I’ve heard of gas heaters before but never seen one explained before, a friend had one in his VW that never worked right. Really amazing the work we went to in the old days to be comfortable in wintertime! Seems the engineering is sound, it just has to be perfectly set up to work.
Thank that did help👍got one at auction was excited but dont have the jet tube or vacuum kit will have to locate,will be putting in my 48'chevy cab over,Thanks
Great video. I have several of these. Never found anyone who knew anything about them. I'm missing all the parts in the engine compartment. Know any place I can buy these parts?
I have a spare heater, but I don’t have any extra parts that go in the engine compartment area. Those are the most important parts and they seem to have become more rare. I locked out with a complete box kit off eBay one time.
I’ve had one installed in my 1946 cj-2a jeep for a long time now. It works great and heats up within the advertised 90 seconds. I’m curious about that vacuum port adaptor that mounts between the intake and carb. You mentioned you heater did not function correctly without it. Presumably you connected the heater directly to the intake manifold vacuum port? What is the intake vacuum you get at idle? On my keep the intake vacuum roughly is 18 inches of mercury at idle and the heater works great despite not using one of those vacuum adaptors. I have mine plumb straight into the intake manifold.
@eriks191 Great video. thank you for doing this. Are you running this off a 6V system, like most cars were back in those times? I'm having trouble with mine getting the glow plug to light on 6V (tried multiple plugs). I can get it to go on 12V but am wondering if that's to much for these.
@@HillbillyCraftsman yes I’m running it on 6v. Never had issues with plug not getting hot enough. Have you checked to make sure you’re getting full 6v to the plug? Running on 12 could burn out the plug quicker. Also you know for certain that’s why the heater isn’t igniting because of the plug not glowing hot enough? They were designed for 6v. Everything must line up perfectly with air fuel mixture and strong vacuum otherwise if the gas is not itemized correctly, it will just flood the carburetor in the heater. I do have another video on here that shows an exploded view of the inside of the heater. If you’re curious to see what it all looks like.
How well would you say this works in the real world? I've always been curious about this but have found little in the way of actual testimonials as to their efficacy. I picked up a 781 at auction recently, and your video helped me realize that one of the preceding lots, which appeared to be a jumble of copper pipe, was actually the accompanying emulsion tube setup! Fortunately, I acquired both lots and now have a complete heater kit.
The heater works extremely well and provides a constant heat flow. Once the heater ignites and warms up the fan will run very strong if the heater is properly running. In the winter time at night I can drive the car without a jacket on. I do have another video on my channel that explains the parts and an exploded view of what it looks like inside the heater.
I have a quick question for you, good sir! That jet tube attached to the carburetor. Does fuel slosh out of the hole you drilled into the top or anything like that? Is it sealed in any way? I'm prepping to install one, and this is the one part of the install that has me a little nervous. I don't want to screw anything up by accident.
The hole drilled on top of the carburetor should be the exact size for the tube to slide into. I’ve had a little bit of you could say, moisture come out on top of the carburetor, but never anything spilling out. I just need to make sure when you drill the hole that the tube slides in and does not interfere with the float.
I’ve heard of gas heaters before but never seen one explained before, a friend had one in his VW that never worked right.
Really amazing the work we went to in the old days to be comfortable in wintertime! Seems the engineering is sound, it just has to be perfectly set up to work.
Thank that did help👍got one at auction was excited but dont have the jet tube or vacuum kit will have to locate,will be putting in my 48'chevy cab over,Thanks
eBay. You may end up buy another heater but you can get it for parts. Had a friend do that. Just to get the jet tube.
Great video. I have several of these. Never found anyone who knew anything about them. I'm missing all the parts in the engine compartment. Know any place I can buy these parts?
I have a spare heater, but I don’t have any extra parts that go in the engine compartment area. Those are the most important parts and they seem to have become more rare. I locked out with a complete box kit off eBay one time.
I’ve had one installed in my 1946 cj-2a jeep for a long time now. It works great and heats up within the advertised 90 seconds. I’m curious about that vacuum port adaptor that mounts between the intake and carb. You mentioned you heater did not function correctly without it. Presumably you connected the heater directly to the intake manifold vacuum port?
What is the intake vacuum you get at idle? On my keep the intake vacuum roughly is 18 inches of mercury at idle and the heater works great despite not using one of those vacuum adaptors. I have mine plumb straight into the intake manifold.
We're known to flash back in the day may be not connected properly. We're common in model A s back in the day .
@eriks191 Great video. thank you for doing this. Are you running this off a 6V system, like most cars were back in those times? I'm having trouble with mine getting the glow plug to light on 6V (tried multiple plugs). I can get it to go on 12V but am wondering if that's to much for these.
@@HillbillyCraftsman yes I’m running it on 6v. Never had issues with plug not getting hot enough. Have you checked to make sure you’re getting full 6v to the plug? Running on 12 could burn out the plug quicker. Also you know for certain that’s why the heater isn’t igniting because of the plug not glowing hot enough? They were designed for 6v. Everything must line up perfectly with air fuel mixture and strong vacuum otherwise if the gas is not itemized correctly, it will just flood the carburetor in the heater. I do have another video on here that shows an exploded view of the inside of the heater. If you’re curious to see what it all looks like.
How well would you say this works in the real world? I've always been curious about this but have found little in the way of actual testimonials as to their efficacy. I picked up a 781 at auction recently, and your video helped me realize that one of the preceding lots, which appeared to be a jumble of copper pipe, was actually the accompanying emulsion tube setup! Fortunately, I acquired both lots and now have a complete heater kit.
The heater works extremely well and provides a constant heat flow. Once the heater ignites and warms up the fan will run very strong if the heater is properly running. In the winter time at night I can drive the car without a jacket on. I do have another video on my channel that explains the parts and an exploded view of what it looks like inside the heater.
I have a quick question for you, good sir! That jet tube attached to the carburetor. Does fuel slosh out of the hole you drilled into the top or anything like that? Is it sealed in any way? I'm prepping to install one, and this is the one part of the install that has me a little nervous. I don't want to screw anything up by accident.
The hole drilled on top of the carburetor should be the exact size for the tube to slide into. I’ve had a little bit of you could say, moisture come out on top of the carburetor, but never anything spilling out. I just need to make sure when you drill the hole that the tube slides in and does not interfere with the float.
Hey buddy, thank you so very much for the response! That helps a ton!
I've got one in my 38 Ford. I've been too afraid to mess with it because I'm afraid of it catching fire!
You should check out my other video explaining how it works and I show you all the parts inside. It works very well if you have all the parts.
I found one in my basement. Trying to figure out how to use it on a greenhouse
Dang, used to be so dangerous....way simpler now.