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• Re: Rear anti sway bar on a vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Thu, 30 Apr 1998 20:26:33 -0700
  ...Any ideas? > > Also does anyone have the rear heater core blower fan for sale? I need > one for a different sort of application. > > Thanks...
• Heaters for winter camping
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Thu, 4 Dec 2008 08:39:34 -0600
  ...A small blower fan would circulate the air across the heater core. A small inline circulating pump could be installed in the coolant line...
• Re: Question @ Front Heater/Blower Fan
  Historical mailing list - Steve Cotsford
  Sun, 21 Jul 2002 16:44:49 EDT
  I would say that your fan squeak is the key to the problem. The bearings are tight, and need lubrication, hence the squeak. The...
• Re: Blog post about 85 doka
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Thu, 26 Mar 2015 07:48:55 -0700
  ...to put a some relays in the system to unload the blower fan switch. That fan is more powerful than the stock dash one...
• Alternator upgrade?
  Historical mailing list - Mark Sheflo
  Thu, 25 Mar 1999 22:00:43 -0800
  ...has three mounting tabs for the heater blower fan housing, of which two are also used to mount the alt. to the motor. The...
• Re: Knob or button missing
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 16 Nov 1999 10:25:03 EST
  ...its possible that he was talking about the dash blower fan switch missing the knob in that case, the hole is really small. the...
• Re: Installing new defroster/heater fan INSTRUCTIONS - LONG
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Oxroad
  Tue, 21 Oct 2003 00:25:23 EDT
  ...With what I heard of last winter, I'd change my blower fan now before the days get even shorter just to be sure...
• Re: This is BS, right?
  Historical mailing list - Roger Whittaker
  Sun, 16 Sep 2007 10:43:46 -0700
  ...It is NOT a centrifugal supercharger, > but > it IS a 'squirrel cage' blower fan. > A centrifugal supercharger is a positive displacement (compressor) air > pump...
• Re: Where is the rat??
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 23 Mar 2007 23:11:06 EDT
  ...the overhead rear a/c cabinet..(made a nest in the blower fans) -above the front headliner -in the water tank cabinet chris ************************************** AOL...
• Re: Blower Fan troubles
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Tue, 1 Dec 2009 10:20:09 -0600
  ...Eastman <ckelmo1@COMCAST.NET> wrote: > >>O Esteemed Listees, >> >>The bus's blower fan has become a better noisemaker than an instrument with > which to...
• Re: shop near yellowstone MT?
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Oxroad
  Mon, 31 May 2004 14:34:16 EDT
  ...ALso sometimes--especially if the heating blower fan is noisy or squeeky--the heater blower fan is going, going, and if it gets to...
• Sticky vent controls?
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Palmer
  Fri, 20 Aug 2021 08:39:45 -0500
  ...My friendly neighbourhood garage replaced my front blower fan the other day. It had seized some time ago. When the van was returned, I...
• Re: Help! Electrical gremlins 87 Westy
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Fri, 17 Sep 1999 18:53:30 +0200
  Craig Charles wrote: > Advice anyone? > > My power windows, windshield wipers and blower fans all are going off > intermittently > .They all work today. None worked...
• Re: Lights out last night.
  Historical mailing list - jon
  Mon, 6 Nov 2006 10:02:00 -0800
  ...I made a left and lost the > headlights and the heater blower fan at the same time... > Luckily- If I hold the high beam...
• FW: heater fan probelm
  Historical mailing list - Carrington, Tom
  Thu, 22 Jun 2000 13:49:26 -0400
  ...When i have tested light, whipper, turn, horn, hazard etc..., i have realized that the blower fan doesn't work. i have checked power...
• Re: 89 Vanagon westy with AC my front blower fan runs only on high speed
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Sun, 9 Oct 2016 10:14:51 -0400
  Keith, Still waiting for some clarification about which fan has the problem. If you are talking about the radiator fan, the usual suspect is...
• Vanagon fuse box
  Historical mailing list - Sue Booth
  Sun, 03 Nov 1996 00:05:14 +0100
  ...I have discovered that if I have the windshield wipers on at any setting and I turn the blower fan to setting 3, it...
• Electrical weirdness
  Historical mailing list - Bob O'Shaughnessy
  Tue, 20 Jul 1999 23:27:32 -0400
  ...All the fuses are fine, but all the interior electircs that depend on the ignition switch (blower fans, AC, wipers, but not the radio...
• No start electrical smell
  Historical mailing list - Hans Brouwer
  Wed, 7 May 2003 21:41:05 -0400
  ...The following do work: - Blower fan settings 1, 2 and, 3 work - Radio works - Headlights low and high beam work - Lights on dash blink...
• Re: Lights out last night.
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Mon, 6 Nov 2006 10:41:39 -0600
  ...I made a left and lost the > headlights and the heater blower fan at the same time... > Luckily- If I hold the high beam...
• Re: Lights out last night.
