Furnace install

[officersdr]

I have a 1979 Lionel pop up and it has no furnace. Being in southern Canada it can get chilly hereand we went dry camping last weekend and need a furnace.

My brother has a good working furncae and I have a cabinet that I can sacrifice to it. Now, How do you install it??

I know you have to vent it and run propane line. Anything else I need to know?? Like does it ahve to be a certain distance from the window, door, etc??

I have a portable propane heater that we used last weekend, but I don't trust then even though it has a oxygen sensor in it.

[austinado16]

The thing to be aware of is the fitted depth of the furnace.  Their vent pipe is also their heated air intake pipe, so you'll need to do some measuring and hole cutting in the outside wall.

Yes, you'll need to "T" off your propane line under the camper or inside a cabinet and plumb a line to where the furnace will be.  You'll also need a ground wire, a 12v fused power wire, and the 2 wires that will run from the 12v thermostat to the gas valve on the furnace.  You may need other "stuff" if it's got electronic ignition, I'm not sure.  

The get hot (obviously) when working so plan on the inside of that cabinet becoming toasty.  Not too big a deal unless the fridge is right there and you're heating up the fridge wall, or a thin piece of paneling seperating the fridge from that space.  But, you can put up some Refectix against the cabinettes inside and that will control the heat they would absorb.  Just don't let the reflectix keep the furnace from "breathing" in room air from around it's special grille.  It wants to take cold air off the floor and blow it through the burner box and back out into the room hot.  (It takes it's combustion air from outside, not inside).