I have a leaky freeze plug on the drivers rear of the block, I think the block heater is easier to install then the stinking freeze plug, I think plugging in two block heater on both banks id a plus, anyone agree or disagree?

 

a 1000 watt block heater is more than enough to keep the block warm, any more is just a waste of electricity.
bad freeze out plugs are a pain to get out, but the newer rubber replacement plugs are very easy to put in, and last for a long time.

 

well sometimes the path of least resistance is a preferred method.

1) Environment conscience

2) Cheapest easiest method of parts replacement.


I mean really, how can you argue that?


I want to know what it is like to warm up my truck in Florida since I am so lazy I wont bother to make the GP system work.

I forgot how it worked, I was direct jumping it before to lite her up, well after my last rebuild I decided plug it in instead.

I have about 35,000 on this build for the engine and every single start is a warm one.

It will not start unassisted in the mornings even at lets say 80F

So I always park no further than 50ft to a smart car

I mean I have a "SMART" truck so like WTF?




The reason I have to be a pain in the rear is the fact that diesel cold starts wear the hell out of the top of the cylinder bore and that bothers me like no tommorow.

I like my bores nice and straight top to bottom.

However I can aide in that happening I follow that course

I love these guys that say "Oh the cylinders still have a crosshatch!"

"Still Good!"never has held a bore gauge in a cylinder.

I witnessed how much wear I had in my 7.3 with only 7,000 miles on a 100% overhaul that went south from a collapsed lower rad hose @ 80mph.

I was rather pissed the hell off already but when the heads came off and I saw the tops of the cylinder getting the first signs of tapered wear

, I was hot

So that is the primary reason I have plugged it in now for the past 2 years the truck has been running.

I only need to plug it in in the morning and not let it sit longer than 4 hours before I start it.

I have noticed less fuel used, easier starts, I get out of bed earlier for a legitimate reason


So I have to get the Cat Fork Lift and lift up my truck and wrestle some more with it so I can have two block heaters running so that I can report back how it works...

 

Javier, Try the gunk stop leak. Its not garbage muck like Bars-Leaks, It looks like small shavings of metal, and they dissolve in the water. When they encounter a small leak like a seeping freeze plug of something, they act like blood platelets and seal up the leak.


When I did my screw in freeze plugs, they seeped for a little bit in the very beginning because I didn't seal the threads, just the outside. I put the Gunk stop leak in, and it sealed up all my little leaks.


Ive used it on other stuff too, and never have an issue with gumming up the cooling system.

 

I wish it worked cause 3 months and a missing gallon of Evans later I am ready for something to get changed.

I used something like that I don't remember what it was, clogging? well I should of put a ball valve on the pressure hose going into my coolant filter maybe it would of worked better?

It was bad enough I smelled coolant and seen it dripping, when I added a gallon and some stop leak 2 days later the smell and dripping seemed to cease.

When I look in my radiator the truth be slapping me in the face