan, 40 feels like 40


> After reading Fergusb post I was thinking, b
Boy, is he gonna catch some
> cr at p from the folks in the cold-weather states!b
.
>
> Back when my Roadster was on the road B  :^(B B  I drove it top down in 
> every
> kind of weather that the Bay Area can throw at you except active 
> precipitation
> (well, there were those two times -- but I got caught in the rain, and the 
> top
> just wouldn't latch when it was cold and stiffb&) I remember driving home 
> one
> New Year's morning at about 2 a.m., probably just a hair above freezing, 
> in a
> down jacket, ski gloves, and a ball cap. The chill sure blew those New 
> Year's
> Eve cobwebs out and cleared my head! I also remember thinking how nice a
> tonneau cover would be -- to help keep the warm air from the heater in the
> cockpitb&
>
> Gary McCormick
> San Jose, CA
>
> --- On Mon, 12/5/11, steven boortz <vociferouschicanery at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> From: steven boortz <vociferouschicanery at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Roadsters] also slightly OT: Have a plan, 40 feels like 40
> To: "O'Farrell, Fergus P (AS)" <Fergus.OFarrell at ngc.com>,
> "datsun-roadsters at autox.team.net" <datsun-roadsters at autox.team.net>
> Date: Monday, December 5, 2011, 12:03 PM
>
> i too hate how it makes me feel driving the roadster when it's cold here.B
> but
> boy oh boy, does the engine love the cold air!
>
> s
> 675MIZU
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: "O'Farrell, Fergus P (AS)" <Fergus.OFarrell at ngc.com>
> To: "datsun-roadsters at autox.team.net" <datsun-roadsters at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Mon, December 5, 2011 10:56:45 AM
> Subject: [Roadsters] also slightly OT: Have a plan, 40 feels like 40
>
> And along the lines of Tim's "lesson learned",
> When I first got my roadster I was very uncomfortable, and willed myself 
> into
> thinking that removing the center console would provide more leg/knee 
> room.
> I also did not care for the small grip size on the steering wheel, so got 
> a
> 13" Grant Wheel with a big fat rim on it.
> The 13" wheel solved the knee room problem.
>
> I have since put the center console back in, (reupholstered from a pair of
> leather pants from the goodwill, but that is another OT story)
> but never the heater back in, and here in Southern CA just bundled up.
> (note: I am just a bit too tall to drive with the top up, so have done it 
> so
> seldom that it is quite dangerous)
> And have since learned that I HATE underdash work with a passion.
> I "dismantled without a plan".B  B  B B B Lesson:B  Don't dismantle 
> without a
> plan.
>
> So fast forward to this weekend, and the wifey's van charging system took 
> a
> crap over the weekend, and on most days "having to take the roadster to 
> work"
> is akin to "power outage, have to eat the lobster and ice cream in the
> freezer
> before it goes bad."
>
> Not today.B  It was 40 degrees this morning.B  Weather channel windchill
> estimate says "40 feels like 40".
> All I gotta say is, "40 don't feel like 40 when you are going 80".
>
> Still a great way to start the day!
> She was a bit slow to start and get warmed up, which I interpret as me 
> being
> scolded for not having her out of the garage enough.
>
> Happy roadstering!
> Fergus O
> Timing chains a-rattlin' in that holiday season!
> 69 2000
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