80″ Land Rover Restoration – Smiths heater

A friend of mine found a nice Smiths heating unit with the optional de-misting attachment for me which I was very grateful for. I had to modify the manifold heating pipes and engineer a flow tap for the heater out of an old ball valve, some steel tube and a brass wingnut that I had laying around in the shed. I used an already existing hole in the firewall to mount it all to as it is sacrilege to drill fresh holes.

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The Bakelite pull switch on the dash activates the heater, and the cabin can be warmed by opening the front flaps when de-misting is not required.

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