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• Aircooled Heater control box question
  Historical mailing list - Mike Lawrence
  Fri, 20 Dec 2002 01:01:25 -0800
  I figured out part of why my heater did not heat very well. In one of the heater control boxes there was no gasket...
• Re: Aircooled Heater control box question
  Historical mailing list - Sean Garrett
  Fri, 20 Dec 2002 08:05:20 -0700
  ...Aircooled Heater control box question > > > I figured out part of why my heater did not heat very well. In one of > the heater control...
• heater box woes
  Historical mailing list - Troy
  Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:09:58 -0900
  ...controlled via the flaps within the heater housing, which in turn are controlled by the cables. Take a peek out through the glove box...
• Re: Too Much Heat!
  Historical mailing list - Bulley
  Fri, 30 Apr 1999 11:16:44 -0400
  ...The person installing your heater stuff may have attached to cable in an arbitrary position. When correctly adjusted, both heater control boxes will be...
• Re: Question about front heater core removal... blower motor wires
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Wed, 5 Mar 2008 15:36:08 -0800
  The silver box, Cruise control , control unit perhaps ? ( unless it's a an aux diesel heater control box, those are mounted there.) yeah, the...
• Heater Control Box Baffle Repair???
  Historical mailing list - Michael Nichols
  Mon, 20 Aug 2001 21:42:04 -0400
  Is it possible to replace the rubber baffle in each of the two heater control boxes in air cooled Vanagons? This is a rubber...
• Re: '85 vanagon passenger compartment fan...
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Fri, 11 Nov 2005 11:48:58 -0800
  ...My 82 diesel Westy has an 85 front air box/heater assembly installed in it. Much better! The controls on the 82 heater are...
• heater cable snap
  Historical mailing list - Morris H. Arthur
  Mon, 25 Mar 1996 08:17:33 -0500
  ...Find the heater control box and wire the boxes permanently open. (Have someone play with the controls to help you find'em...) Obviously, you...
• Re: Mod. Fresh air box to recycle cabin air? (did some searching in arch.)
  Historical mailing list - neil
  Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:07:38 -0700
  ...of the >heater box. Good idea. Much simpler than mine. If I could though, I would like to have 100% control of fresh air...
• Heater Box Question and Front Air Conditioning Revisited
  Historical mailing list - Tom Forhan
  Tue, 28 Jan 2003 13:49:29 -0800
  ...anyone knows the approximate dimensions of the stock Vanagon air control (heater) box (under the dashboard)? Thanks Tom F. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail...
• Re: rear heater control question
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Wed, 4 Sep 2013 20:59:56 -0400
  ...There is a heater box under the back seat and that left hand switch is supposed to control its speed. Under the seat on...
• Re: SA dash? was:Re: Custom Instrument Pod
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Fri, 21 Feb 2003 08:29:22 -0800
  The answer for 82 water-cooled owners may be to switch out the heater box with control cable/panel assembly as a unit. The...
• Re: 85 Westy on Southcoast, MA Craigslist
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Sun, 15 Mar 2009 09:02:57 -0600
  .... and, based on the photo of the rear interior, it looks like that's a thermostat/heater control panel/box up on the closet...
• Re: Front heat always!
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Wed, 14 May 2008 08:56:42 -0700
  ...fresh air/heat box, through the hinged flaps in box, then past heater core. If foam seals on flaps that control flow of air...
• Re: Gas heater wiring
  Historical mailing list - vw_van_fan_Mark
  Thu, 29 Oct 2015 04:33:45 -0700
  ...wiring for an auxiliary gas heater on a 1984 Westy. The wires on the back of the control box on the dash are off...
• Re: heat for the Westy
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:06:34 -0800
  ...Watch levers on the heat control boxes located at end of each heat exchange box on engine. Do they move? The levers and/or...
• Need help for heating system
  Historical mailing list - Andy
  Tue, 7 Dec 1999 20:11:01 -0800
  ...Also I do need one of those big black rubber looking hoses that runs from the heater box to the controller box passenger side...
• Audiovox CCS-100 Cruise Control Installation
  Historical mailing list - Tim Hannink
  Sun, 19 May 2002 12:57:07 -0400
  ...Anyway, I mounted the cruise control switch in place of the rear heater fan switch, since I no longer have a rear heater (http...
• Re: SA van images
  Historical mailing list - Raimund Feussner
  Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:35:10 +0100
  ...A/C control like in modern Audis. This requires the possibility to mix cooled with heated air in one heater box. I already have...
• Re: Mod. Fresh air box to recycle cabin air? (did some searching in arch.)
