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You can get a metal suction tube for your big tank. Drill a hole and tap it. The suction tube screws into it. That’s how they do it for most trucks. If you run a separate tank use kerosene. Burns hotter and cleaner.

@brianburns7211

4 ай бұрын

If you go back through Ezra’s videos on EZRider359 Channel, he did it by installing another line into the tank. I don’t like the idea of running off of the return line from the engine. Part of the idea of a bunk heater is not having to run the engine. Eventually no more fuel will be left in the return. This way if Mark is camping in the bunk during a truck show, he can keep warm without having to run the truck.

@carlthor91

4 ай бұрын

Yep, the service for the heaters is to burn kero, for half a day, if they don't clean up, they tear the heaters down and do a thorough cleaning, manually. Best wishes from Northern Manitoba.

After my only daughter of 19 yrs past away, I’ve been slow getting back to making my KZread videos. Mark I’m always glad to see yours each week! You keep coming out with the things I’d like to add to my truck when I get back to working on it. I hope someday I can meet you in person! Do you ever think about bringing one of your trucks to a truck show in the 🇺🇸?

@nfprojectshop

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for highlighting me. I wasn’t sure how to start back into the KZread thing, if I wanted to or even should. The only thing I’ve decided to date is to make some kind of memorial video for my daughter as my 100th video. It’s been a tough couple months for my wife and I. We have an emptiness that is super hard to get use to, and I know it will only take time. My middle son and I are planning a trip to MATS. Spending time with my 3 boys has understandably become my top priority. Watching YT truck build videos… usually TSG, keeps me grounded from making the mistake of selling my project truck and reminds me of how much I enjoyed working on it and making KZread videos. I’ve said it a few times and I’ll always give you credit mark, thank you for giving me my inspiration to build and KZread my truck project. I hope to meet you in person someday, hopefully driving my truck! P.s. I recently found a video of when my daughter hopped up in my cabover and just recorded her self, just sitting in the drivers seat with her legs on the steering wheel, and paned from the bunk around to the drivers door. As little as it seams I will keep and cherish that video as long as I can. Sorry for going on about it, but I have found the more I talk about it the “better” I get. The you again, and God bless! Mark, If this is too long please feel free to delete it. It’s your channel and your choose. I 100% understand.

@ricksmith4736

4 ай бұрын

@@nfprojectshop No parent should ever have to bury a child... I lost a son 3 years ago and a brother when he was 20.... You have to move ahead, day by day, sometimes hour by hour at first.... I promise you time will help.... Enjoy what you can now with each other ... Join a parenting group of other parents who have lost children.... I will be thinking of you......

@nfprojectshop

4 ай бұрын

@@ricksmith4736 thank You greatly! God bless!

@Docstantinople

4 ай бұрын

How, touching.

@rce8540

4 ай бұрын

Sorry to hear that sad news. Don’t no what else to say. God bless.

Oh Twinsticks, I am still lmao when you touched the exhaust and found out it was hot! Glad you got heat running in the bunk, and I am sure Mrs Twinsticks is too!!

Hey Mark ! I work in a truck shop in Ontario , install a couple of bunk heaters a week, the plastic tank is for installing in an ice hut or the like, bend up a metal line(brake line works) and run direct to one of your big tanks, the rubber stuff is garbage, cut the end of your pick up tube on a 45 degree, compression fittings work easy! good job so far buddy !

@mayshack

4 ай бұрын

Do they lose prime? Hopefully there is a check valve installed somewhere with how long it took to purge the air from the fuel lines and get it fired.

@rogerwestgate4724

4 ай бұрын

How much power does it draw from the battery can you run it all night with the truck shut off

@dysonw869

4 ай бұрын

@@rogerwestgate4724we have the webasto bunk heaters in our company trucks. We run them all night with no issues with dead batteries in the morning

@struedel25

4 ай бұрын

​@@rogerwestgate4724 I have a twelve volt refrigerator, not cooler, and I run it all the time, and use an electric blanket when it's too cold to sleep but not cold enough to run the engine overnight. I'm pretty sure this pump draws less.

This would be great for the year a round cab on my old International tractor! The “heater” up in the roof cap is more of a suggestion. Thanks Mark for another fun episode!

Love it " we're burning something "

Glad you got to put it in the truck today!

i drive a 5 ton box truck, we do spray foam.we have the same heater in our 24 foot box, and it keeps it from freezing over night, it was -20c the other night and no problems

There is a few things that come Canada that I like watching number 1. Twin stick garage 2. The Red Green Show. Keep up the great work and stay safe out there.

