i want to install a block heater that circulates the coolant. but it asks that i need to remove the engine block block. where is this located does anyone know. if not i guess i'll have to try to find the adaptor for the radiator hose

 

there are 2 drain plugs for the engine block, one on each side, tucked in behind the engine mounts. mine had hex head pipe plugs, and were very very tight. they wanted to round off, and i had to clamp the vise grips on them to prevent it.

 

Yea, those plugs are tight. Last time I loosened one it took a 6 point socket and a breaker bar. I just wish the holes were at the very bottom of the block instead of several inches up.

 

im gonna install a block heater before winter this year, no more cold starts when its 0 out

 

as a kid I remember my dad putting a 100watt light bulb on each side of the engine and covering the engine with a piece of carpet and then closing the hood. Then he plugged the bulbs into a timer so they would turn on several hours before he went to work. I was a skeptical know it all kid and thought it wouldn't work......
but the engine really did start easier.

 

My dad used to put a pan of coals underneath the oil pan of an old Ford cabover semi tractor he had when I was a kid. That was the most cold blooded SOB he ever owned. It wouldn't start with just the block heater, it actually needed fire to start. I'm glad those days are over for him-- he's too old and round to have to crawl underneath the truck when it's 10 below to fire up a pan of charcoal.

 

wow, I thought light bulbs were old school but charcoal - now that's really old school!

 

that reminds me of an old International Transtar II cabover that my uncle used to have, you'd pulg in the block heater, and still have to use starting fluid to get it to start, and it would puke black smoke b/c the lopy idle