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Subject:Re: Gas Heater Plumbing
From:Joseph J Helwig
Date:Wed, 31 Jul 1996 09:26:51 -0600

At 11:52 30/7/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Do any of you know whether to connect the gas line 
>for a gas heater in a '75 Bus to the low pressure 
>side or the high pressure side of the electrical 
>gas pump?  I tee'd it into the low pressure side, 
>and see no fuel in the line, but hesitate to hook 
>it to the HP side lest I inadvertenly make a small 
>roaster-on-wheels.

What make/model is your gas heater? Does your gas heater have its own fuel
pump? The Eberspacher gas heaters (yours is probably a BN4) should connect
directly to the top the gas tank, via a tap with 2 hoses. The gas is pumped
from the gas tank to a jet, which allows only a fraction of the pumped gas
to enter the combustion chamber. The excess gas is re-routed back to the
fuel tank  - sort of like a miniature fuel injection system.

If your model has a fuel pump but the pump doesn't work, e-mail me, as I
have successfully r&r'd a few pumps.

HTH

Joe Helwig.

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