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Subject:Re: A lot of hot air...
From:Mark Schrope
Date:Mon, 20 Jul 1998 09:44:05 -0400

Kristin-

Maybe I should be a bit ashamed to admit this, but I had the same problem
for a  couple of years on my 81 and never bothered to get it straight.
Here's what I did-  take your spare out and look straight up, you'll see a
black corrugated type tube that connects to your heater vent system.  It's
connected with a simple hose clamp.  Just take the tube off and maybe cover
the hole going into the van.  When winter rolls back around, reconnect.

Mark

>Date:    Sat, 18 Jul 1998 02:57:49 EDT
>From:    Kristin Dewey <Goldenroad@AOL.COM>
>Subject: A lot of hot air...

>Well folks, I'm off Sunday night to Vegas, then San Francisco, for the Furthur
Festival!! AND my sputtering engine has been cured (she said knocking on
wood)...
Not exactly sure which of the things I had done actually did the trick, but
I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that we keep runnin smooth all the way.

>Now for my latest question:
Is there anything I can do about hot air blowing on my feet??? I don't know
why it does this, and I'm not thrilled about driving to Vegas in the heat wave
with hot air blowin on my legs, if you know what I mean...
Doesn't seem to matter how I have the vents or the heater/fan/AC controls...
Though sometimes it seems to be worse than other times...

>What's the deal???
>Can I rig some kinda thing to block it somehow?

>Does anyone even know what I'm talking about?

>:o(
>Kristin

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