[T3] heater thermostats

[Keith Park]

If you talking about the little bellows thermostats you can remove them, you
will get considerably MORE heat that way, it wont burn off any paint but you
might melt your passengers shoes if they are not careful.

Ive been runnning this way for many years now since having the T4 engine in
there.  With the T4 heater boxes you got even more heat than with a T3 and
still no paint issues, the heater tube in the rocker is 2 layers of metal
under the paint and they are not attached.  I much prefer the extra heat
having those clots out of the flow.

Keith


Topnotch Restorations
topnotch at nycap.rr.om
http://www.a383ina68.addr.com/radiorest/main.htm
71 Squareback  "Hothe"
65 Squareback  "Eggcrate"
65 Notchback  "El Baja Rojo"
93 RX7  "Redstur"
87 Golf  "Winterat"


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From: type3-vwtype3.org [mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org]
On Behalf Of Dennis Stiefel
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 5:13 PM
To: type3 at vwtype3.org
Subject: [T3] heater thermostats

This is the first time Clementine has had a stock muffler since 1984.  In
this time I have had no issues with the way the heater functions as long as
I kept the hoses from the fan housing to the heater boxes on.  I remember
someone on here saying at one time on here that when you run an aftermarket
exhaust and do away with the hoses coming off the elbows to the heater
thermostats that you could run the risk of the heat getting so hot going
into the duct work it could burn the paint off the rockers under the doors
(I think). When I heard this I was about to scrap out my parts car (a 72
square).  After hearing this I took the heater thermostats off it among any
other good parts that was left before we took what was left to the scrap
yard. I'm wondering should I replace the ones on it with the ones off the
parts car or just leave it un hooked like it has been for the last 30 years
and just plug off the ports on the elbows.  Right now I just have the places
on the fan housing plugged off where the elbows hook up but we are about to
get our first freeze here in NE Alabama and I mainly drive the car from
September to May ( some in the summer but no more than I have to) so I need
to get the heater hooked back up here soon.  

 

Dennis Stiefel

72 Fastback FI MT (Clementine)

71 Stander Beetle Middle Son's car

67 Ford F-100 Hart of Crown Vic. (Leroy)

88 Golf Oldiest Son's car

10 Toyota Corolla Wife's car

65 Ford 4000 (old Blue)

Rainsville, Alabama

 



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