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Hi I just bought a vintage Heatmaster under hood hanging heater, and was woundering what kind of fuel did these old heater's use?
It has an adjustable air valve on top of the fill spout, and a pull valve for flame adjustment.
Anybody know how these heater's worked???
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The heaters ran on gasoline, at that time it was more like "white gas". Today that fule is more like Colman stove fuel. If I had the nerve to try to light the heater I would use the Colman Fuel not gasoline.
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Hi thutch7244
I kinda thought that they used white gas but was not sure,I thought that the white gas needed to be pumped up to creat pressure.
There is no pump on the unit to make this.
I will wait for more input on this, before trying to light it.
Don't want to blow myself up by doing it wrong.
Thank's again.
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Jay28,
Don't know anything about your heater, but I did have an old VW Bus that had a gasoline heater. It ran off the engine fuel supply and was ignited by a small spark plug. The combustion chamber vented to the bottom of the bus and the heat chamber had a fan which blew into the cab from under the rear seat. I don't know how well it heated the ol bus, but it could fill the entire interior with smoke in less than 5 seconds.
Dan
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Jay28 I had a heater in the cab of my 1941 chevrolet pickup
Southwind heater and it drew gasoline from the carb ,it ran fine and heated the cab quickly , it was a little scary to use it first time but my Dad had used them and never had one explode . I just wonder if the Heatmaster and Southwind run on the same principal.
Howard50
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howard50 I think the Southwind had preasured fuel from the carb, where as the Heatmaster has none, it look's to be a fuel vapor unit.
What has me woundering about the Heatmaster is once filled with fuel and flame added, how is the unit to be shut down?? I can close off the air flow to put the flame out, but how do I stop the fuel vapor from escapeing, the only controls on the unit are the air valve for flame adjust, and a vented control cap on the top of the fill cap.
Some other under hood heaters I have seen only have a fill spout and no valves to control the unit, do you think that these are to be ran until all the fuel is gone??
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Thank's guy's for all your input on this heater.
I found out the info I needed to make this work, my earlier post were off about it being a vapor unit, I found out that it is a central draft wick system with a secondary primer wick, that runs on kerosene.
I bought the wick's I needed to make this work on ebay for $7.00.
Good thing I didn't use white gas, that would of been all bad.
Thank's again.
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J28, you are right about the white gas. If it uses a wick ultra pure lamp oil is a non smilling and smokeless substitute for kerosene.
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