Insure that the  heater cut off keeps hot coolant out of the heater core.
 Cable adjustment and/or heater control valve replacement may be in order.
 Heater control valve is located underneath the spare tire clam shell.

  And you might pull up the molded front carpet and underlayment and
insulate the floor with Reflectix.

   I also insulated as much bare metal as I could see behind the lower
plastic molding. (move shifter out of the way and pull straight back)

  Any  bare metal that you can see in the middle there gets _hot_.

Geo/ATL

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Marc Perdue <mcperdue@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, and if you're gonna go to the trouble of taking out the dash, there
> are other things that you might as well do while you're in there . . .
>
> 1) Need an antenna? Replace it then.
> 2) Replace the foam seals on the heater box flaps.
> 3) Put some sound deadening material on the front sheet metal to kill the
> sound of the rain hitting it.
> 4) Lube the heater control cables.
>
> Others?
> Marc Perdue
>
>
> On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 7:22 PM, J Stewart <fonman4277@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > Oh, yeah, all weekend (2 day) job. Not technically difficult, just
> > tedious. I understand at a shop it will run around $1,000.00 (here in N.
> > Virginia anyway) Jeff Stewart ----- Original Message -----
> > > My 85 Westy came with a non-working heater fan.  I hear its a
> > > nightmare to replace.  True?
> > > Jim
> > > 85 Westy
> >
>