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Old 04-29-2018, 11:03 AM   #1
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Removing Under-Seat Heaters

Hi y'all! I'm taking the seats out of my Bluebird & I need to deal with these under-seat heaters. I think they're electric but the squishy tubes feel like radiator hose and I'm not quite sure what to do with them. Anybody point me at pictures of one of these being taken out? They're not in the manual that came with my bus. Thank you!
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Old 04-29-2018, 11:22 AM   #2
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Search the forum for heater, or heater removal.

This has been answered a million times.
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Old 04-29-2018, 01:53 PM   #3
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just start slicing and dicing. I didn't read up on it. probably should have. minimal coolant loss. it was pretty easy. getting the hoses out from under the bus was a little dirty. not too bad. don't forget to check coolant level after you finish.
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Old 04-29-2018, 03:37 PM   #4
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Search the forum for heater, or heater removal.

This has been answered a million times.
Thanks! I didn't find much when I tried searching, I'll give it another go.
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Old 04-29-2018, 05:25 PM   #5
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There's a loop at your engine and a valve you have to close before you remove that line. That heater works electrically with a blower fan, but it's blowing off the radiant heat provided by your engine coolant. You need to loop the coolant lines off at the engine and then you can go about removing that heater. There should be a valve somewhere under your dash near your feet, left side, to cut that line off.
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Old 04-29-2018, 08:24 PM   #6
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There's a loop at your engine and a valve you have to close before you remove that line. That heater works electrically with a blower fan, but it's blowing off the radiant heat provided by your engine coolant. You need to loop the coolant lines off at the engine and then you can go about removing that heater. There should be a valve somewhere under your dash near your feet, left side, to cut that line off.
Just did this job today on Serenity. It had 3 heaters... one beside driver, one mid way down the bus, and one toward the back. I kept the driver heater. I cut the hoses 5 feet back from the driver heater and quickly hung them out the window into a bucket outside. Once they stopped gushing, I unhooked the out tube (bottom one) from the driver heater and put a U shaped tube from the out of the driver heater and joint connected it to the engine return hose.. All of this is done just behind driver seat. I put a plastic box over the work I did. Now my front heater switch still operates a box that helps heat the front of the bus while its running. Hope this helps.. let me know if you need pics.
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Just did this job today on Serenity. It had 3 heaters... one beside driver, one mid way down the bus, and one toward the back. I kept the driver heater. I cut the hoses 5 feet back from the driver heater and quickly hung them out the window into a bucket outside. Once they stopped gushing, I unhooked the out tube (bottom one) from the driver heater and put a U shaped tube from the out of the driver heater and joint connected it to the engine return hose.. All of this is done just behind driver seat. I put a plastic box over the work I did. Now my front heater switch still operates a box that helps heat the front of the bus while its running. Hope this helps.. let me know if you need pics.
i would love to see pictures! i am tackling this same project
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Old 07-19-2018, 04:16 PM   #8
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i would love to see pictures! i am tackling this same project

Check our YouTube video out around the 9:30 mark... should help you out https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=kVK8UUBI_0k
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For RE people thinking of doing this- keep in mind your defroster probably uses the same coolant lines.

One of the biggest PITAs of my build has been -reinstalling- all of these heaters, including the defroster core.
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