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  • Still FS: 89 Syncro Westy - Price reduced
    Historical mailing list - Joel Cort
    Mon, 14 May 2001 09:15:58 -0700
    ...I can provide additional details if you are interested. Thanks again, Joel Joel.cort@usa.xerox.com Joel_cort@yahoo.com (716) 423-3851...
  • Re: How to Keep Cool in Your Vanagon
    Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
    Fri, 18 Apr 2003 21:51:07 -0600
    ...Make sure the rear heater is turned off. >11. Make sure the front heater is turned off. >12. Block off all the air flow...
  • Re: Chinese Diesel Heater for Vanagons
    Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
    Mon, 13 Apr 2020 15:35:08 -0700
    ...be ducted for one. >> Additionally, the blowers in these units may be more energy efficient than >> those on the heater cores in the T3...
  • Re: Cooling hoses and what else?
    Historical mailing list - Jeff Oxroad
    Mon, 29 Mar 2004 11:17:55 EST
    ...What else should I replace while I am at it? > I would also recommend the plastic Ts that go to the rear heater if...
  • Re: Replacement fuel tank question
    Historical mailing list - mark drillock
    Sun, 20 Jul 2014 19:03:33 -0700
    ...Mark Roy Nicholl wrote: > James, > > I have one of those auxiliary heaters and have seen several others {diesel, petrol, and propane} on Jokers, Californias...
  • Re: Fuel Tank - 89 Westy
    Historical mailing list - Stephen Steele
    Thu, 20 Jan 2005 00:26:00 -0500
    ...Don't >> forget to claim your additional 5% list member discount. (Use referral code >> list1e on checkout.) I love his List! It was back...
  • Re: A/C for diesel
    Historical mailing list - Blue Eyes
    Thu, 3 Dec 1998 19:05:05 -0600
    ...behind the Westy/Vanagon rear windows? Does anyone know of a heater core radiator sized so it would fit in there with the air...
  • Re: is this the value?
    Historical mailing list - dan
    Tue, 9 May 2000 23:15:16 -0400
    ...Examples: * All-weather camping with 12,000 BTU furnace (and no wet canvas worries). * More ventilation with 3 additional larger, screened windows and sunroof...
  • Re: Adding gauges to a Vanagon dashboard, and which are important ?
    Historical mailing list - Pollard, Matthew
    Fri, 8 Jan 1999 08:08:46 -0800
    ...There > isn't > >much room to make a mistake as the heater ducts to the rear are almost in > >the way. > > > Additional comment: The...
  • '87 Syncro GL Adventurewagen For Sale!
    Historical mailing list - CC
    Tue, 9 May 2000 22:07:19 CDT
    ...Examples: * All-weather camping with 12,000 BTU furnace (and no wet canvas worries). * More ventilation with 3 additional larger, screened windows and sunroof...
  • '87 Syncro GL Adventurewagen For Sale!
    Historical mailing list - CC
    Thu, 25 May 2000 16:02:22 CDT
    ...Examples: * All-weather camping with 12,000 BTU furnace (and no wet canvas worries). * More ventilation with 3 additional larger, screened windows and sunroof...
  • Re: Woody's woes/ botched bleeding
    Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
    Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:44:13 -0600
    ...thermostat ( if you have a bleeder on it ), > turn on the heaters if you must :o) > That's it. > drive, rinse & repeat. > Never have...
  • Propane and cold (real world)
    Historical mailing list - Rocko Flamefart
    Tue, 29 Oct 96 08:51:42 -0600
    ...for a comparison, i estimate the rear wasserboxer heater to put out about 10-14,000 BTU. overall, given the small dimensions, safety, and...
  • True Canadian Winter Bus Campout
    Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
    Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:29:34 -0500
    ...Cost: $12/person for the group meal plan. $26/night for a hydro campsite, $7/night per additional vehicle. Campsite reservations are not required...
  • Re: Rejected posting to vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
    Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
    Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:57:40 -0800
    ...There are forward auxilary heater temparature controls that I dont think are stock; it is a toggle switch for= temp up and down. Additionally...
