I have an 87 weekender automatic.
Thanks for this information, I will have a look to fix these issues.
Thomas

Scott Daniel - Shazam wrote:
> On the rear heater forward is 'on', aftward is 'off'.
> If no warm air comes out of it,
> Get under the van and see if the hoses are disconnected from the rear
> heater.
> You can also remove the rear heater cover and look in there, and under the
> back seat to see if it's hooked up or not.
>
> On the front heater levers.... between the ash tray and instrument cluster
> being removed you can get a good gander at the levers and cables.
> Usually the temp lever ( # 2 from the top ) has a kinked cable, and your
> heater valve under the front floor ( people never say what year vanagon they
> have ..but 'most years' have it under the floor , above the spare tire ) is
> stuck in the full on' position.
>
> With careful straightening and spray lubing of the temp control cable you
> can often get it working again without replacing the cable.
> Scott
> www.turbovans.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> Thomas Pfrommer
> Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 5:41 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Newbie question: coolant/anti-freeze
>
>
>> ( oh. !...your rear heater....SO MANY VANAGON OWNER'S DON'T KNOW about
>> this.....
>> It MUST either have the valve under the rear seat at least half on to keep
>> coolant circulating, or the rear heater should be disconnected.
>> LOTS of vanagons have the rear heater water valve closed, the coolant sits
>> in there and rots out the rear heater core. I've got a new one right here
>>
> in
>
>> stock.....It's not that the rear heater system is so weak, it's not, it's
>> that people don't understand how to take care of it, and it's few and far
>> between to find a vanagon tech who knows about this, or cares, or will
>> explain it to you. I dare say.  )
>>
>>
>>
> I just bled my own system and the Bentley says to open this valve as
> well. Well I did not know which way would be open so i thought I wait
> until the engine gets hot and then I know. 45 degrees back or 45 degrees
> forth, I never felt any warm air coming out of this rear heater on any
> valve position. Even though the front heater worked very well. Actually
> it always heats regardless what I tell the lever arm in the control
> panel to be. Well thats a minor prob but perhaps some of you have an
> idea what it might be. i did not yet open the dashboard to see, if it is
> simple a mechanical problem.
> Sorry Patti to piggyback on your thread. Congrats to you new baby. Don't
> be too paranoid if everything is OK.
> Cheers
> Thomas
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