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Greg K

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Had the little blizzard this week. About 17" of snow and 30 MPH winds. Went to move the truck today and happened to notice all the white behind the grille. Popped the hood and and was surprised to find this. Makes sense since it injected snow into everything else.
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I remember Dad's 1969 Mercury pickup looking like that once .....it had the inline 6 in it,dug out the distributor and plug wires, fired it up an let her thaw out.
 
One time I was driving with a 4x4 truck in snow so deep I was pushing snow with the front bumper. Next day I popped the good and there was ice all around the engine on inner fenders ect from snow melting from engine heat.
 
I've had a couple like that over the years. It usually not fluff in there,usually hard packed. Don't try to start until snow is mostly out, serpentine belt could fail alternator full of water. gobble
 
Northeast NE. 25 milesish west of sioux city
Sure hope I don't have to put it down, "sorry old yeller"
 
Excessive application of Cool Whip. Put a heater to it and melt it out. Several infrared heat lamps of 250 watts will get it done (if it is moderate temps (above 20 or so) but don't leave it being heated, things melt. Jim
 
The same storm plastered the right (distributor) side of the engine on one of my H Farmalls with about three inches of frozen wet snow. I wanted to move it so I could move the snow it was standing in. The old gal started right up and didn't miss a beat while the engine heat melted the snow off.
 
I was wondering about that too. The wind must have been blowing from the rear of the truck.
 
Kinda came from the passengers front. Perhaps funneled in around the front of my work van. The van blo ked most of the truck except from the front wheels forward.
 
brought back memories...
driving old trucks to work, carbs, points ignition...factory...huge windswept parking lot.
Carefully packing an old blanket around the engine before going in to work. Lift the hood and pull it off and drive home, others were stranded.
Tip with old stuff....brutal cold...brush the snow off the engine as best you can before you start it. In the cold, snow is similar to dirt, brushes right off.
Start the engine without brushing it off...snow starts to melt..ignition is gone..and you are done right there.
 
Reminds me of my days on the tow truck, when a car went off the road into the ditch we always opened the hood and cleared the snow from the fan area and made sure the belts could turn before the driver started the engine.
 
Got a heated garage anywhere near ? If so tow it in there to thaw it out. Otherwise I guess a space heater and a tarp ?
 
Back in the day I got stuck in a blizzard with my 69 Mustang Sportroof. The 69's had about a 3/4" wide chrome strip glued on the back side of the front window (hardtop). That strip had fallen off and I hadn't gotten it back on. When I got back to the car a day later and opened the drivers door, the inside pf the car was packed solid with snow just like your picture.
 
set a torpedo heater in front of it ,.. my dad came home thru a blizzard in 1968 with his 65 ford with a 352 v-8 ,, ramming drifts and constant driving headwind snow ,,. next day he found a similar pack unsder the hood ,..
 
Winter of 78 we got 15 inches, 58 mph winds and 20 ft drifts. You should be glad it was only 30 mph. Time to drag it inside garage and let it melt.
 
(quoted from post at 20:27:19 02/04/16) I've had a couple like that over the years. It usually not fluff in there,usually hard packed. Don't try to start until snow is mostly out, serpentine belt could fail alternator full of water. gobble
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AND radiators don't work packed with snow. 8)
 
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