Here's two good articles. Hope they help.
http://www.germansupply.com/xcart/customer/home.php?gspage=customer/
main/tech/tstat/t1_tstat_in_t4.tpl
http://www.ratwell.com/technical/Thermostats.html

Roger Van Till
'89 Westy "The Moose Lounge"
'86 GL "Sugaree"
'81 L "CoJack"
www.busesbythebeach.com

On Oct 3, 2005, at 5:42 PM, Chris Renz wrote:

> I just picked up a thermostat from the Bus Depot and was checking it
> out.
>
> I have an 81 aircooled gas vanagon that im looking to install this
> onto.
>
> The busdpot (and other websites) indicate that you can do this with
> minor
> mods.
>
> On the BD website, it says you just take the end cap off and feed the
> wire
> through.
>
> On one end of my thermostat there is a little screw-on type connector
> that
> sticks out the end.
> I unscrewed this, only to find solid metal inside of the housing, so
> the
> wire still cannot be fed through.
>
> any websites out there showing how to dismantle one of these things
> properly
> to use on a type4 motor?
>
>
> thanks!
>
> chris
>