Block heater thoughts
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Block heater thoughts
Was eating breakfast with my 7.3 super doodie friend this morning. He said his block heater is 1500 watts.
and somebody said in the other thread that ours are only 1000 watts.
I'm a take a wild guess we can stick the 1500's in ours?
Cause in the other thread there, people were reporting a reading on the coolant temp gauge in the truck, and I get no such thing even though its pretty warmed up.
Perhaps for us colder climate people this could be a useful upgrade?
and somebody said in the other thread that ours are only 1000 watts.
I'm a take a wild guess we can stick the 1500's in ours?
Cause in the other thread there, people were reporting a reading on the coolant temp gauge in the truck, and I get no such thing even though its pretty warmed up.
Perhaps for us colder climate people this could be a useful upgrade?
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well i plugged mine in yesterday. When i went to start it yesterday, low and behold my gauge had moved up to about the the first line. Dropped as soon as I started it, but then came back up within a minute or so...
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Was eating breakfast with my 7.3 super doodie friend this morning. He said his block heater is 1500 watts.
and somebody said in the other thread that ours are only 1000 watts.
I'm a take a wild guess we can stick the 1500's in ours?
Cause in the other thread there, people were reporting a reading on the coolant temp gauge in the truck, and I get no such thing even though its pretty warmed up.
Perhaps for us colder climate people this could be a useful upgrade?
and somebody said in the other thread that ours are only 1000 watts.
I'm a take a wild guess we can stick the 1500's in ours?
Cause in the other thread there, people were reporting a reading on the coolant temp gauge in the truck, and I get no such thing even though its pretty warmed up.
Perhaps for us colder climate people this could be a useful upgrade?
The only advantage the sd has over the obs is the AIH.
Air intake heater.
Bill
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Oh okay.
I wasn't sure on that at all bill, thansk for clearing it up.
he's usually pretty good about that stuff too. I wonder why he had bad info.
That sucker did some special ordering too.
6 speed zf with 3.83 gears or whatever the ford middle of the line is. Nice truck, but he could wash it more.
I wasn't sure on that at all bill, thansk for clearing it up.
he's usually pretty good about that stuff too. I wonder why he had bad info.
That sucker did some special ordering too.
6 speed zf with 3.83 gears or whatever the ford middle of the line is. Nice truck, but he could wash it more.
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If mine is plugged in for a day or two it will show 110 on the temperature gauge, but if it's below 10 out it never registers.
I think it would nice to have the AIH, but I asked about a couple months ago and everyone seemed that it wouldn't make a difference?
I think it would nice to have the AIH, but I asked about a couple months ago and everyone seemed that it wouldn't make a difference?
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AIH sounds like a fun mod.
Anyone tried it?
I would do it honestly.
its all they had before GP's
but it would be good for cold starts.
I'd put it on a switch though, I woudlnt' let the comptuer decide that BS.
Anyone tried it?
I would do it honestly.
its all they had before GP's
but it would be good for cold starts.
I'd put it on a switch though, I woudlnt' let the comptuer decide that BS.
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Its a bandaid to hide the **** poor cold tune they have from oem.
Bill
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Well, with these new injectors and even plugging it in, i get smoke on start up in the cold.
Anything to help with a better start up.
I gotta make sure i remember to put it on stock tune for startup too. The other ones make it smoke worse. doh!
Anything to help with a better start up.
I gotta make sure i remember to put it on stock tune for startup too. The other ones make it smoke worse. doh!
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Black smoke, clearly comes to a matter of opinion.
but white smoke is always embarasing.
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My truck is a splitshot.
It had a cropduster cold smoke with oem tune.
Mine lites off like a gasser now with little to no smoke.
It will even blow the carbon out of the system from its last run.
It actually gets better with lower temps due to it gets higher idle
as temps fall.
The cummins use aih.
Bill
It had a cropduster cold smoke with oem tune.
Mine lites off like a gasser now with little to no smoke.
It will even blow the carbon out of the system from its last run.
It actually gets better with lower temps due to it gets higher idle
as temps fall.
The cummins use aih.
Bill