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• Power Cat versus Buddy Heater
  Historical mailing list - Michael Sheridan
  Sat, 29 Dec 2001 23:35:33 -0400
  ...Heater's Buddy Heater. The Power Cat is 3000btu with fan, the Buddy heater is up to 9000btu with no fan. I am interested...
• Re: Diesel Heat
  Historical mailing list - Data Services
  Thu, 3 Jan 2002 22:01:14 -0500
  Excuse my unfamiliarity with the subject, but isn't alot of the heat produced by a diesel engine used up in it's operation...
• Re: '81 Vanagon heater advice
  Historical mailing list - Chris Smith
  Wed, 27 Oct 1999 12:36:10 -0500
  ...Looks like 12 would be needed to >>provide the same heat as a gas heater. I know my '82 could never supply >>the power...
• Propex heater and rear heater removal pros/cons in colder climates
  Historical mailing list - Stuart
  Sat, 7 May 2016 15:00:52 +0000
  I am finally getting-a-round-2-it to install my Propex heater in my 1986 VW Vanagon Westphalia GL camper 2.1 L...
• Re: Heat handling design error help
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 8 Jun 1996 18:45:06 -0700
  >I believe the design weakness in VW water jacketed motor installations >most commonly responsible for failures is their marginal heat rejection >system. Not only...
• Re: Air Cooled Rear Passenger Area Heat
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Schwaia
  Sun, 12 Dec 2004 20:32:43 -0800
  As an added benefit, on most air-cooled VWs, you also get that nice heater smell. Ah, I love the smell of hot oil...
• Re: '81 Vanagon heater advice
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Wed, 27 Oct 1999 10:30:46 -0400
  At 09:28 10/27/99 , Chris Smith wrote: > The typical output >of a 12v electric heater is 5000 BTU. Looks like 12 would...
• Heat Exchanger Bypass Pipe Question
  Historical mailing list - Saulius Berzinskas
  Mon, 16 Jul 2001 22:44:03 -0400
  Hi all- Recently I have been considering replacing the rusty heat exchangers in my 82 westy with bypass "J" pipes. My van is primarily...
• Trade Cat Heaters for Westy
  Historical mailing list - lchase
  Mon, 4 Feb 2002 11:02:45 -0800
  Folks, Looking to trade two Coleman Catylitic Heaters (Black Cat & Power Cat) .... almost new,used on one 3 week trip this Christams Holiday .....in...
• Re: Porsche 6 cyl, was conversion
  Historical mailing list - Charles Hokanson
  Wed, 5 Jan 2000 22:35:22 EST
  In a message dated 1/5/00 5:07:54 AM Pacific Standard Time, rfeussner@GMX.DE writes: > And one minus is heating...To...
• Re: Where is The Heat Going?
  Historical mailing list - Mike S
  Sat, 21 Jul 2007 18:54:59 -0400
  At 06:02 PM 7/21/2007, Michael Elliott wrote... > Far less heat >than what the Dometic has to dump: heater + extracted food heat...
• Re: Propex heater question
  Historical mailing list - Mark C
  Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:11:18 -0700
  ...Propex heater question > I have a Propex heater as well and used to have a Platinum Cat in my 84 > (which also had a...
• Re: 84 Vanagon..... brrrrrrrrrrr.....no heat!!
  Historical mailing list - lauterba
  Tue, 17 Dec 2002 18:08:30 -0500
  Harold, first make sure that the cable to the heater valve is working and valve is operating. If you had heat last winter, you...
• Re: stove=heater=safe?
  Historical mailing list - James Cook
  Tue, 15 Nov 1994 16:10:44 -0800 (PST)
  ...When he wants heat, he puts it upside down on the burner... thus capturing that heat and it slowly emanates from there... more heat...
• Removing 91 Volkswagen Vanagon, Heater, Heater blower motor
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Thu, 7 Oct 1999 22:44:28 -0700
  ...Remove coolant hoses from heater core tubes. Disconnect three heater control cables from heater case control levers. Remove 4 screws holding heater case to...
• Re: Alternative Vanagon heaters - Zodi's, Tankless Water Heaters
  Historical mailing list - Tom Buese
  Fri, 2 Mar 2007 11:52:00 -0700
  On Mar 2, 2007, at 11:17 AM, John Rodgers wrote: > The tankless hotwater heater thread prompted my thoughts on > alternative > heat for the...
• RE: heater blower project
  Historical mailing list - Maher, Steve (SD-MS)
  Tue, 03 Oct 1995 09:34:00 -0700 (PDT)
  >Anyone installed the JCWhitney heater/blower kit? The 12V heater was an >appealing quick-fix and not very serious. How difficult is the >installation...
• RE: heaters and propane
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 6 Jan 1996 18:22:04 -0700
  ...heaters and propane > >Volks, > I've been wanting to install a vented propane heater in my bus for >some time. One thing I am...
