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improved heating?
UK CRAIG:
What I'm thinking of doing is buying a 2000w inverter and an ordinary household fan heater, the both would cost about
Litch:
Just replied on the other heater thread.
The main thing is to get the control-cables correctly set up, if the engine is getting up to temperature ok then that heat is available through your heater matrix and into the cab. I run a soft-top 90 with standard heater, viscous fan and no carpets (just lots of bare metal) and often leave for work at 0530 yet I have no need to block off the rad or dress up in multiple layers of clothing even in the coldest of winters (like last your for instance). The cab is draught-free (yes really) and I have a fume curtain fitted which reduces the area to be heated. Warm-up is a tad slow (heated windscreen helps here though) but luke-warm is available after 2-3 miles and full heat after 4-5 miles (total journey to work is 10-miles).
T30CDB:
fitting one of the plastic air scoops to the left hand front wing helps make a difference. you seem to get a lot more air blown through the heater system. usually find after a while i have to turn the heater down and open the window a bit
Litch:
--- Quote from: T30CDB on November 13, 2010, 17:47:15 ---fitting one of the plastic air scoops to the left hand front wing helps make a difference. you seem to get a lot more air blown through the heater system. usually find after a while i have to turn the heater down and open the window a bit
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I've had one of those for about 8-years, initially just one of the scoops but more recently an LRX one.
It doesn't get the air flowing through the matrix much faster when the vehicle is moving although it does give it a bit of a boost but it does mean that you don't have to have the fan motor running to get a decent flow of air when on the move.
NiteMare:
it might be worth taking your heater matrix off the bulkhead and giving it a thorough flushing ...
i run an old series3 truckcab as a daily driver (200tdi powered) and the heater was pretty much crap/non existant, i've just flushed tons of crud out of it which has helped, unfortunately tho the 200tdi appears to be pretty slow to warm up and rarely gets above luke warm (yes it has got a thermostat in it) but once it's done 3 or 4 miles at a reasonable speed it gets quite comfortable in my cab, just the draughts to sort out sometime :lol:
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