More heat in the Cab

I thought some people might be interested in my additional heater. It's a 4.5KW jobbie that I've mounted underneath the cubby. Just a rough job on the cubby for now to see if it all works as planned.

Well anything that gets the interior warmer on a freezing cold day has to be a good thing.

MattYorke said:

I thought some people might be interested in my additional heater. It's a 4.5KW jobbie that I've mounted underneath the cubby. Just a rough job on the cubby for now to see if it all works as planned.

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Is that plumbed in the cooling system?
Nice shiny gearbox

Yup, list of jobs done including replacing the gearbox. Heater is teed off the heater hoses from the engine. In theory it’s a 4.5KW jobbie, so I hope it does the job.

If this doesn’t get me enough heat, I do also have a petrol powered eberspacher somewhere..

This was the other job finished today, oil cooler brackets and Teflon pipe work.

MattYorke said:

Yup, list of jobs done including replacing the gearbox. Heater is teed off the heater hoses from the engine. In theory it’s a 4.5KW jobbie, so I hope it does the job.

If this doesn’t get me enough heat, I do also have a petrol powered eberspacher somewhere..

This was the other job finished today, oil cooler brackets and Teflon pipe work.

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Epic.
I'd be very interested to hear how the heater works when you get it back on the road. What thoughts have you had about pulling more heat out of the engine? Any thoughts about it affecting it's operating temperature? I've no idea, it's just got me thinking

Engine efficiency is roughly 1/3rd to the wheels, 1/3rd as heat out the exhaust and the other 1/3rd through the cooling system. So I think it’ll be fine. Every other car seems to handle a bigger heater matrix just fine.

MattYorke said:

Engine efficiency is roughly 1/3rd to the wheels, 1/3rd as heat out the exhaust and the other 1/3rd through the cooling system. So I think it’ll be fine. Every other car seems to handle a bigger heater matrix just fine.

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I knew you would have thought about it. Get it patented mate

Looks good.
Nice clean looking drivers door too...

Freshly sprayed drivers door, along with all the rest of it I could reasonably do (so seat box, bulkhead internals and rear load area are still in blue)

The lesson on all that is don't bother trying to do a garage respray. It's a nightmare!
Between keeping the dust down, the right temperature, having enough space to do the job, colour mismatches between different batches of paint in the same colour, existing poorly bonded paint lifting and so forth - it's a nightmare. Won't be doing that again.
And in all cases, don't use 2K paint at home, ever, withouth full breathing kit - So I did this all in cellulose.

When I re-chassis it, I'll likely go back to the original marles blue on it again - but pay a man!