Thread: Smiths Heater substitute

Originally Posted by Don 130

How badly do you want heat, and how much heat. One of these will do for heat, or a diesel fired webasto/ eberspacher type if you want lots of heat

Those Clayton heaters look the business but at $600 plus freight that's more than some of my Land Rovers cost.

I have a small round heater that came off a Series II, from memory its a Japanese unit (I'll have to dig it out).
As John already mentioned, swap meets, trash & treasure markets etc. might turn something up.

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I'll have to rely on the heat coming through the floor in the meantime......

Colin

would a replacement interior be possible...

seems if this fitted it would be great... and I havent looked long...

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cheers

Originally Posted by gromit

Those Clayton heaters look the business but at $600 plus freight that's more than some of my Land Rovers cost.

I have a small round heater that came off a Series II, from memory its a Japanese unit (I'll have to dig it out).
As John already mentioned, swap meets, trash & treasure markets etc. might turn something up.

Clayton details here Clayton Climate Control for all your Heating & Air Conditioning - Classic 'Circular' Heaters
I'll have to rely on the heat coming through the floor in the meantime......

Colin

Yes Colin never understood why they put the heater and the exhaust on the same side. The passenger gets the best of all worlds at least in winter.

Have you looked on ebay? There's this one:

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Originally Posted by damiane

Yes Colin never understood why they put the heater and the exhaust on the same side. The passenger gets the best of all worlds at least in winter.

In 1948 only luxury cars had heaters, so the heater was an afterthought. It is unlikely that more than a tiny proportion of Landrovers before Series 3 were delivered fitted with a heater*. English engines were frequently designed with the exhaust on the left, possibly to avoid conflict between underfloor pedal mechanism and the exhaust, although the choice often seems to have been a random choice by the designer.

While the original Landrover engine was designed before the Landrover was even thought of, it is likely that the new engine introduced for the Series 2 had the exhaust on the same side to minimise chassis redesign.

*the first two Landrovers I owned, from 1956 and 1958 (bought by me in 1963 and 1964), both had heaters from new as they were delivered to SMHEA. The next one, however, a 1961 model (bought 1966), was not fitted with one, a deficiency I remedied shortly after driving through snow on my way from the Simpson to Sydney.

John

there was an article on a bloke in UK that does up old ones - LRO Intl Spring Issue 5.


You can get that "bendy" copper pipe stuff as well if it makes the task easier.


cheers,
D

There was an ex-NSW Forestry 107 or 109 ute that had an odd heater. It was a length of exhaust pipe fitted inside the radiator fan shroud that ran back through the firewall to supply warm air from the radiator to inside the cab.

The Canadians have a local design Kodiac heater for Series 1 and 2 Land Rovers. In a country where a heater is essential they really know what's needed.

You can see some good details of one on TeriAnn Wakeman's Expedition Land Rover site: Series Land Rover Kodiak heaters