shooftie

This is kinda not very informative. I didn’t get pics under the van showing the tee installation. I was grimy from the dirt falling from van, and working on gravel/dirt driveway, van not jacked up.

Last weekend noticed one of my rear heater tees was leaking . I fiddled around with it , trimming ends if hose, tightening clamps etc. finally it blew up under pressure testing. I had a spare plastic one and put it in. During the pressure testing I noticed one of the hoses to rear heater was weeping. So at that time I spliced in a section of hose to get by.

This weekend I had new hose and some parts I made. I showed the tees in previous post The hose from the tee under van to the rear heater is nominal 1/2”, but at the heater it swells to 5/8”.

Because of its routing I wasn’t confident I could run 5/8 from tee to heater. Plus there are grommets to pass thru . So I went 1/2” and used the stock hose ends at the heater. Yeah, means another connection.

All went ok, I’ll spare you the details except that I think routing the hoses is harder on Syncro. Plus one of them has a ninety at tee end. I managed to lead the hose well enough to not kink there.

Just a note, yeah the paper on the inside of rear bench is crap. It’s an 82 diesel westy interior inmy 86 syncro… I put in rear heater in my 82 and decided to mount it to one side to maximize storage under bench, so when I used that interior to westyfy my Syncro ….. that’s where the heater went.

Anyway…. No leaks so far