Hey All,
Recently joined the club. After stalking the forsale postings for quite a while finally jumped in and bought a super clean Jasper. You should see the faces i get driving this thing around northern alberta!!!
But its catching on. I can`t pull over without one or two gawkers grilling me about it. And ive sent two co-workers off to my dealer in Van. We`ll have to see if that pans out!
The only hitch I see coming is the great white winter of N Alberta-pooh!
I`ve been digging all over the site and found lots of good info; also, lots of conflicting info.
-I bypassed my GCU with a HoldDown switch (gcu still not working)
-got big ol snow tires
-winter grade diesel additive
-ordered new glowplugs and better batteries
But now I`m stuck on which way to go with the block heater / recirculating heater / oilpan heater question.
The van will be outside for the whole winter. Its just too tall for my little car garage
But i do have plugins at home, work, and pretty much everywhere else here.
oh ya, did i mention weeks at a time at -45C?
Soooooooooooooo,
I've heard that the recirculating water heater kicks ass, but ive also heard that there is some valve somewhere that stops the warm water from circulating. There's either the inline heater (low watt) or the 1500w Tempro one. The mechanics at Canadian Tire said they couldn't find any room any where to install either one. they sent me home empty handed.
the block heater sounds nice, but will it really keep my van safe at those low low temps? I can install that one myself, but am having trouble finding a part number or specs for it.
and last and according to most, least is the magnetic oilpan heater. is it worth it? would it help if i installed one alongside one of the other two options?
I didn't really feel stuck or under the gun on these winter conversions until this morning: 5C out and we've got HIGHS of +3 this weekend. i dont even want to tell you the lows!!!
Any help would be greatly appreciated! and if anyone has pics of a tempro or inline heater install that would be kick-ass!
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