Heater Unit Resto

transexl

transexl

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Guten Tag Mädchen und Jungs!
:LOL:

The tiring effects of our move last year are wearing off, we are getting settled and are very happy indeed! :p
I do hope everybody here is doing well :!: I got some catching up to do o see what we have missed.... .

(By the way: our holiday this year is bringing us to the UK again :!: :p :!: :p :!: )

Right now I am glad to have you here to answer all my heater unit questions!

I chose to store the pics I took of the (largely) dismanteled and roughly sandblasted box right here:

http://s1085.photobucket.com/user/trans ... t=2&page=1,

but I think most questions can be answered without viewing them.
(The heater motor and resistor are fault-free as far as we can say)

Here goes:
- Is there anything to improve when rebuilding? I would love to tune the heater fan, for example. Maybe there are "better" resistors available? How long do they last? Can I instal it somewhere more readily accessible in case it gives up working?
- Does the outside/fresh air flap open only WITH the fan coming into action - as was the case on Jimmy - or can I open that flap and then switch on the fan?
- What parts - hoses, rubber fittings/seals - can NOT be purchased seperately or at all?
- Is it important to replace rivets with rivets and screws with screws?
- What to look for in the hole and rubber seal UNDER the unit/on the body?
- Can I lose the damping material under and behind the heater unit? (Unwanted water storage)
- How are chances of replacing the lower windshield seal - or maybe even all windshield seals!?!?!?!? - now I´ve come so far?
- Has someone opened (AND CLOSED!) the linkage that is "riveted" directly to the axis of the flaps? I mean the three linkages coming from the heater levers in the interior where they are attached to the flaps with a toothed axis.
- Is the cooler/radiator available new? (EDIT: It is called heater matrix, as I found out...)

I think there are more questions coming along the way, but I can get started from here on next week after this :wink:
DANKE im Vorraus! 8)

stefan
 
- Is there anything to improve when rebuilding? I would love to tune the heater fan, for example. Maybe there are "better" resistors available? How long do they last? Can I instal it somewhere more readily accessible in case it gives up working?

Don't know, I kept mine the same as it was always perfectly acceptable to me.

- Does the outside/fresh air flap open only WITH the fan coming into action - as was the case on Jimmy - or can I open that flap and then switch on the fan?

There are four settings:-
1 - at the top, flap closed heater motor off.
2 - first one down - flap open, heater motor off.
3 - second down - flap open - heater motor half power.
4 - at the bottom - flap open - motor running at full power

- What parts - hoses, rubber fittings/seals - can NOT be purchased seperately or at all?

You'll have to look around at current supplier lists. I do know they are NOT all available, so be very careful remoing them even if they look dodgy. They may have to go back as they are.

- Is it important to replace rivets with rivets and screws with screws?

That's down to personal preference, i.e. if you want it to look original. Just be careful that you don't put a self tapping screw through a panel and straight into the matrix :shock:

- What to look for in the hole and rubber seal UNDER the unit/on the body?

Just a couple of grates :?:

- Can I lose the damping material under and behind the heater unit? (Unwanted water storage)

Do you like extra noise?

- How are chances of replacing the lower windshield seal - or maybe even all windshield seals!?!?!?!? - now I´ve come so far?

The lower one can be the main cause of rot around the heater area, so change that one if there is a single crack in it.

- Has someone opened (AND CLOSED!) the linkage that is "riveted" directly to the axis of the flaps? I mean the three linkages coming from the heater levers in the interior where they are attached to the flaps with a toothed axis.

Nope :)

- Is the cooler/radiator available new? (EDIT: It is called heater matrix, as I found out...)

Don't know

I think there are more questions coming along the way, but I can get started from here on next week after this :wink:
DANKE im Vorraus! 8)

stefan

Richard
 
transexl said:
- Is the cooler/radiator available new? (EDIT: It is called heater matrix, as I found out...)

stefan
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Hi Stefan,

I seem to remember someone on here (possibly Mike Parkes?) fitting one of these and being pleased with it:

http://www.demisterman.co.uk/Rover/Rover P6 Heater matrix.php

Quattro's comments seconded.

Only to add: when you renew the foam on the heater flaps, don't take it right to the edges as the flaps won't then close and seal off the airflow completely.

There's a fair bit of detail in sowen's muscle car thread on refurbing the heater about 1/2 way down this page:

http://www.classicroverforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=5288&hilit=heater&start=240


Good luck with the job!
 
Hi guys!

@ John:
Same with me!
I found Pilkies thread by coincident, that just might be the one you have in mind:
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=12263#p99330

Also one on another forum (streetmachine?) by "sowen" that makes me :oops: with shame for its thoroughness... .

@ Richard:
DANKE SEHR - VERY much what I needed!!
I will investigate further.
(I hate the "very careful"-part, though. The big rubber seal that goes to the bulk head IS dodgy... ).

@vaultsman:
You came in just the minute I wrote - THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
I think I can find some more clues from here.
(I found the demister page and offer yesterday - pleased to hear that it seems to be genuine!!)

Did I read somewhere (sowen!?!?) that the box was spot-welded in the factory?? :shock:
 
- Can I lose the damping material under and behind the heater unit? (Unwanted water storage)

Do you like extra noise?
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Wouldn't modern Butyl damping be better and not hold water? It'll almost certainly out-perform the original material as well.
 
transexl,
Pilkie's thread is good, but the one I am thinking of ran to a few pages and had loads of pictures along the way to detail the text and guide the reader along. Just the sort of thing I'd need..... :roll:
 
unstable load said:
Just the sort of thing I'd need..... :roll:
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... and me :!: :oops: :roll: :LOL:

Thank you guys!!!



(By the way, as we are merrily searching for and collecting threads here - again:
What happened to the "How-To-Do-It"-section- idea?
I can´t seem to find the right thread right now... :roll: )
 
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