• Re: Oil Pan Heater (immersion vs. stickon)
  Historical mailing list - Mark Tuovinen
  Fri, 1 Oct 2004 14:16:29 -0800
  For another view on this subject: " Our oil pan heaters are thin, flexible heating pads that are permanently> bonded to the oil pan. The...
• removing heater
  Historical mailing list - EARL J SMITH
  Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:47:09 -0800
  The blower motor on my 86 vanagon front heater has died. I have removed all the gubbins from up front to remove the heater...
• Re: heater control lights
  Historical mailing list - Richard A Jones
  Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:53:38 -0700
  Don wrote: > Amazing! Who'd a thunk that a VW van would ever even have a heater, let > alone levers and lights to control...
• Re: Anyone use this Heater for their Vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Thu, 30 Aug 2012 07:10:41 -0700
  Looks very similar to the Olympian heater I have in my van: <http://www.campingworld.com/shopping/item/olympian-wave-3-catalytic-safety-heater...
• Re: Heaters for winter camping
  Historical mailing list - Luke Bakken
  Thu, 4 Dec 2008 11:05:35 -0800
  ...Catalytic heaters produce > moisture and the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning. Any kind of open > flame gas heater has the same problem. The gasoline...
• Re: Heat handling design error help
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 10 Jun 1996 18:41:52 -0400
  ...The water in the wasserboxer engine is NOT "comparitively insulated from the heat producing motor processes". Most of the heat in the engine is...
• Re: aiding cooling system by turning on heater blower
  Historical mailing list - sg
  Wed, 16 May 2001 10:20:28 -0700
  ...aiding cooling system by turning on heater blower > When you turn on the heater blower, you will probably draw about 10 amps at > max...
• Cooling
  Historical mailing list - Dave Kautz
  Tue, 18 Jul 95 16:16:40 PDT
  ...The water is being used as a conductor to carry the waste heat of combustion away from areas of intense local heat to a...
• Re: HEAT glorious heat!!!
  Historical mailing list - Vanagon man
  Fri, 15 Feb 2002 12:25:12 -0500
  All of my aircooled vehicles have heat so good that they will burn you out of the van and or have you cracking the...
• Re: Heater hoses
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Sun, 10 Feb 2008 19:36:14 -0800
  The more reliable way to bypass a rear heater would be to remove the plastic T's.........and replace them with straight hose junctions...
• Re: Heater hoses '85 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Tue, 9 Mar 2010 22:12:36 -0800
  fwiw, I just looked at some heater hose connections for Jeff today - specifically the T's for the rear heater. Yes, it's 5...
• Re: snow! Can we talk about heat now?
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Mon, 5 Dec 2005 08:16:35 -0800
  ...Not getting heat... For the rear heater, is it turned on? Remember that there is a valve on the rear heater that must be...
• Re: Alternative Vanagon heaters - Zodi's, Tankless Water Heaters
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 2 Mar 2007 20:55:31 +0000
  ...Just dry heat coming off the coil. > > > > Hmmm, or radiant heat thru heat fin tubes or continuous tubes > in the > > floor of the vanagon...
• Re: Dan H's Heater
  Historical mailing list - Dan Houg
  Tue, 14 Feb 1995 15:01:33 CST6CDT
  SStones re-butts: > If it's not air in the system, it could be that your heater core is > all plugged up with crud...
• Re: Catalytic heaters
  Historical mailing list - Steve Lashley
  Tue, 3 Nov 1998 13:16:06 EST
  In a message dated 11/3/98 9:26:24 AM, scote@PTBO.IGS.NET wrote: <<With all this talk about heaters, can anyone...
• RE: Aux heat for busses (reprint)
  Historical mailing list - William R. Kennedy, NJIT CIAT, 201-596-5648
  Mon, 24 Apr 1995 11:33:53 EST
  Does anyone know why heater flapper valves are built the way they are? Rather than being on-off, they either duct heated air into...
• Propane heaters
  Historical mailing list - earl smith
  Thu, 6 Sep 2001 19:48:17 -0700
  I am planning to put a propane heater in my next Westy. has anyone found a heater that fits into the storage bin at...
• Re: rear heater, was 2.1 L Oil filler tube needed
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Sat, 28 Aug 2010 17:32:11 -0500
  ...Well, I know about the rear heater valve in mine -- or more accurately, I know that there isn't one -- rear heater that is...
• Re: No heat at stoplights.
  Historical mailing list - Edward Maglott
  Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:12:12 -0500
  ...The heaters are not terrible in a TDI. The TDI engine is a >terrible heater. Once engine is fully warmed the heaters will melt...
• Re: Rear heater - sweet smell
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
  Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:54:14 -0700
  This assumes, of course, that your front heater works... until last month, my front blower had been dead for ~10 years, so it was...
• Re: Almost no front heat but my rear heat is OK... why?
  Historical mailing list - Mark Tuovinen
  Fri, 4 Jan 2008 15:17:09 -0900
  ...Almost no front heat but my rear heat is OK... why? To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Hi All, > > My front heater really does not...
• Re: Where is temperature sensor & why does needle drop when heater is on?
