VCCA Home Forums TECHNICAL - 1945 AND EARLIER 1929-1932 Hot Water Heater Identification

I found a hot water heater for a Chevrolet, but I am not certain of the year car it may have come from. I will try to describe it. It is black with krinkle paint. The water tubes come out of the flat top, then the sides flair out and then taper back at the bottom to create a diamond shape. There are two swing doors at the bottom. I will try to post a picture but I have never done it before. Any help would be appriciated.

that doesn`t sound like the after market one i got in my 30 at all. did you see my pictures of my 30? theres one where you can see my heater. look under (my 30 coach) for the one i got in car. it was there when i got my 30.

Where do I look to see the heater you are referring to? I am not familiar with all of the tools on this web site. It is not an after market heater, it has the Chevrolet tag on the front of it.

The 1930 Chevrolet models did not have a hot water heater. The first Chevrolet accessory hot water heater was in 1931. The heater used in 1930 was an exhaust jacket hot air heater.

You need to purchase the Chevrolet Service News for 1929 and 1930 from the Filling Station. There are 12 issues of Service News for each year, and they show the correct exhaust jacket heater for your car and also how it is installed.

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skip is right.
the 30 had a hot air box off the exhaust manifold to bring in hot air under the driver side floor broads. like VW used to use. but they rotted away fast.
to see my pictures go to my project and look for " my 30 coach"

Actually, it wasn't a hot air box on the manifold. It was an exhaust jacket assembly that took the place of the exhaust pipe from the exhaust manifold to the muffler. That assembly routed hot air, through a valve, into a register on the floor in front of the driver's side of the seat.

Yep, it didn't take long for the exhaust jacket to rot and then exhaust gases were coming into the driver's compartment.

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The heater you describe is a '33-'35 accessory unit. A rounded top tombstone shaped hot water heater was used possibly as early as late in the '30 model year through at the early part of the '33 model year.

thanks skip. i stand corrected.
i only had a picture of it when i started my build.

Reference material indicates that the first hot water heater probably did not come out until late in the 1931 model year. The accessory hot water heater isn't even listed in the August edition of the 1931 parts book.

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buggymangp: No biggie....just didn't want anyone to confuse the Chevrolet exhaust jacket type of heater with the aftermarket exhaust manifold heater since they are not the same.

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ok skip
you know alot more about these old chevys than i ever will.
luckly when i built my car it was all there. ok. the heater wasn`t there but there was heater in my car. so it was easy to rebuild my car. just take it apart, clean, repair, replace, paint, reinstall and move on to the next piece. i didn`t have to do much resreach on the car.

skip.
BTW. my name is glenn.

Hi Glenn!

Ya, that's the kind of car dudes like to restore since everything is there...so very little research is required. And, it is easier to put the car back together when not much is missing in the way of parts or body sheet metal.

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Thanks for all the imput. I have one of the tombstone style heaters for a 31. My car is a 1930 fourdoor. Purchased the heater for my display. I think now the other one is for the 33 to 35 Chevy. Thanks again for all your help. How do you put a picture on a posting? Is this possible? Where might find the instructions on this site?

If u need to have it recored be sure to leave the box. Only yesterday I tried to put my core back in the box and discovered they had made it 5/16's too wide . Now they are redoing it.