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Type 2 heater tube replacement.

  • 16-07-2010 2:59pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭


    Has anyone replaced heater tubes on a Type 2 before?

    Intend replacing from the engine back to the cab inluding the "Y" piece and ducting since I have the floor up.

    I heard of people using plastic for the main section.

    Looking for tips and best place to source,

    Cheers.


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 729 ✭✭✭oflynno


    what have you stuck into the chassis there?

    you have cut out a few sections,nosey me!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    The chassis is currently resting on two trestles

    Removing and replacing all cross members, top hats and outriggers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 729 ✭✭✭oflynno


    my brother bought tubing before like radiator pipe but with steel wire spiralling around it for strength

    it can be used for air,coolant or oilflow.
    i will find out where he got it,i know it was expensive enough compared to rad pipe but you can bend it easy and it will not be fragile like the vw air pipe is

    i think it was in JH Hydraulic services in Cork,i will find out for sure


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 119 ✭✭walter sobchak


    I'd be careful using plastic pipe - check out the temperature rating for it - you don't want the cab filling with fumes - the temperature at the heat exchanger end is mad hot ...
    Plenty of threads on the Samba on this topic - e.g. http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=190118&highlight=replace+heater+pipe


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 729 ✭✭✭oflynno


    it wasnt plastic,it was auto radiator pipe,that should be good for those temperatures


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    I'd be careful using plastic pipe - check out the temperature rating for it - you don't want the cab filling with fumes - the temperature at the heat exchanger end is mad hot ...
    Plenty of threads on the Samba on this topic - e.g. http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=190118&highlight=replace+heater+pipe
    Its a VW, its hardly going to heat up. :p

    A mate of my fathers was arrested at the border in the 60's for having an open calor gas flame heater strapped in the back of his VW van to keep himself warm, he was also transporting valerian blinds which were highly inflammable.


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