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• Re: [Q] Bypassing Rear Seat Heat Exchanger
  Historical mailing list - Mark B. Magee
  Fri, 17 Oct 1997 13:32:53 -0500
  Jeff et. al., I am contemplating the same for my rear heater as I don't need two in SE Texas. I would not...
• Re: passing CA emissions?
  Historical mailing list - Richard A Jones
  Sat, 4 Sep 2004 08:20:37 -0600
  ...The non-California model had a pretty straightforward exhaust/heat exchanger layout with EGR. The California model had a much more complicated path for...
• Re: Oil heat exchanger fail.. more
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 24 Oct 2017 16:30:14 +0000
  ...Oil heat exchanger fail.. more What is the best way to eliminate the cooler? I was thinking of removing it and connecting the coolant...
• Re: Question - '78 Bus Exhaust
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 6 Jun 1996 14:51:26 -0500
  ...Right now, all I've got >is the new muffler, which replaces everything rear of the heat exchangers. > >Here's the question - Do I...
• Re: Oil filter flange Coolant/Oil heat exchanger...works.
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Wed, 6 Oct 2010 21:12:23 -0700
  ...He suggested I hook up the oil/water heat exchanger. He also suggested I get a timing light...He said something like (you WBX...
• Re: Exhaust question
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Thu, 17 Feb 2000 07:18:04 -0500
  ...Is there any kind > of gasket or seal that I need to put between the heat exchangers and the > exhaust? Yes. '72-74 and...
• Re: Exhaust question
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Thu, 17 Feb 2000 07:18:04 -0500
  ...Is there any kind > of gasket or seal that I need to put between the heat exchangers and the > exhaust? Yes. '72-74 and...
• (long) EVERYTHING you want to know about heat, was Porsche 6 cyl heating van
  Historical mailing list - Bulley
  Thu, 6 Jan 2000 10:11:22 -0500
  ...On the downside however, water does not transfer ALL of its heat to the exchanger, it departs the exchanger warm, still carrying heat you...
• Re: question on oil cooler for 1990 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:25:15 -0400
  ...The stock oil heat exchanger is not up to this task. The issue is finding a suitable location. You certainly do not want it...
• Re: Oil heat exchanger fail.. more
  Historical mailing list - Mbob1950
  Wed, 25 Oct 2017 10:51:19 -0500
  ...Oil heat exchanger fail.. more > > Does your glow shift plate not have cooling hose connections? I have one that does but didn't use...
• vw heat / night problems
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Thu, 26 May 94 20:18:43 CDT
  ...if they are leaking, they'll drip right onto the heat exchangers .... and any rust-holes in the heat exchangers will let the hot...
• Re: On the subject of Heat
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 17 Nov 1995 11:59:12 -0800 (PST)
  ...tube (the tube that runs from the junction of > the heat exchangers and the front of the van). It was a litttle more rusty...
• Re: Radiator hoses in air cooled?
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 13 Jan 2000 13:34:30 EST
  ...In my (recently purchased) 81 Westy I found a radiator (heat exchanger) behind the front grill. I traced the hoses back to the engine...
• Re: On the Vanagon Cooling System
  Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
  Wed, 2 Oct 2002 09:47:28 EDT
  ...The numbers refer to just the core of the heat exchanger (fins and all) but exclude the inlet and outlet tanks. As I noted...
• Re: Removing front heat exchanger
  Historical mailing list - Geo & Kathleen Hahn
  Sun, 15 Jan 2006 15:37:22 -0700
  Mark A. Kreuzer wrote: >Looking for feedback... thanks group... I'm planning to take out the rear heater core and now that we live...
• OT Re: Hydro-flame lawsuit (was Heat!!!)
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Sun, 22 Oct 2000 19:52:53 -0700
  ...As to Hydro Flame, the Durdens' complaint asserted that the furnace was defective as evidenced by the development of holes in the heat exchanger...
• re:75 Bus & strange smell...
  Historical mailing list
  1 Jul 96 18:56:00 -0500
  ...The sulfur smell you are encountering is most likely some oil that has settled on, or in the heat exchangers, and is burning off...
• Re: coolant type--i give up
  Historical mailing list - Birkenfeld Jeff
  Fri, 27 Dec 2002 08:53:16 -0600
  ...A new radiator and heat exchangers are expensive. You might take note of any rises in engine temperature next spring and summer compared to...
• Re: Oil heat exchanger fail.. more
  Historical mailing list - Mbob1950
  Wed, 25 Oct 2017 10:21:29 -0500
  ...Oil heat exchanger fail.. more > > I have a vanastan cooler in my 91 water boxer 2.3. And similar one from junkyard parts on...
• Re: Coolant in the oil?
  Historical mailing list - Roy Nicholl
  Mon, 18 Feb 2019 18:26:45 -0400
  ...My only experience with this phenomenon was with a diesel and the culprit was the heat exchanger in the oil cooler. > On 17-Feb...
• Re: heater leak?
  Historical mailing list - Steve Hoge
  Tue, 29 Jun 1999 10:20:31 -0700
  Carol Sussman wrote: >The heat exchanger under the rear bench seat in my '89 Westfalia emits heat >even eith the valve turned off. Is...