  • Re: Fiamma Bike Rack Purchase Update
    Historical mailing list - Steve Lashley
    Tue, 22 Feb 2000 23:49:49 EST
    ...I had to commit to increased sales and additional stock. I continue to stock many items including side tents, screen kits, bike racks, window...
  • Re: How to Keep Cool in Your Vanagon
    Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
    Fri, 18 Apr 2003 20:51:41 -0600
    ...Make sure the rear heater is turned off. >11. Make sure the front heater is turned off. >12. Block off all the air flow...
  • Re: Monoxide CO deaths 2005
    Historical mailing list - Roger Whittaker
    Sun, 8 Feb 2009 20:14:01 -0800
    ...Portable LP heaters -- 10 > > Generators -- 12 > > Charcoal -- 2 > > LP lanterns -- 3 > > Gas stove -- 1 > > Gas fridge -- 1 > > unknown space heater -- 1 > > > > Additional 11 fatalities...
  • Re: Woody's woes/ botched bleeding
    Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
    Fri, 25 Dec 2009 10:44:22 -0500
    ...2) Opened front and back heaters. 3) Opened bleeder valve on new radiator; took cap off expansion tank. 4) Filled expansion tank with water...
  • Re: FRONT HEATER / BLOWER FAN - Removal Instructions - EXTREMELY VERY LONG
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Tue, 1 Dec 2009 15:42:16 -0500
    ...foolishness in >future.] There are two additional #3 philips >screws up in the frame support of the heater at >the bottom holding a small...
  • Re: Winter Camping at Pokagon State Park
    Historical mailing list - Jonathan Farrugia
    Wed, 2 Feb 2005 00:39:01 -0500
    ...to deal with it being on the windows and other surfaces. additionally i always slept with the front windows and the sliders cracked open...
  • Re: generators/inverters for camping
    Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
    Tue, 9 Feb 2010 10:28:54 -0800
    ...turn on the heater, and and and..." All of a sudden, I will find myself maintaining a bunch of additional electrical widgets that we...
  • Cooling System Capacity and Front Heater Valve Assembly and Cable
    Historical mailing list
    Sat, 07 Oct 1995 17:14:37 -0500
    ...I figure that I'll be making additional bleeding efforts and put more P.G. in when I do that. Is there 1 gallon...
  • Re: Car-Talk and AOL slams the VW bus again..."worst car of the millennium"
    Historical mailing list - G. Matthew Bulley
    Mon, 8 Apr 2002 07:39:56 -0400
    ...The Vanagon was a quantum leap better, but still benefits from more sound/heat insulation, and additional tweaking of the heat system. Let's...
  • Re: Blog post about 85 doka
    Historical mailing list - Miguel Pacheco
    Thu, 26 Mar 2015 10:13:34 -0600
    ...g. heater blower, radiator fan, etc.) to their own dedicated source > below the dash. I may now consider the relays as an additional protection...
  • Re: '87 Vanagon GL- FOR SALE
    Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
    Tue, 5 Jan 2010 16:58:57 -0800
    It sure is funny that about 3/4ths of the time, people fail to mention WHERE their 87 GL for sale with leaking heater...
  • NO-ROSION COOLING SYSTEM CORROSION INHIBITOR
    Historical mailing list - Vince P.
    Fri, 12 May 2000 12:43:24 -0700
    ...Please refer to the Question & Answer portion of our web page for additional details. Not sure if you vehicle's cooling system has proper...
  • Re: gauge recommendations
    Historical mailing list - Allan Bagley
    Tue, 12 Feb 2002 22:48:32 -0800
    ...gauge recommendations What a tasty question! I have: (in the heater air cover) oil pressure, oil temperature, battery voltage taken at the fuse panel...
  • Re: Trusting Your Machine
    Historical mailing list - Rusty Zarse
    Fri, 2 Jul 2004 08:56:03 -0700
    ...My heater needs an overhaul. The electrical was trashed by the P.O. (probably a best buy stereo install, hard to tell) and I...
