Propex heater

[streetboy]

Hi all. we made the gut wrenching decision to part with our 6 birth Bedford jurgens autovilla, and I am taking the propex heater out for my bus.
Now a long time ago I found a site on the web where a guy had fitted the heater behind the dirvers seat on the cargo floor (lhd) very neat and out of the way. He had dropped the outlet hose through the floor and picked up on the front of the heater tube. This meant he had forced hot air running a short distance to the screen etc. Bieng a microbus he had neatly tucked the bottle under the middle seat. The vents under the rear seat still worked via the heat exchangers.
So.......I can't find it on the web now, has anyone seen this before? or does anyone know where I can find it again?

 

[cunning plan]

Also interested to see this kind of install, exactly how I was thinking of doing it 8)

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[streetboy]

Hiya, bloody neat fitting it was. The heater was up against the lefthand trim panel and out of the way of the middle seat passengers.
Its floating around the net somewhere and hany as he had taken all the measurements. tbh I think you just have to be careful where you make the large outlet hole to avoid stuff underneath.
I'm gonna have a look today and see the best way to get it done.

 

[aogrady]

Hi!

That sounds interesting?! I have a propex needing fitting, and also wanted it hooked up to the original plumbing - as i have a westy figured it would go inside the buddy seat?
Lord knows how i would connect it all up though, so would be keen to fond out this out!

Cheers!

Alistair

 

[streetboy]

Reason I'm thinking about it is that my bus has beetle exchangers which only have a lever on the inside. I'm going to change them later but will try to wire them into the on position as a tempory measure.
Bl**dy cold in their the last two mornings :shock:
My old bus which Hoosier has now had a blinding heating system, hopefully I can do the same with this one.

 

[aogrady]

Reason I'm thinking about it is that my bus has beetle exchangers which only have a lever on the inside. I'm going to change them later but will try to wire them into the on position as a tempory measure.
Bl**dy cold in their the last two mornings :shock:
My old bus which Hoosier has now had a blinding heating system, hopefully I can do the same with this one.

I have read on here, and seen a pic of bug ones working on a bus, you just bend the lever upwards apparently - though i have yet to try - mine are wired open all the time, nice and toasty, mine are OG ones and work really really well too hot at times....

Cheers!

Alistair

 

[streetboy]

Hi Alistair,

I have one heater cable that has snapped, and the other is disconnected. I heard you can hook up to the beetle ones but need to have a proper look. Where and how did you wire yours?

 

[aogrady]

Hi Alistair,

I have one heater cable that has snapped, and the other is disconnected. I heard you can hook up to the beetle ones but need to have a proper look. Where and how did you wire yours?

Hi!

Funnilly enough, both my cables work fine, but as you know bug levers are in the wrong place when fitted on a bus. Mine are OG and work very well, i haven't had the bottle to bend the levers in case something breaks and i have no heat at all! So i just used some very long cable ties to a hole mounted underneath centrally at the gearbox end and to the levers. Right John Wayne Installation, but serves the purpose till i can find the link where i had the picture to show you how to do it. It may have actually be on this forum somewhere?????? Though you could use some metal wire, coathanger, welding wire or suchlike

I have this link via the samba, interesting use of the later bay westy LPG tank. You may well be able to use a car LPG tank secondhand - or just do yours to LPG and use theis for the propex.
Or just use a bottle like the rest of us!

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=317242" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Cheers!

Alistair