Dodge Brothers exhaust cut-out for heater

[Pete K.]

Hi all, Thought I'd show you all what I found. I THINK it is a set up for an early Dodge heating system. It's quite rusty, but as you can see, it has a heavy cast iron adapter to go onto exhaust pipe, whereas a lever is attached, controlled by the rear seat passengers(?) to open the by-pass valve in the adapter to circulate hot exhaust gasses presumably through a duct to a floor register that would act as a heat exchanger, similar to a home hot air heating system. Do any of our Dodge Brother's have this system hooked up and working in their car? I would love to hear how it really works.---Pete.

[Guest 1930]

That is basically how it works, I have some pictures of the registers ect