I contacted Frank about his conversion after I saw it, and he concedes
that it does use up a lot of the access space to the upper bunk. He
never intended to use his camper for camping for four, however. And he
did a beautiful job of covering the extended portion by covering it
with teak.

I wanted to preserve the upper bunk as we use it when
daughter/granddaughter are camping with us, so I opted for the
underdash installation.

Jim

On Mar 6, 2006, at 9:48 PM, Sam Walters wrote:

> List member Frank Grunthaner put a front AC unit in his Westy by
> shortening the middle housing.  The details are on Alistar Bell's web
> site.
> http://www.members.shaw.ca/albell/
>
> It can be done quite successfully.
>
> Alistar has collected a large number of improvements and repair guides
> from various Vanagon owners and this is a great site to explore and
> bookmark.
>
> Sam
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