Diesel Heating

[Greynomad]

NP,
I hope your bus is a 'pusher-engine' job.
In Girt, a heater there would be right on top of the engine cover.
I assume the sheetmetal box is to prevent barbecued legs

Could you add some captions to your pix, please?

[Newcastle George]

I'd like to lknow how many burn marks are across his forehead caused by the horizontal chimney.

George

[native pepper]

NP,
I hope your bus is a 'pusher-engine' job.
In Girt, a heater there would be right on top of the engine cover.
I assume the sheetmetal box is to prevent barbecued legs

Could you add some captions to your pix, please?

It's a mid mount engine, the sheet metal box sits on small legs, which keeps it of the carpet and to retain heat round the fire, that way it doesn't cool down as quickly as some others I've seen and it easy to pick up and put away in the mornings. Have handles on the flue pipes which make it easy to take apart when hot, it's set up that way so that all the heat is kept in the bus and not outside. Sorry about the captions though it spoke for itself.

George the heater is not operating when driving, the bus heaters do the job then and the flue is well above my head, but have driven it with the heater in operation at a couple of Tas music festivals and so cold decided to keep it going when only have to drive a klm to the gig venues. Nothing like getting into a lovely warm bus when it's freezing, like today and the coming weekend when we will be playing in the current weather. At home today it's 3 deg outside, hail, sleet and snowflakes are the order of the day and my house is 23deg.

[Shirley]

Brilliant, thanks only trouble we'd need a bigger bus to install same

[Dot]

I'd love a fire like that in the bus. Wonder if one of those pig pot bellied things would do??? NP your bus is a mid mount motor you maybe the one that our Bobk needs to speak to, he is stuffed as how to set his bus out..

[native pepper]

Shirley, our keyboard player has a nissan bus which is a bit bigger than a coaster, going to make her one out of a smaller gas bottle, just waiting for one to turn up at the transfer station and have asked the blokes at the gas bottle testing place to let me know when they come across one that fails the tests. Seems most peop0ple today don't get their bottles tested any more, replacements are so cheap they just throw them away and after the Xmas holidays, there are always gas bottles dumped at the transfer station.

For anyone considering making one, make sure you leave it with the valve open for a few weeks outside before cutting into it and I always take out the valve first before letting it sit, that gets rid of any gas residue. Have read of someone who got a bottle and instantly cut into it, resulting in a flash back and singed eyebrows.

Dot, the pig pot bellies are bigger than mine, you can get them here in Tas for $250, but no protection or flue. My expenses for it were the exhaust pipe for the flue which was less than $50, would be happy to give advise on setup for anyone interested and if it would help them. Rained all day and all night here, 5am, 1 deg outside and have to hit the road soon.

[Kappy]

My Chinese diesel heater turned up today.

On unboxing I noticed a 15 litre fuel tank, that has no obvious outlet for fuel line.

Comes with a small connector that is impossible to get in the inside of the tank.

Welcome any alternative others have done.

[T1 Terry]

With our Chinese unit, there is a fuel pick up, washers, rubber seals and a nut to go on the fuel pick up to lock it into place and seal it up. It a lump of what looks like aluminium but could be steel, a hole through the centre with a small pigtail hose set up on the end that has the thread on it. It appears you pick the spot you want to draw the fuel from, drill a hole, put a washer and rubber seal on the threaded, pigtail, somehow position this inside the tank so the threaded pigtail passes through the hole, then fit the rubber seal, washer nd nut to the threaded bit and snug it up tight. The "somehow get the thing inside the tank with the pigtail sticking out through hole" bit looks to be really entertaining, stopping the rubber seal and washer from falling off while performing this task will also be challenging
I think I'll drill a hole in top of the tank, fit a rubber grommet, pass the fuel line through it towards the filler cap, fit the pick up thing on the end of the hose and feed that back into the tank so it sits just off the bottom of the tank.

T1 Terry

[VicA]

Hi after drilling the hole I threaded a piece of wire thru filler hole and out thru the drilled hole .
Then threaded the fitting onto the wire which guided it to the drilled hole …..then assemble the outlet fitting...Easy Peasy

Cheers
Vic

[T1 Terry]

Hi after drilling the hole I threaded a piece of wire thru filler hole and out thru the drilled hole .
Then threaded the fitting onto the wire which guided it to the drilled hole …..then assemble the outlet fitting...Easy Peasy

Cheers
Vic

Not just a pretty face are you That would work quite well eh, now I just have to remember what that clever idea was