Hi listers,

        While happily setting up my van for camping I knocked a cap off a bolt holding on the op top support and it went into the rear ventilation channel.  I took off the small vent that opens and shuts to access the area to retrieve it.  I found that either side of the vent was blocked firmly by foam.  It felt like the kind you would make a mattress topper out of. 

So, this explains why no matter how much I played with the front and door vent no air seemed to come from the vent. 

Is this a thing done to the passenger side of the westfalia camper for a reason or did a Previous owner do this for some reason? 

thanks for any info.

If done for no good reason I’d like to remove it to see if I can get air flow back there as I like to keep all things working.  If it belongs in there I’ll leave it. 

Thanks for any info.

Eric Caron 
85 GL Auto Westfalia.