Tonight's edition of The Block Heater Chronicles...
To recap from last night's story, I have a 96 XJ and I'm installing the external tank type
heater seen here...
Unless anyone can suggest a better option (and please! I hope someone can!) I'll be pulling coolant
from the drain plug more toward the front of the motor shown here...
Because I can't see any other place to mount the tank my idea is to install it on the far left (driver) side of the
motor compartment here...
The green line indicates where I'll be routing the return line ...
And with the Y fitting I'll be inserting it into one of these hoses here...
So, my questions are...
1) Is there any better place to pull coolant from the motor? Its gonna be a hell of a tight squeeze getting a line in there.
2) Is where I'm talking about the best location to mount this heater? I would like for it to be mounted lower in the
whole circuit but there doesn't seem to be any better option.
3) Will it be ok to run the return hose attached to my electrical harness or should I try to keep those more separated?
4) And lastly, the last picture identifies 4 coolant hoses I could tie into for the return. Hoses 3 and 4 are between the valve
switch and the heater box so I doubt those would be the ones to use. Which of the last two, 1 or 2, should I install my return
hose into?
Thanks for your time!