High Output Heater
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From: Fairbanks, Alaska
My 75' standard cab says "high output" on the controls but my 76' crewcab doesn't. Are you all sure that all crewcabs came with the high output system? I am thinking about parting out the crewcab so I may have the high output system to sell but I need to know what I have. I need a few of the parts off of the crewcab for my 75' but it is almost to good to dismantle. Decisions, decisions.......
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From: Oak Harbor WA
Crumm,
Since the HO heater is standard in SC and CC, it wont be labeled on the dash. My dads 78 SC doesnt have it marked, my 79 RC has it marked because its an option in the RC trucks.
Since the HO heater is standard in SC and CC, it wont be labeled on the dash. My dads 78 SC doesnt have it marked, my 79 RC has it marked because its an option in the RC trucks.
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From: SD
Re: High Output Heater
COONHUNTER2X1978'S, you must have overlooked this post:
Marty
Originally posted by FORDBOYpete
HO Heaters are standard fare w/ all A/C systems, & in all Super & Crew Cab trucks F-150 through F350.
HO Heaters are standard fare w/ all A/C systems, & in all Super & Crew Cab trucks F-150 through F350.
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From: Powell River, B.C.
You got me on that one. Sounds like somethings wrong in your system. Far as I know, they all work off water heat. Have never heard of a separate element that glows. Sounds like it could drain a battery in a heartbeat.
Pat
Pat
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From: Redmond Oregon
lol...no it looks factory and it comes on when you turn on the heat. Its small, the size of a roll of quarters. And the fan wont come on unless its pluged in.
I was warming up the truck one morning and smoke started filling up the cab real quick. I thought I was having an electrical fire. It turned out to be leaves in the bottom heating duct that the element was burning.
I was warming up the truck one morning and smoke started filling up the cab real quick. I thought I was having an electrical fire. It turned out to be leaves in the bottom heating duct that the element was burning.
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From: Powell River, B.C.
Kewl!! I was on Vancouver Island the other day and I was chatting with a guy about his Mercedes 125,000.00 sedan and one of the points that he was kinda boasting aboujt was a similar heating element for the windshield that sounded like it worked much the same.
Neat device. Wonder what it's called, when they put them in and all of that.
Pat
Neat device. Wonder what it's called, when they put them in and all of that.
Pat
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From: Alexandria, Ohio
I put a HO heater box out of a '76 into my '79F250. Neither had A/C and I used the standars '79 controls. After taking everything out I noticed the only difference in the two boxes was that the standard '79 box had a plastic spacer in it to hold the bottom of the heater core. After putting in the '76 box I also discovered that the rubber on the flaps to go from heat to defrost were leaking, basically rotten, so I tore it out and took out the spacer and put in the bigger heater core into the standard '79 box and it worked great. Go buy the bigger core and put it in.