

| Subject: | Re: Westfalia top opening fridge question |
| From: | neil N |
| Date: | Thu, 2 Aug 2007 11:44:57 -0700 |
Yah not surewhat it is. Will ask owner for model number (as was kindly pointed out to me by a fellow lister!) Just getting desperate to make my 182a work properly on LP and keeping an eye open for options. Total mystery. Thanks Ron, Neil. -- Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia. http://web.mac.com/tubaneil On 8/2/07, The Bus Depot <vanagon@busdepot.com> wrote: > > Saw a "Westfalia top opening fridge (12V and 110V)" fridge > > FS. It's listed under "81 Vanagon parts" so not sure if a > > transplant from older Westy. Anyways...... > > > It's certainly not from an '81 Westy, of course. Without seeing it, it may > be the fridge from a '76-79 Westy. If so, it's the same design as the > Vanagon one but with no propane operation. Not a particularly useful > fridge, because the interior volume is small and what is there is largely > taken up by the heatsink (coldsink??) thing that cools the interior (which > sticks out into the fridge, not just along the back wall as on a Vanagon > fridge). It is not self-contained (the exterior is unfinished) and must be > mounted in a cabinet. And yes, it is a power hog like the Vanagon one. The > other possibility is that it could be the coolbox from a late model > Multivan; similar design but self-contained and with more interior space. > (Did that one work on 110, or just 12 volt? I don't recall.) > > - Ron Salmon > The Bus Depot, Inc. > www.busdepot.com > (215) 234-VWVW > > _____________________________________________ > Toll-Free for Orders by PART # : 1-866-BUS-DEPOT > >
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