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To normally install a block heater you must remove an expanstion/ freeze plug in tighten in the block heater. The 6 cylinder 4.2L engine unfortunately does not appear to have any such plugs. The V8 engine should have a screw in style block heater installed in the left front of the engine block just below the cylinder head.
those are frost plugs used for machining out passages during manufacturing can also be used to install block heater
Take it to a mechanic.
The heater core will not have an effect on the check engine light. See related question below for more info on misfires and engine light.
if you see no plug than it has neither one you have to pop out the frost plug and put in a block heater
follow the heater hose at the rear of the engine and you will find it.
You can get a heater that magnetically sticks to the pan and warms the engine. You can get a heater that connects to the heater hose and circulates warm engine coolant. You can also get a block heater that replaces a freeze plug. You have to decide which works best for you.
Remove and engine block expansion plug. Insert the block heater. Seal the block heater. Attached the wiring harness to the block heater.
The block heater, on your 2001 C 15 Caterpillar diesel engine, can be removed by loosening the retaining nut. The block heater will easily come out. Reverse the process to install the new heater.
It already has one. look behind your battery for the plug!
In most cases a block heater replaces one of t he freeze plugs in the engine
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