I never had a bug heat exchanger rust (living in California) but I had experienced turning the car into a steamy sauna by driving through large puddles. (The water would splash on the exchangers and the steam would be blown into the passenger compartment.
Todd '88 Westy
-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Kim Brennan <kimbrennan@mac.com> > You misunderstood. In the air cooled Vanagons, the heated air for > passenger comforter is passed up to the front of the vehicle by duct > work. The saddle in the gas tank accomodates that duct work. > > Of course my experience in an aircooled beetle was that the heat > exchangers rusted up so quickly you got into a situation of either > never having heated air, or permanently having heated air...On buses > or aircooled vanagons (I've never owned one) I understand that the > heated air sometimes wasn't by the time it got up to the front. Even > on working systems. > > On Sep 22, 2006, at 12:20 PM, Todd Last wrote: > > > GoWesty writes.... > > > > " Interestingly, the depression down the middle was put there to > > allow the hot air duct to pass from rear to front on air cooled > > Vanagons. Even though there is no purpose for it now, and even > > though 90% of all Vanagons ever produced were water-cooled, the > > fuel tank design never changed. Go figure > > ." > > > > Is this true? > > > > I thought all the cooling air came through the side vents at the > > rear of the van... > > and if this is necessary... why did none of the type II vans have it?? > > Seems a rather suspect explanation to me... If anything, I > > thought it would be there to help the air exit after the radiator > > for the water cooled models. > |
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