  Historical mailing list - Zeitgeist
  Mon, 6 Nov 2006 10:28:54 -0800
  ...I made a left and lost the > headlights and the heater blower fan at the same time... > Luckily- If I hold the high beam...
• Re: AC - Again! '91 Carat
  Historical mailing list - kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
  Fri, 22 Jul 2016 18:42:24 +0000
  ...empty or low on refrigerant)) > Ignition ON ( but not start) > AC blower fan set to low > AC CONTROL set to cool > > Will the fan...
• Re: AC blower motor resistor? 88 GL
  Historical mailing list - Keith Hughes
  Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:30:37 -0700
  ...I am tending to think it is the blower fan (speed) switch. > Thanks, > Personally, I kind doubt that. You'd typically lose one position...
• Re: 89 Vanagon westy with AC my front blower fan runs only on high speed
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Sat, 8 Oct 2016 19:27:12 +0000
  If anyone needs any of the AC switches or knobs, let me know. I have a collection of them but no use for them...
• Re: A/C? Pfui! Need a good fan
  Historical mailing list - Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\"
  Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:27:11 -0700
  ...Noted, but I'm not talking about the heater blower fan, I'm talking about giving up on this weak ventilation system and back...
• Re: Blower Fan troubles
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Wed, 2 Dec 2009 10:56:26 -0500
  Backwards is possible and works as you described. I discovered this much too late in the process when doing the job back in 2001...
• Heater removal
  Historical mailing list - Gerald Skerbitz
  Mon, 20 Feb 1995 11:41:55 -0600 (CST)
  ...Is there a way to remove the blower fan without breaking the case on the heater stuff? I see a suspicious looking screw near...
• Re: No heat at stoplights.
  Historical mailing list - Ken Wilford
  Tue, 5 Jan 2010 13:01:19 -0500
  ...Is your front heater blower fan working? Ken Wilford John 3:16 www.vanagain.com David Prendergast wrote: > Just past the halfway point on...
• Re: AC Blower Fan Speed
  Historical mailing list - Gregg Carlen
  Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:24:00 -0400
  Hmmm. I have this same problem. I swapped out the blower switch with a new one, but no change. Hoping someone else has solved...
• 1982 Westy auxillary heater
  Historical mailing list - Jake Beaulieu
  Mon, 29 Sep 2003 17:07:17 -0700
  ...As best I can tell this signal is controlled by a set of points in the combustion blower fan. I have pulled the fan...
• Re: Re-introduction & Dash Removal Question
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Sun, 23 Feb 2014 16:10:34 -0800
  ...for me to tackle is the dash removal as the front blower > fan is inoperable. This is a first for me, as I never...
• Re: AC Blower Fan Speed
  Historical mailing list - Ken Wilford
  Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:07:40 -0400
  ...For the blower fan in the rear of the van, I have found that if you are only getting the highest speed it could...
• A/C blower fan
  Historical mailing list - Crazed Idiot
  Sat, 16 Mar 96 13:10:39 EST
  Hey all, '78 bus with A/C. I was tooling down the road today using the fan on my A/C (but not using...
• Re: AC Wiring diagrams needed not in the bentley bible
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Schwaia
  Fri, 13 Aug 2004 16:13:29 -0700
  ...Anybody scan these and put up a .pdf? Trying to wire up my AC in the 89 to use the blower fans with the...
• no headlights cept pulling back on turn signal stick - 87 westy
  Historical mailing list - Mike Kozak
  Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:24:00 -0400
  ...I've also lost the heater blower fan but it will sometimes work when I pull back and hold back the turn signal stick...
• Re: Front heater core and heater blower replacement
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Wilford
  Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:13:28 -0500
  ...Front Blower Fan. One key to the front heater working properly is the front blower fan. These can seize up over time. In a...
• blower fan and wipers not working after aux. battery installation
  Historical mailing list - Mike South
  Wed, 9 Dec 2009 10:37:37 -0600
  ...Then I noticed that the blower fan was not working. Bentley 97.66 shows both of those downstream from a relay ("defog cut out...
• Re: 1982 Diesel Vanagon: Heater Core / Fan
  Historical mailing list - Will Taygan
  Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:45:03 -0800
  ...There's 2 brands of heater blower fan, one is better than the other, can't remember which is which at the moment, read...
• Re: AC cutting out momentarily
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 11 Aug 2011 09:24:40 -0400
  ...one time at first, now a few times in a row. Blower fan stops then comes back on. I rebuilt all hoses 2 years...
• Re: Lights out last night.
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 6 Nov 2006 15:42:42 -0500
  ...86 vanagon GL Last night about 2 miles from home I made a left and lost the headlights and the heater blower fan at...
• Re: Electrical Failures
  Historical mailing list - Raimund Feussner
  Sat, 14 May 2011 19:44:51 +0200
  ...I > have the following electrical issues. > > Front Heater Blower Fan - inop > Rear Heater Blower Fan - inop > Wipers - Front and Rear - inop > Windshield Spray Pumps...
