Sorry bud, but I don't know anything about this. I wish I could help.
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| Author: | mikemd [ Thu Oct 27, 2005 9:03 am ] |
| Post subject: | Engine block heater installation help |
Anyone install an OEM engine block heater in their 3.7L? I ordered one off the web thinking it wouldn't be so difficult to install but the instructions (vague as they are) looks like the entire engine compartment needs to be disassembled just to get to the cap where it installs. Anyone have any experience or thoughts on this. Thanks. |
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| Author: | Edwin [ Tue Nov 01, 2005 8:29 am ] |
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Sorry bud, but I don't know anything about this. I wish I could help.
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| Author: | nails023 [ Tue Nov 01, 2005 9:06 am ] |
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I can't help either. Hopefully someone who has one will read this and let you know. |
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| Author: | mikemd [ Tue Nov 01, 2005 10:21 am ] |
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You live in Iceland and don't have one? |
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| Author: | nails023 [ Tue Nov 01, 2005 12:06 pm ] |
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I bet you have a lot colder weather than we get here in Iceland. The average winter temp is a balmy 34 degrees F  . We only get about 30 inches of snow all winter. Winter of course for us runs from Oct to April. And we have only about 4 hours of daylight in Dec because we are so close to the Arctic circle.
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| Author: | mikemd [ Tue Nov 01, 2005 12:18 pm ] |
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I forgot! Greenland is icey and Iceland is green... Iceland is one of the places my wife and I are dying to visit. |
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| Author: | FreedomKJ [ Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:50 pm ] |
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mikemd wrote: I forgot! Greenland is icey and Iceland is green...
Score one point for the Viking cartographers... |
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| Author: | valvestem [ Tue Nov 01, 2005 8:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Engine block heater installation help |
If it is anything at all like the old inline six in the Cherokee, I would send it back. It involves punching out a freeze plug and replacing it with the block heater, all by feel as the location was under the exhaust header. I blew 2 heaters literally out of the freeze plug holes, and then gave up and put a freeze plug back in, which is a very difficult job as it had to be done by feel. I'd go with a lower radiator hose heater instead or along that line. By the way the block heater looks like nothing more that one of those old water heaters used to heat up one cup of water, with a brass plate and o-ring. 
mikemd wrote: Anyone install an OEM engine block heater in their 3.7L? I ordered one off the web thinking it wouldn't be so difficult to install but the instructions (vague as they are) looks like the entire engine compartment needs to be disassembled just to get to the cap where it installs. Anyone have any experience or thoughts on this. Thanks.
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| Author: | mikemd [ Tue Nov 01, 2005 9:53 pm ] |
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As difficult as you make it sound... Thats how the instructions make it look. A pain in the stupid. I'm gonna check with my local dealership to see how much they charge for the install. Thanks. |
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| Author: | Cacher123 [ Wed Nov 02, 2005 2:02 am ] |
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The only ones I know about are basically a heated oil drain plug. |
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| Author: | mikemd [ Wed Nov 02, 2005 6:58 am ] |
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No... it is exactly what vlavestem describes. A heating element that inserts in place of a drain or plug in the coolent system. the plug/drain is in a very awkward place underneath the left headers. |
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