I've recently installed a Helton shower kit into the patrol.
I had some problems with it because of my engine's gas conversion and the configuration of my patrol's heater system.
The patrol has a constant flow heater, so the coolant flow is always going through the heater core. I also have an LPG engine conversion which utlises the heater coolant flow to keep the gas mixer warm.
These two things caused some problems with my installation in that it just wasn't heating the water up. I emailed Helton and asked what I had done wrong. The next day he phoned my home number (got my number off the order when I bought it) and told me that he was going to make up some connectors to run my system in series. He sent me over the adaptors and connectors to patch up my other cuts in the hoses (joiners etc) and I'm glad to say it is now working!
double thumbs up for service!
I will say however that I have had to fit a manual hand throttle to the car because at idle there was still not enough flow to heat the water sufficiantly. But my big engine does idle at 500rpms.
I think in warmer weather this system will work a treat. In this cooler weather (winter here at the moment) it's about 10 degree c outside and if I have the flow set too high on the shower I need to run in through the exchanger twice to get it HOT. If I have the flow down to about half it's ok. I think in summer this will not be an issue as even just slightly warmish water in bucket comes out RED HOT.
I've set mine up to run two ways. I have a garden retic tap under the bullbar where I can choose to feed water from the little shower pump that Helton supplied to feed water from a bucket (in case freinds want to use it and supply their own water, or I want to use river water etc) and I can choose to run it direct off my 4Lp self pressure activated tank pump from the rear.
I set up the rear system with just a garden hose fitting so that I can just connect my normal tank water supply hose onto the back. This also means that if I chose to I could for whatever reason run a normaly garden hose straight from a tap into my shower. (maybe a caravan park for instance).
The kit came with a neat little bracket and some air hose fittings (barbs) to connect your inlet and outlet hoses. I got some rubber chair feet from the hardware store that fit perfectly and slipped them on with some chain so that muck and dirt doesn't get into the system when I'm offroad. The heat exchanger came with it's own bracket and even though it's quite small I could not find a neat spot for it under the bonnet, so I just mounted it next tot he fitting under the bull bar. It's well out of the way there and is a perfect fit.
