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On 5 Apr 2004 at 15:24, Mark Seaton wrote:
> I just bought this heater pipe on Ebay: www.mo-sys.com/heaterpipe.jpg
> It is part no 311255 355 B .
> Apparently it is for square or notch up to chassis no 280370 ('63)
Yes, that appears to be correct. I didn't realize that the very early type 3s
were different.
> I want to replace mine as they had the asbestos insulation so I threw that
> out and these look more robust than the springy metal tubes. So the question
> is has anyone seen these for later ('73) cars?
I don't think there is any asbestos in those, nor in the heat exchanger
insulators. There's really no reason for it, because the temps are just not
that high. The material around the late warm air flex tubes is just fiberglass
cloth, as is the material around the heat exchangers.
Beetles used a corrigated plastic bellows arrangement which does look nice and
probably doesn't rust out like ours do, but they are the wrong length and
diameter. I have several different ones, but they won't fit my type 3s.
If someone wants to buy one for a beetle let me know what you need. I'll be
glad to sell mine.
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Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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