Are the cables replaceable without pulling the dash? I just had the end break off the defroster cable. 

-craig

On May 23, 2012, at 7:55 PM, Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> Long ago, when knights were bold, I installed a shutoff valve up on the
> side of the heater core. Messy, drippy job.
> 
> If you pull the glove box you can see the hoses.
> 
> Turns out that I needn't have bothered: my hot summer feets were not due
> to a partially-open heater valve at all, but because (a) the main
> footwell flappers didn't close completely, letting in hot outside air,
> and (2) the radiator, which makes a living dissipating untold* thousands
> of engine watts of heat into the air, blows its hot air onto the sheet
> metal directly in front of and below your feet. It's a crap design in
> terms of driver comfort.
> 
> ============
> * Anyone got a handle on how many Watts** that thing has to get rid of
> on a hot day at, say, 60 miles per hour?
> 
> ===========
> ** As an electrical engineer, I think of these things in terms of Watts.
> 
> --
> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
> Bend, Ore.
> 1984 Westfalia. A poor but proud people.
> 1971 "Ladybug"-brand utility trailer ca. 1972 from a defunct company in
> San Clemente, Calif., now repurposed as The Westrailia.
> 
> On 05/23/2012 02:24 PM, JRodgers wrote:
>> What options might there be - even temporary - for shutting off the heat
>> up front in the Vanagon. My heat valve is stuck to a degree of open and
>> it gets pretty warm on the feet up front now that warm weather is here.
> 
> [snippage]