Engine warm up



Hi Guy's,



On a Modern car as long as the oil light goes off,your go to go "slowly,,"On my old 81 Buick,,Pre-fuel injection...I had it set to Factory spect's & it would Stall at the stop sign at the corner...Had to "work" the throttle to keep it running


On the old A same thing had to run it pretty "Rich" till it was warmed up...It's the same thing getting up in the Morning,,Takes a while to get going...Especially when you get to be a old "Fart"


This morning it's 50,,,& kinda cold (So Cal) I don't know how you guy do it back East where it get really Cold ???????????? One time we had a "Cold spell" here. Got down to he low 30's My old man had a old bug & 7 year old Caddy...None of them would start except the old A...I guess the old 30W was too thick,,,



Had to pick up my Mom's friend to take the old gal to a Dr apt..Was she surprised to see me coming in the A...I remember how cold it was with no heater...Hell,,I needed a warm up !!!!!!!!!!


Take care guy's

Greg out west
 
I agree with Allan (and not just because he is a fellow Kiwi)
The old advice to warm up a vehicle, as I understand it, was based on the poor quality of oils available in the day. It took them a while to warm up to start working efficiently. Modern oils are designed to work well from cold. I don't routinely warm up my 1930 A or 1913 T and they do a lot of miles! I will warm up my 1910 Hupmobile as its primitive carburettor definitely works better when warm.

However I do concede that the New Zealand winter is a lot warmer than some of the temperatures you get in the States . Where I live we get a dusting of snow for perhaps one day in winter about once every 10 years . I doubt if where Allan lives (the winterless north) has ever had winter snow -Karl
 
hupdoc said:
Where I live we get a dusting of snow for perhaps one day in winter about once every 10 years . I doubt if where Allan lives (the winterless north) has ever had winter snow -Karl
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Hello!

We did get a couple of frosts that made my weeds yellow a bit!

It's always damp up here too - hot or cold. sometimes colder would be nice - condense the moisture and freeze it!

We get ice of our roof in winter sometimes.
 
I warm up the Tudor on a cold day,just enough so when the wife gets in I don't have to hear about how cold it is !
 
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