• From AC Capacity to Propane Heaters
  Historical mailing list - Marshall Ruskin
  Sun, 11 Nov 2001 14:37:33 -0600
  ...It's a forced air propane system that lives outside the van or tent, and doesn't pass combustion products (uses a heat exchanger...
• Stinky Heat
  Historical mailing list - Russell, William
  Tue, 14 May 2002 17:07:56 -0400
  ...Any ideas? I'm new to this whole being a mechanic thing but would the heat exchanger maybe have anything to do with this...
• Re: [T2] Re: Empi vs. Bugpack merged header, How low do they hang??
  Historical mailing list - courtney hook
  Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:42:22 -0800
  ...makes a merged header that has a collector pointing to the passenger side for my round port heat exchangers on a 77 bus. :-( Courtney
• Re: Removing front heat exchanger
  Historical mailing list - Bruce Nadig
  Sun, 15 Jan 2006 11:38:04 -0800
  ...Removing front heat exchanger >Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 11:30:14 -0600 > >Looking for feedback... thanks group. > >I'm in the process of...
• Re: Heat/Hot Showers Cheap!
  Historical mailing list - Harvey Chao
  12 Dec 1995 10:47:05 -0800
  ...All 2.1l wasserboxers have an oil/water heat exchanger neatly sandwiched between the oil filter and the block. It is about 4"x4...
• Re: Euro-Engine: FIX 86 Volkswagen Vanagon, Cooling, Ov...
  Historical mailing list - Scott De Santi
  Sat, 14 Aug 1999 10:21:03 EDT
  ...transmission....it could be a pinhole leak in the ATF heat exchanger causing this.... if he has the long-life orange coolant, you might...
• Re: Oil heat exchanger fail.. more
  Historical mailing list - Mbob1950
  Wed, 25 Oct 2017 07:51:29 -0500
  ...Oil heat exchanger fail.. more >>> >>> Best just cap off the 2 hoses. >>> Keep in mind the 2.1L really needs the cooler for operation...
• Stainless T4 Exchangers For Real?
  Historical mailing list - John Anderson
  Fri, 25 Oct 1996 19:38:17 -0400
  BOB WALLACE wrote: > the name and address that I got mine from. They do them for 1.6 and 1.7 to 2.0...
• Re: Asbestos Resurrected
  Historical mailing list - David Greenland
  Tue, 15 Feb 2000 22:13:52 -0800
  ...Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf Of George A Lehman I also had my heat exchangers replaced by VW. The...
• Air-cooled heat question
  Historical mailing list - Adam Puzerewski
  Sun, 14 May 2000 06:06:08 -0400
  Does anyone out there have the heat exchanger setup working well enough to warm their van efficiently? I have only had mine since Feb...
• Heat smells rubbery
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 11 Sep 1995 21:33:49 -0400
  ...It's finally gotten cold enough to use the heat in our van for the first time since installing new heat exchangers and control...
• Re: Oil Temperature??
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Fri, 25 Sep 2015 20:41:24 -0700
  ...VW....when I installed the vanagon standard type oil filter/heat exchanger after I swapped blocks from a 1.8 liter Rabbit gas motor...
• Re: [T2] 82 westy heat
  Historical mailing list - puzerewski
  Fri, 13 Oct 2000 14:38:09 -0400
  Is your 82 a diesel or air cooled? If air cooled, you probably have a heat tube that is disconnected at the heat exchanger...
• Re: '80 engine into a '79... doable?
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Mon, 29 Jun 1998 10:38:08 -0100
  ...Besides changing out the heat exchangers, fan shroud, etc., you will have to drill out the engine mount bolt hole because it is larger...
• (no subject)
  Historical mailing list - Christopher Gronski
  Wed, 22 Feb 2006 19:05:46 -0500
  ...exchanger and put on a dedicated ATF cooler, fer bog's sake. > Cooling the ATF below 85C with that scoop with the heat exchanger...
• 197WTB: 1977 bus parts
  Historical mailing list - Mark E Ingles
  Wed, 06 Jul 1994 00:50:05 CDT
  ...side rear suspension * sunroof weatherstripping * uncracked windshield * right and left heat exchangers along with tubes that connect them to the control boxes. * I might...
• What does heater lever do?
  Historical mailing list - Lionel Tun
  Thu, 6 Feb 1997 18:15:36 -0000
  ...For example, is the lever meant to control a valve restricting coolant flow to the front heat exchanger? Lionel Tun 84 Caravelle GL lionel...
• EMPI Extractor Exhaust System
  Historical mailing list - Ken Korn
  Sun, 18 Apr 1999 08:15:48 -0500
  ...I purchased one and tried to install it but there isn't nearly enough room to fit between the heat exchangers and the valance...
• Aircooled Heater exchanger??
  Historical mailing list - Kevin Carrubba
  Mon, 10 Mar 2003 22:46:12 EST
  Hi Everyone, Well I've been going through the exhaust on my bus and know one heater box is bad but not sure on...
