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Allan..... ....as long as you have 50/50 anti-freeze, don't need hotwatter heater in lower hose, (mostta the heat will go out the radiator ennyways) or cylinderhead bolt, or oil dipstick heater. And NO, there are NO freeze plug block heaters for N-Engines because there is no room for the heater gutts inside the block. Ya really wanna start yer engine innna cold? Heat yer battery. (they do make battery heaters now) When I was young'un growing up in Colorado Mts (now a ski town), used to be nitely ritual of removing the battery from old flathead 6 cylinder Plymouth and bringing it inside along the old coal stove. Really spins the cold engine innna the morning. Now ya can gitt "die-hards'. Neighbor was really cheap, he'd drain the radiator everynite and refill'er in morning from teakettle, too cheap to buy anti-freeze. If'n I had to do really reliably cold weather N-Starting, I'd heat the battery, magnetic heaters on oilpan and hydro-tranny pan and maybe intake/exhaust manifold. And I'd wear CarHarts Artic zippup coveralls, or maybe some of them fancy expensive snowsuits the ski-mobilers wear, and ALWAYS wear a hat 'cuz mostta yer body heat excapes outta yer head if uncovered. As we used to tell them BoyScouts when snow camping, yer feets cold, puttchur knitted cap on. Oh yeah, good tune-up always helps cold weather starting..... ..respectfully, Dell
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