  • Headlite wiring & adding Euro style grille & small driving lites to my 84 Westy
    Historical mailing list - bueses
    Mon, 5 Dec 2005 12:09:15 -0700
    ...Add the radiator fan on high speed with the AC or heater fans in > winter and you have some issues here. > > To get the...
  • Re: Subject: German quality?
    Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
    Sat, 24 Aug 2013 20:37:07 -0400
    ...Heater valves leak,balljoints fail quickly,sensors like heater temp are way out of spec,etc... its a darn shame. I prefer Lemforder for...
  • Re: alternator upgrade
    Historical mailing list - David Marshall
    Sun, 24 Jan 1999 22:22:28 -0800
    ...in a second battery in the near future for additional >accesories like a heater. I think now would be a good time to upgrade...
  • Bench Testing an L-jetronic Fuel Injected engine
    Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
    Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:01:13 -0500
    ...I quickly shut it down as I had not yet attached the heater boxes, and it was both stinky and loud in the enclosed...
  • Bus Fire!
    Historical mailing list
    Wed, 2 Sep 1998 21:25:44 -0400
    ...I thought is was about where the auxiliary gas heater is located. Fortunately I was right across the street from a police station, and...
  • Re: Fw: What circuit runs the cabin light?
    Historical mailing list - Brent Christensen
    Thu, 27 May 1999 14:24:54 -0700
    ...12v receptacle (mounted on the heater box below the radio) and the radio. I plan to leave additional leads available for CD Radio, amplifier...
  • Re: 91 GL running hot all of the sudden
    Historical mailing list - Motlagh, John N [GMG]
    Mon, 25 Aug 2003 15:41:48 -0500
    ...That increase in idle rpm needs additional cooling in hot weather. Thus the radiator cooling fan kicks in. Regards, John Rodgers 88 GL Driver...
  • Re: True Canadian Winter Bus Campout
    Historical mailing list - pete or nancy owsianowski
    Tue, 4 Jan 2005 19:04:42 -0500
    ...Ice cold at night, so bring a heater and lots of > blankets. And wooly long underwear. And a toque. > > Website: > There is lots of...
  • Re: WARNING: Lighting upgrade hazard
    Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
    Wed, 25 Dec 2002 07:56:03 -0600
    With all that additional electrical current it might not be a bad idea to add a fusible link, fuse or circuit breaker to your...
  • Re: [Syncro] Headlight relay upgrade?
    Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
    Sun, 4 Jan 2004 11:59:48 -0500
    ...An additional 8 gauge wire from the alternator will give at least a 1 volt improvement when the lights and heater fans are running...
  • Re: Understanding AFC fuel injection--question
    Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
    Sun, 30 Dec 2001 20:39:06 -0500
    ...This allows additional air thus raising the idle speed slightly. There is a heating element in it to warm it up causing it to...
  • Re: [WetWesties] Where is The Heat Going?
    Historical mailing list - neil N
    Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:55:59 -0700
    ...I'm sure that the electric heater element (12VDC/110AC) creates less stray heat behind fridge as it is contained in a metal tube...
  • Re: adding an oven to a westy
    Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
    Sat, 7 May 2005 21:17:53 -0400
    ...for the use of a >>> portable heater. >>> >>> maybe i'm missing something - how do the rest of you cook things >>> that need to >>> be...
  • Re: Blog post about 85 doka
    Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
    Thu, 26 Mar 2015 09:20:00 -0700
    ...g. heater blower, radiator fan, etc.) to their own dedicated source >> below the dash. I may now consider the relays as an additional protection...
  • Re: gauge recommendations
    Historical mailing list - Mike Moery
    Tue, 12 Feb 2002 22:50:15 -0900
    ...gauge recommendations What a tasty question! I have: (in the heater air cover) oil pressure, oil temperature, battery voltage taken at the fuse panel...
  • Re: 91 GL running hot all of the sudden
    Historical mailing list - Dan Haydon
    Mon, 25 Aug 2003 14:37:40 -0600
    ...That increase in idle rpm needs > additional cooling in hot weather. Thus the radiator cooling fan kicks in. > > Regards, > > John Rodgers > 88 GL Driver...
