Hi Jon. I’ve done the same job on mine but there was a massive amount of carbon in the exhaust so I delved deeper. These machines are very simple. If I can do it, it’ll be a breeze for you. Take the unit out and take the end off to get to the combustion chamber. The kits with the glow plugs that I got came with a gasket kit. I pulled about a cereal bowls worth of carbon out of the combustion chamber. Well worth doing. Great video mate 👍👍

When I heard the fuel pump, from older videos, I thought why not replace the bearings in the heater fan. I don't have one of those heaters, but I watched the whole thing, because I just enjoy listing to you. Keep them coming. Thanks

What's a heater ? 🤣🤣 Were back to stinking hot every day , roll on winter . 👍👍👍👍

Hello Jon, I am pleased to know you're going to be warmer... being a soft southerner this latest cold snap has been a real challenge for me in the workshop... Take care. Paul,,

Nice video mate, that smile when it all started working was priceless!

It's nice in Queensland this time of year, must remember to service my electric fan in the workshop. Kit from Down Under

Great diagnostics and repair Jon. Your smile says it all.

I bought one and was really happy with the way it worked. Used it three times and got through about 4 liters of diesel then E03 error. Spent a couple of weeks with messages to the supplier in China. They said we could send a new glow plug. It came fast by DHL today and of course is broken in two pieces as they put in a flat cardboard DHL envelope and a flimsy plastic bag around it. Now it is back to writing again to them. I anticipated something like this happening and luckily I bought a glow plug kit from another Chinese company so in a week that should come. Hopefully, that one will be in one piece. The Chinese say "The bitter sea has no shore". :(

Great job Jon Youve saved me some thinking time for when the inevitable is bound to happen. Trouble is when the inevitable does happen my grey cells will have forgot this🤣🤣🤣🤣🤔🤔👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 Keep warm atb Kev

Job well done, Jon. Likely, next time (if ever needed) you might turn the heater round the other way and manage to turn the fuel tank by 90 degrees (with support), bend out the flimsy end panels to remove the tank support sheet to make the job a bit easier and quicker? Resistance usually increases with increased temperature and these glow plugs seem to draw about 8A during start up. At 12V, using Ohm’s Law (Volts = Current x Resistance), the resistance, when hot, will be around 1.5 Ohms. That 300+ ohms reading clearly indicates a virtual open circuit.

Seeing your temporary setup, I imediatly feld like home :) Keep warm now, Jon.

Nice repair, and information on these heaters, yes, see why you started with multiple level disclaimers. Lol.🥺😯😲. Thanks for sharing Jon, you can wear your safety slippers in the workshop now 👍. Best regards from the Black Country. John.

Beautiful sound of triumph. Well done Jon!

Hi,Jon. I have had the same heater as you for about 4 years and mine has done seriously long hours of use. A full strip down once a year or 2 years is a good policy to keep everything running sweet. That heater of yours looks to be running nice and clean with good fuel air ratio settings. for checking glow plugs just connect the 2 leads onto a 12 volt supply and if it doesn't glow it is knackered. Also you should have a length of black corrugated 25mm pipe on the inlet stub under the heater with a filter/muffler unit fitted to the open end. This prevents debris being drawn in by the intake fan and also quietens the combustion roar.

Jon, As my late father use to say “if your cold put a jumper on” 😱 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Morning Jon. Your happy face at the end said it all. 😀 Well done on a cracking good repair. 👏👏👍😀

Thsnks Jon

The eagle has landed. Good fix Jon, glad it was what the error sign indicated. It's no fun working in a cold workshop. Tony

Nice one Jon! Glad you got it working again! 👍

Worthy project, Jon! 👍

Well you didn’t go at it hammer n tongs as I would have done, I test Glowplugs by sticking 12v to em. If they get hot there working. I think you let very lucky unscrewing the plug with pliers, mind you it’s not an old unit, ally and dissimilar metals can cause problems, I couldn’t tell If the thread was in the ally or in a tapped bush. Glad to see you warm again, nowt more permanent then temporary.

Great video Jon, stay warm..

Good fix Jon. Glad it worked out well. Best wishes, Dean.

Yep that is one loud puppy you got there Jon, had a few giggles watching this! TFS, GB :)

Glad you got it fixed Jon. Good result. Amazing how cheap & available the spares are. Regards. Steve.

Back in the 80's I repurposed a VW auxiliary gas heater to preheat a light aircraft engine. From experience those heaters were a fire waiting to happen. The fuel was injected into the combustion chamber and igenited with a glow plug. It often started with a loud pop and several times caught fire with excess fuel. I carried a fire extinguisher that i had to use a couple times. It was cheap insurance.

