aaah a heated garage, the holy grail of wrench jedis, a must for a sled owner, the fun to heat up the place, then drag a few beers in and work on that ol' sled to get her fixed up right... alone or with friends.. hey what else can you ask for right?
well i have that already, i got a small oil pot furnase that i fuel with diesel..i would fuel it with oil no.1 but it costs as much as diesel so .the maker is fawcett i think...works great.. in keeping up the heat, but very weak to get it to 65- 70.. at -10 F it takes about 2 -3 hours to get to a confortable temperature..and at - 30 you need a good coat or you wait 4 -5 hours unless you want frostburn with the tools. so i got bored of it.. oh and one time, the cheminee clogged you should have seen the mess when fuel was still going into the pot, but no air was so it was "accumulating"when i unclogged it and open the little door to light it up it was like an erupting volcano!! smoke and fire everyhwere, so much that i open the garage door and went in to get the keys of Lola ( my kawa Zx9) and get her out and then the sled out too ... finally the eruption ceased.. anyways.
si decided to upgrade to something that would heat up faster and give me that same even heat for hours, don't get me wrong i lgota big wood stove in my basement in my house... so on a last saturday morning the phone rang, a friend of mine called me up and said he found something...so him and i go see what it was... and then i saw it, a big M****** F****** house oil furnase with a burner and fan .. working on 120 volts(just for the fan and burner) and packing 125 000 BTU out of the duct... and it was free.. yes you have seen right, FREE.. the cost was to get it out of the house, it was swapped for an electric unit and guy wanted it out but was not equiped for it.. and i was.. so i got my trailer, and got that thing out in 3 pieces..which one was VERY heavy.... and got it back home. and heated up the old oil pot furnas for the last time... or did i.. .. after a few hours it was time to swap.. the problem thi thing is HEAVY.. had to drag it in place and rig up the wiring for the controls and thermostat.... then was about to rig my 45 gallon drum of diesel to the furnase and bam! i puled on it by the hose a little too much on the output valve and it came out, imagine a 45 gallon of diesel fuel with a 1 inch hole on the side... believe me you kinda RUN LIKE HELL to find something to recover the fuel... had about 6 -7 gallons in it.. so i mangle with a few 5 gallons to recover it... but it took time and ALOT was on the floor...after spending a few minutes looking at my own private little exxon valdez incident, the words "cat litter" came to mind.. bought 6 pouches of it and used them all.. so now i had a gravel paved garage.. i managed to clean the whole mess up and still ended up ( of course) with a nice diesel perfume scent... which stinks and reminds me back of the days i had my diesel vw golf.. anyways..my 45 gallon barrel was f*cked and i needed something that would not leak.. i tryed to fix the barrel but after 30 minutes the a leak returned.. ( the barrel always had a small leak and i never got to fix it.. so i needed a new container for oil.. smaller wouldn't hurt since i only use oil when im in the garage fixxing stuff. the rest of the time no heat there. so i went to canadian tire and bought a 6 gallon boat fuel tank for outboards.... it has a hose with a pump you squeeze.. installed this that it was perfect.. cost 75$ CDN but well worth it.
so now it's show time.. i started up this monster which i named chernobyle... aster sputtering up a few air bubbles and the oil pump ceased to make that cavitation noise when there air in it.. i heard the blower fire and the fan started.. this thing blows away like i have never seen, at -15 degrees Celcius outside i heated up the garage in 10 minutes... REAL 10 minutes.. i had to take off my coat and all the snow on my pantera was melting to water.. i had puddles of water around the sled... i was VERY surprised that it would be THAT effective...
if you would ask if worth it, yes it was..
anyways heres a pic of before and after
oil pot furnase ( for sale btw)
heres a pic of Chernobyl ( installation if not final due to lack of time so wires everywhere will disapear and tank will be place elsewhere... it took me 2 days to get this swap done.)
Fr0st.( who has a terrible back ache)
