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  • Re: Pfeiffer Pics from DavidS
    Historical mailing list - Steve Johnson
    Fri, 3 Feb 1995 16:51:33 -0800 (PST)
    ...stash (in the battery pic) as they were of his water heating system. ;) What's next Dave G.? A bidet? ;) Steven sjohnson@pcocd2.intel...
  • Re: mice in heater
    Historical mailing list - jimkim
    Mon, 1 Nov 1999 00:00:36 -0800
    A cat perhaps? > Deena's comments... > > Since on our "farm" mice are notorious for building nests in the heating > systems of our vehicles, I...
  • How much heat?
    Historical mailing list - Jens Jakob Andersen
    Fri, 25 Jun 2004 10:01:43 +0200
    ...many watts do you have? * How cold is your climate? * What is enough? Lets make a poll and get factual wiser ;-) Happy heating JJ
  • Re: rusty brake bleed screws
    Historical mailing list - Bio
    Wed, 6 Oct 2004 21:38:00 -0400
    ...http://www.kanolabs.com/ Jon Schaer wrote: >All, > >Any advice or tricks for un-sticking rusted caliper bleed screws? I'm leary >of heating...
  • Re: front shock removal problem
    Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
    Wed, 13 Jul 2005 16:08:44 -0600
    ...A little banging, not bashing, during the heating and it will likely loosen up real good fer ya. Oh, and patience. bob
  • Re: anybody want a 90 syncro camper with a 3.2 liter porsche 911 engine? ;)
    Historical mailing list - John Bange
    Sat, 21 May 2005 22:33:43 -0700
    ...I'd hate to have that thing in Wisconsin. > The Porsche 3.2 is air-cooled, I wonder how you keep heating in a...
  • Re: HS2000 propex
    Historical mailing list - Karl Mullendore
    Sun, 29 Oct 2006 13:18:58 -0500
    The heater has one 'main' speed while heating, it goes through a purge cycle at startup, where it elevates the fan speed slightly for...
  • heater assist kit
    Historical mailing list
    Fri, 08 Dec 1995 01:57:12 -0500
    ...It is supposed to boost heating up by over 100 cfm and right now I think my heater puts out about two or three...
  • heater
    Historical mailing list - Richard Lynn
    Sun, 1 Nov 1998 20:56:42 -0800
    I've enjoyed my propex heater for a few years and a friend is now interested in heating his air cooled van. There's...
  • vanagon insulation
    Historical mailing list - Mark Kazman
    Mon, 14 Jun 1999 10:06:06 -0700
    ...and wind noise, and how he improved the vanagons air cooled heating system. He had a detailed description on how he did it and...
  • Tips & Tricks - Heating and Air Flow Control Levers - how to change
    Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
    Fri, 24 Feb 2006 12:55:16 -0600
    Subject says it all. I must replace my levers. but how the heck do you do that?? I have new ones, but I'm...
  • Re: Thermostat testing
    Historical mailing list - alfred bagdan
    Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:34:59 -0600
    ...Celcius, Mahler brand) and when testing it by slowly heating in a pot of water, it begins to open at 95 degrees C. Then...
  • Re: [Re: # pumping water through stalled engine (was: heating parked vanagon)]
    Historical mailing list - d t
    Mon, 3 Jan 2000 16:43:32 MST
    ...I'd try to avoid an in-vehicle heating system (e.g. catalytic) if possible. My main worry is the heater blower's current...
  • FW: smoke inside the van??
    Historical mailing list - Carrington, Tom
    Thu, 13 Jul 2000 09:05:38 -0400
    ...She was sitting in the back and thought the smell was coming from the rear heating vent. When I looked over my shoulder I...
  • Re: Digijet Aux Air Valve
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Fri, 27 Oct 2000 08:38:39 -0400
    ...It also has a heating element that warms it up and makes it close -- exactly like Federal-spec automatic chokes except that they open...