@janlynhawthorne8005

4 ай бұрын

Hey just wanted you to know I agree first of all and I'm going to be 29 and I grew up watching the red green show which is one of the best Canadian show that was made

Hi Mark, I fitted a Chinese heater to my b-train refrigerated trailer that I live in on my property, works so well, they recommend the pump is mounted on a 45 degree angle rather than laying flat and I found after a couple of months using it the fuel would leak back and need priming before each use, so I fitted a non return valve to the fuel line above the pump and now the fuel stays primed and ready for use as the fuel can't leak back to the tank. Love the snowman Kenworth, I have a 1984 Mack r688rs and have a bit of work to do rust wise to the cab but mechanically she's good, I can leave it for several months and she'll fire up within the first turn of the starter motor

You are an honorary American.

That heater is too cool.

The Fuel return won't get a feed if the Engine isn't running

@TwinStix

4 ай бұрын

Ah good point 🤔

@why_do_we_have_to_use_handles

4 ай бұрын

I was just going to say that

Good morning Mark. Always great videos. That diesel air heater will use 8 gallons in five days 24hrs constant run time on high. It only draws about 3.4 amps when initial heating cycle is complete. For the exhaust system, I used 7/8 copper tubing and bent my fitment. I discovered straight copper tube improves air flow and removed the ripple noise made in the flex pipe. I did not use the muffler. My heater only sounds like a quiet bathroom hand dryer now. The fuel line/hose should not be more than 7/8 ft away from the fuel source. The system will time out attempting to get fuel for ignition. John A 60107

I might look into one of these as more controllable heat for my camper I turned into a workshop! I love when you show all these different tools and products! Thanks Mark!

i had one of them in my cab 30 or more years ago fantastic , set the timer and your cab is frost free keeps you nice and toasty

You say that is cool when the unit works, i think you must say that is "HOT" , nice cabine heather !!

Hi Mark, you should get yourself a nice uni bit to drill through your sheet metal that will save you a lot of time

Hi love what your doing with these old trucks. And with the bunk heater when I put them in I used the passenger side tank and put a pickup tube into the tank in ether the fuel line fitting that not being used or into the dummy plate of the fuel gauge

Hey Mark. Great video. I would suggest making a heat shield from some old Duke panels and bolting it to the bottom of the bunk to protect it from the exhaust.

Fred Basset approves this installation! So do I.

Mark I have watched your channel from day one. Glad you got a garage to work in on your project trucks. I miss the days when you worked outside you worked faster it seems 😅😅😅

Nice little tribute to Fred

Mark, get yourself a set of step drills. Milwaukee has a nice set, they are perfect for sheet metal

@TwinStix

4 ай бұрын

Yeah I actually have one that I forgot to use 🤦‍♂️

Thank You for Sharing !! Another Project !! H.

Ive always admired your tenacity!!! your always making progress on something. that takes serious dedication and motivation!!

What a beautiful truck 👍🏻

Ahhhh... good old Canadian winters...lol. Stay safe and keep warm!!

Lol mark you're like watching a Squirrel with ADD. never know what truck you're working on when. Is it a on the hunt video.... nope...we're in Atlanta. Oh we are back in the shop, maybe working on little by little.....ohhh bunk heater in snowman. Love the videos, every Thursday is Mystery.. any bunk heater that's in a truck is pulling from the the fuel tanks having that heater in a working truck ot wouldn't last but in a show truck like yours it's no big deal.

You called it man, big twist drill bits suck on thin material

@TwinStix

4 ай бұрын

Should’ve used your step bit 🤦‍♂️

You heard about the legend of Jesse James John Henry just to mention some names But there's a truck driving legend in the north today A man called Mark from Edmonton C.A.

I put the same unit in my boat recently and I had to laugh because I knew each hurdle you were going to face before you hit them. I went on a facebook group to finally figure out I just needed to keep cycling to get it primed. Directions are vague at best. Love all the videos.

Hey Mark I was watching Fitzgerald collision repair working on Wes Champlain Peter-built doing the bodywork and they take out almost all of the huck-rivites when they do the body work and sand. They pair them separately and install them after the paint job is done saying it gives a cleaner look and they don’t have as much problems with runs from the clear. They have a KZread channel and posted this last week on it

Hi mark, simple equation for working out fuel use. 0.02 ml of fuel x pump speed ( mine is set at 2.3) = 0.046ml per second x60 seconds =2.76 ml per minute x 60 mins =165ml per hour. So it will run for 5 hours on less than 1 litre of fuel . Hope this helps , plus that green fuel line is junk, replace with nylon line from eBay. Pump should also be set at 45 degree angle.

