Alistair,

That is what I suspected from my digging on-line.

Any idea what type of heater may be under my 1988 Westy - I'd get pictures, but the Hyena is in storage.

Was the Eberspacher ever installed in a location other than under the rear bench?

Roy

On 28-Jan-2015, at 22:36, Alistair Bell wrote:

> My bbw46 was mounted in engine compartment, left hand side wall. That and an octopus of additional coolant hoses.
> 
> Was option here in Canada.
> 
> Alistair
> 
> 
> 
>> On Jan 28, 2015, at 2:40 PM, Roy Nicholl <RNicholl@NBNET.NB.CA> wrote:
>> 
>> Jordan et all:
>> 
>> Where was the BBW46 installed?   Was it under the rear bench on the passenger side?
>> 
>> In the Hyena (our 1988 WBX Westfalia), I have a gas heater which does not work - the fan comes on, but no heat.  It has the green-knobed manual timer in the dash just below the heater controls like that which was present in our old 1972 Westfalia.
>> 
>> However the heater itself appears to contained under the drivers side of the van above/in a large metal shield/encasement which looks like an oversized catalytic converter.
>> 
>> I did not have time to dig into it last summer, but when I take the Hyena out of storage this spring, I'd like to attempt to get it working.
>> 
>> Roy
>> 
>> 
>>> On 27-Jan-2015, at 20:31, JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote:
>>> 
>>> In a message dated 1/27/2015 7:24:57 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>>> JordanVw@AOL.COM writes:
>>> 
>>> well  then its NOT a Eberspacher BA6.   its a Webasto   BBW46.   google it
>>> and you will see some repair  manuals.
>>> 
>>> Eberspacher BA6's were not used on the watercooled  vanagons.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> my comment above is not entirely correct. i meant to say the Eberspacher
>>> BA6 was not used on WATERBOXER vaagons.    the watercooled diesel  vanagon
>>> used a Eberspacher gas heater, but it was called the DA6.    You can add a BA6
>>> to a waterboxer vanagon is you do some custom ducting, but vw  never used
>>> them on the waterboxers.  the Webasto BBW46 was the gas heater  used on the
>>> waterboxers..