  • Re: more heating ideas/freezing bats
    Historical mailing list - Bob Polys
    Mon, 2 Oct 1995 09:17:21 -0500
    >So, one might hope to get a few of hours' heat out of a big battery >that has been fully charged. Rember -- you'll...
  • Re: Aircooled? - building my own interior heating system!
    Historical mailing list - Wil Haslup
    Sat, 25 Nov 2006 13:11:39 -0500
    ...I realized the same parts can be utilized to build a heating system. > Parts: > * Inline 12v heater (bought on Ebay for $70 - basically a...
  • Re: more heating ideas
    Historical mailing list
    Mon, 2 Oct 95 21:26:59 -0700
    >On Mon, 2 Oct 95 00:12:28 CDT David Schwarze said: ... >>heating an RV while it is parked (and not plugged in). Does...
  • Re: 2003 Eurovan Weekender - heating and power for camper
    Historical mailing list - Dan N
    Thu, 19 Jan 2017 14:52:05 -0800
    *"I see those for sale for a lot less.."* that's why I said the one the OP wants to buy should be in...
  • Re: diesel over heating?????
    Historical mailing list - Austin
    Fri, 17 Jan 1997 00:16:02 -0800
    At 05:36 PM 1/13/97 -0600, you wrote: >At 02:31 PM 1/13/97 -0600, David Bayer wrote: >>>| how hot on...
  • Re- mistery item (bought)
    Historical mailing list - Martin Laycock
    Wed, 29 Sep 1999 14:49:34 +0100
    ...It turned out to be a German made 'Truma' blown air heating system (which runs on propane) with control box and thermostat. After a...
  • Lowering vanagon springs
    Historical mailing list - John Reddick
    Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:00:56 -0400
    Does anybody have any experience lowering a vanagon by heating the springs with a torch. I seem to remember a post about it a...
  • Re: Here is a source of biodiesel fuel
    Historical mailing list - Scott Norville
    Thu, 27 Oct 2005 00:02:12 -0400
    Nice idea, for the areas of the country where heating oil is common. Seeing the oil tanks behind houses is one way we tell...
  • Re: Propane and refrigerator success
    Historical mailing list - Neil N
    Tue, 30 Jun 2015 15:23:11 -0700
    ...http://tinyurl.com/pvkoum6 The screw doesn't have to be super tight; the outer metal of the heating element(s) is relatively thin...
  • Re: re. Heated seats
    Historical mailing list
    Sat, 21 Dec 2002 09:54:42 EST
    ...There is also a heating element in the lower lumber part > of > the back rest. Canadian VWs also sometimes have heated windshield washer > nozzles...
  • Re: D15 connector revealed
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Thu, 3 Nov 2011 18:28:11 -0400
    ...what ground(s) were adding to the impedance that caused the heating? Any such ground problems, while decreasing circuit function as a whole, would...
  • RE: heating
    Historical mailing list - SMILE... IT'S STILL FREE
    Sat, 03 Sep 1994 13:30:57 EST
    Andrew- I have gone (and would again go) the way of the PVC pipe. I threw it in 4 or 5 years ago, and...
  • Westy heating query
    Historical mailing list - Richard Angelini
    Wed, 11 Jun 1997 09:14:57 -0700
    I'm wondering what (if anything) other Westy owners have done to provide heat in the van while camping. I know the air cooled...
  • Re: Your Opinion: Vanagon or Late Model Bus Westy?
    Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
    Sat, 24 Oct 1998 07:55:01 -0500
    ...The van has better handling, heating, seating and cooling. The aux gas heater takes care of the heat problem in a bay and is...
  • Re: Engine swap over heating problem
    Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
    Fri, 31 Aug 2001 15:45:06 -0400
    ...Engine swap over heating problem Does anyone have any suggestions for this guy? Please respond to him, not me. Dave 251.org 87 Vanagon...
