beg your pardon.
was only thinking of diesel and waterboxer water cooled vanagonswhen I
wrote that.

Your air-cooled vanagon , engine cooling wise, is just likeany 79 or
early VW Bus ..
And your engine should be well-sealed all around  ..
so cooling air coming in the upper vents , all of it, goes through
either air intake/fuel system or engine cooling system.

Got power steering or tachometer on your 'real' Vanagon ?   lol.
Drive a good say ..87 and later Vanagon sometime, especially a non-westy ...
Some are quite solid feeling, good handling, quiet, and pretty deluxe to
drive.

On 4/12/2013 1:36 PM, Richard A Jones wrote:
>> a vanagon engine compartment is wide open more or less....the engine is
>> liquid cooled ...plenty of engine compartment general venting.
>
> Hold on there!  Mr Bus is getting upset....
>
> Mr Bus is an '81 air-cooled Vanagon, a *real* Vanagon.  Engine
> cooled by air, interior heated by gasoline.  ;-)
>
> Mr Bus went 2200 miles in January to Buses by the Bridge in Lake
> Havasu City to show off:
> https://picasaweb.google.com/RAJones1942/BBB2013?authkey=Gv1sRgCNPQkqLd_r-6bg#5837536028489916194
>
>
> Richard
>