Ay, it fits under the seat at least.

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What is it? Is that heater thingy?

Eberspacher type of thing, brilliant bit of kit. Had one in my series three and got one of the bigger ones as a workshop heater. Sips fuel and toasty warm.

excellent

should stave off those cold northern winters I remember from my younger days, wandering round in leaky trainers

Yea.
Avin a poke about with a diesel feed this morning. Bit nippy though.

The pipe is O/D 4mm, I/D 2mm.
I am thinking that the most important time you want an eater is in the ruddy cold. Shirley this will be the first bit of diesel to freeze in such a small bore pipe???

THinking of insulation but its very exposed so doubt it would retain much warmth even if wrapped up.

Cant get the pump to click. Might need a bath in petrol to free things up a bit.

Bobsticle said:

Yea.
Avin a poke about with a diesel feed this morning. Bit nippy though.

The pipe is O/D 4mm, I/D 2mm.
I am thinking that the most important time you want an eater is in the ruddy cold. Shirley this will be the first bit of diesel to freeze in such a small bore pipe???

THinking of insulation but its very exposed so doubt it would retain much warmth even if wrapped up.

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It shouldnt wax, winter diesel should have enough additive for UK temperatures.

If in doubt, you can buy anti wax additive, try an oil merchant, or ag supplier. We always used to find a gallon of petrol in the tank worked well. Obviously only if there is a fair amount of diesel already.

Hope you get it working. My heater cowling collapsed in September. Just back on the road post MOT and no heater. It's like sitting in a fridge in the morning, demisting challenging. Gonna try to rig up a cowling cos the motor is OK. Priority job tomorrow. Hope you get it running good.

Don't run it with the engine off, they eat batteries like you would not Beleive.
And plumb the exhaust outside, unlike the muppet moored alongside us one evening in cowes......

pete1987RRC said:

Don't run it with the engine off, they eat batteries like you would not Beleive.
And plumb the exhaust outside, unlike the muppet moored alongside us one evening in cowes......

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I presumed the electric was only used heavily when the heater plug was being warmed. After that its only using it to run the ECU.
It will be rigged up to a secondary leisure battery so Ill keep my eye on it. Thanks for the heads up.

This is the diesel tee. Took me a while to find out which pipe was the feed and which the return. In the end I had to take one out. It seems looking at the manuals that it could be either.

From memory of fitting mine a few years ago. The 4mm pipe was encased in an outer sheath to prevent chafing/freezing? The pump will not work if mounted vertically, it should be at about 60 degrees to allow the ball bearing inside it to move up and down on its seat. Only canes battery on initial start up. I use my workshop Eberspacher (24 volt off a transformer) "D5" two or three days a week and use 5 or 10 gallons over the winter of 8 or 10 hour days and 4 or 5 months usage.

Ours used to eat the boat batteries in a few hours, I think the plate warmer is on full time.

I mounted the pump on the back of the gearbox crossmember at something approaching a slant.
Not easy when the pipe has to run downhill to the pump and uphill to the heater to make sure any air gets out.
You can apparently mount them vertical but they use more diesel. From what I can gather this model only heats the plug for about twenty seconds then cuts the juice. If the temp sensor doesnt kick in the whole thing goes into restart mode and it heats the plug again. Not sure what a plate warmer is but this has a heater plug and wick. Yes a wick. The modern ones have a gauze round the heater plug element.

I found the taste of diesel hasnt improved over the years. Sucking the fuel through that fine pipe nearly made my head implode. I'll have a look at this pump in the morning.

The other thing I aint made my mind on is intake air. Do I cut a nole in the rear of the seat box and take in cold external air with the possibility of water ingress.............. or............ do I simply cut a vent in the side of the seatbox so warming air circulates from inside the cab.
One will heat quicker but with stale air and one will heat slower but with fresh air.

The only other consideration is I believe the built in thermostat sensor is in the intake so unless I bypass it, it will constantly think the air is cold if coming in from the outside and stay on full blast.

I think circulating air is winning at the moment

I would go for inside air, there are probably enough body gaps that condensation on the windows shouldn't be an issue like it is on modern cars if you leave the heater on re-circulate.

or you could be flash and have it switchable

Another thought from the distant memory. Do not shorten the exhaust tube length, they are at a set length to work correctly.

honolulujoe said:

or you could be flash and have it switchable

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Oo I like that. Wouldn't take much.

divie said:

Another thought from the distant memory. Do not shorten the exhaust tube length, they are at a set length to work correctly.

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Buying it by the meter ???

It's only a short run from under the seat box to the near side sill.
Bout 18 inch.