If it makes anyone feel better we don't have to all run and buy
Toyotas - the VW Quantum is a very easy fan motor swap.  Under the
hood, pull the fresh air intake (4 screws or so), pull it out and
Voila! - there's your fan motor.  I naively thought the vanagon would
be similar. . .

Damian

>I have seen the good, a Chevrolet which
>merely involves popping the hood (i.e., bonnet) and all of 10
>minutes later a
>new blower motor is in place; the bad, a Vanagon, of course; and the
>truly ugly, a Volvo 240 which can take 8 hours of the most tortured
>contortions
>imaginable, even for an experienced hand.  I have heard tell of men