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Subject:Re: A/C? Pfui! Need a good fan
From:Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\"
Date:Sat, 10 Jul 2010 17:01:39 -0700

The wide scoop thing located at the top and centered behind the
headlight grill? It's clear. I pulled the screen, and looked behind and
up and it looks clean.
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Rocky J Squirrel
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
Bend, OR
KG6RCR

Don Hundt wrote:
> Sounds to me like the air intake behind the grill is blocked with
> something. Maybe a wasp or rodent nest. I used to take my grill off
> and tape cardboard over the intake every winter to minimize cold air
> flow into the van, occasionally forgot to remove it when warm weather
> came back around. It behaved much like yours. Don
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: mark drillock <mdrillock@COX.NET>
> Date: Saturday, July 10, 2010 7:32 pm Subject: Re: A/C? Pfui! Need a
> good fan
>
>> If you set the levers as I said and got nothing out of the dash end
>>  vents while driving 60 then there is something very wrong in your
>> dash.The vents have no other purpose in your year. There are hoses
>> from the heater box to each of the end vents. Are they present and
>> connected?
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" wrote:
>>>
>>> mark drillock wrote:
>>>> At 60 mph?
>>> Yeah. I made special trips out on the stupid parkway today just
>> to test
>>> you guy's dash lever suggestions.
>>>
>>> At no time was there air from the dash end openings. Depending
>> on how
>>> the levers were set, I could get a mild updraft from the
>>> defroster vents, not enough to feel on my head or face; or a mild
>>> breeze
>> against> my right leg, a mere draft.