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Subject:RE: small part, BIG BUCKS!
Date:Wed, 4 May 94 10:32:19 EST

>On my '78 bus there's a fan over the motor, in the engine compartment that
>is used for the heater.  THis is controlled by a little box on it, that
>has 5 or 6 leads, and a little plastic harness plugs onto it with all the
>wires on the harness.  Well, I think it's broken (actually pretty darn
>sure), but the local VW dealer wants over $60 Canadian for the part, and
>no one else in the city has it.  Help, does anyone have a spare one they'd
>sell?

I think I may have the fan at home.  I'll check when I get off work and let
you know.  In the meantime, did you know that this thing only works when one
of the heater control levers on the dash is in a certain position?  I don't
remember which one (it wasn't my bus), but when you move one of the levers
either all the way up or all the way down, it hits a switch that turns on the
fan.

Pat Walsh, walshp@indy.navy.mil, '71 Westy