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Slammed59 Learner Dubber

12 posts · joined Dec 2009 ·

#789095
hey guys, we are going to be under taking a heater channel replacement on my 56 bug, anyway ive got a dansk/denmark heater channel and foot outlet is in the wrong position, or maybe the heater channels in my bug have been replaced with the wrong ones, So does anyone have/had a 1956 that can tell me what is the right spot?

cheers,
blair,

here is some pics

68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#789116
Slammed59 wrote:here is a pic:
Yes,

they were foot burners back then..

VW moved them rearwards a few times over the years..

so, they wouldn't cook Your Right foot... lol

LEE
- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---

vw54 Administrator Always Waiting 4 Friday

16,723 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#789126
just checked my June 56 Bug and the outlets are right forward up near the firewall

however i have seen Ovals with the heater outlets as per yr pic not sure when they changed but have seen both positions for 56 models

did u purchase that channel to suit an Oval or did they just send u that one

what have u got on the car at present
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Slammed59 Learner Dubber

12 posts · joined Dec 2009 ·

#789140
vw54 wrote:just checked my June 56 Bug and the outlets are right forward up near the firewall

however i have seen Ovals with the heater outlets as per yr pic not sure when they changed but have seen both positions for 56 models

did u purchase that channel to suit an Oval or did they just send u that one

what have u got on the car at present
Hi, thanks for the comment..

the car i have right now has them very forward near the firewall.. so you say that they have changed them around?

well i just looked at are 58 beetle and there more rearward nearer to the seet..

Slammed59 Learner Dubber

12 posts · joined Dec 2009 ·

#789141
Thanks Lee, ive had a thought. Im on to much of a budget to buy another one of these to make it even But ive had a look at the heater channel ive just bought and the heat tube runs all the way down so it would be very hard to relocate the grills forward BUT i know that on my oval the heat tube doesnt run all the way on the left side so moving the left " foot Burner" back would be easy

Blair

vw54 Administrator Always Waiting 4 Friday

16,723 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#789247
you can cut the grill section out and weld it forward blank the hole after
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vw54 Administrator Always Waiting 4 Friday

16,723 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#789339
yes but the tube runs to that grill and then stops, if i were to re weld it, it would have no air flowing to it.. very tricky
not tricky at all its only held in with a few spot welds remove and re position its for the screen dimister
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