In my opinion it's most likely the thermostat. You need one that opens
later. This is your cheapest fix anyway.

Alan Pickersgill
85 Transporter
Ottawa Ontario
Canada

----- Original Message -----
From: Sharon & Miguel Calvin <mcalvin@ICAN.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000 8:03 AM
Subject: Cold defrost/warm heat 1.9wbx

> On a long highway run last night the heating system behaved strangely.  It
> was very cold outside, -20c or about -4f, and very windy.  The van never
> got very warm even with the heat and defrost levers in the fully open
> positions and the fan at max.  There was heat but not enough.  when we
> stopped for donuts I noticed that as soon as we got off the highway the
air
> coming from the defrost vents started to cool down while the air from the
> footwell vents remained warm.  After being stopped for a few minutes with
> the engine idleing the defrost air was cold and the footwell air remained
> warmbut not hot.  The temp guage stayed in its usual position over the LED
> throughout the drive and the ten minutes spent stopped.  Anyone know what
> is going on here?
> TIA
>
> Miguel Calvin               ==+=========
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> Guelph, Ontario, Canada   |  _       _  |
> 83.5 Westy, "Frieden"     =-'O`-----'O`-= ~~
> 1.9l H2O and manual trans