So I had 3 heaters all of them had issues but I mannaged to get one good heater by disecting all 3 of them.I ordered all new seals , a new decal, had the sheetmetal powdercoated semi gloss black and changed out all of the sheetmetal screws to 10-24 stainless button heads. I also took apart the motor and cleaned out 50 years of muck. I was amazed at original heater core design,it looked like it was engineered to fail.The heater control valve as in a steel tube that was bolted to the side of the copper core with nothing separating the dissimilar metals..any how here is the finished project...Im overly excited about it!9353a246
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rebuilt my heater
stabbinwagon- Number of posts : 104
Location : vista,ca
Registration date : 2011-10-07
- Post n°1
rebuilt my heater
Old Skool- Econoline Guru
- Number of posts : 1306
Location : North Hills, CA
Age : 72
Registration date : 2009-06-13
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Re: rebuilt my heater
Man,,, I am envious of your shop,,,, nice job.
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Donn- Number of posts : 692
Location : Long Island, New York
Registration date : 2009-04-05
- Post n°3
Re: rebuilt my heater
WOW GREAT JOB
vanny- Moderator
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Location : Ashburnham, MA
Age : 65
Registration date : 2012-09-22
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Re: rebuilt my heater
Wow, now it looks like it's built to last, built StabbinWagon Tough! Looks better than new...Nice piece of work!
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Magic Bus- Number of posts : 1422
Location : -Gateway to the West - St Louis Missouri
Registration date : 2009-12-02
- Post n°5
Re: rebuilt my heater
Very nice, top notch!
gh0st- Number of posts : 50
Location : virginia
Registration date : 2011-07-25
- Post n°6
Re: rebuilt my heater
So what heater core did you end up using, and what is that 4-corss pipe for?
stabbinwagon- Number of posts : 104
Location : vista,ca
Registration date : 2011-10-07
- Post n°7
Re: rebuilt my heater
I used a 83-94 ford ranger heater core,had to make a new hole in the bottom of the box,the tubes were a little closer together.The pipe picture is non related..it was titled "heater3" when i posted the pics.its a tenon adapter.gh0st wrote:So what heater core did you end up using, and what is that 4-corss pipe for?
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