Stale Air 40hp Clarifications and Questions.......

[BarryL]

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[62DoKaGuy]

[Alan Brase]

[mastorna]

I have a 62 Kombi with stale air boxes. I've never hooked up the heater hose before but now that its dipped below freezing I had to do something to get some heat. That might be a mistake cause damn is the air noxious. While it is pumping out heat but its also got some terrible mix of emissions that makes me wonder if stale air is safe. Am I missing something?
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1959 Type II Mango SO-23
1962 Type II Kombi Light Gray
1963 Type II Standard Sunroof SWR\BG
1963 Type II Deluxe MG\PW

[mandraks]

[2Pack]

[Alan Brase]

[mastorna]

[Alan Brase]

Breathing a bit of hot oil will not kill you any time soon. May be unpleasant and long term exposure might have long term deleterious effects.
Furthermore, most old buses have plenty of fresh air to dilute it.
Al
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Al Brase
Projects: 67 sunroof bug, 67 Porsche 912 Targa, 70 Westy
Dec 1955 Single Cab pickup WANT 15" BUS RIMS dated 8/55, thru 12/55
To New owners: 1969 doublecab, 1971 Dormobile
Vanagons:
80 P27 Westy JUL 1979, 3rd oldest known US
83 1.6TD Vanagon, 87 Wolfie Westy daily driver, swap meet home

[kkrol]

[glutamodo]

In years past the smell of burning oil getting into the stale air system would have bothered me. Now though, since I succumbed to anosmia,(that means I suffer from a total lack of smell now, the olfactory nerve was severed in a cranial concussion, bugger that! )so now, I could have a rotting corpse in the passenger seat and not be bothered by the smell.

In all the years I have driven with stale air heating, I don't recall ever finding horrible style exhaust leaks. Smells are one thing, noxious fumes are another...
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Andy T.


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[Alan Brase]

Actually, I suppose you could get rusted out exhaust to leak into the heater, but usually what you smell is hot oil.
I'm not totally against going to fresh air if I have to, just like the looks of a stale air motor.
Does anybody have opinion which would put out more heat in a 40 single cab. Or is one as bad as the other?
Al
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Al Brase
Projects: 67 sunroof bug, 67 Porsche 912 Targa, 70 Westy
Dec 1955 Single Cab pickup WANT 15" BUS RIMS dated 8/55, thru 12/55
To New owners: 1969 doublecab, 1971 Dormobile
Vanagons:
80 P27 Westy JUL 1979, 3rd oldest known US
83 1.6TD Vanagon, 87 Wolfie Westy daily driver, swap meet home

[mandraks]

[Alan Brase]

I never owned a DRIVING splittie, nor a driving single cab. Drove a few splitties over the years, but not very far. I lived with my first Bay window a kinda rusty 1970 deluxe that I patched into a work van, for about 7 years thru Iowa winters. And it was BARELY warm enough. I had a couple gas heaters, Southwind and Eberspaecher, but never quite found the time to install them.
I know the front and sliding door gaskets on bays leaked a LOT, so I figure the single cab will be better.
Gotta go put a new boiler in my house now! That's my real heat worry.
Al
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Al Brase
Projects: 67 sunroof bug, 67 Porsche 912 Targa, 70 Westy
Dec 1955 Single Cab pickup WANT 15" BUS RIMS dated 8/55, thru 12/55
To New owners: 1969 doublecab, 1971 Dormobile
Vanagons:
80 P27 Westy JUL 1979, 3rd oldest known US
83 1.6TD Vanagon, 87 Wolfie Westy daily driver, swap meet home

[kkrol]

I have a 63 Single Cab with stale air heat and several later busses with fresh air. The stale air SC definitely puts out the best heat. I put a set of NOS heat exchangers on it a few years ago so there are no leaks.

[drpete]

[kkrol]

[volkswagenman]

My late stale air engine. Rebuild from mostly NOS parts. engine nr. 59521**

I know the copper vacuum line in not originally on this engine but i don't want to replace the ignition membrane again. It took me 4 years and 3 wrong manifolds to find the correct NOS intake manifold for this engine. Cilinders and pistons al all original NOS. Only changed the piston rings and valves for better (new) ones for unleaded fuel.

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[Lind]

[Alan Brase]