heat exchanger cable linkage/connection

[matt-me]

Hi people can you please help? I need photos, if poss, of how the heater cables connect to the flap assembly. Have renewed my cables when the engine was out but at the moment they are just hanging there. I can't work out how the cables connect to the top flaps. There is another longer kinked arm with slots in it below, also positioned on a spindle. Does this kinked arm connect to the flaps and the cable connect to the kinked arm? There is a picture of it all disassembled in Haynes but can't quite work it out. Think i have all the bits but can't quite work it out.

Cables were broken when i got the van and have cable tied the flaps open for now but summers here, isn't it?

Thanks

Al

 

[Loxy]

I think you may have repro heat exchangers, which I think have beetle levers on them.
There are some pics of original heat exchangers on here somewhere.

 

[noddy]

Heat exchanger leaver on bus exchanges points up, and points down on bug exchangers.

To make bug exchanges work on a bus bend the exchanger leaver in to a "U" so the connection point is at the top.

 

[matt-me]

Thanks for response guys but what i have is what is shown in Haynes manual. Would it have shown beetle exchangers? I have also bought a pair from mattp on here which came off hs bus and they have the same two spindles although the lower arm has been cut off. Maybe they were universal but busses only needed the top flap?

ta

 

[noddy]

Bus exchanges are different to bugs if you have the spindle sticking out the side for the controle arm its a bug exchanger, no additional levers on bus exchangers.

Haynes only shows a generic engine picture, and its a bug engine.

If you want to compare the two have a look here http://shop.volkswarenhaus.de/index.php/cat/c65_heat-exchanger-1-2-1-5-1-6--07-79.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;, just have a look at the bus exchangers for type 1 engines you will see the lever points up.

 

[matt-me]

Top man Noddy, you've helped me out again. It makes sense as I thought where the cable positions were wouldn't get to where the levers were as it stood. Your explanation about it being a generic picture in Haynes makes perfect sense too, now. Haven't had a bug so didn't have a scooby doo..

Just go to work out how the cable clips on to the lever (have bought clips etc) but i am sure i can do that now i know where the lever should be.

Cheers Al

 

[bermuda blue]

I've found another prospect with Heat Exchangers dis -connected in engine bay, and asked why - I'm being told replaced with J tubes ,cos we don't use it in the Winter.............this is really bugging me, why does no one have it rigged as originally intended?..cheers -JIM.