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  • Re: fridge Q, "weekender cabinet" project
    Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
    Wed, 11 Aug 1999 08:27:13 -0700
    ...But, you can usually feel the aluminum heat exchanger getting cold within a half hour. These units have no moving parts except for a...
  • Re: oil cooler
    Historical mailing list - Chris S.
    Thu, 3 Apr 2014 12:39:41 -0400
    ...Keep your oil/water heat exchanger for quicker oil warm up time, especially on a diesel. Chris. Wysłane z iPhone'a Dnia Apr 3...
  • to rebuild or not to rebuild
    Historical mailing list
    Thu, 20 Jul 1995 01:05:30 -0400
    ...Cam Shaft(-4) Cam Lifters Pistions and sleeves Heads or rebuild the ones I have yet another mystery Heat exchangers Heat control boxes Alternater...
  • Cooling system part numbers
    Historical mailing list - Donald Baxter
    Wed, 24 Mar 1999 09:11:54 -0500
    ...2) The heater hose that runs from the passenger side cylinder head to the "T" fitting for the rear heat exchanger. This one is...
  • $.84 for winter heat in Vanagon
    Historical mailing list - Martin Jagersand
    Mon, 16 Oct 2000 22:58:50 -0400
    ...Just add venting and a heat exchanger to a standard Kerosene heater. You get the idea on: http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~jager/vw...
  • ?s about timing, heat exch, etc....
    Historical mailing list - Michael Edwards
    Thu, 8 Mar 2001 08:29:32 -0700
    ...82' Westy First, is there any way to recondition beat-up heat exchangers? It appears that they can be separated @ the seam. Mine are...
  • wind noise and airflow through floor duct
    Historical mailing list - Mike Kozak
    Tue, 9 Oct 2001 22:35:01 -0400
    ...darn hard to adjust the hot water flow into the heat exchanger to get a comfortable air temp out, but it seems I'm...
  • Re: [Syncro] Hot Water Systems
    Historical mailing list - Derek Drew
    Sun, 22 Sep 2002 15:20:55 -0400
    ...In fact the heat exchanger could even be placed there.<br> <br> Or the new pump could be used as an external pump to...
  • Re: Re[2]: The water heater project
    Historical mailing list
    Thu, 12 Jan 95 17:04:33 gmt
    ...sink full of warm water :-) The water circulates round the heat exchanger by itself. > I wonder if the Wizard ones had any sort of...
  • Re: electric outlet
    Historical mailing list - Karl F. Bloss
    Sat, 1 Jun 2002 13:55:50 -0400
    ...I had previously removed the A/C, so I had a hole where the hoses went up to the heat exchanger. I ran the...
  • FS Front Heater
    Historical mailing list - Joel Cort
    Thu, 30 Nov 2000 17:53:42 -0800
    ...the heater with air distribution housing, the motor/squirrel-cage fan, the heat exchanger radiator, large resistor for the 3 speeds the dash control...
  • Re: Stock muffler system for 81 vanagon????
    Historical mailing list - G. Matthew Bulley
    Thu, 8 Aug 2002 09:14:30 -0400
    ...near the attachment of the crossover tube to the extractor/heat exchanger. If you need a pic, I can send one. Developing business and...
  • Re: heat exchanger
    Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
    Wed, 4 Feb 2004 08:04:19 -0600
    Tabe; I don't have the original email, but I did print it out and save it with other list problems I expect to...
  • Re: camper heating
    Historical mailing list - Doug in Calif
    Thu, 14 Oct 2004 22:27:08 -0700
    ...Also, it looks to me like the heat exchanger is too small to transfer the heat to a flowing shower from an ice cold...
  • Re: Hot water system thoughts
    Historical mailing list - Torje Evensen
    Sat, 9 Jan 1999 22:23:03 +0100
    ...The kit included the > >exchanger, a good quality pump, lots of lines and fittings etc.. I use it > for > >a shower and sometimes dishes...
