Ok guys, which duct are we talking about here? I suspect mine is already gone from
the descriptions I'm hearing.
Do you mean the later water cooled rear heater? I'm thinking of doing that also - I
assume all the wiring & switch needs to be added also, or is the wiring hidden
somewhere? ('82 Diesel).

On 24 Jan 2005 at 21:41, Alistair Bell <albell@UVIC.CA> wrote:

> On a related note...
>
> I suspect, but have no proof, that that plastic floor duct acts like a
> bit of a noise resonator. I will remove mine ( i keep saying) when i
> finally instal my rear heater.
>
> Alistair
>
> '82 westy, diesel converted to gas in '94
> http://www.members.shaw.ca/albell/
>
> On 24-Jan-05, at 9:28 PM, Gary Lee, Vanagon Racks wrote:
>
> >> The approach I would use would be to remove that black plastic floor
> >> duct entirely and then use the heater cover you have. The black
> >> plastic
> >> floor space hog is only held in place by a few screws hidden by caps.
> >> There is nice clean carpet under it so removing it looks fine when you
> >> are done.
> >
> > This is exactly what I did.  I liked it better when removed, more
> > space and
> > more heat up front.
> > I stupidly threw out the heater cover and black plastic floor duct.
> >
> > Gary Lee
> > http://www.telusplanet.net/public/gary2a/vw.htm
> >
>

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