It was oily smoke, as though it was some kind of incomplete
combustion in the BA6. The coloue was maybe a bit blue but
it is hard to remember. It didnt't smell eletric (like a
battery smell, or plastic like a vent or something.

Why would it start exactly when I turned the heater off? And
stop when I pulled those two fuses? I am too chicken to put
the fuses back and try it again until I have a working
theory.

Thanks
Chris

---- Original message ----
>Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 17:11:54 -0400
>From: 80 Westy Pokey <pokey@vanagon.org>
>Subject: SMOKE! After I turn off my BA6 Gas Heater
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>
>I just got a LOT of smoke out of my lower front vent (the
>one in front of the shifter about 12" above the floor) when
>I turned off my BA& Heater.
>
>Before I turned it off the heater seemed to be working
fine,
>putting out lots of heat but it did have a faint oily or
>diesel (its gas) like smell. Moreover I ran the heater for
a
>bit while the van was stationary and no smoke came out.
Then
>I went for a drive, was to hot so I slid the top two heater
>levers over from passenger side to drivers side (ie: from
>all the way right to all the way left) I did not turn off
>the little green dial thing at the bottom. Then smoke
>started to come out of the duct I mentioned.
>
>I pulled fuse 16 and 17 (the ones beside the main pannel on
>is for the blower fan) and the smoke stoped.
>
>The smell is not new. My BA6 was not running for a really
>long time, not for any fault of the heater, some of the
>ducts underneath had been removed by the PO so I couldn't
>run the heater. I hooked up some flex hose but it fell off
>in summer (and since it was summer I never bothered to put
>it back on). But when the heater was running that smell was
>always there.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Thanks,
>Chris