Hi Nathan.

Last summer I removed what was left of the stock heater (and gas
heater) in my van. For starters the heater box flaps were siezed and
totally rusted, so investing $ in restoring the stock heater was not
in the stars for me. (soon will be the engine swap too) Gas heater
wasn't known to be working either. Plus at a somewhat untrusting
ignorant level, my mind-set is still in the 40 HP air cooled engine
(doghouse) setup, which was known to introduce, at the very least,
fumes from oil burning off the engine case. No matter how good the
heater boxes/gaskets etc. were. I do understand though that the 2L is
a different heater design though.

Regardless, this is all just a hypothetical thought/idea for providing
heat while driving.

FWIW, the 79 van had a blower in the engine bay. Not sure if it was
there to move air for heat or defrost. Not sure if other years of vans
had this.

On 2/4/07, Nathaniel Poole <npoole@telus.net> wrote:
> I'm not sure what that would accomplish. In my setup the air coming out of
> my heater is well over 125 degrees (human pain threshold). From what I've
> seen, the lack of heat in an AC vanagon is caused by two things -problems in
> the heating system which falls under maintenance, and the fact the
> Volkswagen didn't put an electric blower in the circuit. The first you can
> take care of easily enough, and as for the second, it also is not very
> difficult to put a fan in the heat duct system to blow more air when the
> engine is at low RPMs
>
> The purpose of the liquid in a heating system is merely to transport the
> heat energy from one place to another; the existing ductwork does that
> already, just like the furnace in your home. If the heat you are getting is
> not enough, shove in a 12 V. blower. I've found that there is lots of space
> up front, just above the spare tire.
>
> Nathaniel
>
> On 2/4/07 6:22 PM, "neil" <musomuso@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> > Hi all.
> >
> > BION (believe it or not) I have an actual Vanagon question.
> >
> > On a 2L AC engine. An idea that's been on my mind.
> >
> > How crazy is this:
> >
> > Open up heater boxes,
> >
> > wind 3/8" or 1/2" soft copper pipe around each exhaust pipe,
> >
> > assemble/install boxes, (plug hot air outlets)
> >
> > connect copper coils to create a circuit
> >
> > install pump, heater core, etc.,
> >
> > run coolant through to provide interior heat?
> >
> > Other parts would include an expansion tank, fan etc. Likely the
> > biggest cost would be the pump.
> >
> > Hard to answer, but would there be enough heated coolant present in
> > system to provide any appreciable amount of heat?
> >
> > Purely hypothetical, though i do have 2 spare heater boxes.......
> >
> > Likely someone has tried this before, but I am curious.
> >
> >
> >
> > Pax,
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia.
> >
> > http://web.mac.com/tubaneil
> >
> > New Video!
> >
> > Dash board removal:
> >
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>

--
Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia.

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