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Subject:Re: Gas Heater
Date:Wed, 8 Feb 1995 08:53:37 -0600

H. Steven Dolan wrote:

>Well, winter has finally arrived here in DC.  Once again I sit here at my
>keyboard postponing the drive in to work at 15 degrees because I know that
>the bus will stay at 15 degrees for the whole trip.

>Does anyone know what gas heater would have been installed in a '78 bus?

The heater in my 79 is a Bosch, I believe.  (The other possibility,
according my my mechanic, is a Stewart-Warner--they were aftermarket, I
guess.)  I'm not really sold on these pups--mine's given me fits.  However,
on the increasingly rare occasions when it works, it works extremely well.

>Do you want to sell it?

I'd be VERY VERY happy to sell it if I could find something else to use.
But I rather doubt that's going to happen.  I've finally decided to have
Ark Mirvis (he had an article in LiMBO's "Transporter" last time) rebuild
the damned thing.  If that fails I think I'll put in a woodstove & hope to
never get smacked. :)

Mike Wright
Ackworth, Iowa (where it was -5 this morning)
68 Camper; 79 Bus
wright@storm.simpson.edu