Had a little more time on my hands so I cleaned up my block heater plug a little. I dont like hanging wires , or plugs that arent solid so I opted to go straight through the bumper,If you dont want to cut a hole in your bumper you could drill into some of the lower trim pieces but like I said I like solid so heres what I did

1.Choose you supplies wisely



2. I taped before I used a 2" Hole saw to cut through the bumper , then cleaned up the cut with my rotary tool and a file.



3. I sprayed inside and out with rust inhibitor,then primed just to be on the safe side.



4. Cut the plug off of your block heater cord and route through your hole making sure you put the lock nut and the weather boot from your marinco outlet on the right side of the bumper



5. Just a pick from inside showing the finished product with the weather boot and lock nut tightened up.



6. Finished product front, I used aluminum rivets as opposed to the 3 screws supplied by Marinco.



7. Plug in , you and your helpers sit back and admire your work.



8. Clean up your work station and make sure to Go GREEN and recycle anything possible




Final note It only took me about 2 hours to do this install and thats including waiting for the rust inhibitor to dry ~cough~ (drink 2 beverages of your choice) Also after complete I put a thick coat of silicone on both sides (not needed but Im OCD)

Have fun

 

Sweet install, weather tight is a good deal too! I think I see more than 2 beverage containers in the recycle bin though .

 

Real nice job Exbow! I have this on my list to do. Thanks for the pics.

 

Good eye Rusty! I see 4 in the recycle bin so I'm guessing this was a 4 beer job. The 5th one was opened after he plugged in.

 

Nice install.

Since the photo of the recycle bin only reveals 2/3 of the bottom of the bin. And taking into account of the time it took to do the job, and factoring the delay for "watching Paint dry", it would be safe to assume a 5th bottle is in the bin. The 6th one is open, and the wife is on the way to the store for refreshments to celebrate "He is done working on that dang truck"!

Again, good job!

 

Looks really good.

 

Probably should have cut the block heater cord a bit further back. The black copper is corroded.

 

Good catch ! I actually did cut it back further before hooking it to the plug !

 

Which wire went on what side of the plug?

 

On the Marinco,you have 3 terminals (green/silver/black) on the cord you have 3 wires (green/2 black???) so i used the very scentific method of hooking them the same way they were on the plug I cut off (one of the wires has lettering on it Im assuming it is the hot wire?)

Didnt understand the significance of it but the directions for the Marinco say to mount the receptical with the ground plug up , so I did, which made the wire with the lettering go to the silver terminal...

Green wire~Green terminal--Lettered wire~silver terminal--Plain black wire~black terminal

 

I've had one installed for a few years now. I chose the lower plastic cowling as a mounting point. Makes for a clean install.

 

Very nice. Anyone know why Marinco recommends it mounted ground up? I thought 120V practice was ground down when installing an outlet.

 

In theory, the green terminal is ground, the silver terminal is neutral and the black terminal is hot. The cord SHOULD have had a green/bare wire (ground), white wire (nuetral) and black wire (hot).

However, since it's A/C, and the common and ground aren't bonded anywhere in the truck, it doesn't really matter.

If you're really OCD, here is a picture of a common household outlet. Since your extension cord just passes through, the end of the cord would be the same as the outlet. With the ground down, neutral on the left, hot on the right. With the ground up, vice versa.

 

You can mount the ground pin any direction your heart desires.

 

I know we have had articles in the past but none in the Tech Folder, I fixed that Congrats and nice write-up Added to the Tech Folder