Hi .
I think you are more correct in the second part of your supposition/thought
..
just seeing that's there won't do a lot of good.

if you see a cable off or something ...
that could be useful.

overall...it's very nice when that whole box can just stay in the van and
work well enough.
I'll send you a picture of one out of the van if you like..
sort of a monster I think, big thing.  Way mo' betta if you can just leave
it alone.

the main or more serious failure modes in my mind, are fan not working,
or heater core leaking.

but, if you don't have anything else to do ..and want to take out the whole
dash and re-do everything that's not perfect in there.....

what I'm saying is, if there's not a real problem ...might just want to
leave that sucker alone.

it's the little stuff I work on ..getting cables lubed, straightened and
unkinked, etc.

scott
turbovans
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike "Rocket J Squirrel"" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: A/C? Pfui! Need a good fan

> How interesting is this lower portion of the heater box of which you
> speak?
>
> Can one do more than simply gaze upon its wondrousness, or have we
> merely performed an exercise to prove the existence of the box -- the
> lower portion only, to be precise?
>
> --
> Rocky J Squirrel
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
> Bend, OR
> KG6RCR
>
>
>
> David Beierl wrote:
>> At 07:54 PM 7/10/2010 Saturday, Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\" wrote:
>>> Well, it beats me. This is an AT version, so there is this giant box in
>>> the middle. Somewhere forward of it, I am sure, lies the heater box.
>>> It's dark and uncharted territory for me.
>>
>> Stick the tranny in Low and you can pull the vent/heater box cover
>> straight back and out.  You won't be greatly illuminated but at least
>> you'll have seen the lower part of the heater box.
>>
>> Yours,
>> David