<VV> Gas heater installation

[Eric S. Eberhard]

Yes I installed an NOS gas heater on my Monza wagon (and several 
other cars).  No different than any other car.  Unless you have 
block-off plates you will have to make them (not hard) or use 61 
shrouds from a car w/gas heater for that part and make the rest.  You 
have to entirely remove the old heater and block those holes, some 
firewall holes, I block from the inside the heater vents.

It is REALLY nice.  That is the good news, 140 degrees in 15 seconds.

The pitfalls are that these parts are old.  Especially switches and 
burner kit items -- and they affect safety.  There is an interesting 
switch heat driven in the burner that failed on the burner.  Mine 
failed on my sedan and ... the inevitable, it caught on fire.  No big 
deal and not dangerous as people like to claim ... just soot on the 
paint and a new wiring harness required.

But -- the worst kit I did was the NOS kit (I think it got wet).  I 
have had better luck getting complete decent gas heaters from used 
cars and then replacing ALL the switches with NOS and rebuilding the 
burners with the correct kit, new spark plug, points plate, etc.  A 
burner kit, spark plug, spare external fan, spare points plate, spare 
safety switches are things I would accumulate.

BTW -- I have many gas heaters in various conditions, many NOS 
spares, etc. -- and I am selling them all, so if you need something, email me.

Eric


At 03:52 PM 10/30/2011, you wrote:
>Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:23:33 -0400 (EDT)
>From: "Lite Trix Inc." <litetrix at aol.com>
>Subject: <VV> Gas heater installation
>To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
>Message-ID: <8CE65508C5ADEC8-166C-A4D4B at Webmail-d118.sysops.aol.com>
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>Want to put a gas heater into a station wagon that never had one. 
>Anyone try this on a wagon or early model? What are the pitfalls or 
>problem steps? Thanks
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>Patrick Murphy


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