install heater to stretch the season
 

Hi guys, thinking of stretching the season and installing a heater on my '35. I have a heater core with the Ford emblem (thinking it is a dealer install type ). I have seen the "Lower Radiator Hose Nipple for Heater Hose" available at Honest Charlies and others and don't really like the design. Does anyone make a lower heater hose with a tee for the heater return hose mfg. molded in rather than punching a hole in the lower hose for the nipple?

Re: install heater to stretch the season
 

Tony
Don't think there is a molded on T type hose. The ones that punch a hole through to add the heater connection work well and last for years, I've pulled quite a few out of old hoses when the hose perished and fitted them in a new hose, works like new every time.
These are old ones mind, can't speak for the quality of the new ones.
Martin.

Re: install heater to stretch the season
 

Tony,
Unless I am mistaken you have an 8ba. If so the heater hoses tie in on the passenger cylinder head and water pump. No need for the nipple you are describing. You can see the water pump connection in this photo right below the coil.

http://i1281.photobucket.com/albums/...ps978766c8.jpg

Re: install heater to stretch the season
 

Ted,
Thank you for pointing out the (now) blindingly obvious, Tony's is an 8BA, forgot that.
Martin.

Re: install heater to stretch the season
 

Wish I'd kept it that simple. I had some weird notion when building my "35 that even though I chose the 8BA I wanted the front of the engine to look like the correct config. 8A so put a crab style dist. and 8A water pumps. Hind sight being 20 / 20, you know where I'm going, lol. The new nipple looks pretty simple and in looking at the old to the new don't appear to be different so will probably go with it.
Thx for the help