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Subject:Re: Useless vent contest
From:Marc Perdue
Date:Mon, 4 Aug 2014 13:58:37 -0400

Yeah, there should only be foam in the driver's side, because there is no
vent to go to above the stove and sink. I will be looking for a blockage in
my passenger side, because it's not working right...

Marc Perdue

On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Eric Caron <ecaron1@comcast.net> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
>         Are we talking about the little air vents over the sliding door?
>  In my 85 Westfalia they actually do work and a pretty good stream of air
> comes through them when I have the levers set correctly.  However they are
> gone  on the driver's side over the sink area.
>
> Eric Caron
> 85 GL Auto Westfalia
>
>
> On Aug 4, 2014, at 1:08 PM, Al Knoll <anasasi@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> > The "limited use vent" above the slider only of limited use in the
> > Westfailure configuration.  It works in the "tin top" models.  In the
> westy
> > it is blocked with two pieces of ancient foam.
> > Pensionerd
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Rocket J Squirrel <
> camping.elliott@gmail.com
> >> wrote:
> >
> >> In another thread -- no hijackery here -- mcneely wrote about the snap
> >> in window screen for the slider, saying, "The edge puckers around curves
> >> and at corners, and where the useless vent above the door is."
> >>
> >> I, for one, think it's high time (maybe Friday is a higher time -- yes,
> >> I get it) to start a "Let's Put That Vent Above The Slider To Use"
> derby.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
> >> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
> >> Bend, Ore.
> >>
>

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