Wow great timing!! I have two in my cart on Amazon but haven’t decided on the tall and thin or the square one. Or any at all.. If you had to choose just one for camping, what would you choose?
From the factory, Volkswagen Beetle heaters where extremely effective. Within a few months, however, the j-tubes rust through in America, where salt, the dumbest idea ever, did what it does.
Id run that exhaust to blow on the body of your carburetor...baja's suck in cold weather ... the carb freezes up and fuel wont flow so you're left sitting on the side of the road till the carb thaws out... i had several baja bugs when i was young and lived in colorado , i had a 200 mile long paper route covering 3 towns and all the farmland around them, i always ended up borrowing my moms stock bug on cold snowy days since it still had the sheet metal surrounding the engine and a single carb with correct warm air intake...and my baja was a total badass in snow...... until the carb iced up lol 😆
Our engine builder actually put threads in the ends of the heater tube built into the intake. Next time I have the intake off I'll run the oil return line through it to give it some warmth.
@WanderlostOverland thats a great idea i wish id have thought about that when i was building bugs lol mid 70s bajas were new and exciting but alot of us didnt know much and i see that its evolved ALOT i may need another bug now lol they just arent as cheap as they used to be... my first bug only cost 75 dollars lol
Why is it required to put the combustion air intake outside? It seems logical to keep all air intakes inside the vehicle so as things warm up it doesn't have to work as hard.
The air intake blowing over the heat exchanger fins comes in the backside of the heater itself and does not mix with combustion intake air. Think of it as two separate intake and exhaust systems flowing through a single unit, but never mixing.
I have the exact same orange Vevor heater and it doesn't like that 3" dryer vent tube, I got the same error code when using that tube.
I like it, Happy New Year.
Wow great timing!! I have two in my cart on Amazon but haven’t decided on the tall and thin or the square one. Or any at all..
If you had to choose just one for camping, what would you choose?
The short one is far more stable.
That's sounds like a good heater
From the factory, Volkswagen Beetle heaters where extremely effective.
Within a few months, however, the j-tubes rust through in America, where salt, the dumbest idea ever, did what it does.
Id run that exhaust to blow on the body of your carburetor...baja's suck in cold weather ... the carb freezes up and fuel wont flow so you're left sitting on the side of the road till the carb thaws out... i had several baja bugs when i was young and lived in colorado , i had a 200 mile long paper route covering 3 towns and all the farmland around them, i always ended up borrowing my moms stock bug on cold snowy days since it still had the sheet metal surrounding the engine and a single carb with correct warm air intake...and my baja was a total badass in snow...... until the carb iced up lol 😆
Our engine builder actually put threads in the ends of the heater tube built into the intake. Next time I have the intake off I'll run the oil return line through it to give it some warmth.
@WanderlostOverland thats a great idea i wish id have thought about that when i was building bugs lol mid 70s bajas were new and exciting but alot of us didnt know much and i see that its evolved ALOT i may need another bug now lol they just arent as cheap as they used to be... my first bug only cost 75 dollars lol
Just watched heater vid from year ago. It was great info for getting mine set up.
Thank you.
Got a bit of a crush on the pretty lady 😊
Why is it required to put the combustion air intake outside? It seems logical to keep all air intakes inside the vehicle so as things warm up it doesn't have to work as hard.
Combustion air intake can be anywhere. Heated air intake needs to be away from Combustion exhaust air though to prevent CO poisoning
The air intake blowing over the heat exchanger fins comes in the backside of the heater itself and does not mix with combustion intake air. Think of it as two separate intake and exhaust systems flowing through a single unit, but never mixing.
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