Air-cooled engines cannot extract the heat for the heating from the cooling water, so heat exchangers are used. The air with which the engine is cooled also passes through the heaters. The heat from the exhaust gases is used to heat the air that is blown in. The temperature is controlled by the flow, this is done by opening or closing a valve.
A worn out or leaking exchanger must be replaced immediately. This is not only forbidden by law because the exhaust system is no longer tight, but also dangerous for the occupants, as the risk of exhaust gases entering the car in the event of a leaking exchanger is very high.
If the leak is on the connection between the exhaust and the heat exchanger, a repair tube can still provide an outlet on a Type 1 or Type 3 engine, but if the leak is at another location (or a leak on another type of engine), replacement is the only correct way.
All heaters are supplied without mounting material and/or seals, please order them additionally.
If you do not need a heater, engines type 1 and type 3 can also be equipped with heater tubes (see the related parts tab), which means that the complete heater exchanger (and thus also the complete heating system) is omitted.
In addition to the standard exchangers for type 1 engines, you will find standard heat exchangers, chrome-plated exchangers and high-performance exchangers in grey or black transport paint for several years, click on the reference for more information. Black or grey transport paint is intended to prevent rust in warehouses. If you want to keep the heat exchangers in paint, you will have to treat it regularly with heat resistant paint, immediately after starting it will let itself go largely. Exceptions to this rule are heat exchangers 1080 and 1081, which have a high quality topcoat, but this also peels off due to heat development at the connecting flanges.
Type 1 engines
25 and 30 hp :
4082: left, black / grey transport paint
4083: right, black / grey transport paint
1200 to 12.1962:
4080: left, black / grey transport paint
4081: right, black / grey transport paint
1200, 1300, 1500, 1600 from 1.1963:
(except 1600 cc AJ injection engines)
1080: left, black / grey transport paint
1081: right, black / grey transport paint
1084: left, chrome
1085: right, chrome
1065: left, high performance
1066: right, high performance
Type 3 engines
all years of construction and models:
31080: left, grey transport paint
31081: right, grey transport paint The preheating
flanges are provided with removable cover plates which are only used with 1500 cc motors.
Type 4 engines
1700, 1800, 2000 cc to 7.1978 all engine codes :
41080: left, grey transport paint
41081: right, grey transport paint
2000 cc from 8.1978 and later with engine code CJ :
41082: left, grey transport paint
41083: right, grey transport paint
2000 cc all years of construction with engine code CV and CU :
41090: left, grey transport paint
41091: right, grey transport paint
If the damage is not too great, there may still be a chance that you can repair the heat exchangers, see the "related parts" tab. If you don't need heating, you can also get rid of the heaters by using heat exchanger replacement tubes.
- exchanger repair hoses, including flanges, for 25 and 30 hp engines
- exchanger repair hoses for type 1 and type 3 engines (except 25 and 30 hp)
- replacement exchanger tubes for type 1 engines in the transport paint
- replacement exchanger tubes for type 1 engines chrome-plated
- replacement exchanger tubes for type 3 engines in the transport paint
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