• Re-introduction & Dash Removal Question
  Historical mailing list - Nathan Wood
  Sun, 23 Feb 2014 16:19:10 -0600
  ...The next big thing for me to tackle is the dash removal as the front blower fan is inoperable. This is a first for...
• RE: heater fan motor/tranny/break questions
  Historical mailing list - William R. Kennedy, NJIT CIAT, 201-596-5648
  Wed, 15 Nov 95 14:39:35 EST
  ...This is why you need a good seal to keep ABOVE and BELOW separate. (3) If the blower fan spins when it is supposed...
• Re: Fan noise
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 12 Jul 1997 09:14:36 PST
  ...On Fri, 11 Jul 1997 09:59:50 -0500 Kedar Warriner <lmckewa@lmc.ericsson.se> writes: >Hi > >The blower fan in the dashboard (vent...
• Re: Camper A/C Switch (Outrageously Expensive)
  Historical mailing list - TJ Hannink
  Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:23:56 -0700
  ...I just replaced the blower fan switch with a $18.00 part from VW. Tim JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote: In a message dated 9...
• Anyone in the Chapel Hill are? (was RE: Help! Problems on the road! Smoke! or something that smells like it, a...)
  Historical mailing list - Joy Hecht
  Mon, 22 Mar 2004 21:44:23 -0500
  That would be great if it were just the heater blower fan. I was using the heater the whole drive (five hours). Didn't...
• Re: Hot Foot well
  Historical mailing list - Thomas Casal
  Wed, 30 Jun 2021 08:09:56 -0400
  ...Having a functioning blower fan with no hot foot with clean recirculating cabin air makes a HUGE difference in overall cabin comfort. It was...
• Anyone have the inside plastic parts from a late Westy AC rear cabinet?
  Historical mailing list - kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
  Thu, 17 Aug 2017 15:46:14 -0400
  ...Anyway the inside plastic baffles and mounts for the two rear blower fans is completely wrecked. I know some of you folks become obsessed...
• Re: A/C compressor question - noise
  Historical mailing list - Budd Premack
  Mon, 7 Jun 1999 00:00:06 -0500
  With the a/c on my 86 Syncro, it is the rear mounted blower fan for the a/c that is really noisy, especially...
• Re: BA^ Heater Booster #6 ducts
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Sun, 26 Nov 2006 16:23:23 -0500
  ...This will keep hot air made in the heater box, from going to the engine compartment.Second is relocating the blower fan. I think...
• Re: Is the rear AC blower motor the same as the front heater blower motor?
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Mon, 4 May 2015 07:34:29 -0700
  ...One has two blower fans coupled on a single shaft if I recall > correctly. I believe these came in the wooden overhead cabinets. The...
• Re: Heaters for winter camping
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Thu, 4 Dec 2008 12:52:20 -0500
  ...A small blower fan > would circulate the air across the heater core. A small inline > circulating pump could be installed in the coolant line...
• Vanagon front heater blower motor ballast resistor replacement
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Fri, 13 Oct 2006 06:22:31 EDT
  ...From my _Vanagon Items Forsale_ (http://members.aol.com/Fkc43/sales.htm) webpage > Ballast resistor for front heater blower fan motor, 8103, 191 959...
• Re: Electrical weirdness
  Historical mailing list - Mike
  Wed, 21 Jul 1999 21:19:59 -0400
  ...All the fuses are fine, > but all the interior electircs that depend on the ignition switch (blower > fans, AC, wipers, but not the radio...
• Re: variable speed blower fan
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Thu, 20 Apr 2017 19:44:11 -0700
  Ooh ooh I know I've been playing with PWM controllers for the fan. Get one that is rated for more than three amps...
• Re: Electric Heaters
  Historical mailing list - Robinson
  Fri, 13 Oct 1995 00:59:11 -0400 (EDT)
  ...a friend > having one some years back, which had a little blower fan in it. Make? Model? > I'm running a '72 Bus with...
• Phantom power drain: Accessories work with key out...
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Fri, 4 Jun 2010 18:36:51 -0700
  ...The windshield wipers and > the blower fans also work without the key in place. > > I pulled each fuse in turn and none of the...
• Re: A new thread . . .
  Historical mailing list - Michael Townsend
  Wed, 20 Jan 1999 08:24:00 -0500
  ...candy wrappers, styrofoam packing peanut pieces in the blower fan (and I thought the motor was shot!), needles from several Chrismtas tree hauls, craft...
• Re: aux heater blowing smoke
  Historical mailing list - Robert Rountree
  Mon, 26 Oct 1998 17:37:05 -0500
  ...turn the heater on and let it run, make sure the Blower (fan) is putting out air (if not STOP and fix).... smoke at...
• Re: Help! Problems on the road! Smoke! or something that smells like it, a...
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Oxroad
  Mon, 22 Mar 2004 21:22:45 EST
  ...After checking the headlight switch and fuse box check the front heater blower fan. This fan can sieze up and cause wires to melt...