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• Re: sticky accelerator cable woes
  Historical mailing list - t bill
  Wed, 12 Aug 1998 22:02:28 -0700
  ...cable sheath appears to be affixed to various > points hard to get to, like under the fuel tank > and under the aux heater. Can...
• Re: Front Heater Core Retrofit (Save money!)
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Thu, 21 Nov 2002 02:10:32 -0500
  ...of poorly designed monstrocity called Vanagon heater system. > There are also many control flaps with disintegrated foam, cables needing adjustment, > crumbling housing plastic etc...
• Re: Heater controls, 84.
  Historical mailing list - Leon Korkin
  Wed, 21 Aug 2002 09:36:14 -0700
  ...It is critical to have outer cable aligned well in extended position. The cable cannot tolerate even slightest misalignment aggravated by years of operation...
• Re: Heat won't turn off
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Sun, 4 Jun 2006 16:19:50 -0700
  > > My mechanic replaced the heater control valve, but the problem persists. > He > says this problem is common to Vanagons and that many owners here...
• Re: Leaking auxiliary heater
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 04 Apr 94 23:57:51 EDT
  ...heater indeed cntrols the amount of heat. I went to a lawn mower repair shop and attached a short length of lawn mower cable...
• Re: Front Heater Motor
  Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
  Thu, 7 Dec 2000 07:04:57 -0600
  ...heater coolant control valve manually and leave it on until you get a control cable or summer. You can also operate the heater air...
• Re: Question regarding coolant flow and front heater
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 23 May 2005 13:18:10 -0700
  ...GMAIL.COM writes: > > My front heater is always on... I assume then that this is because the > cable > that controls the valve in the...
• Re: Speedy
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Fri, 6 Dec 2013 07:52:33 -0600
  ...Taking shortcuts like not removing the steering wheel, taking pictures of how far the heater cables go past their clamps so you can get...
• Heat/Fresh Air Cables broke
  Historical mailing list - Kyle Haskins
  Mon, 31 Mar 1997 17:29:58 -0500 (EST)
  ...realized that not only is the Fresh Air Cable broken, but now the heater cable is broke. I can pull it with a tool...
• Re: Good News Story about one of our parts vendors
  Historical mailing list - Benny boy
  Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:16:39 -0400
  400$ for a heater core... mm it's getting expensive to own a Vanagon. Speedo cable N/A at VW, same for the long...
• Re: Lubricate front heater control cables?
  Historical mailing list - Ken Lewis
  Mon, 5 May 2008 09:11:15 -0400
  Steve, I had one bind up so badly it caused it to kink near the control. I real challange to fix. I vote for...
• Re: Heater Cable from Bus Depot?
  Historical mailing list - Steve Williams
  Fri, 10 Oct 2014 07:56:52 -0700
  On 10/9/2014 5:47 PM, Karl Mullendore wrote: > If the valve itself isn't tight, straighten and lube the cable. I've...
• Re: Lubrication of Heater/Ventilation Control Cables
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Tue, 19 Dec 2023 15:59:08 -0500
  ...been using that same item for years on my cables, even the “accelerator” cable to my diesel injector. It works perfectly and there’s...
• fun with cables
  Historical mailing list - Sean Bartnik
  Sat, 4 Oct 1997 17:16:49 EDT
  ...I ordered an emergency brake cable and a right-side heater cable from Ron at Bus Depot, along with some Vanagon custom-fit floormats...
• Heater core/exchanger valve R&R?
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Sun, 6 May 2012 06:13:37 -0700
  How does one go about replacing the heater valve? The control cable vanishes down through the floor. The valve is shown on Bentley 19...
• Temperature Adjustment cables was RE: trip out west
  Historical mailing list - Jamie Fitterer
  Wed, 4 Aug 2010 14:46:16 +0000
  ...My Temperature adjustment cable in the dash is shot. Looks like PO stretched it out at one point and tried to twist it around...
• More Heater Valve
  Historical mailing list - Dave Baker
  Sat, 11 Aug 2001 13:18:34 -0500
  ...How does the cable attach to the lever on the new one? The end of the cable is bent into an "L" shape, and...
• Re: Front heater motor
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Tue, 28 Feb 2017 12:41:55 -0800
  ...deadening the front nose panel, lube the cables, repair the air hoses, may be replace the heater core... and you're all set... yes...
• Re: buzzing in dash
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Wed, 20 Oct 1999 02:18:26 +0200
  Grant Holst wrote: > Alistair Bell wrote: > > > A bit of schmumpf ? > > > > I've checked heater cables, ashtray,vent outlets and hoses. > It's a very...
• Re: '85 VANAGON W/89 ENGINE
  Historical mailing list - Howard Fleming
  Sat, 18 Jul 1998 10:15:51 -0500
  If just the core wire of the heater cables are broken, you can get the center wire from a small engine shop and make...
