disabled cold start heater?

[roverhybrids]

I removed my whole stock filter/lift pump unit when installing a FASS. This also includes removing the stock filter heater.

Now it seems that the intake heater does not come on as I have alot of smoke at cold start up.

The light comes on on the dash but only stays on for a second or so. Before it stayed on for a very long time.

Are the two heaters some how connected?

Could I bypass the filter heater by installing a jumper on the now discoonnected wire connector?

 

[Alan Reagan]

First, the grids won't come on above a certain temperature. I can't remember if it's 60* but anyway, they won't come on in warmer weather.



Second, you can't just jumper the connector to the fuel heater. The reason is that the heater is a resistive circuit and you would probably just blow the fuse and that would set a code. There is a 40A fuse in that circuit. The power is probably about 360 watts (about 30 amps). That means that the heater is about . 4 ohms resistance. That's not much, but it's something. If you didn't blow a fuse, it would probably burn a small wire in two.



I don't think the two are connected unless it is through software monitoring.