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Vehicle Accessory
« 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? 



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Re: Vehicle Accessory
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2020, 06:25:53 PM »
Looks like an automotive heater but where is that used exactly?

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Re: Vehicle Accessory
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2020, 06:40:06 PM »
Its    a     battery, AA by the looks of it.  :lol_hitting:

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Re: Vehicle Accessory
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2020, 06:45:01 PM »
Classic Volkswagen oil heater  --

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Re: Vehicle Accessory
« Reply #4 on: May 11, 2020, 09:13:57 PM »
Classic Volkswagen oil heater  --
You sure it's not a water heater for a Volkswagen...... ;-)

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Re: Vehicle Accessory
« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2020, 11:46:08 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.

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Re: Vehicle Accessory
« Reply #6 on: May 12, 2020, 02:10:39 AM »
On those air cooled VWs the heater needed a heater.
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Re: Vehicle Accessory
« Reply #7 on: May 12, 2020, 09:52:27 AM »
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.
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Re: Vehicle Accessory
« Reply #8 on: May 12, 2020, 10:49:55 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.

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Re: Vehicle Accessory
« Reply #9 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.
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Re: Vehicle Accessory
« Reply #10 on: May 12, 2020, 06:17:03 PM »
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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Re: Vehicle Accessory
« Reply #11 on: May 12, 2020, 06:57:13 PM »
That would be a good thing to have in those cars.
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Re: Vehicle Accessory
« Reply #12 on: May 12, 2020, 09:22:13 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.
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Re: Vehicle Accessory
« Reply #13 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.............
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