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Thaw Without a Torpedo Heater Using Exhaust Heat

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If a torpedo heater is unavailable, you can use the exhaust heat from a running vehicle (like a pickup truck or a dump truck) to thaw frozen equipment. Obtain a flexible heat-resistant pipe, ideally a 4-inch diameter solid metal pipe or a heavy-duty flexible hose. Connect one end of this pipe to the exhaust of the running vehicle and direct the other end into the engine compartment of the frozen equipment, aiming for the fuel filter area. The warm exhaust gases will heat the engine compartment and thaw the frozen components. Make sure to rev the running vehicle's engine occasionally to increase exhaust heat and flow.

Goal: Thaw frozen equipment by rerouting warm exhaust from another running vehicle

Tools and materials

  • Flexible Heat-Resistant Pipe — Directing hot exhaust gases. A 4-inch solid pipe or heavy-duty flexible exhaust hose is recommended
  • Heavy Equipment — The machine requiring thawing
  • Running Vehicle — Source of warm exhaust heat

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situations now it's not a perfect world oh my gosh you could believe that you don't have a torpedo here what do you do you have a pickup truck you have the exhaust of any piece of equipment that happens to be running you simply take a four inch pipe if you have that and you hook enough to the exhaust of the equipment and you put it right into the engine compartment of the machine that you want to run we got a four inch solid pipe Andy that's what you need if you've got a steel pipe that's even better yet but you simply slide it up to the exhaust of your truck all that gonna be direction right where I want it right into the machine is going to warm it up then you go inside the truck throttle it down because that's going to pour the exhaust out that much faster it's about thawing out this machine you want to get as much heat pumped into the area where it's froze as possible what to keep those lines thought out that 911 one's going to activate it's going to save the day you have a big dump truck I've used this truck all that warm exhaust right on my frozen fuel lines a big truck like this works amazing machine you don't happen to have a dump truck handy it's not a matter of if your

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