My bleed valve just popped on my rear heater so I had it taken out... I
wouldn't mind having a heater in the rear, but flooding the carpet and
making it impossible to drive more than a block or two at time just doesn't
seem like a good thing...

>From: Matthew Pollard <poll7356@uidaho.edu>
>Reply-To: Matthew Pollard <poll7356@uidaho.edu>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: rear heater hose diameter
>Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 13:45:30 -0700
>
>Before you take out the rear heater consider this. I live in CA with my
>bus for 3+ years. I never used rear heater for additional heat, but
>instead as an additional radiator on really hot hill climbs, like the one
>going into and out of Death Valley, Tioga & Sonora pass, etc etc etc.  You
>will gain some room by removing it, but not that much, and for the added
>engine cooling ability, i think it is worth it's trouble.
>-matthew
>
>
>Matthew Pollard             http://www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356
>Dept. of Chemistry               http://www.chem.uidaho.edu
>University of Idaho                   http://www.uidaho.edu
>
>On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Sean Birkner wrote:
>
> > Hey Volks,
> >      I live in SoCal, and in the year that I've had the bus, have never
>used the
> > rear heater and want to reclaim that underseet storage space. I just
>turned it
> > on to test and the blower works and sounds fine, but I got a faint whiff
>of the
> > maple syrup smell. Maybe I had a prediction of impending heater doom.
> >
> >      Anyway, do any of you know off the top of their head what the inner
> > diameter of the heater hose is that has the T fitting to go to the rear
>heater?
> > I want to eliminate the T fittings all together and just put straight
>through
> > connections in their place. Also, what's the best pipe material to use?
>PVC?
> > Brass? steel?
> >
> > Respond to this address or Vgonman@aol.com
> >
> > Sean B.
> >  $B!G (B90 V $B!G (Bgon,  $B!H (BHappy Bus $B!I (B
> > http://home.earthlink.net/~vgonman
> >

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