  • Re: Trans fluid in coolant system
    Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
    Wed, 4 Apr 2012 19:11:50 -0400
    ...Even my motorhome with the Cat C7 engine and Allison MH3000 transmission uses a big oil to water heat exchanger. Dennis -----Original Message----- From...
  • Re: 2.1 Viton Oil cooler Seal??
    Historical mailing list - Chris S
    Thu, 26 May 2011 10:13:24 -0400
    ...No leak problems from the oil heat exchanger. I don't think I would run 10w40 oil except in the bitter cold of winter...
  • '74 Camper for Sale
    Historical mailing list
    Tue, 26 Mar 1996 22:51:21 -0500
    ...FI electronic ignition w/ 009 new wires and blue coil early exchangers, Monza exhaust Vanagon style oil dip stick Trans '77 Interior good condition...
  • Front Blower Doesn't
    Historical mailing list - C B
    Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:14:32 -0700
    ...The rear underseat fan/heat exchanger would do Marilyn Monroe proud. How do I access the front dash heater blower motor rheostat? Bentley is...
  • Re: Oil coolers...The stock ones, are they all the same?
    Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
    Mon, 7 Sep 2015 08:47:37 -0700
    ...about an inch, right out of the side of the heat exchanger (oil cooler)... The vehicle we're talking about has the Jetta motor...
  • Re: Heat in an air-cooled Syncro (long, boring, self-involved)
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Wed, 17 May 2000 12:27:23 -0400
    At 21:50 5/16/2000, ed wrote: >Some folks have apparently used an oil-water heat exchanger to drive the >stock system. Good...
  • Re: Coolant under rear bench carpet
    Historical mailing list - ERIC ZENO
    Sun, 5 Jan 1997 20:29:14 -0500 (EST)
    ...I imagine there must be some kind of leak from the rear heat > > exchanger. I seem to remember a thread along these lines a...
  • DaBoat runs, but slowly
    Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
    Fri, 22 Dec 1995 23:53:06 -0800 (PST)
    ...First, I fixed the heat exchanger leak. Dropped the muffler and the heat exchanger and sure enough, both copper ring gaskets had gotten scrunched...
  • Re: Exhaust Design Contemplations...
    Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
    Tue, 15 Nov 2011 01:31:34 -0800
    ...and ..now there's room for an oil cooler/heat exchanger. I run a 1.9 cooling system with 2.1 engine, exhaust , and...
  • Re: '80 exhaust (California vs. Standard)
    Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
    Fri, 25 Feb 2000 11:52:28 -0800
    ...I think > I could salvage the heat exchangers and the cat but the rest of the system > is junk. > > One more thing, were I...
  • Spring cleaning Vanagon parts got to go (mirrors and heater)
    Historical mailing list - Joel Cort
    Sat, 7 Apr 2001 07:26:43 -0700
    ...the heater with air distribution housing, the motor/squirrel-cage fan, (quiet at all 3 speeds) the heat exchanger radiator, (leak free and hot...
  • camper heating
    Historical mailing list - Daniel Stevens
    Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:33:02 -0400
    ...also a small heat exchanger for baseboard hot water systems like this would be pretty efficient http://www.houseneeds.com/shop/HeatingProducts/HydronicHeating/heatexchangers...
  • VWoA replacing heat exchangers
    Historical mailing list - Sean Bartnik
    Fri, 29 Aug 1997 10:40:25 EDT
    Hey all, The regional service rep form VWoA gave me a call today to set up the heat exchanger replacement. His name is Ron...
  • Re: one more '66 question (dog-house fan shroud)
    Historical mailing list
    Mon, 6 May 1996 23:18:03 -0500
    ...of the car) of the shroud that connect >to the heat exchangers and the duct on the *front* of the shroud for the oil...
  • Re: Oil temp. ? and OP ?
    Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
    Tue, 5 Oct 2010 11:45:30 -0500
    ...DMc ---- Jonathan Berg <jonbergga@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > I'm pondering putting either a slightly (or much) larger water/oil > heat exchanger from a PD...
  • Re: vanagon Digest - 28 Jun 2015 - Special issue (#2015-165)
    Historical mailing list - Richard Jones
    Sun, 28 Jun 2015 14:40:08 -0600
    ...Rocket's not goin' to give up on that 40 degrees! That number comes from the heat-exchanger devices such as Koolatron. They specifically...
  • Re: More Cooling System/ now oil coolers/ more detail
    Historical mailing list - Ken Lewis
    Fri, 4 Oct 2002 11:23:45 -0400
    ...As for the liquid/liquid heat exchanger, you have convinced me to retain it but I will most likely use off-the-shelf components...
  • Re: Mysterious Coolant Drip 2.1
    Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
    Sun, 5 Oct 2008 16:22:22 -0700
    ...tube runs off to I believe the under-seat rear > heat exchanger. > > Anyway -- I have a pinhole leak at that junction, and it looks...
  • Re: aiding cooling system by turning on heater blower
    Historical mailing list - sg
    Wed, 16 May 2001 10:24:45 -0700
    ...going to the radiator and the heater core, ie two heat exchangers working on the same amount of coolant instead of one (the radiator...
  • Re: Carrier Bars?
    Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
    Sun, 4 Dec 2011 17:58:07 -0800
    ...That trans fore-aft location was chosen so automatics can have an oil cooler/heat exchanger at the front of the trans and still...
  • Re: Coleman DC cooler
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:50:40 -0400
    ...things out to get some serious airflow across the external heat exchanger. I left the original motor just powering the internal fan. > Do you...
  • Exaust Systems
    Historical mailing list - Russell, William
    Mon, 27 May 2002 23:11:42 -0400
    ...I guess I need whatever the bits coming off the engine are (help!), the heat exchangers, the crossover, muffler, tailpipe, et cetera. I have...
  • Re: Tweak yer heater output!
    Historical mailing list - George Goff
    Sun, 17 Nov 2002 23:44:13 EST
    ...loss it would suffer by being routed through that big heat exchanger up front. For all I know, it might have been happening on...
  • Re: Getting at a bolt
    Historical mailing list - Paul Guzyk
    Sun, 12 Jun 2005 21:09:16 -0700
    ...It's the top > bolt (originally a stud) at the junction of the right-side heat > exchanger and the cross pipe. All of the...
  • Re: Vanagon with Porsche power.
    Historical mailing list
    Wed, 10 May 1995 16:15:50 +0100
    ...How hard would it be to build some sort of heat exchanger from the Porsche's oil cooler/exhaust manifolds to the reminants of...
  • Re: Recirculating heat in '74-'79 camper (update)
    Historical mailing list - Morris H. Arthur
    Mon, 4 Dec 1995 10:27:26 -0500
    ...John from WV had an interesting suggestion about reversing flow through one of the heat exchangers. I'm sort of scared to create a...
  • Re: Whew - it's hot in here....]
    Historical mailing list - Tom Czerniak
    Sat, 14 Oct 2000 17:54:31 -0500
    ...You will see the heat valve for the front exchanger. At that point you can have someone move the lever on the dash while...
  • Re: I found a "Mystery Switch" ...
    Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
    Mon, 24 May 2004 10:09:46 -0400
    ...The worst I've heard of was a heat exchanger failure that caused exhaust smoke from the heater to blow into the cabin. David...
  • Re: WTB: Air-cooled Muffler, but a weird one...
    Historical mailing list - Christopher Gronski
    Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:50:11 -0400
    ...very much as you describe, it bolts directly to the heat exchangers. Apparently the stock '72-'74 exhaust also fits the '79 to '83...
  • Re: Heat in Aircooled's
    Historical mailing list - Anthony Zygmunt
    Mon, 5 Dec 2005 18:25:34 -0800
    I have an 81 westy, and the heat from the heat exchangers is not enough when it gets cold outside. My Westy has the...
