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After thinking it over i decided that first thing we should try is to prevent air flow through engine bay to lift fans. While looking at the engine bay this seems to be the best guess we can start with as it clearly seems that this flow through piles a huge amount of snow to lower front corners of engine bay. |
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| We took some measurements and played with different ideas. I even took a couple of shots of the problematic area. We also took measurements of how to cover starter and solenoid from spray water and powder snow. | |||
| We also removed the starter to be eamined and dried in warm carage. There is a continous problem with starting the engine in cold weather as solenoid doesn't engage the starter until it slighly warmed by hand or hot air from heat gun. | |||
| One of the best ideas was presented by my father when we were in our carage putting starter to pieces and drying them out. He suggested that box should be built around starter so that exhaust tube would keep the starter warm and dry. Also heating the box with engine cooling water circulation was discussed but then he came up with this: Why not put a 12V halogen lamp inside the box and wire it to the dashboard! By using both loops in standard headlight lamp we'd get 100W of energy in a small box. We will certainly test this and i'll report the results. This would give us the warm needed to free the solenoid and if it works perfectly warming isn't needed in cold starts either. | |||
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