• Re: Auto shifter cable: Ideas on making it longer?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 11 Mar 2011 19:14:25 -0500
  ...Would have been nice if VW had when they set up their heater controls.* Morse are probably the world leader in control cables that...
• Re: Dash coming out. Any prev. maint tips?
  Historical mailing list - neil
  Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:07:45 -0800
  ...And yes thanks, I'll label the cables. "heat" = cold "defrost" = cold etc. ;^) --- heh heh. I removed the stock heater/gas heater a while...
• Re: Heater not stopping problem #
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Thu, 3 Aug 2000 16:29:22 -0700
  ...Heater not stopping problem # > > Hello Volks, > > My front heater doesn't stop heating even with the valve closed. I suspected > it's the cable...
• Re: Front Heater Core Shutoff
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:25:59 -0500
  ...New heater valve and careful realignment and lubricating the control cable solved it. mcneely ---- John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET> wrote: > I need to install...
• Re: Almost no front heat but my rear heat is OK... why?
  Historical mailing list - Karl Mullendore
  Fri, 4 Jan 2008 18:23:05 -0500
  Heater valve working? Cable slipped? Have someone move the lever at the dash while you verify min/max movement at the valve. Christopher Gronski...
• Heater Controls
  Historical mailing list - Evil Pig
  Thu, 30 Aug 2001 22:49:40 -0700
  Hi folks, I am having trouble with two of my heater controls one, the defroster/foot heater selector (the one on top) can't...
• Re: speedometer noise and other ramblings
  Historical mailing list
  08 Jan 97 07:03:09 PST
  ...This lever is connected to a > cable which apparently splits into two cables, and each one leads to a > heater flapper box. The cable...
• Re: Warm air from under dash.
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 18 Jul 1996 21:31:14 PST
  ...On mine the cable for the heater valve needed to be adjusted. You can do it after you remove the instrument panel. There is...
• Re: Tips on sealing heater box flaps, and while the dash is out . . .
  Historical mailing list - John C...
  Fri, 8 Apr 2011 08:20:46 -0600
  ...Tips on sealing heater box flaps, and while the dash is out . . . > > > > Gotta pull the dash on Tuesday to replace the cable that operates...
• Re: rear heater valve
  Historical mailing list - Geza Polony
  Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:36:06 -0400
  ...a long choke-cable type thing, like you have on your garden tractor or whatever, to operate the rear heater valve from somewhere near...
• Re: Has heat, but it smells
  Historical mailing list - Harvey Chao
  20 Sep 1995 08:55:57 -0700
  ...All the cables can be traced >> without too much trouble after you remove the plastic heater >> core cover, You may want to take a...
• Re: Heater Cable from Bus Depot?
  Historical mailing list - kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
  Wed, 8 Oct 2014 13:42:51 -0400
  ...told the cable between the dash lever and the valve is kinked near > the dash lever. > > Everyone also tells me the cable is no...
• Fresh air control flap prototype PICS! (and long but possibly useful info)
  Historical mailing list - neil
  Fri, 6 Apr 2007 16:13:12 -0700
  ...The cables that control flaps for hot air out of the heater boxes are the same as the cables from levers to flaps on...
• Couple of diesel dash questions
  Historical mailing list - Mark L. Hineline
  Sun, 5 Dec 2010 16:44:08 -0800
  ...that cable is). What purpose did that L-shaped piece serve? Also, there's a fixture just to the left of the heater controls...
• Re: GoWesty heater valve--it just works
  Historical mailing list - Edward Maglott
  Mon, 14 Mar 2016 21:24:15 -0400
  ...and all the way closed to > cool it, without bending your heater cable into pieces, I think the GoWesty > product is your only alternative...
• Re: Heater Cable from Bus Depot?
  Historical mailing list - Steve Williams
  Wed, 8 Oct 2014 11:07:21 -0700
  Cool. Got a part number/link? On 10/8/2014 10:42 AM, kenneth wilford (Van-Again) wrote: > We actually have them. I dont...
• Re: Sticky vent controls?
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Palmer
  Fri, 20 Aug 2021 10:54:49 -0500
  ...Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> If you take the heater box out you must take the cables loose and that >> means readjust them...
• Errors on Microfiche (Not having such good luck with Jim Ellis)
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 11 Oct 1995 23:45:39 -0500
  ...On the aforementioned heater cable attachement to heater valve, rather than attempt a new cable installation (which looks like a pain) I bought two...
• Re: Hot Foot well
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Thu, 1 Jul 2021 13:53:15 -0500
  ...You have > to > > undo the little clamp on the heater valve control cable by removing the > > instrument cluster and the slider plate if I...
• Re: Replaced that heater valve today!
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Sat, 28 Aug 2004 08:33:41 -0500
  ...brass ball valve behind the heater cover. > I changed the plastic heater valve, and forever was adjusting the cable > clip which seems to be...