  • Re: 97 EV differences
    Historical mailing list - Rick Gordon
    Mon, 13 Jan 1997 22:32:36 -0800
    ...Would be interested in a 97 camper owner's >experiences with the heating. > Actually I was wondering about the heating while driving - its got...
  • Re: Interior Heating
    Historical mailing list - Ron Pascal
    Wed, 25 Dec 1996 13:16:11 -0800
    ...Interior Heating Date: Tuesday, December 03, 1996 10:39 AM At 09:22 AM 12/3/96 -0800, Ron Pascal <rpascal@campus.mci.net...
  • 84 Vanagon heating problem/T-5 Microbus PowerPoint
    Historical mailing list - Harold Jaynes
    Wed, 1 Jan 2003 17:06:26 EST
    ...I recently put up a post on my heating problem....actually a 'lack of' heating problem. There is no heat at all but the...
  • Re: heating while driving
    Historical mailing list - ERIC ZENO
    Mon, 18 Nov 1996 23:34:01 -0500 (EST)
    On Mon, 18 Nov 1996, Martha wrote: > > I just returned from Europe, where I picked up an item for about > $21 which should interest...
  • Re: removing frozen lug nuts / bolts ?
    Historical mailing list - Sudhir Desai
    Fri, 16 Dec 2005 19:56:08 -0500
    ...I know I'm going to be almost heat treating the studs/nuts with the heating and quick impacting. thanks again for all the...
  • Furnace for camping in the winter?
    Historical mailing list - Jamie Fitterer
    Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:58:11 +0000
    ANyone have any ideas besides running a space heater off of the secondary batery for heating a van for winter camping. I seem to...
  • Re: RATS!! All that work, now Dometic won't cool on LP
    Historical mailing list - neil N
    Sun, 29 Jul 2007 13:20:05 -0700
    ...Sounds like the burner is not heating at full > tempature. How is the 110v cooling? > -- Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia. http://web.mac...
  • Re: Piston Pin
    Historical mailing list - William R. Kennedy, NJIT CIAT, 201-596-5648
    Thu, 04 May 1995 14:56:03 EST
    ...Muir suggests heating the piston with rags soaked with boiling water, but I think that may have been for getting the pin IN. If...
  • headlight switch
    Historical mailing list
    Mon, 17 May 1999 23:38:41 EDT
    seriously, tho - the reason your headlight switch is heating up, it is going bad. i had the same thing happen on my '84, and...
  • Re: " you fixed it with what?!"
    Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
    Wed, 17 Mar 2004 11:03:37 -0500
    On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Eric Zeno wrote: > Home heating oil, kerosene, and diesel fuel, are almost identical. Only > chemical differnce is how clean...
  • Re: Propane lines
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Sat, 4 Apr 2015 16:31:22 -0400
    ...If you have to you can anneal it by heating red hot and quenching in water. Yours, d
  • Westy fridge 12 volt cooling, was: Re: battery question
    Historical mailing list - mark drillock
    Tue, 26 Aug 2014 04:28:55 -0700
    ...If full voltage and strong ground don't reach all the way to the 12v heating element then the element won't get as...
  • Re: heating start-up
    Historical mailing list - ~K~
    Tue, 16 Nov 1999 23:23:47 -0400
    Anyone have any tricks for getting the heat going fast in an 85 (or whatever) Vanagon? Usually it's on just about when i...
  • Re: Installing a propane heater in a Weekender?
    Historical mailing list - Karl Mullendore
    Wed, 4 Feb 2009 12:33:47 -0500
    ...an 85 Wolfsburg and my SO would love to have central heating! > >Thanks, > >Peter Yes, many have installed the Propex in all forms of...
  • Re: [Syncro] re: Auxiliary heating of a Syncro Westy
    Historical mailing list - Westyman
    Wed, 2 Apr 2003 23:03:28 -0800
    ...I expect this unit should easily meet the heating needs in sub-zero winter camping in our Westies and other type campers. Karl Mullendore...