  Historical mailing list - Ryan Miller
  Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:31:59 -0600
  ...of the >heater box. Good idea. Much simpler than mine. If I could though, I would like to have 100% control of fresh air...
• Re: Gas heater wiring
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Thu, 29 Oct 2015 12:15:23 -0400
  ...wiring for an auxiliary gas heater on a 1984 Westy. The wires on the back of the control box on the dash are off...
• Question about front heater core removal... blower motor wires
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Wed, 5 Mar 2008 15:49:50 -0600
  ...the wires that power and control the heater motor. Is there a connector I am not seeing? Do most people just cut them and...
• Re: Vanagon Vent Control Positions
  Historical mailing list - Ron Lussier
  Sun, 13 Apr 1997 14:24:40 -0700
  ...I understand the bottom two control knobs on the four >vent/heater controls are for the rear heater, someone tell me how to >position...
• Re: Mod. Fresh air box to recycle cabin air? (did some searching in arch.)
  Historical mailing list - Mark Tuovinen
  Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:58:28 -0900
  ...of the >heater box. > > Good idea. Much simpler than mine. If I could though, I would like to > have 100% control of fresh air...
• was: Warm air from under dash, now: rear heater
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 21 Jul 1996 23:43:32 -0500
  ...There should be a shut-off valve on the passenger side of the rear heater box. It's manually operated -- the controls on the...
• Heater flap parts/hoses
  Historical mailing list - Michael Edwards
  Sun, 11 Mar 2001 18:43:04 -0700
  ...I now need the little rubber flaps that fit inside the heater control boxes as well as the flexible hoses that attach the boxes...
• Re: Rear heater control
  Historical mailing list - MICHAEL H
  Sun, 18 Nov 2012 19:20:45 -0800
  ...Rear heater control You can still get a genuine owner's manual from Bentley.� They have them for '80 thru '82 and '85 thru...
• Re: Gas heater wiring
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Thu, 29 Oct 2015 10:43:06 -0700
  ...wiring for an auxiliary gas > heater on a 1984 Westy. The wires on the back of the control box on the > dash are off...
• Mod. Fresh air box to recycle cabin air? (did some searching in arch.)
  Historical mailing list - neil
  Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:37:26 -0800
  ...Am rebuilding fresh air box and will install heater core as I will convert to a water cooled engine. I understand how the box...
• Re: Mod. Fresh air box to recycle cabin air? (did some searching in arch.)
  Historical mailing list - neil
  Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:10:37 -0700
  ...of the >heater box. > > Good idea. Much simpler than mine. If I could though, I would like to > have 100% control of fresh air...
• Re: Mod. Fresh air box to recycle cabin air? (did some searching in arch.)
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:09:11 -0800
  ...of the >heater box. > > > > Good idea. Much simpler than mine. If I could though, I would like to > > have 100% control of fresh air...
• Cold air always
  Historical mailing list - Warren Chapman
  Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:06:41 -0500
  ...whenever I do want heat....it seems my heater has to "overcome" the cool air to deliver any heat.. Seems that the heater box...
• Re: A/C? Pfui! Need a good fan
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:36:02 -0400
  ...Whatever pressure the >forward motion of the van puts into the heater box opening is all that >is available to come out of those...
• WAS:trip out west-NOW: Heater valve
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Thu, 5 Aug 2010 17:08:57 -0600
  "Worse comes to worse a pair of cable pinch pliers applied behind the glove box or under the heater diffuser panel near the floor...
• Re: back heater lever question
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Wed, 23 Jul 2014 15:40:18 -0700
  ...the side of the heater. It can be reached through a opening in the box. I'm guessing this controls how much heat comes...
• Re: A/C? Pfui! Need a good fan
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:05:37 -0700
  Prior to mid 87 the hoses for the end vents come off the heater box right near the opening that faces the front grill...
• Re: vanagon - warm air please!!
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:55:00 -0800
  ...The air/heater control box was changed during the 1983 model year to a much improved design. I have put later boxes into 82...
• Re: Hot Foot well
  Historical mailing list - Thomas Casal
  Wed, 30 Jun 2021 08:09:56 -0400
  ...heater box, clean and reseal everything. I did mine last year huge difference in cabin air quality. I added the vanistan ram air control...
• Re: DPO's cablemania
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:05:18 -0800
  There are 2 cables from dash to rear that control the heat flaps in the heater boxes at engine. They terminated at the dash...
