Connection for heater

[Anonymous]

Anybody fitted an aftermarket cab heater and if so where did you take the water connections from, comments would be most welcome.

[Anonymous]

I haven’t one fitted to my car, but I have seen them connected into top and return hoses. The connection is usually achieved by cutting the hose and inserting either a tee piece soldered up out of brass tube, or a tee adaptor from someone like Car Builder Solutions. You can use the air duct entry point in the bulkhead to route your hoses to a unit under the dash.

[Anonymous]

Hi,

We’re probably talking here about the round heater that Clayton offers:

http://www.bramclassauto.com/services/products-for-sale/south-wind-gas-heaters/ – They don’t put any connection information on their website.

CTA Sweden offer a different heater – which is sold out – but it would connect the same way and they do show how to connect it – with photos and Swedish captions.

http://www.ctaservice.se/delar/heater/heater.htm

I ‘m expecting Larry to step in here with a plug for the gasoline fired heater.

http://www.bramclassauto.com/services/products-for-sale/south-wind-gas-heaters/

Chris

[Anonymous]

This is Larry stepping in (as expected) with a plug for South Wind Heaters, you can look at http://www.southwindheater.com for more info, now how many can I put you down for?

I have to admit, that CTA heater looks pretty decent.

[Anonymous]

If you want a decent heater, look in a cold country like Canada or Sweden.

So Larry, at the risk of hi-jacking this thread away from Nigel’s original question, re the gasoline fired heater, what creates the vacuum and where do the combustion by-products go? A connection to the inlet manifold? So does combustion stop when the engine stops? Lovely bit of art deco.

Chris

[Anonymous]

My Light 15 has a Clayton heater fitted. This is attached via brackets to the rear engine mount bolts.
Works pretty well once the car has been warmed up and the water is warm.
These heaters, similar to the Smith’s of the 1950’s, come in various configurations – de-misting tubes, copper in-out-let pipes straight or bent etc.

The take-off for the water supply is shown below – top and bottom radiator hoses with t-pieces.

Two flexible hoses enter the cab via the redundant “heater tubes” on the bulkhead.

(Messy cables are from the trickle charger!)

[Anonymous]

Chris- A connection must be made from the heater exhaust to the intake manifold as fuel is pulled in by the engine’s vacuum and is not pumped in. Generally the fuel is taken from the carb’s float bowl using a siphon that is supplied with the heater or any still reservoir of gasoline can be used such as a shallow metal can that can be refilled with a funnel. The heater only works when the engine is running. Look through the website and all is explained. I’ve brought over to the U.K. several heaters when I’ve gone to John Gillard’s. Can’t recall exactly who they were, though.

[Anonymous]

Thanks guys there is a lot of useful info in the post

Nigel

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