Salty northeast winters tended to eat heater shrouds -- and roadsters, too.
I don't recall an oil smell. Must have been tight gasketing (until the whole
thing rusted into a pile.)
- Bob
"Patrick J. Horne" wrote:
>
> I didn't have that much trouble with rustin. I thought that was why they
> put the heater boxes right under the valve covers so the oil would leak on
> them and keep them from rusting. Then the problem was the oil smell when
> you turned the heater on for the first time in a while!
>
> Peace,
> Pat
>
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>
> Pat Horne, Network Manager, Shop Supervisor/Future planner, CS Dept,
> University of Texas, 1 University Station C0500,Austin, Tx. 78712-1188 USA
> voice (512)471-9730, fax (512)471-8885, horne@cs.utexas.edu
>
> On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, RWM wrote:
>
> > As I recall, the stock heaters rusted out faster than they heated up...
> >
> > - Bob
> >
> > "Patrick J. Horne" wrote:
> > >
> > > I don't recall kerosene fired heaters, but I had a 58 Beetle with a
> > > gasoline fired heater. In denver, with up to a foot of snow on the car I
> > > would go out in the morning and start the heater and go back in. 15
> > > minutes later there was no snow to sweep off and the interior was much
> > > warmer than I liked. They made a similar heater for the VW bus that was a
> > > much better match. The stock heaters took way too long to get a bus warm!
> > >
> > > Peace,
> > > Pat
> > >
> > > - Support Habitat for Humanity, A "hand up", not a "hand out" -
> > >
> > > Pat Horne, Network Manager, Shop Supervisor/Future planner, CS Dept,
> > > University of Texas, 1 University Station C0500,Austin, Tx. 78712-1188 USA
> > > voice (512)471-9730, fax (512)471-8885, horne@cs.utexas.edu
> > >
> > > On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, RWM wrote:
> > >
> > > > Older air-cooled VW Beetles had optional kerosene heaters, not that I'd
> > > > recommend that approach.
> > > >
> > > > - RWM, '69 2000 Solex (bypassed heater)
> > > >
> > > > evan troxel wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > I have heard of someone putting an electric heater in his MG. Seems
>like a
> > > > > nice alternative to the water ones...immediate heat. Anyone do this
>in
> > > > > their datsun?
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Evan Troxel
> > > > > Alta Loma, CA
> > > > > '66 SPL311
> > > >
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