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Originally Posted by Jeremy5848
I once put a Primus stove under the oil pan of a gasoline engine I was trying to start at -30F in Battle Mountain, Nevada in 1990. I also put my wife's hair dryer on the intake manifold and covered the engine with the spare tire cover. The thing that worked best was a battery charger, which allowed me to crank the engine every 20 minutes or so until 11:30 AM, when it finally started.
You can temporarily connect a cord to the block heater -- it's just 110 VAC. A stout cord (block heater pulls ~400 Watts) with spade connectors. The block heater should be on the right (passenger) side, back near the block coolant drain. May have a black plastic screw-on cover to be removed. Four hours should be enough.
Jeremy
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Yeah, love my battery charger. Won't really have opportunity to rig up temporary block heater cord....will install real thing next summer.
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