Well let's see. I bought my first AirTop 2000 in about 1993. Abused it on the 1990 IH 9700 for 4 years, no routine maintenance. Installed a brand new one on the 2000 Argosy. It lasted about 8 years, no maintenance, took it out because it refused to start citing low voltage codes. Service dealer couldn't find anything wrong with it. Put a new one in 2008, no maintenance, still running strong. I have never replaced the fuel filter, any typical lawn mower filter would probably do the job. Given I sleep in the truck about 250 nights a year, at least 1/3 of them the heater gets used. And when I use it it gets run for long periods of time and a fairly high setting. Lousy insulation in these cabovers. I have never run it in the off season. Nor replaced the fuel filters.
The only problem I have ever had is failure to start low voltage codes. I solve that problem by starting the truck, starting the heater, then shutting down the truck. Will operate for the rest of the night no issues. An electrical engineer buddy of mine is convinced that the reason for the codes is because the extended wiring harness provided by Webasto for use in a cabovers only has enough of a voltage drop to cause the problem. And when I am really motivated I will increase the size of the wires to see if that solves the issue.
How do you install a webasto in an Argosy? How do you run the fuel lines?
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How do you install a webasto in an Argosy? How do you run the fuel lines?