• Re: 1982 Diesel Vanagon: Heater Core / Fan
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Fri, 5 Oct 2012 14:19:31 -0700
  The Vanagon front heater core and dash fan motor are compatible in all watercooled years from 82 on. The cores are expensive for what...
• Re: GoWesty heater valve--it just works
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Mon, 14 Mar 2016 21:38:09 -0400
  ...and all the way closed to > cool it, without bending your heater cable into pieces, I think the GoWesty > product is your only alternative...
• Servicing heater/defroster controls - 1984 GL
  Historical mailing list - "Vanderzanden Michael (BetP/ESE1)"
  Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:36:28 -0600
  I have two broken control cables on subject system. Access to this area is limited, to say the least. So far, I have only...
• Go Westy heater valve
  Historical mailing list - Roger Barkley
  Tue, 15 Mar 2016 08:31:49 -0400
  ...and all the way closed to cool it, without bending your heater cable into pieces, I think the GoWesty product is your only alternative...
• heater control valve in '87 Westy
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Howard
  Wed, 27 Dec 2000 10:58:48 -0500
  Hi, I'm looking for the location of the heater control valve in my Westy. I bought one yesterday (can't shut off the...
• Environmental Controls (Heater/Fresh Air Levers)
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Wed, 10 Aug 2005 12:10:16 -0500
  ...cables that control the heat and fresh air. ETKA isn't so good. I want to get my heat/air controls, rear heater valve...
• Re: problem with add. heat exchanger
  Historical mailing list - Ivicz_vanagon
  Sat, 26 Feb 2005 21:54:11 +0100
  ...I see, this was my other idea > But sometimes people have by-passed the valve/heater entirely because either the valve or the heater...
• Re: front heater valve
  Historical mailing list - Leon Korkin
  Mon, 1 Oct 2001 20:53:24 -0700
  ...If the cable is disconnected, you should be able to fix > it. If your problem is like mine, the heater valve itself might be...
• Re: DPO's cablemania
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:20:15 -0800
  ...Before going water cooled, the long heater cables on my Canadian '81 Westy used to pass through blue vinyl tubes. Neil. On Mon, Nov...
• Re: Looking for correct name or terminology f or a push-pull
  Historical mailing list - JRodgers
  Mon, 2 Dec 2013 15:43:09 -0600
  ...know the heater and vent cables? They are flexible sheathed rods that can both push and pull. By contrast a sheathed cable like a...
• Re: WAS:trip out west-NOW: Heater valve
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:45:06 -0700
  ...the cabin. > > So, finally got the heater valve cable traced from the lever to the valve. > Cable works fine, doesn't bind, isn't...
• Re: anyone parting out a van have a heater cable for an '85?
  Historical mailing list - Richard A Jones
  Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:04:07 -0700
  On 2/11/2013 9:54 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote: > I just checked Van Cafe ..they are staying out of stock. Yeah, that...
• syncro - heater hose abrasion heads up
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:55:55 -0700
  ...bundle to allow a portion of the heater hose to rub on aforementioned bracket. I cable tied a section of larger diameter vinyl hose...
• Re: Lubricate front heater control cables?
  Historical mailing list - Keith Ovregaard
  Mon, 5 May 2008 09:37:12 -0700
  Lube them! The cables in my 84 kinked, so I straightened it out and worked some triflo into the cable by pushing/pulling the...
• Re: Heater always blows hot
  Historical mailing list - Jack R.
  Thu, 24 May 2007 16:55:34 -0400
  ...and > then you'll see the coolant hoses and the heater > valve which is turned on and off > by a cable. The other end...
• Re: trip out west
  Historical mailing list - george jannini
  Wed, 4 Aug 2010 08:28:21 -0400
  Re, heat control... >> It now won't turn off, so we had to shut the heater vents for the entire trip home. Any simple...
• Re: install heater core in AC housing.
  Historical mailing list - neil
  Wed, 7 Mar 2007 16:48:53 -0800
  ...heater hoses. (early & late) so when you get those you will need all of the parts. > > I had some difficulty in the cables. just...
• Re: Heater controls, 84.
  Historical mailing list - Gnarlodious
  Wed, 21 Aug 2002 22:22:27 -0400
  ...Help??" > """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" > Sounds like, as a few have mentioned, that you have bent the bowden cable > that controls the heater valve. > > You can take everything...
• Vanagon-era technology..love it,
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:21:46 -0800
  ...cable had kinked due to a ham-fisted install on my stereo and it finally broke completely right near the lever at the heater...
• Cable lubricators /type motorcycle
  Historical mailing list - Dan Houg
  Sat, 7 Jan 1995 08:30:44 CST6CDT
  ...It is particularly effective in loosening heater control cables. I'd bought this over 20 years ago (it is frightening how short that seems...