Just looked at his pic again. It does in fact look like there isn't one installed. Wonder why the previous idiot removed it?

 

According to the dealer manual, it is optional.

It could have went bad or the PO broke it...

 

It must have been an option that wasn't installed. My dad and I bought our trucks the same day. He kept it in the garage so I guess he never thought about plugging it in. I had the element in mine just had to buy the plug. When he passed away I started driving it and sold mine (it only has 34000 miles on it) just now getting around to plugging it in and well, you see what I've found.

 

But.... all HPCR engines come with the heater element installed off of the Cummins Assy line. The cord was optional from Dodge.

 

Well cummins must have forgot in this one. That's a factory plug you see in the picture.

 

It looks to me like you are looking too far aft for it. It will be further foreword.

It was not an option, only the cord was on the HPCR.

 

Dog... from the service manual...

ENGINE BLOCK HEATER - 5.9L
DIESEL
DESCRIPTION
WARNING: DO NOT OPERATE ENGINE UNLESS
BLOCK HEATER CORD HAS BEEN DISCONNECTED
FROM POWER SOURCE AND SECURED IN PLACE.
THE POWER CORD MUST BE SECURED IN ITS
RETAINING CLIPS AND ROUTED AWAY FROM
EXHAUST MANIFOLDS AND MOVING PARTS.
An optional engine block heater is available on all
models. The heater is equipped with a power cord.
The heater is mounted in a threaded hole of the
engine cylinder block with the heating element
immersed in engine coolant. The cord is attached to
an engine compartment component with tie-straps.
The 5.9L diesel engine has the block heater located
on the right side of the engine below the exhaust
manifold next to the oil cooler

 

 

Lower left corner of the filter is a factory plug.

 

Accroding to my cummins dealer, the block heater in installed by Crysler.

 

nevermind

 

Yeap, that is where it is supposed to be but is missing.

 

That would be false. The cord is the option. Chrysler "quotes" about the block heater option refer to the cord. The option is heater+cord. My truck was not optioned with the block heater. The element was there but no cord.

If that is the case then Chrysler gets the engines from Cummins and then Chrysler installs the element as an option, but the cord is still an option too? So that means it is a double option.

Six years of following multiple 3rd gen forums and helping ppl with block heater questions, your truck would be the first that I have come across that the heater element wasn't installed unless removed by a previous owner.

 

You heater is there in the pic. It's above and to the left of what you have circled. Yours has a yellow cap on it. Remember your pic is sideways, so if you rotate it 90 to the right, above and to the left is where it is.

 

Just what I was told the guy is kinda stupid, It would not surprise me it they are shipped with a plug in the block and whoever is the buyer(chrysler in this case) installs their own(in this case I was told its a fleetguard part(which I know is a division of Cummins)).