Re: [T3] "gasoline heater"

["Charles L. Navarro" <c-navarro@nwu.edu>]

<x-charset iso-8859-1>Well I can myself vouch for the safety and effectiveness of the Eberspacher
gas heaters. I have a complete setup for a type 3 waiting around for me
until I have the time to install it, but I have had the fun time of doing a
totally custom gas heater setup using a type 4 ba4 gas heater underneath the
rear seat. I was aprehensive as to how safe this would be, but we built a
little custom exhaust for it and sealed it with muffler mender just to be
safe. We also made a few heat shields and insulated them with
fiberglass-like heat shielding. We then installed 2 150 cfm bilge blowers to
provide the recirculated airflow. Well, to let you know how well this thing
works...in three minutes the interior goes from about 40 F to 120 F. The
recirculated air gets so hot that the powercoating on the gas heater starts
to brown and give off a little smoke. Right at this point the heater blows
the fuse and cuts off the fuel flow, leaving the combustion blower blowing
and the ingition system firing until the unit totally cools down. It turns
out that our thermosat (the thingy on the dash) has a burnt out transistor
and thus has a problem impedence-matching with voltage with the thermosat in
the gas heater, so it doesnt cut off before it overheats. So I can indeed
attest to the safety features- they do work.

Happy hunting!

Charles Navarro
'72 sb in IL
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From: "shackedup" <shackedup@home.com>
To: "T3 Mailing List" <type3@vwtype3.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 7:19 AM
Subject: Re: [T3] "gasoline heater"


> Most, if not all VWs came with a gas-fired heater as an option.  There
were
> different models and configurations used over the years but most mounted
in
> the front trunk and drew fuel with an independant fuel pump direrctly from
> the gas tank.  The factory installed heaters were made by Eberspacher  and
> dealer-installed units were made by Stewart-Warner and Hupp (just found
out
> about that one thanks to Everett!) and maybe other makers.  Generally
> speaking when operational these things poured out heat but in almost every
> arrangement there is no provision to get the heat to the windshield!
There
> was a short run of cars in 1969 that added the gas heater inline the stock
> heating system and these naturally allowed heat to be directed everywhere
> the stock system allowed.  At some point in production ALL Canadian T3s
> started getting factory-installed gas heaters.
>
> People are pretty scared of these things but I've looked at a lot of VWs
in
> junkyards that have or have had gas heaters.  I've yet to see one with a
> blackened front trunk or any other evidence of an explosion!
>
> Andre
>
>
> > I've seen numerous Type 3's offered for sale with "gasoline fired
> > heaters".....Can anyone out there tell me the details of this
> > system....specs, how does it work, etc.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Joe
>
>
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