Hot shower

ah I see what you mean now.

for some reason I read it as taking your car for a drive was the worst thing you could do for a diesel.... was thinking "that cant be right"

haha yeah I only use the shower after getting back to camp after a drive or something... would be insanely stupid to start that car and get it to running temp just to have a shower...

and I like to camp where there are no people if I can.

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Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

My prefered method of setting it up is to locate it under the air filter over the bell housing (then you can still use the circled area to cook saussage rolls, garlic breads and traverller pies on) and then feed it from the end of the pipe that lives where youve circled to the heater by fitting a new hose that goes to the exchanger (and please dont move that pipe like that it stresses the moulding on the hose with the bleeder on it and can cause the smaller lines to kink and fracture) and then come out of the exchanger back to the heater matrix. Plug the ends of the cooling system hose you remove and then ziptie it to the air filter box mounts or the shower unit.

The reason being that IF you happen to damage the unit you can still use all the original hoses and you can still easily get into the secret hidden heater hose.

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Thanks Dave - I was going to ask you to draw me a picture ... but I think I got it ... use the pipes as shown to plumb to the in/out of the HE but mount the HE on the firewall not on the block ... so the flow from these pipes is the best place on the TD5?!

Good idea on keeping the OE hose JIC (goes without saying!)

BTW not guilty of hose abuse - pic is from Piranha's instructions.

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Originally Posted by willie

Thanks Dave - I was going to ask you to draw me a picture ... but I think I got it ... use the pipes as shown to plumb to the in/out of the HE but mount the HE on the firewall not on the block ... so the flow from these pipes is the best place on the TD5?!

Good idea on keeping the OE hose JIC (goes without saying!)

BTW not guilty of hose abuse - pic is from Piranha's instructions.

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not quite.

leave that steel pipe in place and use 2 new pieces of hose from the end of that pipe nearest the heater, one to the HE the other from the HE to the heater matrix.

yes, thats about the best place coolant flow wise to mount it in.