Water cooled Westies have a problem with interior heat build-up at floor level for the driver and front seat passengers due to heat "oozing" into the interior of the cabin from the heater hoses that run under the vehicle and into the front under the dash. Way back in the last millennium, around 1988, my local VW dealer installed a Hot Footwell Kit to address the problem. It's essentially a few slabs of pre-cut 1/4" cork with adhesive on one side. The carpet was pulled back and the cork installed in the footwells and on the floor around the stickshift back, between the driver and passenger seats. Roy Olynick '87 VW Westfalia GL (For Sale) '91 Honda Civic SE '01 Honda Civic LX-G www.autobahn.mb.ca/~rrh/Westy_Home.htm
---- Original Message ----- From: "David Brodbeck" <gull@GULL.US> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 12:54 PM Subject: Re: Hot Foot Syndrome...what is solution?
| All of Us wrote: | > I was having problems with "hot foot" even though the heater valve was | > completely shut off. The reason was that hot air from under the front end | > was blowing up through the hole that the rod attached to the gas pedal | > passes through. I ended up putting a second piece of carpeting with a | > smaller hole in it under the stock carpet. This cut down the amount of hot | > air pushed through the hole and solved the problem. | | Bits of bicycle inner tube work fairly well for this, too. I used some | to make seals for the clutch and brake pushrods on my '75. |
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