Originally Posted by Skippy722
Originally Posted by Imp4
Originally Posted by borgward
You can turn on your air conditioner. That helps warm up the engine. The AC is now acting as a heat pump. It is taking heat out of the passenger compartment, releasing it through the condenser coil and passing it the the engines radiator. Once you begin to feel some heat turn off the AC. It works.
Dear lord, only a masochist or a BITOG true believer would turn on the a/c in winter to heat the engine up faster.
Now I truly have heard it all...
Not to mention that you can dump all the heat you want into the radiator, it's not getting to the engine till the thermostat opens
Strangely enough, it does work somewhat on the GMC Sierra 6.2 in my sig, with add-on air-the A/C compressor increases the load slightly, and the heat from the condenser does warm the radiator a little. But, I just put on the mittens/gloves & hat & go before it warms up fully anyway, diesel is too expensive to waste!
Originally Posted by Imp4
Originally Posted by borgward
You can turn on your air conditioner. That helps warm up the engine. The AC is now acting as a heat pump. It is taking heat out of the passenger compartment, releasing it through the condenser coil and passing it the the engines radiator. Once you begin to feel some heat turn off the AC. It works.
Dear lord, only a masochist or a BITOG true believer would turn on the a/c in winter to heat the engine up faster.
Now I truly have heard it all...
Not to mention that you can dump all the heat you want into the radiator, it's not getting to the engine till the thermostat opens
Strangely enough, it does work somewhat on the GMC Sierra 6.2 in my sig, with add-on air-the A/C compressor increases the load slightly, and the heat from the condenser does warm the radiator a little. But, I just put on the mittens/gloves & hat & go before it warms up fully anyway, diesel is too expensive to waste!