The control valve for the front heater is not replaced by removing the
dash.  You find it up above the spare tire.  Still a very awkward and
annoying job.

Larry A.

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 8:42 AM, Edward Maglott <emaglott3@gmail.com> wrote:

> The expensive gowesty part looks like an OEM German part for some other
> application.  Judging by what they are charging, maybe it's a Porsche or
> M-B?  Maybe somebody who works on a lot of German cars would recognize it?
>
> Larry makes the very good point.  I do not want to take my dash apart more
> than once.  I was getting ready to do that a few years ago but then the
> mullendore port fixed my squealing heater.  Both my front and rear heater
> valves will not turn off completely.  The last thing I want is heat in my
> nonAC westy during those summer drives.  Then stopping to sleep with the
> whole front of the bed thoroughly heated by the rear heater.  I put an
> additional valve in the heater hose coming from the engine which I shut off
> in the summer so both heaters stay cool in summer.  It's located under the
> van near the drivers side axle.  Pretty easy to get to to flip on or off.
> It's the same cheap FLAPS valve for the vanagon application.  The one I
> have in there now started leaking badly this winter, especially when all
> the way open or closed.  Less at a certain point in the middle.  ugh, glad
> that isn't up under my dash.  I've ordered another new $6 one from busdepot
> to replace it and hopefully it will last longer than the cheap one from
> FLAPS.
>
> Edward
>
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 11:11 PM, Larry Alofs <lalofs@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The main question is whether a valve will last.  The "cost" of your labor
> > to replace it is significant for this part.  The lifetime guarantee
> doesn't
> > pay for that.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 9:41 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > OK you have me beat by at least a factor of four on the price. But what
> > > about that lifetime guarantee, considering the most of us have already
> > had
> > > these things for 20+ years?
> > >
> > > Jim
> > >
> > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 8:38 PM Larry Alofs <lalofs@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> By "any FLAPS" you seem to mean NAPA,  Balkamp valve  $24.14
> > >>
> > >> Autozone has Everco which looks just the same.  Part #5852    $14.99
> > >>
> > >> What fun
> > >>
> > >> Larry A.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 9:11 PM, levi hawkins <b1levi@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > Ford heater valveAvailable at any flaps
> > >> > I think the part no is 660-1140 ?
> > >> > I went through a couple brand new ones from our usual distributors
> > that
> > >> > operated exactly as you described. Btdt
> > >> >
> > >> > Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
> > >> >
> > >> >   On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Jim Felder<jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
> > >> > wrote:   I have been through three aftermarket heater valves in my
> 83
> > in
> > >> > the last
> > >> > two years. None of them worked well in any way. If they were loose
> > >> enough
> > >> > to move without folding the cable in half, they leaked and ran hot
> air
> > >> in
> > >> > the cabin all summer.
> > >> >
> > >> > Cheap enough at about ten bucks each, but they don't work. GoWesty
> has
> > >> an
> > >> > alternative for about eight times that price, but it has a lifetime
> > >> > guarantee, and hey--guess what--it works as advertised. If you want
> a
> > >> valve
> > >> > that turns all the way open to heat the cabin, and all the way
> closed
> > to
> > >> > cool it, without bending your heater cable into pieces, I think the
> > >> GoWesty
> > >> > product is your only alternative today. And then there's that
> lifetime
> > >> > guarantee.
> > >> >
> > >> > Jim
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >
> >
>