Heater cable attachment

Post by **Lloydy boy** » 19 Oct 2006, 10:05

Hi all,
This is my first post! I've got a 82 Aircooled bus which i'm currently putting back on the road and when she's all mot'd I will convert her to a camper. My questions is does anyone have a diagram or know a manual where it shows how to connect the heater cables up to the heater pods?
I've fitted new heat exchangers, new pods and fitted new cables. I've bought new cable clamps but can't work out how to fit it all together?

Any help appreciated,
Thanks

Post by **Dubstar** » 19 Oct 2006, 11:15

Basically, looking in my Haynes and looking under my Aircooled Westy, there should, on the end of the cable, be a steel rod with a bolt to clamp it to the cable. This bolt and the fat round piece of metal it goes into hooks into the arm on the heat contol flap. One of mine snapped off so I got a piece of pushbike brake cable with a nipple on one end, and a bolt with a hole in it to put the cable through, and a nut and a washer to tighten it up. It's a bit of a temporary fix, but it does work. If on the end of the cables it's just bare cable and not this thing steel rod with a bolt in it, then that's the problem. 8mm bolt, and the rod isn't much thicker than the cable and is about 3 inches long.

Post by **Lloydy boy** » 19 Oct 2006, 15:16

Thanks for the help mate, i'll get under there and have a go. There is a longish bar on the end of the cable so i'll have a try. Is there a supose to be a spring there somewhere to help it move back?

Post by **Dubstar** » 19 Oct 2006, 15:43

No, the actual spring loading is in the heater pod itself. If you pull the arm against the spring that lets the hot air through, so on mine at the moment I've tie wrapped the flap open so I get some heat through as my cables are a bit knackered.

Post by **Lloydy boy** » 20 Oct 2006, 09:04

Thanks for the help mate,
been under the bus this morning and the heater pods got good springs on them! Waiting for the rain to stop now to connect it all up!

Website · Post by **CovKid** » 22 Oct 2006, 06:45

Also, going back to my days spent under Beetles fixing heaters, cables often break off at the ends. Our solution was to use a choc-block connector on the end of a broken cable (if theres enough cable left) and a short section of domestic coat hanger wire in the other - thereby restoring the length.

If all else fails you wedge heaters open in winter and close em in summer.