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VEHICLES => DAILY DRIVERS/GROCERY GETTERS => Topic started by: stokester on May 11, 2020, 05:54:11 PM

Title: Vehicle Accessory
Post by: stokester on May 11, 2020, 05:54:11 PM: With some extra time on my hands I was cleaning out my parts boxes and came across this.

So who has seen one of these?
Title: Re: Vehicle Accessory
Post by: DeadNutz on May 11, 2020, 06:25:53 PM: Looks like an automotive heater but where is that used exactly?
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Post by: slip knot on May 11, 2020, 06:40:06 PM: Its a battery, AA by the looks of it. :lol_hitting:
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Post by: goodfellow on May 11, 2020, 06:45:01 PM: Classic Volkswagen oil heater --
Title: Re: Vehicle Accessory
Post by: muddy on May 11, 2020, 09:13:57 PM: Quote from: goodfellow on May 11, 2020, 06:45:01 PM
Classic Volkswagen oil heater --
You sure it's not a water heater for a Volkswagen...... ;-)

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Title: Re: Vehicle Accessory
Post by: DeadNutz on May 11, 2020, 11:46:08 PM: Quote from: muddy on May 11, 2020, 09:13:57 PM
Quote from: goodfellow on May 11, 2020, 06:45:01 PM
Classic Volkswagen oil heater --
You sure it's not a water heater for a Volkswagen...... ;-)

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It's a heater for the muffler bearing.
Title: Re: Vehicle Accessory
Post by: J.A.F.E. on May 12, 2020, 02:10:39 AM: On those air cooled VWs the heater needed a heater.
Title: Re: Vehicle Accessory
Post by: stokester on May 12, 2020, 09:52:27 AM: Quote from: goodfellow on May 11, 2020, 06:45:01 PM
Classic Volkswagen oil heater --

That's right, an aircooled VW engine heater.

I think that there was some type of bracket that bolted to the studs of the oil screen that this would allow it attach.
Title: Re: Vehicle Accessory
Post by: goodfellow on May 12, 2020, 10:49:55 AM: Quote from: J.A.F.E. on May 12, 2020, 02:10:39 AM
On those air cooled VWs the heater needed a heater.

Mostly useless in harsh cold weather -- and in some cases very dangerous if there was even the slightest exhaust leak. As kids we always looked for the warmest place in the entire car - which was lying on the rear window deck; right above the warm engine. This was in the late 50s -- early 60s when you still could get away with that kind of behavior.
Title: Re: Vehicle Accessory
Post by: J.A.F.E. on May 12, 2020, 12:57:49 PM: When new if everything was tight and connected it gave some heat but in really cold weather you were lucky to have a mostly clear windshield.

Oddly Porsche of the same era had much better heaters and they were pretty much the same basic design.
Title: Re: Vehicle Accessory
Post by: stokester on May 12, 2020, 06:17:03 PM: Quote from: J.A.F.E. on May 12, 2020, 02:10:39 AM
On those air cooled VWs the heater needed a heater.

I've got one of those Stewart Warner Southwind gas heaters too :-\
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Post by: J.A.F.E. on May 12, 2020, 06:57:13 PM: That would be a good thing to have in those cars.
Title: Re: Vehicle Accessory
Post by: pep on May 12, 2020, 09:22:13 PM: Quote from: DeadNutz on May 11, 2020, 11:46:08 PM
Quote from: muddy on May 11, 2020, 09:13:57 PM
Quote from: goodfellow on May 11, 2020, 06:45:01 PM
Classic Volkswagen oil heater --
You sure it's not a water heater for a Volkswagen...... ;-)

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If it won't start need a chow line for a tow. When done grab a bucket of prop wash clean it up.

It's a heater for the muffler bearing.
Title: Re: Vehicle Accessory
Post by: GNAP on May 13, 2020, 10:38:32 AM: Your going to need an adapter to get that AA battery to power that heating element, I believe JC Whitney has them in stock.............