I adjust that heater valve 2X a year. In summer it is off and in winter I open it ~1/3. The fan control is more than enough to control how much heat in rear. Opening the valve fully does not make much more heat anyway and any water flowing through the rear core takes away from the front and that where it is really needed. Dennis >From: Geza Polony <gezapolony@SBCGLOBAL.NET> >Reply-To: Geza Polony <gezapolony@SBCGLOBAL.NET> >To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM >Subject: Re: rear heater valve >Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:36:06 -0400 > >I was thinking the same thing, and went so far as to buy a long choke-cable >type thing, like you have on your garden tractor or whatever, to operate >the >rear heater valve from somewhere near the driver's seat (beneath?) I don't >think it'd be a difficult mod. It would be nice not to have to unpack all >the accumulated stuff in the seat box to open or close the valve. |
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