My 318 gives heat pretty quickly, it seems. I don't turn on the heater
at all until the needle moves, but it seems like it only takes a couple
of miles of actual driving. If I am just short hopping around town, and
it's frigid, sometimes I stick a bit of cardboard in front, but normally
I don't have to. Just for the data point, my truck is stock, 318, auto,
4x4, with K&N filters as the only "mod".
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
> [mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of Michael
> Maskalans
> Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 9:22 AM
> To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
> Subject: Re: DML: warm up time
>
>
> On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Josh Battles wrote:
>
>
>>On Thu, December 29, 2005 9:41 pm, Zito, James A \(GE Infra, Energy\)
>
> wrote:
>
>>>Ok quick question now that it is getting coldish......
>>>
>>>It seems to take an extremely long time to warm up, AKA give heat.
>>>On a day in the 20'F's it takes more than 10 minutes to get warm, by
>>>then my fingers barely work and I won't go into the condition my
>>>toes are in......maybe I should change out of the Teva's eh??
>>>
>>>Factory stat in a 3.9 V6 with manual tranny.
>>
>>It usually takes my truck (3.9L Automatic) about that long when temps
>>are below freezing. I'd say that you're not outside of normal.
>
>
> my 318 may or may not be a valid comparison but it also takes 8-10 minutes
> to give me heat in the morning. I actually get about 5 miles further down
> the road in the Dakota before I get heat than I do with the 7.3L non-turbo
> International diesel in my Ford.
>
>
>>I guess you could hold your shifts longer but that's not always the
>>greatest idea. I've heard some paranoia about how the heads can crack
>>between the valves if you hold shifts in the cold so YMMV.
>
>
> as long as we're talking about "what we've heard" I've read in at least two
> places that almost all of our heads are likely cracked between the valve
> seats. One article was on magnafluxing and the other on repairing cracked
> castings by various methods. That one had some interesting stuff but I
> don't remember any of the terminology so it might be difficult to find. It
> was posted to DiRT a couple weeks to a month ago.
>
>
> +-- Mike Maskalans ------------- Rochester, NY ----------+
> | '98 Dakota CC 318 4x4 '84 RamCharger 360 4x4 |
> | SFA, 40" Iroks 34" Truxs M/Ts, plow |
> | looking for the right Cummins - a 4x4 manual trans CC |
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