Diesel block heater Tech

[53 willys]

So I had my block heater cord short out on my CTD. Problem was I hate the way the cord sticks out the front of the truck and blows in the wind. I think that the cause of the short was from the cord blowing in the wind. When I checked it with my Fluke meter the short was right at the end of the cord.

What I found was some people are using boat charger inlet like this, I mounted mine in the bumper plastic on the drivers side. I love it!!
you can plug the truck in with one hand!! and not worry about getting shocked West Marine has a store on 7200 south and state I went and picked mine up from them.

The whole install took less then 45 min.

let me know if you have any questions.

 

[53 willys]

pics

 

[53 willys]

linkhttp://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10001&langId=-1&catalogId=10001&classNum=311&subdeptNum=310&storeNum=9&productId=14773

 

[Meat_]

Pretty cool. I've always just put the plug on mine and stuffed it under the headlight when I'm not using it.

 

[Rot Box]

Thats one of those things you see and say "now why didn't I think of that?" You should see where GM decided to put the heater cords on the 6.5L Chevy's like mine it's pretty bad. Thanks for the Idea!

 

[53 willys]

One of the best parts is plugging it in with one hand while I have a kid in the other hand.

plus my truck touches the front of the garage so I need the plug to be on the side but you could put it where ever you wanted.

 

[James K]

that is a great idea

 

[toys4rocks]

He he, don't bother going to west marine! I went down there yesterday and picked up the last one. I did warn the guy that he better get a few more instock though................

 

[53 willys]

He he, don't bother going to west marine! I went down there yesterday and picked up the last one. I did warn the guy that he better get a few more instock though................

Nice

 

[Tacoma]

I plan on putting military style remote jumper ports on the truck as well. Anything pluggable like that is helpful.