Picking up the new fst next week and had the service dept. order one. They had to call Polaris on it because nothing in their books stated anything about a block heater. The service guy I've been dealing with remembered it being mentioned in their online training for the 07 models.
Long story short, they got a call back from Polaris with a part number in which he called me and said he was ordering one, $69.95 retail.
What does the block heater consist of? what type of heater is it? Anyone install it themselves or did the dealer do it? What's the difficulty in doing this? Any pictures?
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I installed one I just got for my '06 FST Classic. Pretty simple install, good instructions.
Don't really know if 125 watts of heat will transfer through the metal to warm the engine alot though. It should help in the extreme cold conditions, IF you have 120 vac available.
Don't really know if 125 watts of heat will transfer through the metal to warm the engine alot though. It should help in the extreme cold conditions, IF you have 120 vac available.
QUOTE(blwnsmoke @ Oct 31 2006, 11:28 AM) 
Picking up the new fst next week and had the service dept. order one. They had to call Polaris on it because nothing in their books stated anything about a block heater. The service guy I've been dealing with remembered it being mentioned in their online training for the 07 models.
Long story short, they got a call back from Polaris with a part number in which he called me and said he was ordering one, $69.95 retail.
What does the block heater consist of? what type of heater is it? Anyone install it themselves or did the dealer do it? What's the difficulty in doing this? Any pictures?
Long story short, they got a call back from Polaris with a part number in which he called me and said he was ordering one, $69.95 retail.
What does the block heater consist of? what type of heater is it? Anyone install it themselves or did the dealer do it? What's the difficulty in doing this? Any pictures?
I picked up my heating patch and emailed the manufacturer with a few questions and the following was their reply. Incidently, I plan to remove the RH motor mount and engine bracket, slightly tilt the motor for accessibilty and install the heating patch on the bottom center of the crankcase. ("Polaris tested several different models, they sent us the engine and we found the best place was the bottom of the engine. This was a very easy install if done at the factory. Polaris did not chose to do any factory installs so they tested various locations on the engine. The bracket location is what they came up with, I do not have any test data from this location as it was done at their testing facilities. If the heater was secured to the bottom of the engine, our test showed an increase of temperature between 70-85 degrees F with the ambient temperature -28 degrees F. This is after a 3 hour time lapse with unit plugged in. Oil temp was +85 and water temp was +60 with outside air temp at -28 degrees F. Hope this helps.")
QUOTE(real-steel @ Oct 31 2006, 12:50 PM)
I installed one I just got for my '06 FST Classic. Pretty simple install, good instructions.
Don't really know if 125 watts of heat will transfer through the metal to warm the engine alot though. It should help in the extreme cold conditions, IF you have 120 vac available.
Don't really know if 125 watts of heat will transfer through the metal to warm the engine alot though. It should help in the extreme cold conditions, IF you have 120 vac available.
Attempted to install the heater today and the 3M adhesive is so thin it doesn't adhere to the bracket as cast rough surface. Prior to installation, I thoroughly cleaned the surface to remove any oil, alternator belt dust, etc. I've called and left a msg with the Manufacturer, probably will have to wait until Monday for a reply. Any ideas/input?
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