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Subject:Re: 85 WBX stalling; A/C related part needed
From:Karl Wolz
Date:Tue, 30 May 2000 10:28:58 -0700

They are the same switch.  One is activated when the steering is close to
lock and the other whenever the AC is switched on.  Looks like the same flow
rates.

Karl Wolz
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Beierl" <dbeierl@IBM.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 8:22 AM
Subject: Re: 85 WBX stalling; A/C related part needed

> At 10:52 5/30/2000, Jay L Snyder wrote:
> >What kind of response is this, David?  I'm not mixing freon and power
> >steering fluids.
>
> Sorry, I misread what you were saying.  I heard "switch" when you said
"valve."
>
> I see no point in having two valves in parallel there unless they have
> different delivery rates.  Or, as you said, were switched differently.
The
> A/C is switched on the hot side, couldn't find the P/S in Bentley.  Even
if
> they do have different rates, could prolly get by with one, especially the
> larger one (which I would guess to be the A/C one...).
>
> d
>
>
> David Beierl - Providence, RI
>   http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
> '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
> '85 GL "Poor Relation"