Never installed a diesel heater. But we used to run diesel air conditioning in the bunk and we used to run a line to the crossover pipe between the 2 tanks. It's non pressurised and always has diesel. We used to mount a small electric pump on the bottom of one of the fuel tanks so it always had prime. It's easy and works a treat. Just turn off the petcock on both tanks and you can screw with that line without all your diesel running out. On that point, I would 100% replace that green line. It WILL fail at some time. Get some proper black rubber fuel line and use that. At least as far as you can.

@TwinStix

4 ай бұрын

Yeah that would work if I had a cross over pipe … haven’t installed it yet 👀

Ooh the tailpipe is hot! LOLOLOL! Great job thanks for sharing!

@TwinStix

4 ай бұрын

It had only just fired up so I didn’t think it would’ve been that hot yet 😂

Great. Thanks for shareing

And I'm here at 32 degrees Celsius at midnight air con pumping...great work Mark...another great episode ...down under and down Richie

Mark u bringing snowman to Louisville ky truck show we need u there lol

hello Mark & it's is Randy and i like yours video is cool Thanks Mark Friends Randy

Best way mark is a stand pipe in to your tank an lengthy so it never runs low . Aux tanks are messy . The chinese ones have a purge button to prime fuel to heater . They are amazing things esp on older trucks . My mate has one in his shed too . They can run on bio fuel too plenty vids that show that it does no harm to them . Cooking oils dont smell as bad as diesel either . Best is to mix a little diesel in to the clean oil tho first and shake it up a llittle . Great for campers too if you have a good battery that a solar panel re plenishes or a split charge system that the vehicle charges . The solar is the best tho if static ,ie parked for a few days . I fitted a solar panel to my old folks camper and it pinged off optimized before i was even finished ! So they do work amazing for off grid . The on site charger never done that as efficient . My chinese unit is quite big but its remote and has a small fuell tank on top so better for larger RVs or sheds and the likes . The stats are quite good if set for 20 degrees C . My old man has had them in his trucks for past 20 plus years . Very cosy . Chinese ones are less than £100 or 100 ish canadian or us $ .The remote just save you having to get up . Quite reliable too . Just copied from webasto and eberspacher. You an also get water heater ones so it keeps ya truck water warm or assist in heat up as diesels take time to heat water up . My old 2001 vw caravelle had one for water built in from factory it would kick off if any where near freezing . So quite the dogs bollocks . Good to see snowman is warm enough to sleep in now . All the best .

Remember fuel pumps push better then they suck for future reference.

👍 another great project and vid from Mark at TSG!

T it off the regular tank 🤙

& thanku mark, this video 📹 is better than any on the hunt videos🎉😮

I have one of these in my Pete and I’ll tell you it’s the cats meow. Kept me warm on many of cold days even going down the road. I tied my fuel into the main fuel tank with a steel brake fluid line form the parts store. Works pretty decent. I always have to have the truck running to start the thing up. It draws a lot of power at startup. After it’s running I can shut the truck off and she’s good to go

*touches hot exhaust - THATS HOT. *literally touches it a second time - Ow! THATS DAMN HOT. 🤣🤦‍♂️ Dude, you're the best. Hahaha!

Tap an auxiliary port in one tank and drop a steel line in kinda like a reefer unit on a straight truck, the return line idea will require you to run the engine to feed the pump. If you run from the existing tank you will never worry about running out of fuel so long you keep snowman full of go go juice

I hope you have better luck with yours than we did with ours. I think we had / have around 8 trucks with a variation of that bunk heater. Forever going through glow plugs because they always flood and the one in my old truck even cracked the caseing so it would try to kick in 3 times then the ECU would say computer said no

And she finally fires👍👍👍

Hey Mark, thanks for the videos. They make me look forward to Thursdays! FYI, they call them a "fuel pump", and not a "fuel suck" for a reason. They're designed to push fuel, not pull it. So the pump needs to be as close to the fuel source as possible, otherwise you'll likely burn up the electric pump prematurely. Keep up the great work and content, and thanks for putting it out there for us to enjoy!

I put one of these in a Coronado I had. You can get a stand pipe that goes in you tank for about $35usd and then get the fuel line for an espar/webcasts heater. It’s smaller and the pump works better with it. That green stuff is to big and makes it hard for to pump to push it effectively to the unit.

Hi Mark, love your videos mate. That controller on

Mark. I think Fred would approved of the Bunk Heater Install... At less Fred will be nice and Warm going down the road..

