'Absolute prick of a job time' on our van today. Since we have owned it the heater has never been very 'heaterish'. More 'tepidish'. When we bought the spares van for its engine we also nabbed the heater box while we were at it. I say we but actually it was hannah who had that pleasure.
Today it was my turn and I had to remove the whole bloody dash to get at it. Plus loads of extra s--t had to come off as our van had air conditioning which has never worked anyway. I don't want all the extra stuff that goes with it under the dash anyway.
I got the heater box out and luckily the two of them are almost identical- the new one actually has a wider matrix but the box is the same dimensions.
The air conditioning unit/matrix was completely clogged with dirt/dust/pine needles???/flys etc so no wonder our poor wee fan only ever produced airflow when on full. I ripped the guts out of the enclosure so now the air flows straight through from the fan to the heater matrix.
While the lot was out I cleaned all the 24 years of dust away and luckily there was only some surface rust here and there. Hannah has neautrilised that as we plan to keep this van long time. What was nice to discover was that there is not rust along the bottom of the windscreen seat- as a lot of hiaces of this age start to go there.
Took the carpet out next and cleaned up the whole lot after this shot. Good access with the heater and aircon gone.
I have come in from the cold now having just refit the new box. I think I cut some wires I shouldn't have. I had to cut the loom in one place in order to remove the unit and I thought they were only for the aircon circuit but just in case I made sure I cut them in a place that would be esay to solder back together. So I now have some upside down under a van soldering on a cold sunday morning to do.
Question time.... How am I meant to bleed the air out of the heater matrix? It stands on its end with the pipes facing down through the floor so trapped air will sit in the top of the matrix. There is no way to connect it up with out fitting it in place first.
Today it was my turn and I had to remove the whole bloody dash to get at it. Plus loads of extra s--t had to come off as our van had air conditioning which has never worked anyway. I don't want all the extra stuff that goes with it under the dash anyway.
I got the heater box out and luckily the two of them are almost identical- the new one actually has a wider matrix but the box is the same dimensions.
The air conditioning unit/matrix was completely clogged with dirt/dust/pine needles???/flys etc so no wonder our poor wee fan only ever produced airflow when on full. I ripped the guts out of the enclosure so now the air flows straight through from the fan to the heater matrix.
While the lot was out I cleaned all the 24 years of dust away and luckily there was only some surface rust here and there. Hannah has neautrilised that as we plan to keep this van long time. What was nice to discover was that there is not rust along the bottom of the windscreen seat- as a lot of hiaces of this age start to go there.
Took the carpet out next and cleaned up the whole lot after this shot. Good access with the heater and aircon gone.
I have come in from the cold now having just refit the new box. I think I cut some wires I shouldn't have. I had to cut the loom in one place in order to remove the unit and I thought they were only for the aircon circuit but just in case I made sure I cut them in a place that would be esay to solder back together. So I now have some upside down under a van soldering on a cold sunday morning to do.
Question time.... How am I meant to bleed the air out of the heater matrix? It stands on its end with the pipes facing down through the floor so trapped air will sit in the top of the matrix. There is no way to connect it up with out fitting it in place first.
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