On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote:

> ---- Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM> wrote:
> > joining the two hoses that used to go to the rear heater, together ..
> > would be dumb.
> > You're short circuiting the hot coolant that you only want going through
> the
> > front heater core.
> >
> > that's super obvious.
>
> so, does that mean that opening the valve to heat  the rear heater would be
> dumb?  It does the same thing -- shunts the coolant from the delivery hose
> through the rear heater to the return hose.
> --
> David McNeely
>

The port in that valve is very small.  ~1/8 " as compared to 1/2 " for the
hose. Give the engineers *some* credit.

John Meeks
'91 Vanagon MV
Northern Michigan

Vanagon Rescue Squad
www.vanagonauts.com