Good morning Jon. First off, I'm glad for you that your workshop is now nice and toasty. It's handy to know what the resistance is in a brand new glow plug. I have one of these heater's sitting in my Transit waiting to be installed unlike yours though, it is in modular form. I think thats' why it's still in the Transit. Thank's for sharing

Hi Jon, just a thought I have one of these, have it installed with the unit inside the workshop, my intention is to have the unit outside the workshop in a bespoke cabinet and pass the hot air tube into the workshop, by the way a mod you could of made is to release the pump bracket from the chassis and hang it from a cable tie, this stops noise transfer from the pump to the chassis

Wow, that's one noise but cool unit Jon. Aha yes Red off road diesel. Most farmers round me stopped using do to all the headaches of filing and approving it was for off road use. Goverment, go figure. Nice to see you back warm again and have a smile. Keep smiling , Spring will be here soon! Bear

Hi Jon, I’m totally with you on your balanced approach to safety based on intelligent assessment of risks. I have one of these heaters for my workshop and invested in a £20 CO meter and tuned my heater. On factory settings the CO was 150 ppm on high setting and I managed to tune it to around 12 to 15 ppm by reducing the max pump frequency. I’m running mine on 80/20 Kerosene Diesel mix to provide lubricity for the pump. So far it’s probably run about 40 Hrs and the exhaust port shows absolutely zero carbon traces at all.

Jon, Glad you have heat again... The older I get the less I like the cold. I've been following these little diesel heaters with great interest, they seem super efficient and our energy costs are out of control as our yours. Might be a future project.. Enjoyed ATB....Dean

Next Lathe/mill project an 8mm Glow Plug Socket for Justin? Justin Case...

Congratulations job well done. Thank you

Interesting video Jon. I don't know anything about these heaters, so it was quite informative. I have used glow plugs on diesel engines and they usually go for a long time. Maybe it was just a dud or maybe the wires are making a bad connection at the end of it. Anyway, good to hear it clunking away. Can't the Chinese make a quiet pump for these things ;) Cheers Rob

good video jon

Hi Jon. Glow plugs are just a coil of wire, and to get hot they need to dissipate power. P=V x A, and A = V/R, so assuming 12V: 12/.5=24A (although the resistance will increase as it heats up) 12V x 24A = 288W. With the 340 ohms, you would get about 0.4W! Hence no start. Electronics lesson over 😁 How much current does your little PSU deliver? I don't have one of those heaters but I enjoyed the video anyway. Thanks Jon.

As always a job well done Jon, cold? Meh its been -4⁰ in mine 😄

So funny that was Jon thanks

Gday Jon, for the price of the diesel heater and for what bit of realestate they take up they great value, my unit is the same as yours and it heats my workshop quite well, in the end that was a good easy fix, thanks for sharing mate, cheers

Well done Jon. Perhaps order a spare for next time. Regards from Australia.

That was great Jon well done. I thought you were going to mill a slot in the 12mm socket for the wires to fit in! Nice work on the fix. Like others here I wonder if it's worth a bit of investigation into mounting the unit outside. Maybe a fabricated bracket bolted to the outside wall. Then the warm air pipe going through the hole where the exhaust now is. And the wires through another hole. It would cut down on the noise.

Hi resistance would sujest gone open circuit wouldn't heat up on low voltage 12v

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Just to rub it in Jon, I am currently enjoying 32 C days and 26 C nights. 😉 On the down side the humidity means my tools and machinery are all gathering oxides post haste 😶

Good video Jon. Get a CO monitor in your shop. I don’t think I’d trust a cheap Chinese diesel heater with my life.

per 'watch wes work' it's only temporary if it doesn't work.

They are realy good these heaters as they have a built in diagnostic and will let you know what is wrong with them, lets be honest what other heater does that!..

Hi Jon, well no one can say you don't get variety on your channel ! Now why don't these things go wrong when you don't actually need them ??? Called Sod's law I believe 🤣

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E-10 error is driving me nuts. There no air in the fuel line, clean diesel, full and battery power is at 14v. It tries to start, but e-10 result. Any suggestions? Thanks ❤️

Did you needle nosed that down.😮 Did you hear of the socket? You can order the kit with the socket wrench.

Where can i order a glw plug

sucking in the air intoo the combustion chamber from outside the shop might cause it to be less effective as the air from the outside is colder and needs more heating to reach the same temperature as the inside air in theory sucking up the air in the room and blowing it out toward the outside of the shop creates a slight vacuum in the shop so it automaticly would suck in fresh air from outside through the gaps in youre workshop , i am a little worried about the machine being so close to the floor as it can suck in metal filings and dust intoo the combustion chanber and possibly clog it up some if you could raise the machine so its a bit higher of the ground (and leave the hose on the floor) might help a lot with that , maibe weld a small platform from angle iron on the steel post you parked it behind and set it on that another thing you could do is make the exhausthole bigger so you can put the heater hose through it , place the whole machine outside the shop in a birdfeeder type construction or inside an oildrum with an open end and feed the controll unit indoors through the same hole the pipe goes though and mount it inside the shop on the wall , would dampen the sound by a lot but there would be a chance of the fuel gelling up if it gets colder

toasty!

Bloody noise pump webasto much quieter! Drive me nuts that noise.

Get yourself a CO alarm. They're not expensive.

A tapped bush? You must be joking! These are/were cheap chinese diesel air heaters, so cost is reduced as much as possibly possible.

But you didnt explain how it works which would have been a bit more mildly interesting