Date:         Mon, 16 Dec 2002 01:27:42 -0800
Reply-To:     Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: eberspacher furnace for Westy Q?
Comments: To: Oxroad@AOL.COM
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Jeff-
That heater was never sold in the US and I think it's called a BA-5.
It was designed for stationary use and I have tested and installed one for a
friend.
They also made a Diesel version. It more energy effecicient and the heat
exchanger has  cast aluminum fins similar to the heat exchangers on air
cooled VW's that gives a lot of heat during the burner -off cycle.
Small and compact. He found it in a Deheler Profi German camper that was in
a junkyard.


Robert

1982 Westfalia
Seattle





>From: Jeff Oxroad <Oxroad@AOL.COM>
>Reply-To: Oxroad@AOL.COM
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: eberspacher furnace for Westy Q?
>Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 17:53:10 EST
>
>I see in a Westfalia/Joker brochure from Germany in about 1988 (and in
>German) that there appears to be an  Eberspacher brand furnace that mounts
>flush under the Vanagon Westfalia full camper in a recess near the slider
>door. There also appears to be another part of the unit that mounts under
>the
>rear seat with the controls and vent on the front panel just below the rear
>seat. The controls seem to have a digital temperature setting AND a clock
>which looks to regulate when the heater goes on and off.
>
>This furnace appears to be to warm the camping compartment when
>stopped--therefore not an auxilary heater for driving. The Eberspacher
>furnace from my weak understanding of German seems to run on gasoline.
>
>This furnace looks like a keen addition to a camper and seems to use a
>limited amount of interior space limited to a small amount of the
>compartment
>under the rear seat.
>
>So the question is/ are:
>Are these Eberspacher furnaces available and at what cost? And does anyone
>have experience with them?
>
>FWIW: Also in this brochure for the Vanagon based campmobile is a front
>childs cot like in the old loaf busses that hangs over the driver's and
>passenger seat. A toilet that fits neatly in a cupboard that mounts behind
>the passenger seat for those who have lost olfactory senses. A dish set
>complete with plates, cups and saucers with a wrack that keeps them safely
>stowed under the sink. A sableizing jack-type device that appears to fit in
>the stock jack recievers to stableize the bus when camping. A length of
>hose
>and a regulator to hook up an external propane supply. A vent with a screen
>that rolls up into the front door windows to allow air circulation. And a
>silver bubble wrap-type wrapper for the canvas pop top for insulation along
>with an interior mounted quilted curtain for the cockpit windows and
>windshield.
>
>Also some of the Joker models (again this seems to be from 1988) have the
>old
>style bumpers (81-about 85 let's say) on the 1988 model. The bumpers are
>painted black, no chrome like on most in the USA, and the Joker has the
>chin
>spoiler also known as the air dam mounted. The painted black bumpers and
>the
>chin spoiler giev a nice look to the bus--especially those with the rubber
>impact strip on the bumper.
>
>Please note all of the above are observation from the pictures in the
>brochure and a limited understanding of German--and Germans for that
>matter.
>
>TIA
>Jeff
>83.5 Westy
>LA,CA


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