Forget fridges in a vanagon! They don't carry enough, are noisy, heat the
cabin, consume precious resources and barely keep beer cold enough to drink
(unless you're German) for a good camping weekend. Remove it and install
shelves for more storage (finally! a decent accessible place to put folded
clothes). Then, buy a nice cooler and a $1.99 block of ice and you're good
to go for 3+ days in the wild. $325 will buy a lot of ice.

But, keep the fridge! It adds a bunch to the resale value since the buyer
will think it's a great idea too. Heh heh, suckers.

My $0.02

Ryan
'82 camper van 'Beethoven'

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
neil N
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 3:31 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: fridge replacement?

Is this a portable Engle?

If you'rs looking for a unit to slip in place of Dometic, then check this
out:

http://www.members.shaw.ca/McTavishPAC/fridge/fridge.html

IIRC, both Engle and Norcold use the same type of, or very similar,
swing arm compressor.

Food for thought......

Neil.

--
Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia.

http://web.mac.com/tubaneil

On 8/2/07, Stuart Jeff <stuart@stuartjeff.com> wrote:
> Has anyone with a Westfalia camper tried replacing their Dometic with an
Engle? I'm really impressed with the efficiency of these units and I think I
would be much happier with the Engle overall but I'm concerned about how I
would install the thing and keep my Westy looking nice. If anybody out there
has done it could you please share you experiences and maybe even some
pictures?
>
> Thanks,
> Stuart
>