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Re: Diesel Heater

Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2020 11:09 pm
by Tessie
The air intake for my heater is in the vertical bit in front of the passenger seat, you can just see it circled in orange in first photo. Heater outlet is in the centre of engine cowling pointing in to rear of the van.
I think part of the reason for taking the air from inside the living area, besides not drawing in exhaust fumes, is that it is drawing in already heated air so doesn't have to work as hard as if it was heating up cold air so saving fuel..........I don't know how much it will save though, can't be much.

Re: Diesel Heater

Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2020 1:33 am
by Colin
Don't suppose you have a under bonnet photo you could share?

Re: Diesel Heater

Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2020 5:23 pm
by Tessie
Tried to take some photos for you but couldn't get any good enough to show the flexible hose route from the heater to the centre console outlet. The heater has a straight outlet at the front with a some flexible hose connecting it to the intake vent in front of the passenger seat. The outlet at the rear of the heater has a 90 degree outlet pointing downwards with the flexible hose going under the chassis and back up the other side making a U bend under the chassis then fed through to the adjustable outlet vent. Hope that helps 🤔

Re: Diesel Heater

Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2020 6:19 pm
by cwilliams255
Mine was slightly different, 90 degree outlet at either end, intake facing down to allow the vent to be a bit lower down, hot air out pointing towards exhaust manifold area and then to middle of center console. Hose melted first time round on exhaust but after some extra heat proofing it was fine. I don’t have any particularly useful pictures. I’ll be starting the install on my new v6 soon so this time I’ll capture more pictures as the install for a v6 doesn’t seem to be documented

Re: Diesel Heater

Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2020 6:21 pm
by Colin
I see. I was thinking the hose needs to go across, I will look at going down. Many thanks.