  • Re: Aircooled? - building my own interior heating system!
    Historical mailing list - Wil Haslup
    Sat, 25 Nov 2006 14:58:55 -0500
    ...If it was practical, automotive engineers would have > adopted electrical heating a long time ago. > There are tiny little 12V hairdryers that are popular...
  • Glue, heating, thanx and rolling again
    Historical mailing list - Knud Haugmark
    Mon, 15 Sep 1997 09:51:18 +0000
    ...Also I want to build in an electric heating panel. How many watts will be neccessary to keep warm at zero centigrade (=32� Farenheit...
  • Heater control bulbs - how many?
    Historical mailing list - Jeff Palmer
    Sun, 19 Sep 2021 23:33:46 -0500
    Does anyone recall how many bulbs I need to light the heating controls in my 85? I have no light behind the sliders or...
  • Re: heating project..
    Historical mailing list - Dan N
    Wed, 19 Apr 2017 09:32:48 -0700
    thank you guys... I suggested him not to do it and I will use your arguments to press on. I suggested him to roll...
  • Re: 2003 Eurovan Weekender - heating and power for camper
    Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
    Fri, 20 Jan 2017 03:52:39 +0000
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  • Re: Starter relay
    Historical mailing list - Stuart Hutton
    Sun, 4 Dec 1994 14:39:55 -0700 (MST)
    ...I jump into the camper, wait for the glow plugs to finish heating, turn the key, hear nothing! The battery is not dead. It...
  • Re: Vanagon with Porsche power.
    Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
    Wed, 10 May 1995 16:46:11 -0700 (PDT)
    ...through a radiator/heat exchanger that was connected to the stock heating system. I guess he also added some kind of recirc pump. Alistair
  • Re: Smelly
    Historical mailing list - Mark A. Williamson
    Thu, 5 Nov 1998 12:48:26 +0000
    ...core to the cooling system (or depending on your perspective, the heating system!) or (2) a leak in your (rear) heater core. Mark Williamson...
  • Re: stop leak
    Historical mailing list - Terry Kay
    Sun, 7 Jan 2001 05:50:44 -0600
    ...No over heating due to a plugged radiator, no loss of heat due to plugged heater core. It worked for me.:>) Could possibly work...
  • Re: engine block heater source and install in PNW
    Historical mailing list - Gnarlodious
    Wed, 30 Jan 2002 16:51:23 -0700
    Entity Ed DeBolt spoke thus: > They would like to get a good quality block/heating system installed before > they get on the ferry. > > Any...
  • FS: update: eberspaecher b2l heater
    Historical mailing list - Florian Speier
    Fri, 7 Sep 2007 15:48:46 -0700
    ...The B2L draws 15W when in a heating phase. florian
  • Re: Heating van at night
    Historical mailing list - miguel pacheco
    Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:00:06 -0700
    I think that's the one that came in Adventurewagens........looks just like the one in mine. Works great! I didn't know they...
  • Re: HELP: I'm Over heating after turning off for 2 minutes
    Historical mailing list - Richard M. Myers
    Sun, 20 Sep 1998 01:50:37 -0700
    ...I am finding that it is over heating after I > turn it off. I can drive for hours and the coolant needle stays at...
  • <No subject>
    Historical mailing list - paula
    Thu, 16 Nov 95 13:33:09 PST
    ...My heating system works terrible. The back heater works better than the front but it fogs up the windows and smells bad. The front...
  • What should I replace "As long as I'm at it" when I pull the gas tank and the instrument cluster?
    Historical mailing list - 1980 VW Westfalia \"Pokey\"
    Tue, 19 Sep 2000 13:29:57 -0400
    ...2) Brake booster 3) Heating components 4+) ??????? Thanks, Chris Gronski Toronto, Ontario, '80 Westy "Pokey" '87 Chevrolet Sprint (Ice Racer) '91 Pontiac Firefly Convertible