• heater flap seals
  Historical mailing list - Pat Callaghan
  Sun, 22 Dec 2002 08:20:30 -0800
  ...supposed to control air to the back is hooked up wrong. When I move it, the flaps under the heater box move. These are...
• Re: Mod. Fresh air box to recycle cabin air? (did some searching in arch.)
  Historical mailing list - neil
  Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:32:54 -0700
  ...of the >heater box. > > > > > > Good idea. Much simpler than mine. If I could though, I would like to > > > have 100% control of fresh air...
• Re: SA van images
  Historical mailing list - Mike
  Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:20:38 -0500
  ...A/C control like in modern Audis. This requires the possibility to mix cooled with heated air in one heater box. I already have...
• Re: Front Heater Motor
  Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
  Thu, 7 Dec 2000 07:04:57 -0600
  ...you get a control cable or summer. You can also operate the heater air flap directly from the glove box side of the dash...
• back heater lever question
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Wed, 23 Jul 2014 17:53:27 -0400
  ...the side of the heater. It can be reached through a opening in the box. I'm guessing this controls how much heat comes...
• Re: Cold air always
  Historical mailing list - Hans Achter
  Tue, 21 Dec 2004 14:15:06 -0500
  ...whenever I do want heat....it seems my heater > has to "overcome" the cool air to deliver any heat.. > > Seems that the heater box...
• FS Heater Parts Air Cooled Pictutre posted
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Fri, 6 Dec 2002 10:33:59 -0600
  ...2 Federal drivers heater boxes. 4 Federal and Cal heater boxes passenger side. 1 Cal only heater box driver side. 2 Cal only crossover...
• 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: '88 GL - Rear heater and ACJ
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 12 Dec 2014 19:56:00 -0500
  ...the rear heater fan and the AC control system. You will need to isolate them for testing. Just above the fuse box to the...
• Re: Heater repair
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Mon, 11 Jan 2016 09:08:23 -0800
  ...Consider lubing the control cables. Though this is from the POV of someone who modified the heater box and cable positions but.... take a...
• Re: Mod. Fresh air box to recycle cabin air? (did some searching in arch.)
  Historical mailing list - neil
  Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:16:37 -0700
  ...of the >heater box. > > > > Good idea. Much simpler than mine. If I could though, I would like to > > have 100% control of fresh air...
• Re: 5/8" heater hose questions (searched archive)
  Historical mailing list - neil
  Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:11:06 -0700
  ...box ready) I may install heater hose > > now. > > > > Obviously it's easier to connect heater hose to core with dash off. > > But..... > > > > Can heater...
• Re: Heater Fan
  Historical mailing list - george jannini
  Wed, 15 May 2013 21:13:12 -0400
  Insure that the heater cut off keeps hot coolant out of the heater core. Cable adjustment and/or heater control valve replacement may be...
• Re: 1982 Westy auxillary heater
  Historical mailing list - Jake Beaulieu
  Wed, 1 Oct 2003 06:16:14 -0700
  ...This includes the fuses in the extension that is added to the fuse box for the auxillary heater. I have also checked the inline...
• Re: Report: Dash Removal / Removal, NOT R&R
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Wed, 8 Sep 2004 02:13:55 EDT
  ...leave it out also? Now, put the heater box back in there, install a new heater control valve (or a stop valve) and then...
• Parts Request
  Historical mailing list - Jason Gorfine
  Fri, 5 Oct 2001 22:28:27 -0400
  hello list, any folks out there with a left side heater control box to sell? i just removed both of mine as part of...
• Re: Exhaust Parts
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 07 Dec 1994 10:21:05 -0500 (EST)
  Mike, Just replaced my muffler, heater control boxes (NOT exchangers) and main heater pipe on my '78 T2. Got my parts from Rocky Mountain...
• Re: Front Heater Core Shutoff
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:58:51 -0700
  ...Fan not withstanding, heat is obviously >> controlled via flaps in heat exchange box. Not the best arrangement >> IMO. Especially if the flaps in the...
• Re: Front heater motor
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Martin
  Fri, 10 Mar 2017 12:13:07 -0800
  ...hold > the heater box on the firewall plus adding new acres as necessary, repairing > or replacing any of the four control cables, maybe replacing...
• Re: Gas heater wiring
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Fri, 30 Oct 2015 06:20:41 -0400
  ...wiring for an auxiliary gas heater on a 1984 Westy. The wires on the back of the control box on the dash are off...
• Re: '88 GL - Rear heater and ACJ
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Fri, 12 Dec 2014 19:18:50 -0600
  ...the rear heater fan and the AC control system. You will need to isolate them for testing. Just above the fuse box to the...