I promised Paul that I would give him working heat on this car and that proved a challenge. The heater boxes were trashed, (covered previously), and the whole system was inoperable for many years with stuck flaps and bent pieces, etc. I'm proud to say that I got one side functional, (drivers side), and passenger side just needs a new cable to be working. It will not be at 100% because of flaps on box that do not close completely but it will definitely make heat/defrost and be able to be shut off. Here it is, first I had to free-up the flaps on the body heat controls. After lots of WD40 and working them back and forth, they move pretty well:
Here are the levers/cables that operate the heat from a knob on floor of tunnel:
And lastly, the flaps under the hood that open to provide warm air to carbs for quick warm-up. They are controlled by a thermostat that is broken and not easily replaced, (expensive and NLA), the good news is that they break in the *flaps closed* position. As long as linkage is present, hot air will not blow into the engine compartment. When I picked up the car last summer, the linkage was MIA and probably like that for years considering the state of maintenance of the rest of the car. The previous owner had a mechanic that did not actually fix anything. He simply told the owner that the parts were NLA, (I'm guessing), and then left things inoperable or broken. Having these flaps open all the time completely defeats the design of the air-cooled engine and almost certainly caused a hot running condition. I was able to easily source the missing linkage parts from a business whose name shall not be mentioned (or typed) here,
, here it is all buttoned-up:
