Several causes for hot feet and an archive "hot foot" search will
give more details:
 1.Heater turnoff wire bending--accessible through control panel
 2.Hot footwell mod needed--Bentley 19.20
 3.Spongy seals on heater doors need replacing
 4.Leaky heater from some other cause
Mine used to have the seeping heat problem and some insulation helped a lot
and intend to do the hot footwell mod.
Now it has gently blowing heat and I'm troubleshooting the heater (#4).

Cheers, Tom Neal '87 syncri

On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, John Pattenden wrote:

> Hi I'm new to the list and enjoying my recently purchased 87 west (46k!) -
> I've benn enjoying this list for a couple of weeks, its good to know there
> are so many Vanagon fans around...
>
> on the way back from a weekend at the lake I decided it was much too hot to
> drive with shoes on and took them off, but I had to put them back on
> because  extremely hot air was blowing on my accel foot.. all the
> ventilation stuff was turned to cool (far as I can tell anyway given the
> obscure interface of the vent controls) - anyone got any idea where this
> hot air might be coming from?
>
> Also it it normal for the temperature guage to move from about 1/2 way to
> 3/4 on any long hill?
>
> John Pattenden
> - can you believe its raining in L.A. today?? -
>