Terry
The heater will be close enough for the installation Robin wants to do.
I do have this to say about these heaters. If you can find an old pre-1980s heater, it will have a much bigger heater core, and consequently put out a lot more heat that the post 1980 version. The MLVW for instance had the same pattern heater, but you were lucky if you could clear your windows with it on a cold day. We initially blamed the diesel for running a little cooler than the old gas engines, but I know now that it has more to do with the half size heater core in the newer heaters. I installed an MLVW heater on the Dodge M37 at work, and it does not produce the heat that the older heaters produced.
When I was still in, I hooked an Il** heater into the cab of my MLVW MRT. I also hooked a thermostat into the dash to control the heat to a comfortable 75°F. You did not want to wear a parka in that truck.
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