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott )
  Mon, 7 Sep 2015 22:00:49 -1000
  cold water in heater core/s does not go to the radiator. it goes back to the engine. both heater circuits have nothing to...
• Re: heat in VW Vans
  Historical mailing list - John
  Sat, 30 Sep 2000 14:18:22 -0400
  Jim Arnott wrote: > > Actually there IS a 'block heater' for the wasserboxer. Sticks to the bottom > of the crankcase. Warms the oil rather than...
• Re: Air-Cooled heater modifications
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Mon, 5 Feb 2007 11:25:55 -0800
  ...What you understood me to say to say was" please buy my heater or kill yourself with Bob's briquet heater." Waht I really...
• Re: No heat at stoplights.
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Palmer
  Wed, 6 Jan 2010 21:21:28 -0600
  ...Maybe 10 years but not all 16 :) Try your rear heater - it will likely blow heat at idle (mine does). -30 weather can take...
• Re: HEAT glorious heat!!!
  Historical mailing list - Don Hundt
  Sat, 16 Feb 2002 11:37:35 -0800
  ...HEAT glorious heat!!! > Hello: > > I am the owner of a new 82 Westy without a heater booster and I have been > following the messages...
• Re: Very little heat from the front heater
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Fri, 2 Dec 2011 09:10:39 -0600
  ---- John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET> wrote: > If it's not the > thermostat - and the rear heater puts out good heat - then you have a...
• Re: Heater?
  Historical mailing list - kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
  Fri, 12 Oct 2018 07:55:21 -0400
  Don, usually no heat means either low coolant, or a bad heater core. Did you recently replace your core? How are you bleeding the...
• Re: Solar Panel Mount -Flexible Panels?
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Sun, 2 May 2010 20:47:06 -0700
  ...Heat For heat where you have shore power have you tried one of the small cube heaters? I've carried one around for about...
• Choices on Heat: Real and Imagined
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 15 Nov 94 7:58:48 EST
  All this talk of catalytic heaters, the lack of heat in air-cooled Vanagons, the impending cold winter and the need for making this...
• Re: Winters in the van...
  Historical mailing list - Isaac Taylor
  Sat, 16 Nov 2002 09:14:49 -0500
  ...I'm saying install a heater in the engine bay -- it'll double as a block heater -- and pump the heat through a sealed...
• Re: Damaged cooling pipe/Avoidance of Hypothermia
  Historical mailing list - James Creech
  Tue, 20 Mar 2001 09:07:18 -0500
  ...The rear > heater circulates cabin air whereas the front heater uses the icy outside air > for makeup air. Anyway, the rear heater core is...
• FS Front Heater
  Historical mailing list - Joel Cort
  Thu, 30 Nov 2000 17:53:42 -0800
  Cold Listees, I'm selling the complete front heater assembly to fit the watercooled Vanagon between '83 and '91. The heater came from a...
• Re: Winters in the van... HYDRONIC HEAT
  Historical mailing list - 80 Westy Pokey
  Wed, 20 Nov 2002 10:59:27 -0500
  This is a good point, but the most important insulation would be the floor, as that is where the heated pipes would reside. The...
• Rear heater issues (84)
  Historical mailing list - Ed
  Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:07:33 -0800
  I have an 84 Vanagon on which the rear heater valve just failed. I am pondering repairing or just eliminating the rear heater. If...
• Rear heater tees and hoses installed
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sun, 30 Jul 2023 20:04:23 -0700
  It’s a bit of a kludge , but got new hoses and tees from Amin heater lines to the rear heater installed. The stock...
• Re: Damaged cooling pipe/Avoidance of Hypothermia
  Historical mailing list - Rico Sapolich
  Tue, 20 Mar 2001 07:03:19 EST
  In a message dated 3/19/01 11:33:30 PM, turbovans@JUNO.COM writes: << re rear heater, don't know if you are...
• Gas/Diesel heater
  Historical mailing list - Felder
  Fri, 5 Dec 2003 14:47:08 -0800
  I don't know anything about this heating system, but I have a question about the knob on the dash in the extreme right...
• 5/8" heater hose questions (searched archive)
  Historical mailing list - neil
  Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:36:11 -0700
  ...At this stage, (dash off, air/heat box ready) I may install heater hose now. Obviously it's easier to connect heater hose to...
• Sealing a heater core? The heater revisited again.
  Historical mailing list - George Averill
  Mon, 19 Feb 2001 09:37:14 -0500
  This is another update on the saga of the rear heater repair. I installed a new heater valve (old one was leaking where the...
• Re: Stiff Heater Cables when pulling
  Historical mailing list - Victor Montgomery
  Thu, 18 Feb 1999 13:47:10 EST
  ...This indicates that there is no problem with the twin cables to >the heat exchanger pods which, when doing this, are being pushed >closed...
• lifesaver heater
  Historical mailing list - Schmidt
  Fri, 22 Dec 2000 10:16:13 -0500
  Last winter I bought a little coleman heater that is fueled by the little bottles of propane(the screw on kind. While it does...