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Date:         Tue, 25 Jan 2005 06:33:44 -0800
Reply-To:     Shawn Wright <swright@ZUIKO.SLS.BC.CA>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Shawn Wright <swright@ZUIKO.SLS.BC.CA>
Subject:      Re: WTB 83 diesel heater cover
In-Reply-To:  <BDE7AC50-6E93-11D9-AE97-000A95E94AAC@uvic.ca>
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Ok guys, which duct are we talking about here? I suspect mine is already gone from the descriptions I'm hearing. Do you mean the later water cooled rear heater? I'm thinking of doing that also - I assume all the wiring & switch needs to be added also, or is the wiring hidden somewhere? ('82 Diesel).

On 24 Jan 2005 at 21:41, Alistair Bell <albell@UVIC.CA> wrote:

> On a related note... > > I suspect, but have no proof, that that plastic floor duct acts like a > bit of a noise resonator. I will remove mine ( i keep saying) when i > finally instal my rear heater. > > Alistair > > '82 westy, diesel converted to gas in '94 > http://www.members.shaw.ca/albell/ > > On 24-Jan-05, at 9:28 PM, Gary Lee, Vanagon Racks wrote: > > >> The approach I would use would be to remove that black plastic floor > >> duct entirely and then use the heater cover you have. The black > >> plastic > >> floor space hog is only held in place by a few screws hidden by caps. > >> There is nice clean carpet under it so removing it looks fine when you > >> are done. > > > > This is exactly what I did. I liked it better when removed, more > > space and > > more heat up front. > > I stupidly threw out the heater cover and black plastic floor duct. > > > > Gary Lee > > http://www.telusplanet.net/public/gary2a/vw.htm > > >

-- Shawn Wright I.T. Manager Shawnigan Lake School


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