  • FS: '77 VW Westfalia; $3500 OBO
    Historical mailing list - William Rowden
    Sun, 12 May 1996 19:53:41 -0700
    ...A Manual of Step-by-Step Procedures for the Compleat [si= c] Idiot." Additional spare parts (alternator belt, fuses, head temperature gauge, oil pressure...
  • Re: Isolator, where to put it?
    Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
    Sun, 24 Jan 1999 17:51:54 -0600
    ...page 97.33b in Bentley. >That relay (called 12 volt refrig./heater relay) is mounted >under the driver's seat. >In my opinion, that...
  • Re: Engine Repair or Conversion
    Historical mailing list - Roger Reynolds
    Fri, 3 Jan 2003 12:06:38 EST
    ...The TiiCo ended up costing me about around $4500 (kit plus shipping, clutch kit, fuel rail from Van-again, heater hose, coolant, etc.) if...
  • Re: A radical idea
    Historical mailing list - Kenneth D Lewis
    Tue, 11 Dec 2001 05:22:57 -0500
    ...I found > WD40 to work nicely on the rear heater blower motor, that > the problem of it overloading and squealing was simply due > to...
  • Re: Engine worries return
    Historical mailing list - Neil N
    Sat, 29 Jul 2017 13:15:57 -0700
    ...have the varying expansion due to radiator, heater core, > and pipe-hose temperatures. You will get additional expansion as the system > saturates with heat...
  • Re: Blog post about 85 doka
    Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
    Thu, 26 Mar 2015 10:25:26 -0600
    ...g. heater blower, radiator fan, etc.) to their own dedicated source >> below the dash. I may now consider the relays as an additional protection...
  • Re: Window seals and other things
    Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
    Wed, 13 Apr 2016 16:13:22 -0700
    ...Replace rear heater core, refurbish windshield washer tanks, replace sliding windows (with new) and new seals. Install sound deadening. At some point I HOPE...
  • Re: Comment on Dash Consoles was Re: cupholders?
    Historical mailing list - Steve Lashley
    Wed, 20 Oct 1999 18:47:31 EDT
    ...Sorry Steve, but it doesn't fit! Does look like a good template for additional LCD displays on the front face. FWIW, Frank Grunthaner...
  • Re: vanagon syndrome strikes...advice?
    Historical mailing list - Mike
    Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:00:57 -0500
    ...A newer 3-wire sensor has an additional ground wire to provide a better ground for both the heater circuit as well as a...
  • Re: Woody's woes/ botched bleeding
    Historical mailing list - Roger Whittaker
    Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:56:47 -0500
    ...hot water baseboard heaters with cirulating pumps ..old school too ... i dont vanagon ownership for everyone ...but it has always worked for me yours...
  • Re: generators/inverters for camping
    Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
    Tue, 9 Feb 2010 16:18:47 -0500
    ...turn on the heater, and and and..." All of a sudden, I > will find myself maintaining a bunch of additional electrical > widgets that > we...
  • Re: Hello, A/C and 134A
    Historical mailing list - TJ Hannink
    Wed, 3 Apr 2002 22:19:02 +0800
    ...Make sure the rear heater is turned off. 11. Make sure the front heater is turned off. 12. Block off all the air flow...
  • Re: vanagon syndrome strikes...advice?
    Historical mailing list - Evan Mac Donald
    Sat, 26 Nov 2011 18:02:17 -0800
    ...newer 3-wire sensor has an additional ground wire to provide a better ground for both the heater circuit as well as a more...
  • Temperature Gauge - Hot Desert Conditions - LONG
    Historical mailing list - Jack Newton
    Tue, 10 Apr 2001 11:40:03 +1000
    ...This gives additional emergency cooling capacity to assist the radiator in extreme conditions. (Switching on the heater also gives additional cooling capacity but only...
  • Re: Winter Camping at Pokagon State Park
    Historical mailing list - Aaron
    Tue, 1 Feb 2005 23:44:58 -0800
    ...Like Jonathan said, keep the side and front windows cracked and don't use non-vented propane heaters. If you need heat and have...