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[Bryce C]

I finally received my new heat exchanger from Blue Baron! I'm going to have to organize my hoses like Woody told me too. Deep down I really wanted to anyway, just been really busy thank goodness. I have no idea where I'll mount this beast...

 

[Bryce C]

I blocked a day off to go to a local supplier/service center soon. The owner is going to let me park in the back and replace many of my old hoses and fittings one by one. I suppose I should come up with a plan of where to mount this thing and bring the tools to do it while I'm there.

Have you guys insulated heat exchangers like this? Any recommendations for insulation?

 

[Dwain Ray]

I thought you were going to get this one it fits where your old one mounted??

 

[Dwain Ray]

I blocked a day off to go to a local supplier/service center soon. The owner is going to let me park in the back and replace many of my old hoses and fittings one by one. I suppose I should come up with a plan of where to mount this thing and bring the tools to do it while I'm there.

Have you guys insulated heat exchangers like this? Any recommendations for insulation?

I insulated mine with pipe wrap insulation and rice rocket tuner gold

 

[Dwain Ray]

I blocked a day off to go to a local supplier/service center soon. The owner is going to let me park in the back and replace many of my old hoses and fittings one by one. I suppose I should come up with a plan of where to mount this thing and bring the tools to do it while I'm there.

Have you guys insulated heat exchangers like this? Any recommendations for insulation?

My suggestion would be to premount it and have it ready to plumb. Then take the van to the store and pre cut/ fit whatever you need. Then take it all home to assemble. that way if you run into a problem like getting the air outa the cooling system or anything that would prevent you from driving the van you're not stuck in a parking lot somewhere

 

[Dwain Ray]

I finally received my new heat exchanger from Blue Baron! I'm going to have to organize my hoses like Woody told me too. Deep down I really wanted to anyway, just been really busy thank goodness. I have no idea where I'll mount this beast...

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If that heat exchanger doesn't already have one, you might wanna consider installing a bleed valve in the highest part of the coolant side in order to burp all the air out otherwise if air is trapped it can eventually migrate and case problems with the vans cooling system. Heres a picture of mine. Without these 2 valves 1-2" in the top of each of my heat exchangers would be air

 

[Bryce C]

Yea I thought I was getting the pto style heat exchanger too. It would be nice to plug it into the same location. I told him it was going into a Hydramaster CDS 4.8 from 2013. Not sure what to do. Pete has been difficult to deal with, difficult to communicate with, and took 8 weeks to get it to me after his initial 1.5 week eta.

I suppose if I send it back to him I would be looking at getting the one I ordered in late October or November. It would be nice to find a place to mount it and just keep the thing, but I imagine anywhere I mount it will obstruct access to some other area that needs to be accessible for service.

 

[Dwain Ray]

Yea I thought I was getting the pto style heat exchanger too. It would be nice to plug it into the same location. I told him it was going into a Hydramaster CDS 4.8 from 2013. Not sure what to do. Pete has been difficult to deal with, difficult to communicate with, and took 8 weeks to get it to me after his initial 1.5 week eta.

I suppose if I send it back to him I would be looking at getting the one I ordered in late October or November. It would be nice to find a place to mount it and just keep the thing, but I imagine anywhere I mount it will obstruct access to some other area that needs to be accessible for service.

Id get in touch with him before making any plans for install. If you install it and you're less than happy with it, you're going to be less than happy with it longer than the wait for the one you want. I would tell him you received the wrong part and see where that goes also check with your cc company (hopefully you paid with a cc) and see if you have any help or any recourse there. In situations such as this Im always always praying for the best result while planning for the worst

 

[BIG WOOD]

Yea I thought I was getting the pto style heat exchanger too. It would be nice to plug it into the same location. I told him it was going into a Hydramaster CDS 4.8 from 2013. Not sure what to do. Pete has been difficult to deal with, difficult to communicate with, and took 8 weeks to get it to me after his initial 1.5 week eta.

I suppose if I send it back to him I would be looking at getting the one I ordered in late October or November. It would be nice to find a place to mount it and just keep the thing, but I imagine anywhere I mount it will obstruct access to some other area that needs to be accessible for service.

That looks like an engine exhaust heat exchanger, not a PTO engine coolant heat exchanger.

I don't know how to handle that guy. It looks like you might have a problem with that dude. Is he located in Texas? He sure has Texas business ethics if not

 

[Bryce C]

That looks like an engine exhaust heat exchanger, not a PTO engine coolant heat exchanger.

I don't know how to handle that guy. It looks like you might have a problem with that dude. Is he located in Texas?

He's located in Florida. When I was first on the phone with him he said his heat exchangers could be used for exhaust or engine coolant style heating. I thought that was interesting but didn't know enough to question it. What would be the difference aside from varied inlet and outlet sizes? Is that why he has these hex bushings on it?

 

[Cleanworks]

I blocked a day off to go to a local supplier/service center soon. The owner is going to let me park in the back and replace many of my old hoses and fittings one by one. I suppose I should come up with a plan of where to mount this thing and bring the tools to do it while I'm there.

Have you guys insulated heat exchangers like this? Any recommendations for insulation?

Wrap it with hot water heater wrap available at most hardware stores.

 

[Bryce C]

If Pete isn't cooperative and ethical then all things considered, if this heat exchanger works well enough with engine coolant, then maybe it will be good to just mount this thing cleverly.

To the right of my water box and behind the drivers seat, if I mount it vertically it would be out of the way and easy to access for service. I think a wooden base about 1.25" thick mounted off of the available area on the waste tank, and raised about .5" proud of the vertical surface of the waste tank so the lid can close... might do it. Seems like there is enough room for the coolant return hose to loop down under the ceiling, and the rest of the fittings would be easily accessible to the right of the water box underneath the heat exchanger. What do you think?