Thread: New kid on the block - Series IIA 1970 SWB

Originally Posted by crackers

Investigate keeping the original heater case and fitting something effective inside - no, it won't 'be original' but it would 'look original'.

There was a recent discussion about heaters on here recently. Try to find that as it did offer options.

Yes my researches showed there were from memory two different cores that might fit inside the old round Smith's heater; one of them might require a little bit of fiddling with the side clips. They were two different core types, as in different to the very fine steel lattice core of the original - a design which makes them irreparable.

I did a pretty thorough search on here at the time and I did start a thread of my own only a few weeks back. But will go back and have another go. Thanks crackers I try not to be a complete pragmatist ( read 'pleb') and if I could get a repair at a reasonable price I would probably stick with the Smith's for "originality" reasons alone even if the heat output was not brilliant. It is a Series IIA Land Rover after all. Can't expect it to be as warm as wife's Toyota Echo which, I am sure, you could convert to a sauna in the right conditions given a galvanized bucket, some water and a couple of rocks.

Originally Posted by gromit

Damian,

Interesting article in Land Rover Owner International magazine ( Spring Issue 5 2015) on a chap in the UK that specialises in repairing Smiths heaters.
People from around the World send them to him for repair.

Chris Parker carpcrew@yahoo.co.uk or his Ebay name carpcrew_123

Apparently he sometimes has them for sale (nothing on Ebay at the moment).



Colin

If it's the repair I'm thinking of, if you're not barking mad when you start, you will be by the end A very good, winters evening in front of tele job that... assuming you're sensibly single like I am