Today we held one of our quasi regular San Diego area VW van gatherings
at a warm sunny beach. There were a couple of Bay window vans, a Eurovan
Camper, and a dozen or so Vanagons. One of them was an 1986 Canadian
version Westy with Ontario plates. The recently new owner had just
driven up from Mexico and out west from Texas and heard about our
gathering. He had some vehicle repair issues he was hoping he could get
some help with before heading back north to Canada. It was easy stuff
and then he started asking general vehicle questions so as to learn more
about his ride. He pointed to a green knob on the dash and said "what's
this for?" I looked under the van and saw it had a belly pan protecting
his BA6 heater so I told him that was what it was for. Then he opened
the engine lid and asked some questions about the 2.1 waterboxer engine.

Mark

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..
>