Date:         Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:53:46 -0500
Reply-To:     "G. Matthew Bulley" <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         "G. Matthew Bulley" <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
Organization: Bulley-Hewlett
Subject:      Re: HEAT glorious heat!!!
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So let's see... 20 years back, that van was ten years old... perhaps the
heater boxes were perforated, the flapper-boxes out of adjustment, the
supplemental fan fuse blown (common) or an activation cable kaput. Or
perhaps all of the above.

Seriously, if all of the pieces are in place, and adjusted, your heat
*can* be glorious in an air-cooled van. With a little ingenuity
(recirculation, insulating, etc.) it can be incredible.

The only time we get chilled is during a couple of LONG (15 mile)
downgrades we frequent where the motor wasn't doing any work, so not
producing BTU's. We learned to 'super heat' the van on the climb (heat
on full until it almost isn't bearable), then shut it off until we've
plateau'd at the base of the rise.

From historic, walkable Mount Olive, NC,

G. Matthew Bulley
Bulley-Hewlett
Corporate Communications
Business: www.bulley-hewlett.com
Alliance: www.ntara.com
Home: www.MountOliveNC.info


-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
Of Karl Wolz
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 1:18 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: HEAT glorious heat!!!

Drove my brother-in-law's '72 up to Flagstaff a few (20?) years ago.
Nice
and warm here in Phx, but it was rather tepid when the sun went down in
Flag.  Maybe 70 degree air our of the vents - not enough to combat the
20
deg. air outside, anyway.

Karl Wolz

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean Garrett" <SEAN.GARRETT@ASU.EDU>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: HEAT glorious heat!!!


> I live in Phoenix so I don't have to deal with LOTS of ice and frost.
But
I
> swear, once the heat starts its boiling hot. Keep in mind I have new
heater
> boxes on my freshly rebuilt engine.
>
> Sean Garrett
> 1981 Westy (his)
> 1995 Eurovan Camper (hers)
> sean.garrett@asu.edu
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rico Sapolich [mailto:JKrevnov@AOL.COM]
> > Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 9:41 AM
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Subject: Re: HEAT glorious heat!!!
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 2/15/02 11:20:44 AM, SEAN.GARRETT@ASU.EDU writes:
> >
> > << My 1981 also has the best heat I have ever had in a vehicle. It
is
> > delivered
> >
> > to the front floor vents HOT and faster than any water-cooled
> > vehicle I have
> >
> > ever owned. >>
> >
> > OK, what's the real story on these air-cooled Vanagons?  Do
> > they REALLY heat
> > or not?  My only point of reference comes from the hours of
> > misery I spent
> > wiping the inside of the windshield in my girlfriend's Beetle
> > many winters
> > ago.  If we had waited for the defrosters to clear the
> > windows after we
> > stopped for some fun and games, we would still be sitting
> > there shivering and
> > smoking our cigarettes.
> >
> > Rich
> >
>