After I got my truck I discovered that the block heater had been removed at some point....The power cord is still in there, but the hole in the block has been filled with a standard freeze plug.
The only block heater I have found is this:
http://www.napaonline.com/masterpage...eeze+Plug+Type
The problem with this kit is that I have nothing to screw the heater into! What is the part number I need?
Here is a pic of my engine block where the freeze plug is...you can see the power cord hanging there below it.
Last winter I had some cold weather problems and I want to get this going before it gets cold again.
Any cummins dealers are pretty far away so I thought I would ask you all first. Thanks

 

I replaced the heater in mine when I first got it and I thought I still had the box but I dont,I got mine through Oreilly auto parts and they actually had one in stock.Sorry I dont have the part # for you

 

That is really supposed to be a freeze plu. The block heater threads into the block further back from there. Keep looking, you're in the right area.

 

I have 4 freeze plugs in a row, nothing with any threads. Where exactly is yours if it isn't right behind the filter?
There is nothing visible within reach of the original power cord.

 

I just bought one from the Dodge Dealer here in Moncks Corner... Part #7661058-3... I think that is a Dodge # but the heater came in a Cummins box. That # is for a '91 and fits in there like a freeze plug but with an O-ring and a socket head cap screw to pull into a little bracket that comes with the heater... two prong connection.

 

Yes! that sounds like the part I need. Thanks. How much was it?

 

I want to say around $90. I bought it but am not leaving for Baltimore until Nov. so it has been sittin in the cab till I get off my tail and install it...

 

I am not sure how to post pictures or I would post a picture for you to look at. I know that I bought one off of e-bay that screws in and it don't work... $40 out the window...

 

click on rockfoot up and then "view public profile" there and it will take you to a picture of the heater..

 

Yeah Rockfoot ,that looks exactly like the one I got from Oreilly's last year.
But I want to say I paid less than 50 for it ,it works like a champ

 

yea, $90/$50... the story of my life

 

Just go to a truck parts store and tell them you need a block heater for a 6bt. Shouldn't be much of an issue there.

 

OOPS. I was wrong. That pic you show is of the block heater hole. I must have been thinking of someting else.

 

check this out
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/93-Do...QQcmdZViewItem

 

Thats it... wish I had waited.... oh well...