Anyone have a webasto heater installed? (1 Viewer)

[philip g]

I kind of doubt anyone does but looking for install ideas. All I can find is one Russian guy with a write up in russian

Seems straightforward enough. Hack in the pump. Tee the fuel line into the fuel line, I was going to tap the return line, run a power wire to the fan. I was going to use the under seat heater so the back is warm for sleeping

 

[javelinadave]

Quite a few Land Rover Defended owners have installed them and rave about them.

Install a diesel air heater - https://nas-row.com/index.php?threads/install-a-diesel-air-heater.1707/

 

[philip g]

Here’s the Russian guy

Поставил Webasto

Приветствую Всех. Поделюсь радостью) В общем время от времени мечтал поставить вебасту, в независимости от машины…, приглядывался на разборах в объявлениях, но что то не срасталось, на Делику ставил к…

www.drive2.ru

 

[philip g]

Here’s what I’m looking at doing

I have a lot of room on the left frame so I was thinking of mounting the heater and pump to the inside of the frame.

I think I can use either of these lines to tap into fuel. One should go to the engine and the other to the tank. I don’t want to run a new pickup to the tank (actually if it comes to that I won’t install it)

I was planning to tap the water pump into either of these. Are the flow directions right? I don’t want to work against the water pump. Probably just tap into the top one for ease of install

 

[philip g]

Thinking about it tapping that fuel line is going to be a bad idea. I’ll have to tap the tank somehow. Maybe from the vent or something

Pressurized fuel would probably get pushed through the webasto pump, flooding it while driving

 

[renago]

I have a Webasto heater installed in my Toyota 78 since some years . Very happy of it
If you need any info pls ask .
It is a air top 2000 .
If you look in my profile , expedition build , you will find how and where I installed it

 

[philip g]

There isn’t a good place to mount the heater or tap the fuel.

I can mount it to the frame and mount a small diesel tank for the heater but this is more of a pain in the ass than I’m in for this week. I don’t think I’ll proceed

 

[renago]

Supply of fuel director from your tank .
easy quick

 

[JDM Journeys]

There isn’t a good place to mount the heater or tap the fuel.

I can mount it to the frame and mount a small diesel tank for the heater but this is more of a pain in the ass than I’m in for this week. I don’t think I’ll proceed

I've been back and forth on this as well. I never had the tank of my 90series down, but dropped my 70 series tank last summer to replace the fuel pickup. While it was out I was thinking that if I ever decided to tap the tank, I think either the pickup or the sender would be the place to draw from. That way you can remove either one from the tank, tap it on the bench then reinstall. And most have underfloor access to the sending unit so you wouldn't actually have to drop the tank. And if you ever wanted to go back to stock it would simply be a matter of replacing the unit instead of a hole in the tank.

Here's a pic of the old and new pickup gor my hzj77. I'd imagine the 90 series would be similar. Quite a bit of room to fit another pickup around the perimeter...

My new worksite doesn't have plugins so this has started to come back up to the front of my brain...

What about power? Do you have an aux battery already? My 70 series has 24v system so I have a 12v batt in the back for the aux components. I'd probably run the heater off that and reserve the front Batts for more starting juice.

 

[philip g]

I found a local cruiser shop that started up. He seems to know webasto heaters and I’m gonna give him a crack at it

 

[philip g]

Ended up having a shop install it. The heater is on the transmission crossmember and it triggers the rear seat heat when it’s on. Seems to work well

 

[philip g]

Super happy with the webasto this winter. I set it to run about a hour before I get off work and she starts real easy and I get instant heat. 10/10

 

[Airbornepotato]

Hi Phi, which shop you ended up using? do they sell wwbasto as well?
i think it is a great setup when you can have the rear heat on for the cabin, thanks!

Super happy with the webasto this winter. I set it to run about a hour before I get off work and she starts real easy and I get instant heat. 10/10

 

[philip g]

I bought the heater on eBay and used cruisers and company in Denver (Erie). He made a custom mount for the heater to fit on the transmission crossmember

He didn’t wire the heater quite right so I had to fix that but that’s not a big deal. He just didn’t realize there’s a relay on the heater harness to power the fan