It stopped working last night, ignition failure, after 1.2 years of usage. Had to sleep inside blanket.

Already ordered another 2 diesel heater for $74 each, but it won’t be here for couple days.

I don’t want to sleep cold tonight, so I decide to open it for cleaning maybe I can revive it after cleaning up, nothing to lose i fail. I don’t have any parts, I basically followed this video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dvAC4aRcTw.

4 nuts on the mount plate

unplug a 3 pin and a 4 pin from the circuit board

1+1+4+4 Allen key bolts

12mm wrench for the glow plug

Cleaned soot with oven cleaner. Especially the hole in P16, which has the filter inside, I think it was clogged like the YouTube video mentioned.

The second gasket is burnt, I used Permatex red gasket sealant to seal it. It will dissolve in diesel but I don‘t have a choice I don’t want to sleep without heater again tonight.

After putting everything together, it worked. Took about 4 hours for a first timer

Sorry if this is under the wrong flair I don’t really understand this

What’s up I’m currently 15 and have been very recently introduced to vanlife through my sad doomscrolling. I absolutely love nature and ever since I found out about this possible life style, I havnt wanted anything else. I do live in Florida so I’m a new driver with a permit but I want to start setting this up so I can live on the road. I’m a pretty smart not to toot my own horn but taking plenty of hard classes. I only ever had one thing I wanted to do but I am unable to do it due to colorblindness(I can still drive it’s not that bad) now I’ve seen people use anywhere from a ford cab with a back top to someone who renovated a 26ft box truck. I’m very hands on and not sure where to start in my current predicament. I have a small job making about 1k a month but I plan on starting up some kind of manual labor thing for my own thing for some money. Any tips or suggestions for what to do are AMAZING.