Sounds like you're using your heater box as a radiator.. Maybe the radiator
is filled with air or it is blocked.  Have you bled your system?

Karl

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Bosch <arbosch@RA.ROCKWELL.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Saturday, February 06, 1999 11:03 AM
Subject: Too much heat!

>This may not be a problem to some on this list.  There's too much heat in
>my bus.
>
>When the temp controls for the front heater are all the way to the left, I
>still get a tremendous amount of heat from the front blower.  If I shut the
>entire system down - move all the control levers to the left - the temp
>gauge slowly inches it's way to the wrong side of the gauge, destine for
>overheating.
>
>I plan on flushing the cooling system tomorrow, if I can get some of the
>correct coolant today.  Should I change the t-stat at the same time?  Is
>there a chance this could be the root cause of the heat problem?
>
>Alan Bosch
>'88 Wolfsburg