I contacted Frank about his conversion after I saw it, and he concedes that it does use up a lot of the access space to the upper bunk. He never intended to use his camper for camping for four, however. And he did a beautiful job of covering the extended portion by covering it with teak. I wanted to preserve the upper bunk as we use it when daughter/granddaughter are camping with us, so I opted for the underdash installation. Jim
On Mar 6, 2006, at 9:48 PM, Sam Walters wrote: > List member Frank Grunthaner put a front AC unit in his Westy by > shortening the middle housing. The details are on Alistar Bell's web > site. > http://www.members.shaw.ca/albell/ > > It can be done quite successfully. > > Alistar has collected a large number of improvements and repair guides > from various Vanagon owners and this is a great site to explore and > bookmark. > > Sam > > -- > Sam Walters > Baltimore, MD > > 89 Syncro GL, Zetec Inside > 85 Westy Weekender > 85 Mercedes Benz 300D Turbodiesel - to become veggie oil powered > > All incoming and outgoing email scanned by automatically updated copy > of Norton AntiVirus. > > > |
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