Sprinter van: Diesel heater installation
Hoo boy, this was a project. Second to designing , sourcing, and installing our van's entire electrical system , installing a diesel heater takes second place as the most involved project of our build. After a few weeks of work and crossing fingers the heater would work, I'm stoked to say we officially have heat in our van! It's at least as big a day as the one when I tested our electrical system and, by golly, it worked. This post will be pretty detailed (read: long ) with the intent of saving someone time that I spent going down rabbit holes, worrying about and researching some facet of the design, and redoing things. It'll be both specific to our T1N Sprinter (2006, so 2001-2006 Sprinter years) and general to diesel heater installations. I'll do my best to outline the considerations, the steps, and the details. Starting with our considerations: Our 2006 Sprinter does not include an auxiliary fuel line so we had to drop the fuel tank and drill into the fuel sen...