Hey guys.

Someone I work with mentioned that you can get electric circulating engine heaters that you can plug into 110v electrical outlet, and that they heat/circulate heat while plugged in, and, work great with block heaters.

Does anyone know of any?

This sounds like a good deal for me, as I have free power where I work (off our generator), and the winter is comming fast.

What do you guys think?

P.S. I also have a magnetic oil pan heater that I plan on running on the tranny pan when at work, its easy to remove/put on, and, it can keep my tranny fluid somewhat warm...or will it be useless.

Should I use it on my engine oil pan instead?

Thanks.

 

I'm trying to figure it out too. It seems to me if one can get the plumbing figured out it should work well.

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I bought a circ heater but exchanged it for the pan heater.
The inlet and outlet of the 1500 watt circ heater I got where smaller then what was on the truck and I was not comfortable with using adapters and altering too much.

I put the pan heater on the passenger side of the oil pan mounted near the bottom. I zip tied a heavy duty block heater cord from there routed into the opening of my road armor bumper. I may add an interior heater too but I want to make sure that the block heater, pan heater and int heater are not too much load for a 15 amp cicruit.

Scotty

 

I use a oil pan heater from Pro Heat. It is a120v pad that sticks to the oil pan, and does quite well. I wired it into the same plug as my block heater, to a timer that turns on at 2AM, and my engine registers 140 in the morning. I like it as I can switch to my WVO much sooner. Apparently the pan heaters are used a lot in airplane industry.

 

Baja, that gives me an idea...I think I might get a weather proof 120 receptacle and wire my block/pan and interior heaters into it and mount that in the opening on the Road Armor bumper. Then I just need to plug in my 10 gauge heavy duty power cord from there.

Thanks

Scotty

 

That is pretty much what we do up here. All my heaters are ran into on plug then that plug goes into an Arctic Leash. It is a retractable cord that mounts behind my front bumper. I have block heater, two oil pan heaters, two trans pan heaters and an interior heater. All I do is grab the plug pull it out and plug it in.

 

Is that all running off of one 15 amp circuit?

Scotty

 

Yes, mine is on a 15 amp circut, no problem.

 

I wonder what the limit is? I guess adding the interior warmer will tell me soon enough.

Scotty

 

I've used the magnetic pan heaters on my old carburated chevy, and it did help some. And I didn't have a block heater.

I have never used the dodge block heater, but, assume that it does a decent job???

 

My pan heater uses 4.2 amps. I don't know what the block heater uses. If all else fails, put a meter on the system and measure the draw.

 

I bought a 1500w circulating engine heater, and, will try to see if I can plumb it into the dodge somehow, and if not, will use it on my chevy.

How big were the lines you guys tried tapping into, and, which lines did you think are the best for this.

Thanks

 

I am going to put a KATS heater on mine this fall yet I hope. They make them in variouse sizes and they have a pump built in. If you rout them threw the heater core you will have heat instantly. My dad has one on his old Oliver tractor that he uses for blowing snow. If we go out 1/2 hour before we want to sart it and plug it in you can take your gloves off and warm your hands on the block in below 0 temps. I forget what size it is but its the biggest they make. I will probobly try and shoe horn one in before it gets to cold.

 

Hey guys,

Just reading the instructions for my electric circ. heater. Seems that I need to get coolant from a low point in the motor/block, and, feed it into a Y I install on the heater core inlet hose (flowing towards the motor).

Looks like all the hoses are 5/8s for this circulator.

Should I get something different/bigger? Its 1500w.

Where do I install the tap (says on engine block drain plug), and, where is that heater hose located.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks guys.

 

Hi Igor, the 1500w I got has 3/4" hose nipples so they are out there. I haven't climbed under mine yet, it's supposed to warm up in a couple of days so that's my plan. I want to try and find the block drain, I can't seem to find it in the service manual. As for the heater hoses they come through the pass side firewall just beside the engine, the one that flows to the heater core comes from the big tall nipple that comes out of the top of the head. If you find the block drain let me know, hopefully it is just NPT.