Series 3 heater improvement .....

[mistericeman]

As the colder inclement weather draws close ,and i faced another few months of misted up windows in my series 3 (not helped by the usually damp dog contained inside)

I decided to go down the series 3 piggyback heater route (no doubt covered plenty of times on here already) to supplement the round "smiths" type heater in the cab ,it came of a mini digger so is larger than the usual ones ,but is lacking the hoses to demist the screen .

So after obtaining an additional heater matrix i set about chopping two up to make " FRANKENHEATER " .A bit of grinding/chopping/welding/flushing/sealing/painting later ,and i have a DRASTICALLY improved heater .Further improvements will see the replacement of the blower assembly as i reckon that i am losing 60% of the airflow through the rotted out base .The making of a manifold so that all three heater cores receive water flow in parallel rather than as series as it is now ,and the ditching of the engine driven fan for an electric one .........

Toasty as .................

Apologies if it has been covered too often before

 

[Lightweight]

Nice one, I wish I could do this with my lightweight, sadly I dont think I have the room!!!

 

[black ranger]

Any one got any good ideas for heaters, as however good mistericeman's heater is i also don't have room for a heater in the original place because i put an air filter box there instead? maybe putting the whole lot inside somewhere?

Matt

good job on the heater mods though!

 

[nickjaxe]

I have a very simple mod involving running some 4in ducting to the front grill and back to the heater unit so I get the full ram air effect when moving its brill in fact to hot sometimes.

Nick.

 

[Sandys landys]

I've got one of those 'night heater' type things similar to a lorry.
Whole lot sits under my passenger seat.
It runs on diesel, and you can (if you want) set it to come on in the morning before you get out of bed.

They don't come cheap tho, but they are available on e-bay under boat equipment, as these have the 12V version.

Heating SORTED!

 

[Yellow_Peril]

bring this old thread back! how have you plumbed it in? do you have a picture ??

thanks ben