• Heater cable repair
  Historical mailing list - Geza Polony
  Thu, 12 Jan 2006 22:28:09 -0800
  ...The one controlling the heat exchanger is stuck on due to a bend in the wire near the lever, and the top one, whatever...
• Re: Heating system
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 21 Sep 94 09:11:46 PDT
  ...Then the source of air *into* the heat exchangers will be prewarmed air from the cabin so that things will get nice and toasty...
• Re: Oil temp musings and hairbrained ideas
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:18:55 -0800
  ...Transmission fluid is kept at the coolant temperature by the heat exchanger. When he says "the temp needle rides lower" with the scoop, he...
• Get 80-83 Air Cooled before they go to Ebay
  Historical mailing list - Bill Minor
  Thu, 15 Aug 2002 22:55:09 -0500
  ...heat exchanger boxes all OEM VW and in good condition. $80.00 each. #11) Two Left hand side (driver side) heat exchanger boxes all...
• Re: Monza (sp?) muffler
  Historical mailing list - Steve Johnson
  Mon, 13 Feb 1995 15:39:31 -0800 (PST)
  ...back that are joined under the apron with a perpendicular pipe and routed to the exhaust manifold/heat exchangers. Steven sjohnson@pcocd2.intel.com
• Re: exhaust for stock motor
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 21 Dec 1995 15:33:22 -0800
  >>exchangers on the stock exhaust are looking pretty attractive. >Also the price is low ($40 for the Brazilian kind). > >Also sealing the flanges to...
• Re: extractor exhaust?
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Sat, 6 Feb 1999 10:42:43 -0500
  ...price > on a Dansk big-can-that-bolts-to-both-heat-exchangers type. I went for that. > It's WAY quiet. So quiet I...
• Heater for a vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Matthew
  Mon, 20 Oct 2003 14:16:53 -0700
  ...Included is one complete working heater, plus a box of spare parts, including a complete second heat exchanger. This heater is installed UNDER the...
• SV: Re: Thermostat on aircooled - how dos it work?
  Historical mailing list - Jens Jakob Andersen
  Tue, 8 Jun 2004 09:43:37 +0200
  ...That will also give me an opportunity to take a closer look at the heat exchangers, as well as where all that darn oil...
• Re: [Syncro] Heat in an air-cooled Syncro (long, boring, self-involved)
  Historical mailing list - EMZ
  Wed, 17 May 2000 07:05:02 -0400
  ...911 conversion. > > Some folks have apparently used an oil-water heat exchanger to drive the > stock system. Good idea, but the oil temp in...
• Re: Heat exchanger for hot showers
  Historical mailing list - Tom Rowsell
  Sat, 7 Jul 2007 13:49:20 -0300
  ...Heat exchanger for hot showers > > > Darned expensive compared to the Zodi hot water system that goes on top of > your propane stove, seems to...
• @%^%$@ Dansk Exchangers
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 28 Jun 1997 23:15:17 +0000
  ...A couple comments to qualify my previous ones, Dansk exchanger are no where near as well stamped. If you look at a german set...
• Re: for campers: Propane Safety & '74 Plumbing
  Historical mailing list - Dave Kautz
  Thu, 3 Nov 94 10:58:51 PST
  ...apparently, the pipe that extends between the heat exchangers > and the exhaust(?) (the 3-4 inch pipe, the one that the optional heater > gets...
• Air conditioning keep it or leave it?
  Historical mailing list - Martine Boudreault
  Thu, 3 Mar 2005 20:19:10 -0500
  ...Should I keep it in the Westy or take it out and have a nice storage cabinet? Has anyone remove the AC heat exchanger...
• Re: Automatic Transmission Coolant Hose
  Historical mailing list - jbange
  Wed, 6 Apr 2005 17:40:11 -0700
  ...Besides, I think my transmission likes the way the heat exchanger brings the ATF up to operating temperature quickly. Probably an unnecessary measure in...
• Re: Oil heat exchanger fail.. more
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Tue, 24 Oct 2017 06:47:49 -0700
  In my application the standard factory oil heat exchanger lowers my oil operating temperature appx 15, 20 f at highway speed. (15/40 oil...
• Re: Heater or Heat Exchanger?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 20 Jan 2000 11:40:16 -0500
  At 01:00 PM 1/20/00 +0100, Per Lindgren wrote: >David Beierl wrote: > > > There is no natural > > airflow through it, only that provided...
• Re: Mil-Spec vehicular space heaters
  Historical mailing list - pensioner
  Thu, 6 Feb 2003 07:31:20 -0800
  ...The vehicle heater is a heat exchanger type that has a combustion chamber and a fan system. Much like the "space heaters" you can...
• Re: Oil Cooler
  Historical mailing list - Mark Brush
  Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:12:29 -0400
  ...It seems to be > relatively straight forward, remove the oil filter, remove the nut on the > oil pipe, lower the exchanger and replace the...
• Needed Parts..
  Historical mailing list - Michael Puma
  Tue, 18 Jul 1995 12:03:24 -0400
  ...If anyone in the DC area has these parts, please let me know! I don't know how important these heat exchangers are to...