At last there is light at the end
of the tunnel, because you are reading what looks like the last report on the
car’s heater rebuilt (fingers crossed!). Yesterday saw the final saga of this project in a project:
fitting the heater to the car. But there were some smaller jobs that had to be
done first.
I fitted an extra (second) fixing
point to the bulkhead seal plate, so I had to drill an extra hole for this.
This was the easy bit, because I thought it would be much simpler to use the
seal plate as a template when it was not fitted to a cumbersome heater! Indeed
was only a few minutes job, certainly helped by a proper quality step-drill.
And with the new hole in place in the correct position it was time for the
final assembly of the heater, fitting the coolant pipes and bulkhead seal
plate:
I had hoped that after all the
preparations done already this would be straight sailing. It wasn’t, the heater
certainly kept the fight up right till the end! Because there was only very
little room to manoeuvre, fitting the two short hoses between the heater matrix
and the shortened steel pipes took some more time than expected. All rather
frustrating. But after almost an hour everything was in place, and ready to be
fitted to car.
Again the heater didn’t quite
cooperate. But overall this went pretty smooth. I first manoeuvred the heater
in place and loosely fixated it with the bolt on top of fresh air inlet.
After that I moved to the engine
bay to put the nuts on the three mounting studs.
And finally the two bolts for the
brackets on top of the transmission tunnel could be put in position. And with
all nuts and bolts in place it was time for a final alignment check after which
the nuts and bolts could be torqued down.
And finally a close up of the
pipe work:
An afternoon well spend. And with
the heater in place I can continue in earnest with some other jobs, to
start with the wiring loom that fits around the heater!
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