You should put a 12v power block with fuse in the bunk. For all of your power needs.

Makes me want to get a truck and start Billy Big Riggin!

Good morning Twinsticks garage family...wonder job as always mark. ..some times Thursdays seem so far apart 😂..but well worth the wait...happy to be able to watch all your videos to the end...you are one of the few that actually make a video that will keep you watching till the last second...

On my truck there is a barb through the sending unit. Yes please burn karo whenever you can. I would also recomend running the unit once per month at min. Nice install! I love my s bar heater.

Hi Mark you should plumbe your heater in to the main fuel tank so if you're in the cad all night they no worries about running out of fuel

I can't imagine how bad it was before you had the shop Mark. Some of your vids looked painful. it's practically spring here in southern Ontario. 4-5 degrees and the mud is almost dried up!..LOL. We barely have a winter here anymore. My package for you should be well protected. I hope to have it ready to ship by Friday. I'm excited, the fledglings are going to leave the nest!!! Cheers Mark! Earl

On 17 February Merricks Garage on KZread had a great tutorial on how to label wiring. Pretty clever. It sure makes dealing with wiring issues much easier for the small investment in time. Looks good too.

Great looking rig mark over here in the uk and Europe the night heaters are plumed into the diesel tanks have been since the early 80,s as standard

Don`t add the axillary fuel tank to the jockey box, if you spill during fill up the smell will never leave. Also if you have a spill and that is a wood floor it will absorb the fuel. That plastic tank would make a great hydraulic oil reservoir.

very nice👌👍

😎👍

I don’t like using the heat shrink without using black rubber heat shrink over those I found the clear plastic is easy to rub holes from vibration or gets to thin from the heat gun . Do like your heater anyway.

Company I work for has Espar heaters looks very similar to what you have. The fuel supply is plummed into the fuel tank of the truck. Can probably find a small stand pipe to install into the tank. Don't Tee it into the supply or return from the engine. The return might still have enough pressure to over run the pump and flood the heater

thats a nice truck

Great video as always. I was cool that you incorporated the panel from the Iron Duke. why not use a small gas can for a tank. thanks again, love the videos

Shaeffer beer here in the states used to run cab over Mack day cabs in the early seventies.i grew up near the brewery in Albany ny.i been looking for one to restore sadly no luck.

Greetings from the UK Mark, it’s a chilly 7*c here in the south😂. Always great to see progress on snowman👍🏻

Hey Mark Thanks for another great video. I would recommend installing the fuel line into your fuel system. That fuel is at least warned by the return line it would also be difficult to neatly and safely fuel a small tank inside your side boxes at a truck stop. It would be a shame to smell spilled diesel inside the sleeper.

You got to run with what ya brung...

Yes!!!

Hey bro as far as using the fuel tank they use a 90 degree tap on the top of the fuel tanks on the newer trucks and even when they install the apu units (tripac by thermo king) … just food for thought…. They usually tap it into the passenger tank …. And also if you run the heater long enough it’s going to run you out of the truck for being so dang hot 😂😂

Mark this is only a show truck you don't need heat and air condition you got the Coors light keg in the back

Thanks for the video. Maybe you could use the plastic tank as a urinal.

My night heater I installed had a priming setting when I first installed it it took about 5 mins to prime it then fired up first time 👍

Check out some info on pump installation angle, exhaust must be able to drain, swap out that ‘soft’ fuel line for ‘hard nylon, fit quiet pump is a great upgrade. Theres lots of advice available to improve reliability. Theres lots of the units available on youtube. 2kW is plenty, 5kW is too hot in a caravan so expect its way too hot in a truck…

Hey mark get yourself a fuel pick up tube for a espar or a wabaso bunk heater it threads into the tank and will feed the heater

Love the new intro.

The timing of this video couldn't have been better as I was unboxing my diesel heater at the same time!!....These heaters have been around for years, Webasto was the name of the company that started it all, they have a model that with heat coolant as well. My plan is to heat my deer blind and if it works I'll rig up one for my 5th wheel as well!

@konemieskou

4 ай бұрын

All Webastos I have used have heated the coolant. It is probably a more common model here in Finland. It's nice to come to work when the cab and engine of the excavator are already heated with Webasto.

I just installed this same heater in my hot shot. I run mine in "Alpine" mode which makes it run much cleaner no smoke. I use alpine mode even at low altitudes. You have a different controller than i do so you'll have to google how to put it in alpine mode.

Well worth the 100 bucks. I have one in my semi.

