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Hi
My 28 has the exhaust manifold heater incased with the Chevy scipt on the side, and was woundering if anyone has a pic of what the heater door looks like , I am restoring to orignial.
Thanx's


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Here's a picture of mine. It needs to be rotated counter clockwise 90* but this is it. It is 5 1/4" high x 6" wide.

Thanx rb12
Now I know what this look's like, I can start to search one out now.
Do you know if this unit was mounted beside the E-brake handle??
I have a hole in the floor , looks like it may have mounted there or is it for something else???
Thanx's again.

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To the best of my knowledge it was mounted well above the e brake. Someone else will have to tell us exactly where as I have never seen anything in writing about it.

Hey rbl2
I'm going to dig up the orginal 28 kick plate and draft out the patern with indepth measurements with cutouts of steering , wire harness, gas pedal, heaterdoor ,foot rest and starter switch locations and post it.
For anyone who is looking for this application.
I took a better look that hole beside my E-brake and chainsaw kelly was there and left his mark. lol.
Thanx's


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Bill,

When you purchased the heater from Gary Wallace, it included a piece of flex tubing to connect the manifold box to the heater register. The length of that piece of flex would allow you to figure out the position(cutout location) of the register on the toe board.

You replied to my request for a heater on the AACA website. I have since located a complete unit. Thanks for your earlier help. How long is your flex tubing?

These are extremely rare rbl2-good luck in finding one. I got mine from an ad in the G&D and will have it mounted by Summer.

Jim

Perhaps I am reading something into your instructions on the 1928 heater.

There is an air heater assembled around the exhaust pipe that has a round flexible pipe that goes from the connection on the heater to the intake on the carburetor. This is for heating the air intake on the carburetor.

There is an accessory passenger heater that requires a special exhaust manifold that is surrounded by sheet-metal. Near the rear of the heater unit it is shaped into a box type pipe that extends down by the exhaust pipe/air heater. This box pipe is connected to the control box that is mounted on the floorboard. On the inside there is a grill, with a cut out of the bow tie, that attaches to the box pipe on the engine side of the floorboard. Incorporated in the inside grill is a slide valve that is operated by your foot that either opens or closes the grill. This either turns the heat on or stops the flow inside the car.

Ray,

The subject is a heater for the car, not the carb heater. If you recall, you posted/replied to my original inquiry last year with pictures of the floor register grill(as in the picture posted by Bill in this topic). His pic also shows the register with grill attached.

Jim

Hey Chief
I found that this pipe can be purchased at your local auto/ hardware store that sells flex exhaust pipes, Just need to cut to length, and look they very close to original, but may need to shop around, cause some don't stock this size but may be special ordered at some locations, or can point you in the right direction.
Its alot cheeper than reman one's + Quick to find.
Or check your local muffler shop they my be able to help.
Just a thought.
They even have it in stove pipe to carb applications.
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Hi AntiqueMechanic
On my 28 I have the same exhaust manifold with heater box,and it has a round 2 1/4" flex pipe going down from heater box to connect to floor heater.
This is an original piece from factory, not an add on from somebody else , and has not been choped to make work.
I live in Canada and am not sure if this was a factory option for shipments to canada in 1928, or a assembled in canada thing?
Are you able to shed light on this????


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Understand what you are saying now. The hot air heater was a genuine (if it has the bowtie) Chevrolet accessory. It is pictured in the CSN and has a description. It would be dealer installed.

The bowtie is stamped into the metal of manifold heater box.
Are these rare to find or a common item?

NOS is probably hard to come by, although I have one still in the box. You will find several of the manifolds installed and the remainder of the stuff missing.

Hi AntiqueMechanic
Does this part have a MFG Part#?????


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I do not have a part number handy, however it it pictured and described on page 12 of the January 1928 Chevrolet Service News. (If you have a 1928 Chevrolet you need the entire set of CSNs for 1928 and it is also recommended you have the 1929 set). These CSNs are available several places in reprint and are very inexpensive.