Cab Heater Help

[Earl]

Iam looking at fixing a Ederspacher D1LC Diesel heater under the back seat of the 110 DCC Landrover with this heater work OK without the Vehicle fuel pump runing ? The heater come with a small fuel metering pump.

[BogMonster]

From my limited experience of them I think they suck up fuel themselves once they are bled properly so the answer should be yes.

[Earl]

From my limited experience of them I think they suck up fuel themselves once they are bled properly so the answer should be yes.

But will it suck up through the landrover fuel pump if that pump is not running ?

[Puffernutter]

Hello,

I have a diesel heater fitted under the driver's seat. You need to tap into the diesel before the pump. Mine is Tee'd under the rear of the car just past the rear wheel. The Eberspacher has it's own metering pump and will take what is required. I've had mine for 3 years with no hassles. Even started easily the first time after I'd fitted it, no bleeding required.

Cheers

Peter

[Earl]

Hello,

I have a diesel heater fitted under the driver's seat. You need to tap into the diesel before the pump. Mine is Tee'd under the rear of the car just past the rear wheel. The Eberspacher has it's own metering pump and will take what is required. I've had mine for 3 years with no hassles. Even started easily the first time after I'd fitted it, no bleeding required.

Cheers

Peter

hi Canot tap in before the pump as the pump is in the Tank .Looks like i we have to put a small tank into the back of the landrover. If i do i can run the heater on red diesel ?

[Ex Member]

You should be able to pull through the electric, in tank pump....

I assume that the last poster meant the mechanical lift pump. That does work as well.

[cieranc]

I'd tend to disagree. We do a lot of fuel drains at work (petrol into a diesel car). Our pump works much harder when it's pulling through an electric pump that isn't running. On some vehicles it won't pull through the pump at all.

So I would think that the wee pump on a night heater would struggle. Even if it does work, I suspect it'll be working that hard it'll get a bad back and retire early.

Although, if you've got 12v to the night heater pump, could you not take that feed and splice it into the vehicle fuel pump relay, thus running both pumps at once?

And by putting a diode inline, with the engine running but the heater off, the vehicles feed to the vehicle pump can't back track to run the night heater pump?

So the night heater can make the vehicle pump run,

the vehicle can make the vehicle pump run,

but the vehicle can't make the night heater pump run??

My head hurts.

[reb78]

I'd tend to disagree. We do a lot of fuel drains at work (petrol into a diesel car). Our pump works much harder when it's pulling through an electric pump that isn't running. On some vehicles it won't pull through the pump at all.

So I would think that the wee pump on a night heater would struggle. Even if it does work, I suspect it'll be working that hard it'll get a bad back and retire early.

Although, if you've got 12v to the night heater pump, could you not take that feed and splice it into the vehicle fuel pump relay, thus running both pumps at once?

And by putting a diode inline, with the engine running but the heater off, the vehicles feed to the vehicle pump can't back track to run the night heater pump?

So the night heater can make the vehicle pump run,

the vehicle can make the vehicle pump run,

but the vehicle can't make the night heater pump run??

My head hurts.

I'm going to fit one of these soon. However, the tank on my 110 has an unused breather attachment point. My plan is to devise a way of running the pipe for the heater through that to pick up the diesel. No need for splicing existing lines or worrying about fuel pumps that way, so check the tank out forst to see if there is anywhere else you might be able to run a fuel pickup into it for the heater.

[simonb]

I'm going to fit one of these soon. However, the tank on my 110 has an unused breather attachment point. My plan is to devise a way of running the pipe for the heater through that to pick up the diesel. No need for splicing existing lines or worrying about fuel pumps that way, so check the tank out forst to see if there is anywhere else you might be able to run a fuel pickup into it for the heater.

Or T into the return line from the engine at the tank end, that is how my Wabasto is plumbed in.

[Ex Member]

Well...I have friends that have taken fuel from the fuel filter housing (after the lift pump) and have been running them for years without problems.