But ~ He Will Still Have to Deal With Having No Effective Means of Defrosting/Defogging the WindShield ~

On 19 Apr , 2017, at 7:22 PM, Dennis Haynes wrote:

> It can be made to work. The difficulties are as follows:
> You do need to remove the expansion valve and come up with adapters to tie in the hoses.
> You need for bleeding. A check valve on the supply side would help.  Consider an automatic bleeder such as that used on baseboard or radiator heating systems. Arrange for any "spits" to be taken away. 
> Parallel connect to existing heater core circuit and pay attention to direction through the core. 
> It will work very well! You may be able to prevent the engine from warming up with all the heat this radiator can remove. Watch out for melting the housings. 
> Once bled the cooling system will not have a problem pushing the coolant through it. 
> 
> Dennis
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Dan N
> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2017 11:56 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: heating project..
> 
> hi all,
> 
> I have a friend who has this *"weird"* idea..
> 
> He lives in cold climate (Canada) with a 1998 tin top van. He doesn't need A/C so he removes the compressor but leaving the A/C condenser and blower in place. The front under dash heater blower is dead but he doesn't want to replace it (too much work) ...so he has this idea...
> 
> He is thinking of running 2 hoses from the rear heater (under the bench) to the overhead A/C core.... the hot coolant will run thru the A/C core and the warm air will be pushed to the front the same way as for the A/C and then thru air duct..
> 
> personally I think it won't work because there's no pump to push the hot coolant up to the A/C core and worst than that he will compromise his cooling system and the engine will overheat...
> 
> what do you think?
> 
> thanks
> 
> dan