There are two different air passages through the door.

One is the EXIT for air from the van. This is the vent at the lower,
rearmost corner of the door on 1980-1987 vans. It has a flap you can close
incase you like your van humid and smelly. The air from this vent travels
forward to holes in the front interior lip of the door, a high vacuum area,
where the heat, humidity, and undesirable odors from your van are
exhausted.

The other air duct leads from your ventilation system, starting at the
front grill, traveling through your fan box, to the front door jamb,
through the door, it leads to the door pillar at the rear of the door. From
there, the air moves to the overhead vents in the cargo area on the
driver's  side of the van.

If you have the plastic cover, you must may have a Westfalia, on which
there are no vents on the driver's side cargo area, but instead a package
tray.

G. Matthew Bulley
Bulley-Hewlett
Corporate Communications Counselors
www.bulley-hewlett.com
Mount Olive, NC USA
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-----Original Message-----
From:   Zoran Mladen [SMTP:Zoran_Mladen@AMSINC.COM]
Sent:   Wednesday, May 03, 2000 10:14 AM
To:     vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject:        venting question

Hi All!

With all the mail pertaining to venting, I thought I would add my question.

I have an 84 GL.  There are the vents in each door, which I understand are
supposed to suck air out of the van.  In the front door jam, there is the
opening that leads to the door.  My van came with what looks like stock
plastic
covers for the vent on the body side, not the door.  If I put these on,
what is
the effect?  With them on, I still feel air being sucked out through the
vent on
the rear of the door...

Help!

Z