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4x4 Related Groups => Tech Talk => Topic started by: superspud on December 02, 2008, 10:04:22 AM

Title: block heater?
Post by: superspud on December 02, 2008, 10:04:22 AM

hey, how do you install a block heater? simple as draining the coolent then putting it in? how do you get the freeze plug out?
for a 95 yj 2.5 l
thanks
Shane

Title: Re: block heater?
Post by: FiEND on December 02, 2008, 10:13:01 AM

pry the frost plug out with a flat screw driver.  i've hammered a screwdriver into it and then pried it out.

if you open the tabs on the block heater and have it ready, you can quickly put it in while only losing a litre or two of fluid.  just leave the rad cap on so it drains slower.

just have to have something to catch the fluid

Title: Re: block heater?
Post by: superspud on December 03, 2008, 08:55:05 AM

thanks man
really, just pry it out? is it really stuck in there?

Title: Re: block heater?
Post by: XJHERO on December 04, 2008, 09:47:35 AM

Quote from: superspud on December 03, 2008, 08:55:05 AM

thanks man
really, just pry it out? is it really stuck in there?

yup
it goes in a Frost plug hole so iff your coolant was to freeze it would just push it out befor the blok craks.
or sumthin like that. ;D

Title: Re: block heater?
Post by: JENSSEN on December 04, 2008, 12:45:00 PM

OK maybe I am the only one who likes the coolant heat pumps,.. screw trying to get the frost plug out,.. cut your rad hose put it in line and heat the whole engine and not just one spot,...

Just my 2 Cents

Title: Re: block heater?
Post by: superspud on December 04, 2008, 11:59:36 PM

good point, but im a broke arse student.
how much do those run?

Title: Re: block heater?
Post by: JENSSEN on December 05, 2008, 08:34:46 AM

$50-60 + 2 hose clamps, and a splash of coolant