Diesel heater problems

Its more likely the small mesh filter around the glow plug...you need to look at an exploded diagram of the parts....or Google the diagram if need be

Mine would only fire up for a very short time and immediately stop and that turned out to be the issue...its actually meant to be changed annually...but I never did until I had to

Its a very fiddly job to get to it...its about the dia of a small lead pencil.....its only a cm or so long and you have to make something like crochet hook or straightened fish hook to pit it inside and pull up

You also need either a special socket tool with a slot on the side so it can slide over the wires on the glow plug to extract it.

I actually replaced mine last winter hundreds of km's from anywhere (I had one with me in case of one day)…..I cut the glow plug wires and use a standard socket...then soldered them back.


So it can be done be prepared for a damn fiddly frustrating job extracting the mesh screen

When mine fired up when I finished, the caravan was hidden amongst a huge screen of white smoke from unburned diesel !

Johno59
If you haven't got a smoke problem as above BUT do have bubbles inthe fuel system I would definitely fix the airleak first. I have found diesel heaters DO NOT run on air as fuel.
If you have bubbles then you have air leaking into the fuel supply OR the tank is empty. Any bubbles will accumulate and become one long bubble and when it gets to the pump and beyond. ie, the burn chamber, air alone will not support combustion.
Make sure air CAN get into the fuel tank to allow the pump to draw fuel out of it, otherwise the pump will suck air from the weakest point of sealing.
From memory, your van is relatively new to you and if a new installation it appears you have a few installation faults.

Are these the same problems you asked about on the 29 th of July. People go to the trouble of helping you but you just start another thread.

Read the answers from 29 th of July