The Mitsubishi Pajero Owners Club®

[94paj]

I have imported a 1999 3.2 to Canada and she will be arriving in the next couple of weeks. My question is that with the weather here frequently dropping to below-30 in the winter months i would like to get a block heater or circulating coolant heat installed. My question is does anyone know where i would splice the circulating coolant heater into the coolant lines so it would circulate through the block freely and not be obstructed with the thermostat etc. Or if i went with the block heater where is the frost plug located etc. Thank you in advance. Cheers.

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[assassin]

If you are running a hot water heating system which plugs into mains electricity the best hose is on the right hand of the engine, remove the plastic cover from the top of the engineand look alongside the left hand of the rocker cover and you will see a rubber water pipe running from the thermostat housing to the turbocharger cooler, this is the best pipe to use and from memory it is 15mm diameter (bore) and it runs from the thermostat housing, through the turbo cooler and back to the bottom of the engine block, this will heat the engine block, the rear heating pipes, the radiator, and it will bypass the thermostat until it is hot enough to open.

You can get the blanket type heaters which wrap around the sump which either run off battery or mains power but they don't really heat the coolant or circulate it and they only really heat the engine oil, not something I would recommend.

Your thermostat has a small hole drilled in it and the mains powered items do other things, with your engine warm the conducted heat circulates around the diesel filter and also keeps the filter warm.

Daughter lives in Canada and I have been several times, I like the way they don't bother about snow, 8' of snow drops overnight and they simply drive on it and use the road markers to stay on the road as if nothing has happened; here in the UK if the road has 1/4" of snow drop its carnage.