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Ok so now that my 1028 is running and moving again I plugged it in last night and this morning the block was nice and warm so the second Kats heater seems to have been a success. Also installed a set of 60G's today which seemed to make the starting much nicer.

Only as a joke good sir.

Ok so now if we can get a third member to install one and have some type of drivetrain failure I think we can confirm that installing a block heater is one of the worst things you can do on these trucks. Hope the transmission is just the usual vacuum suspects those are not too bad to fix.

Chaos, Glad to hear that you got it in and that I was of some help plan on updating this once I plug it in and see whether or not my 2nd Kats works or not but currently the truck is waiting on a pinion rebuild slightly farther than the available extension cords reach.

My questions about the flow of that tank heater wasn't that it would open the thermostat but that it would run into the heater core and into the radiator that way instead of into the engine block since our trucks don't have a heater valve or anything. By all means if some of yall are running it...

-Hanley I've just finished day 2 driving with mine installed and no leaks as of yet, quite surprised, I did not follow the tightening instructions as I do not have a torque wrench that will reliably read that low just used a nut driver and figured I probably couldn't over tighten it that way...

Alright so the postman delivered it today and I got it installed plan on driving it for a couple days before plugging it in. Just a note might be obvious for some but when removing these things the spreader bar assembly will just pop off into your block if you turn the screw too many times, I...

Well due to the frosty conditions north of me the heater did not arrive today not sure when it will arrive but I will update when it does.

Well sounds like I did indeed just get overzealous most likely, sadly not uncommon. At any rate the new one is supposed to get here tomorrow so shall see, looking forward to seeing the tank heater install was going to do one of those but could not for the life of me figure out how the heat was...

I don't believe so judging by the noises it made I'm thinking it just burnt out I will update this when I get the new one and pull this one out.

Alright just needed some confirmation guess I shall order another one and next time take it for a drive before plugging it in didn't think it took that much motor work / jostling to get the air out of it but that seems like the only reasonable explanation.

Well got a few questions now I plugged it in and there were some audible gurgling noises and whatnot didn't think much of it, went out a little while ago and the block is still stone cold I ohm'd the element and it read 1 which means open circuit I believe. So assuming it is burnt out I assume...

Ok so turned out colder today but got the heater in anyway is a Kats 11612. It took quite a bit of shoving to get it to go flush with the hole and only went with the element pointed up, not sure if this was where it had room or when I finally pushed hard enough. After what is hopefully the last...

Starting to get cold here and figured it would be a good idea to install one of the freeze plug heaters. Getting the old plug out was a bit of a hassle never could get it to turn and poked a hole in it so just shoved it through and pulled it back out. I'll post more pics tomorrow after I get the...