A manula  heater valve can be installed anyhwere in the inbound heater hose.
To add a push rod, or cable would require some mechanical dextarity.
Ron

----- Original Message -----
From: "don spence" <dkspence@TELUS.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: heater valve

> >
> John
>   Is there a place to install the ball valve where it is accessible
> from inside the vehicle, or better yet can be controlled on the
> dash?  (push rod etc?)
>
>
> > Only 15K miles old, it really shouldn't be bad. It may be that it's
> > simply
> > not closing all the way and the cable that operates it needs
> > adjustment. As
> > for the metal ball valve, that's pretty easy, if you decide you
> > want that.
> > two 5/8" hose barb fittings screwed into either end of the valve, a
> > couple
> > hose clamps, and you have all you need.
> >
> > --
>