improving heat in 93 YJ

MudPuppy1976 i'm not even thinking about those awful ceramic heaters to cook my

You could look a replacing the stock blower moter with a beefier unit.

or similar

Put an auxiliary space heater using engine coolant in place of the stock console, or inside it.

Keyword Search for"Auxiliary Space Heater" brings up several potentially useful products.These would be a tight fit in a YJ but I am confident you can do it. Pleasepost some pictures when you figure something out. ;o) Earle

"MudPuppy1976

What temperature thermostat are you running in the engine??? If it's too cool, your heater won't put out much heat at all. Make darned sure the correct thermostat is installed... or if you don't know, just install the right one per the thermostat guide book.

Jerry

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"MudPuppy1976

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 22:17:39 GMT, "MudPuppy1976

When I bought my 2000 S-10 my winter experiance with my old 88 told me it would be cold in the winter so I started before the first winter to make it warmer. I found this stuff in the hardware store that looks like bubble wrap sandwiched between aluminum foil. They had a small part folded up like a bag and you would stick your hand in and it reflects your body heat and in a few seconds your hand feels warm and sweaty. I pulled out the whole interrior of my s-10 and used aluminum tape and covered all the metal with this stuff. First winter I found that the hearer was much better than my old one and even on the coldest below zero days I still haven't even turned the heat up full yet.

First off, make sure you have the 4 componets of good heat:

-Standard thermostat (usually 192 degrees) that is known to be good. They go bad, I've had bad ones out of the box.

-Drain, FLUSH, and refil the system with good anitfreeze. Use a cooling system flush product then power flush system ($4.95 or so) and run it until it runs clear.

-Upgade the heater fan motor (1991 and older) with the GM style blower motor

-Rebuild or replace the heater core on any vehicle where the flush process yields lots of red crud. I have been paying around $35 for a complete heater core rebuild including disassembly, rod out, reasembly, and testing.

Total cost is less than $100 for all items.

If that is not enough for the back seat folks, there are a series of auxilary heaters (jcwhitney.com) that are plumbed into the cooling system, use a 12 volt fan to push the air around. Used on RV's, school buses, 15 passenger vans, etc. Cost is about $200, they work GREAT, install is a pain.

cheers

MudPuppy1976 i have a 93 YJ with a soft top. due to monetary considerations, it does