>Speaking of cold weather...
>
>I'm expecting delivery of a 110 this week that has been traveling accross
>Canada by rail for the last six weeks (don't ask...) It was in Winnipeg
Only six weeks? Wow! It can take N&S that long to load a truck on a rail car.
>right at the peak of the recent prairie cold snap where temperatures dipped
>to below -50C at night. Before the Land Rover was shipped, I had the
>previouse owner top up the antifreeze and test the coolant. He says that
>the mixture went off the scale of his tester (the usual float type) so I
>hope the rad / engine block have survived.
Freezing point of 50% anti-freeze/distilled water is -34F. It goes
pretty rapidly at concentrations greater than 50 % antifreeze (-50F
at 55% anti-freeze), until 70% concentration where it hits it's
lowest freeze point (-84F, too fucking cold to think about!). I'd
test it when you get it, and if it's okay, not worry about it.
>Living on the Canadian Riviera like I do, where our recent cold snap got
>down to - 3C (26 F) I have no experience with the likes of -50. Should the
>Land Rover be okay when it arrives? Can I expect a dead battery? Anything
>else to check before she's fired up?
Battery might have frozen if it weren't charged. Actually, it might
have frozen anyway. The freezing point of concentrated sulfuric acid
is something like -40, so if it really was -50, I'd yank the battery
out of the truck and inspect the case (frozen batteries usually crack
the case, or at least distort it). If it froze, flood the
compartment with water, to get rid of any acid spilled.
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