~ Dan 1951 Chevy 3 window 3100 Follow this story in the DITY Gallery "My Grandpa Carl's Truck and How it Became Mine" 1966 Chevelle (Wife's Hot Rod) | 2013 Chevy Silverado (Current daily driver) US Army MSG Retired (1977-1998) | Com Fac Maint Lead Tech Retired (1998-2021)
The parts to repair your heater are widely available. It's easy to do yourself. I purchased a new heater core assembly from Classic Truck Parts.
12v motors are available to replace the 6v motor.
For rebuilding services for just about everything, contact Then and Now Automotive. Call them. Website isn't really helpful. Also contact Atwater Kent for your capillary tube.
1939 Packard Standard Eight Coupe (The Phantom) | 1956 Cadillac Coupe de Ville (The Bismarck) | 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 coupe |1966 Ford Mustang (Little Red) | 1969 Pontiac GTO (The Dishpit) I 1979 Ford F-100 | 1976 Ford F-150 (Big Red) | 1995 Ford F-150 (Newt)
Red, if you aren't trying for 100% original, you can make your own heater coil using a 10 foot long roll of 3/8" copper tubing, a couple of 3/8" to 1/2" copper plumbing adapters, a couple of apx 6 inch long pieces of 1/2 inch copper tubing and the framework your current and leaking heater core is soldered to. Basically you just get an old style coffee can, piece of PVC drainage pipe or anything with the right size inside diameter and wrap your tubing around it, spacing about 1/4" between each pass of the coil. You can use small (1/4 inch square) pieces of wood to keep them spaced apart. Just make a coil that will fit inside your heater shroud and get the connection pieces in the same place, solder that to your old hardware and you're finished for about $35. Changing to 12v will be easy. Actually I gave away a USA made 3 speed 12 volt motor free for cost of shipping a few months ago. As for the capillary tube thermostat, you can get one rebuilt (will not be cheap) but unless you are just dead set on having one of those as per original, there are alternatives. I've sure had a lot of leakage problems with them. I will tell you the heater coil I made like that put out a lot of heat, worked well in defrost mode and I just used a common cable type heater valve that cost about $15. Good luck!
~ Jon 1952 1/2 ton with 1959 235 | T5 with 3.07 rear end
If you have a ranco valve heater control then there is a guy in Superior Wisconsin that has come up through the years so I think he is good .You can also a temp to fix yourself as the parts are available and lots on the net to look at .as far as the heater box just a matter of cleaning it up and paint ,then of course the heater core either repair yourself as or buy new .
1939 Packard Standard Eight Coupe (The Phantom) | 1956 Cadillac Coupe de Ville (The Bismarck) | 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 coupe |1966 Ford Mustang (Little Red) | 1969 Pontiac GTO (The Dishpit) I 1979 Ford F-100 | 1976 Ford F-150 (Big Red) | 1995 Ford F-150 (Newt)