The fuel return and suction lines probably won’t be a good option for fuel source. They would both create issues if you want to run it without the engine running. The fuel suction line may be ok but there would be a possibility of sucking fuel backwards from the filter head rather than up from the tank when the engine is off.

The controllers on those mini diesel heaters come with a priming function. In priming mode the pump only will cycle to get the diesel through the lines and into the injector tube. Once the system is primed you can start the heater in normal mode and it should fire up easily. You should prime the unit when new or if you run out of fuel.

All of those Chinese diesel heaters are copies of Wabasto or Espar heaters. I have always been worried about using them since they are around $100 and a Wabasto or Espar heaters are $1500-$2000 each.

@chrisbrown7994

4 ай бұрын

I have had one fitted on my boat about 4 year now, not been any bother at all, its had plenty of use too.

It's been 30 years since I last drove OTR but my KW as with all trucks back then had bunk heaters and cab heaters,

I like the thought of having the bunk heater, but I've been spoiled watching "FSC Trucking" with Steve's 1984 Peterbilt 362 since he got a Green APU installed. It's powered by a 3 cylinder Kubota tied into the fuel tank and the truck's coolant system so as it heated the bunk it would circulate the Kubota engine's heat through the Pete's 3406B Cat so it would start warmer instead of fully cold as well as offer AC in the summer. I know you couldn't do that with "Snowman" since you're trying to maintain the authenticity, but perhaps look into Green APU for "LBL" and "Iron Duke"? 🤔

@TwinStix

4 ай бұрын

Yeah those things are cool but insanely expensive 😬

@JurjenHettinga

4 ай бұрын

​​@@TwinStix APU's are also insanely maintenance heavy. At my old company, we had 60 highway tractors with APUs and they needed dedicated mechanic in the shop who did nothing else but work on them 🤦‍♂️ Next order of trucks, they went back to only having Espar bunk heaters 🤷‍♂️

Mark they sell stand pipes to go into your tanks anyone who sells truck heaters has them you just drill a hole into top of tank and standpipe has a way to clamp in

Awareness man . Lol love the snow man!

Maybe looking at the installation instructions would be helpful. Just a thought. Thanks for what you do, always enjoy watching you work on those cool trucks! Can’t wait for to see the Trans Am come back to life.

@TwinStix

4 ай бұрын

They weren’t the greatest … kind of generic instructions designed to cover all of their different types of heaters

@charliemills8264

4 ай бұрын

I thought about that too. Wasn’t being an ass, I just never saw you look at any. It’s tough to install or assemble things from China with their crap instructions. Looks like you got her up and running anyway! Have a great day, it’ll be in the mid 80’s here in Texas today!!

Sorry mate, hit the wrong switch. Getting back to what I was saying, the equalizer is what you are planning to drill a hole through. It regulates the amount of fuel that it draws from the feeder tank, passenger tank, and keeps both fuel levels equal. Don't think it's going to appreciate being drilled through. Started driving Semi’s interstate back in the mid 70’s.Again I love your videos mate, and have watched every one. Remember when you found Ole Blue, in the paddock. Cheers mate, from Queensland Australia.

Hi Mark, could you use the tank in the returnline like some kind if intermediate reservoir ? ... So it would get filled while driving with the access returning to the fueltank while still having the possibility to fuel up the tank manually in case of need ?... Like inlet from engine at 80% of height of tank on one side and at the same height the connection on the other side of the tank connected to the main fueltank - while drilling the feedlinehole for the heater at maybe 5% of height with an additional drain valve at the buttom ? ... Of course this would only work if the is no pressure on the returnline. In that installation you would / should normally dont have to worry about fuel for the heater. In worst case you could still fill the tank by the fillingpipe. ... I am not sure if you understand what I am describing , but I am hoping for the best . ;) ... Greetings from Germany ... Please keep the great videos coming ;)

Oops that's not movie correct they didn't have a Xtra bunk heater, just kidding, I never been 2 Canada but from ur pics it looks cold so movie correct goes out the window when it's that cold love the channel!!!!

Hey mark, this is actually ep 90 of the snowman build

@TwinStix

4 ай бұрын

Actually 88 - made a few tweaks to the playlist 👍

🤠👍

Shag a little electrical EMT tubing scrap and hard pipe to the outside of the bunk and clamp up the flexi exhaust to the rigid Mounts easy- you prob have scrap around from the shop wiring- and it's the same finish and material that home oil burners use- galvy smoke pipe- Clip it to the bunk rail under there- and it's MILLER (Coors) time!

Trucking together just did a bunk heater on their Kenworth