7.10. DEMISTER

When you are planning on fitting a high windscreen a demister system is obligated for the MOT. Keep in mind you then have less free space to fit instruments behind the dashboard. Burton Car Company has a complete demister system which is easy to install and you don’t need to put the heater on.

Fitting instructions:

The system contains the following parts:

-         Blower
-         Switch with two speeds
-         Plastic connecting part and pipe with angled cut
-         Stainless steel cover plate to fit on the top of the dashboard
-         Hose
-         2x screws, washers and clips and other fixing bits

A. Remove the front windscreen if necessary.

B. Place the stainless steel plate on to the body. Use the middle fixing hole of the windscreen as a reference. The slots in the plate need to be facing up to guide the air flow. Make sure the plate is nicely lined up with the dashboard and the edge of it. Draw the other three holes and the slots using the plate as a mould. One of the holes of the plate is being used for the tonneau cover. When you are not planning on fitting one you don’t need to drill the hole. You can now drill the holes and file out the slots.

Photo 1.

1: Hole for fixing the bracket of the windscreen
2,3: Holes for fixing the plastic pipe (screw with special washer)
4: Hole for fixing the tonneau cover.

C. Fitting the blower.

The blower is being designed to fit in the engine compartment to prevent annoying noises while driving. Place the blower on the right side of the vehicle against the vertical bit of the bulkhead.

Drill a 80mm hole in the horizontal part, glue the plastic connecting part in this hole with Sika-flex kit. Put the blower in the hole and draw out the 4 fixing holes on the vertical part of the bulkhead. Drill a 50mm hole in the centre of these four fixing holes. File a small slot in the 50mm hole so you can screw the hose so to speak in the hole.

Don’t forget to drill a hole for the wires that go to the blower.

D. Fitting of the other pieces.
The hose fits onto the plastic angled cut part. Slide the two screw clips onto the plastic angled part and fit it underneath the dashboard. The plastic angled part is fixed from the top of the dashboard with two screws in the two remaining holes in the stainless steel plate. Also fit the tonneau cover button fixing if necessary.

E. Finishing the fitting of the demister system.

Connect the wires of the blower and the switch. You can switch the blower off, half power and full power. A resistor is fitted in the Burton cable harness to achieve the two speeds.
A extra set of cables and connector is supplied with the Burton cable harness so you can connect the windscreen washer system and demister set. You can choose yourself where you want to put the cables through the bulkhead.

The connections are as followed:

>93, + from demister switch
>311, ground

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