Diesel Hydronic Heater: Heat your van warm in the Winter

After such success with the Chinese Diesel Air Heater. I decided to give the Hydronic heater from Ali Express a try. After 1 year of use, off and on through the colder months. Not only can the hydronic heater preheat the engine to make the cold-blooded Powerstroke start up in the middle of nowhere when it's freezing out, but it'll be a source of hot water and a backup heat for the backcountry.

#vanlife #winter #dieselheater

[kbeefy]

Stumbled across your channel researching diesel coolant heaters. Thanks for the review! I have a Kuuma water heater I plan on installing with it in the coolant loop in my Diesel E350. I lived in LaPine for 6 years.... Love the dispersed camping and forest roads in that area. Cheers!

[jeffsgarage]

Looking for a review on the clarorifier and hydronic heater for heating water. How long does it take to heat the water? And also does it have a max time setting? Can it be set to run constantly, to keep the coolant within the set range for days at a time?

[campfire]

Awesome! Thank you so much for keeping us updated on the Adventure Bus. Great job on hunting down all of the parts and making them work. You should be in the professional fabrication and innovation/design business. See you on the next one my friend. Stay safe, warm, healthy, and happy!

[brushbum]

Thanks for the update. Happy Holidays. TAKE CARE..

[jeffsgarage]

Where did you get the coil tank for heating water?

[tluva]

Did you have to use an expansion tank for it?

[TheMajictech]

Central Oregon cold? The winds not even blowing. Come up to North Dakota, you’ll find way more enthusiasm and ambition to find sources of heat. 😅

[bulka]

Can this thing run heater fan for interior???

[willardwilliams]

Did you ever install the heated floor heating with your CDH water heater?

[bque]

Thank you for sharing, including visuals of system and advice for ALCAN.

[EatCarbs]

Glad it's been working out for you.
Thanks for the video brother

[begone]

I miss the old days. With the 1210 international and the HossUsmac. The good old dayss

[jamesmason]

I need something like that but bigger for my 1967 GM TDH-4519 city transit bus that I live in full-time but my agm batteries took a dump on me and now I don't have any power when the sun goes down. I'm disabled and poor so it's going to take a while to save up for batteries

[dangeroustoman]

Thas sounds like it would be good for infloor heating.

[vinnychasedoesitall]

Really cool build man. What headlights are those? Quite unique.

[Homestead_Adjacent]

Does anyone know what A-On of F-ON in the menu means?

[felaxchow]

Definitely gonna pencil that one in my notes for my alternative diesel hydronic heater source, I'll take the $300 price point vs $1k version.

While poking around the interwebs gathering different heating ideas in the hydronic realm, I found one that incorporated a single wall heat exchanger to seperate the domestic side and the engine chassis side for a bit of redundancy.

In the event there is a failure on the domestic side you won't end up dumping all of your engine coolant. The only downside that I can see is you'll need an expansion tank on the domestic side and an auxillary electric water pump on the chassis side to circulate the engine coolant to keep the engine warm for those cold nights when needed.

You could also fire up the domestic side of the water pump only when you're driving to your next destination to steal some of the engine heat to for your hot water tank and/or cabin heat. Hydronic heating definitely opens up quite a bit of options.

[diversifiedproductions]

You could heat your diesel tank and oil pan with the exhaust heat from the diesel water heater. Another option would be to use heated coolant loops from the circulating cooling system. Is that a 7.3? If you could circulate the oil through the motor, it would pre heat through the oil cooler since it already has pre heated coolant circulating.