This heater can be placed temporarily in your dipstick opening to heat the oil and air inside the crankcase to keep the fluid from thickening. This provides better lubrication for a long-lasting, well-functioning engine.
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Note: At least 5 inches of the heating element must be submerged in the oil.
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Speaker 1: Today, we're going to take a look at the Kat's Heaters Engine Oil Dipstick Heater. Now this dipstick heater will temporarily replace your dipstick to heat the oil and the air inside your engine crankcase, to ensure better lubrication in cold weather. The warm oil will help provide better lubrication for a longer lasting, better functioning engine.Now this is a nice semi flexible stainless steel tubing. Allows for greater coverage in the case. It will conform with most curves in the oil stick tubes. It is designed to plugin to a standard 120V AC outlet.
It is made in the USA. A few specs on this, this application is for dipstick openings that are about a 1/4 of an inch in diameter or larger. Now overall length on this, from the very end to the other end, not including the cord, probably looking right at 27". Now the cord length is going to be right about 10". And just the heating element length is going to be right at 23".
Wattage on this is 90 watts.And the nice thing I want to mention about this, now you do need to remember that at least 5" of this heating element needs to be submerged in the oil for it to work correctly. And then you're probably figuring well how are you going to know that Well what they do is this card that they send it on, if you'll notice they have this card and on it is . You take out your factory dipstick and you lay it down here and it shows you the 5" you need to show on your factory dipstick where it will say minimum oil level, you do want to make sure that it reaches that 5" oil level. So it's a very easy way to tell if this is going to work correctly for you. But that should do for the review on the Kat's Heater Engine Oil Dipstick Heater..
Average Customer Rating: 3.7 out of 5 stars (27 Customer Reviews)
This heater can be placed temporarily in your dipstick opening to heat the oil and air inside the crankcase to keep the fluid from thickening. This provides better lubrication for a long-lasting, well-functioning engine.The oil heater that goes in the dipstick works pretty well on my Toyota 4Runner but in trying to stick it in my Chrysler Town and Country with a 4.0, it broke. When I put in the year make and model of my van it said it was okay to use 15200 obviously it's not.
After reading the reviews, I ordered 4 on the hopes 2 would work. First, as per instruction, be sure they are submerged in at least 5 inches of oil. I had 6 .5 inches. My oil capacity is 8 quarts on an aircraft. This was my test on 3 units. Note cold engine ambient oil temp. (all tests were 40-50 degrees) Ran the heaters 1,2, 4 hours and overnight. Start the engine and note the time to reach 100 degrees. Times went from 9 to 11 minutes. Very little difference from no heater. Longer times oil could be heard bubbling and smelled burnt. A hair dryer after 4 hours only took 4 minutes. I'll be trying an external oil pan heaters next.
I've used this item before and it worked great. I haven't used this one yet because the outside temperature is in the 50's now. This item is made of stainless steel, so it will last for years without rusting or wearing through. It is long enough to fit my engine, and should fit just about any engine. I would not recommend for large diesel trucks. Plugs right into an extension cord, I recommend a power cord of at least 12 gauge under 25 feet. I am glad to fine this item can still be purchased.
Nice job getting it to me in a couple of days. However, the dipstick heater does NOT work! It got stuck approximately halfway down to the oil pan and would not bend to negotiate a curve in the tube. When I plugged it in, the heater did not even get warm. I took off my glove to check. Nothing. When I went into my house to take a break, I found that the kitchen outlets did not work. The garage is on the same circuit, so the laughably poor product had tripped the breaker! Amazingly POOR PRODUCT!!
the dipstick heater is working perfect. the part was delivered in the snowstorm
could not have come at better time. single digit temperatures
I was having trouble starting car in morning Honda 2008 civic took in for service
they replace battery ,but i still had issues start in cold temperatures
(bug in starter I think) start was replace once already
but with the dipstick heater is its start right up.
I want to thank Kat's and etrailer.com
for great service getting part so quickly
Good item for cold weather. Good communication & package sent promptly & safely!
Simple way to heat engine oil on sub-zero mornings,
Rec'd in a timely manner. Fits my 2000 Ford Ranger. With hood fully closed. 6 cylinder. Next cold snap it will be tested. Cold snap by definition is -10 degrees or colder.
Excellent service
just what he was expecting.
and took only 11 days.
i was curious to see where it crossed the border.
yesterday it was still in illinois and today at the door.
i,m not complaining!
we hope it will be enough to warm the oil in the garrett.
it shouldn,t hurt any.
thanks, m
Unless your dipstick tube goes strait down don't bother this thing WILL NOT BEND. Never was able to use it
Not flexible, put it in the dipstick tube and it bent and broke immediately.
Article bien reçu, mais un peu dispendieux. Bon service de livraison.
5 étoiles et non une seule. Très satisfait de mon achat en somme.
Make a big difference in the winter time staring your car in the morning on very cold
I t works great when the weather gets c old
Doesn't fit 01 Dodge Stratus. After I waited through a back order.
A+ product works great. Product was as described in listing.
Got 5 pieces of equipment Didn't fit on any and isn't flexible.
It quit working the first time I used it......Junk. Pure JUNK.
very good works well
Will not go far enough in 35 hp big block Briggs engine
very satisfied
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