  • Re: Monza (sp?) muffler
    Historical mailing list
    Mon, 13 Feb 1995 17:50:39 -0600 (CST)
    ...Besides, the heat exchangers are the limiting factor here. Tune-ups are painful with CO blowing in your face and the hot exhaust tips...
  • I'm Back! LOTS of news!
    Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
    Sat, 31 Oct 1998 12:19:44 -0500
    ...Please read my separate posts regarding these parts, plus specific posts on mudflaps, heat exchangers, exhaust, bumpers, Just Kampers, etc. if you are interested...
  • Re: Oil temp musings and hairbrained ideas
    Historical mailing list - Chris S
    Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:25:19 -0500
    ...Transmission fluid is kept at the coolant temperature by the heat >> exchanger. When he says "the temp needle rides lower" with the scoop, >> he...
  • Re: Tranny oil cooler,(homemade kit?)
    Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
    Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:31:14 -0500
    I assume that you are talking about replacing the ATF to coolant heat exchanger on the front end of an AT. This is commonly...
  • six cylinders, no waiting
    Historical mailing list - William R. Kennedy, NJIT CIAT, 201-596-5648
    Mon, 23 Jun 1997 20:21:18 EST
    ...My six cylinder Vanagon is based on an 81; there, the stock Porsche heat exchangers do a better job than the Vgon's own...
  • Re: Diesel oil temperatures
    Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
    Sun, 23 Jan 2000 22:04:03 -0500
    ...Since it is a conversion, do you at least have the oil to water heat exchanger that both diesels and GTI engines used? Try...
  • Re: hot water heater
    Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
    Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:04:29 -0400
    ...Isn't your water tank behind the drivers seat? You may want to find something smaller or consider a heat exchanger type using engine...
  • Re: NEED '81 Cooling Tin and Steering Column Cover NEED
    Historical mailing list - ERIC ZENO
    Wed, 31 Jul 1996 07:24:53 -0400 (EDT)
    ...of the right side cooling tin IE lower (case to heat exchanger), > front lower (piece from front tin down to previous piece), rear right...
  • cooling tin, thermastat
    Historical mailing list - Charles F. Webb
    Fri, 12 Apr 1996 09:34:04 +0000
    ...I can see the hole in the block but there is not one in the heat exchanger. If I can't find a used...
  • Re: Heater blower motor
    Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
    Mon, 6 Jul 2009 06:44:05 EDT
    ...Do not forget to clean the ENTIRE insides of the heater box including the heat exchanger and the funky metal plate over it. Do...
  • Re: Engine Problem
    Historical mailing list
    Mon, 22 Aug 94 18:16:17 EDT
    ...Loosen the connection between the heat exchangers and the muffler > to create a sizeable exhaust leak, and take it fo..... David S. How do...
  • TD intercooler, TDI, HA Projekt
    Historical mailing list - Bj�rn
    Fri, 15 May 1998 12:12:46 -0700
    ...The system consists of two heat exchangers (one to cool the intake air, one to cool the coolant) a water pump, hoses, a special...
  • Is a cooler thermostat better for the heads?
    Historical mailing list - Lionel Tun
    Sun, 26 Jan 1997 21:13:12 -0000
    ...waits until the engine is warm enough, then opens to let hot water into the radiator and the two internal heat exchangers. Is there...
  • Re: hot water heater
    Historical mailing list - David Yates
    Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:33:18 +1000
    ...hot water heater The only heat exchanger units I've seen are the isothurm and made for marine use. They take up more space...
  • Re: Removing rear heater in Westy?
    Historical mailing list - Richard Koerner
    Wed, 24 Aug 2005 13:56:20 -0700
    ...I'm pretty sure the blower motor, heater valve, and heat exchanger are in A-OK condition. Rich 85 HomemadeCamper San Diego -----Original Message...