Just been stuffing around with an old Smith's heater for the Sputzwagon, I received it with the car when I bought it & since I'm paying my sister a visit in Lithgow ( bloody c-cold!) I though the installation of this item could come in useful!
First thing was to remove the old paint (that someone who will remain nameless..Pete) that was on the normally black outer cover. While I wasted time scraping all the paint off I also gave the car a much deserved oil change, before all the scraping was started I disassembled the core & motor out of the housing.
Now here's the reason for this post....whilst I had the electric motor out I thought it a good idea to check that it worked...(remembering I already had the bonnet open on the car for the oil change)..O hooked up the two wires from the motor onto the terminals and.....nothing!
..maybe have the wires around the wrong way...NOTHING!!! .So back to the bench & take the electric motor apart to see if it's totally stuffed. After undoing the two small nuts and carefully taking the cover off (you have to be careful here as there are two spacers & washers for the brush mounting plate to hold it off the cover), once this was done (the gut's looked brand new..not bad for a 45-ish year old motor!
) I checked if the brushes were worn out..nope..then check the armature wiring was'nt broken anywhere..no all there..the only thing I could see was that the armature (where it meets the brushes) was very dirty..so I cleaned it with 2000 wet'n'dry and gave it a light polish with Brasso and put it all back together.Back over to the battery and...SUCCESS!!
Sorry for the rough-arse diagram..I had to draw it from memory
So if any of you blokes have one of these (or even a Warmeride heater,both Australian motors & probably the same) that does'nt seem to work any more take 'em apart & clean 'em up..you might be pleasantly surprised!
Scotty.
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). The heater sounds like a Smiths "beehive" heater.
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