CK35 Block Heater

   / CK35 Block Heater #1  

eman5oh

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Location
Cortland NY
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Kioti CK35HST
Does anyone know where I can purchase a block heater that will fit the CK35? I read Wallace Tractor used to sell them but hey are now closed. I contacted my dealer and he only had the lower hose type and said I don't realy need one. I know the tractor will start fine even when it is 5 below zere but would like to have a block heater for those cold days, I now have a 3 point snowblower and sold my plow truck my CK35 will be getting regualr use in the cold this year.
 
   / CK35 Block Heater #3  
This one makes me laugh every fall. The whole block heater thing.

The dealer says you don't need one. He is a moron. Every diesel needs one if it gets cold enough for your glow plugs to operate even a few times in a winter, imo. Because one night it will get really cold....and all your stuff will freeze up. And you will need your tractor for some mission from God. You want to be prepared, lol.

Anyway, weather anomolies happen everywhere from time to time.

I live in northern Alberta. It gets cold here. My glow plugs have only turned on twice in 1300hrs and 3 winters. I plug in my block heater. I run 0/40 oil in the winter. The first time the glowplugs came on was because I wanted to make sure they worked, so I left the tractor unplugged in mildly cold weather on purpose. The second time was a week ago for the same reason. I hadn't seen that light on the dash in about 1000hrs. Tractor still starts easily when it is mildly cold - check. Mildly cold is about 5 below freezing, so roughly 25 degrees or so for the metrically challenged.

It is just easier on the engine. These people who say that they don't need to plug in their vehicles because they start anyway make me laugh at their stupidity. Why make your motor suffer like that?Especially diesels. Popping and banging away. Why? If you can plug it in then PLUG IT IN.

My tractor spends hours and hours plugged in. Overnight many, many, many nights. That's how we do it in the GWN. This minimizes the amount of times we are forced to start cold engines over the life of the engine. Cold weather starts are HARD on things. Cold weather operations are HARD on things.

Anyway, rant over and I am glad you know the need for a block heater where the weather can get cold.
 
   / CK35 Block Heater #4  
When we lived in Alaska those who had heated garages never worried about any type of engine heater. They would blissfully start out the day with a nice warm vehicle - drive to work and leave the vehicle outside for eight hours in the cold. Then they would wonder why it started hard when they got off work.

I never liked a block heater - I always had lower radiator hose tank heaters. Different strokes for different folks. One of the BIG advantages of the place I worked was - each parking spot had an electrical outlet so you could plug your vehicle in while at work. New employees, at times, didn't understand the plug ins - until the wx turned cold and their "California equipped" vehicles were all froze up. Sometimes the learning curve is almost, straight up, vertical.
 
   / CK35 Block Heater #5  
Check with a Bobcat dealer and get one for a CT 235 - CK 35 clone. Kioti has them in their parts manual if your dealer would bother looking it up for you, or try another Kioti dealer.
 
   / CK35 Block Heater #6  
From my post a year ago.
Pic 1. Box with part number
Pic 2. What is in the box
Pic 3. Instruction sheet
Pic 4. Installed.
I think I paid $68 plus shipping. It is ordered through Kioti wholegoods supplier.


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