Heated oil dipstick??
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Heated oil dipstick??
Has anyone ever tried a heated dipstick? Being so cold here lately, I was wondering if they work. Seeing that the oil pan's are the size of my house, I don't know if it would have any effect on the oil.
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Often wondered about them. It seems that it would need to be powerful enough to heatup almost 4 gallons of oil and not scorch it. Maybe the magnetic oil pan heater would be better. At least it has more surface area and should heat the oil faster. Wouldn't it be nice to splice it into the block heater cord so you only need to have 1 plug. Hmmmmm
On edit: check this out
http://www.dieselproducts.com/proheat/proheat.html
Probably need a dedicated 50 amp circuit to run all of them.
On edit: check this out
http://www.dieselproducts.com/proheat/proheat.html
Probably need a dedicated 50 amp circuit to run all of them.
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Do you have factory block heater on your powerstroke...? It does a good job of keeping the oil and coolant warm.. It draws almost 1000 watts of electricity..(924 watts to be exact). I don't see a dip stick heater being able to come close to that.
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I have a magnetic oil pan heater that I stuck on and I am not real happy with. In Michigan it has been real cold too. It seems like I lose a lot of the heat rather than it heating my oil, maybe mine isn't big enough. I was thinking about a dip stick heater too.
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I had one of them heated dip sticks in a gasser a while back..didn't do crap but run up the electric bill..it doesn't heat enough of an area in the oil..just that one spot it sits in.. to get hot enough to heat all the oil in the pan..the oil near the dip stick would be at a boiling point..the block heater is your best bet..water heats faster and heat travels better in the coolent and it keeps the block warm more then heating the oil.the oil will stay warm from the block...plus in the power stoke the water and oil in the oil cooler will be plenty warm for a 1st start up.....
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Back in the old days (pre global warming 
and single weight oils) we had one in our truck in NH...didn't do squat. I think a better solution for oil is to go to 5-40 synthetic or if it gets really cold where you are go to 0-40? syn...Mobil makes a zero weight multigrade oil.
and single weight oils) we had one in our truck in NH...didn't do squat. I think a better solution for oil is to go to 5-40 synthetic or if it gets really cold where you are go to 0-40? syn...Mobil makes a zero weight multigrade oil.
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I had one of these on my old truck, I did not have a built in heater and I figured this was better than nothing, but it worked really well.
http://www.jcwhitney.com/autoparts/P...gine+heater%5D
http://www.jcwhitney.com/autoparts/P...gine+heater%5D
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There is brand new factory block heater with hardward on ebay (bid is now $36).. see:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Ford-...spagenameZWDVW
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Ford-...spagenameZWDVW
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CUDA_JIM wrote: Maybe the magnetic oil pan heater would be better.
There was one of the magnetic heaters on my pan when I bought my truck. All it seemed to do was trap moisture and salt here in the northeast. I would steer clear of those. If I hadn`t caught it in time my pan would have been junk.
There was one of the magnetic heaters on my pan when I bought my truck. All it seemed to do was trap moisture and salt here in the northeast. I would steer clear of those. If I hadn`t caught it in time my pan would have been junk.
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Morosco make a 400 watt oil pan heater that glues to the pan. I know the Tannis aircraft heaters that work the same way do really good. I have found some 500, 800 and 1000 watt heaters that glues to the oil pan. This is probably the route I am going to go next year. Another idea is Kim Hotstart heaters. They replace the oil pan plug. Talk to guy who worked up in Canada and he said Kim Hotstart heaters are used all over the place not just for vehicles.
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I used to have an International Scout with the 304 V8 when I lived in Kansas. I put one of those heaters that goes in the lower radiator hose and heats the coolant. The engine started a lot easier and the heater was usable a lot sooner. I don't know if it would be powerful enough to heat enough coolant to be effective in the bigger cooling system, though.
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