Date:         Sun, 4 May 2008 02:48:48 +1200
Reply-To:     Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
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From:         Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject:      Re: SA T3 Ventilation System
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>If it was knobs, i bet it was servo controlled. One could probably
>adapt the parts from another vehicle to the Vanagon. Oh boy! Another
>project I'll never have time for!

They did have rotary controls, but they are surely cable-operated. VW
didn't have the idea (unlike BMW or Mercedes) that the ideal was to
fit needless unreliable Bosch electrics for every conceivable item
plus one. The NECESSARY unreliable Bosch items were all that they
fitted. Like windows. And EFI.

I hate to think how the T3 ABS worked... or didn't.

>Does anyone have a link to that web page what has pictures of a blue
>VWSA T3? The one with the raised rear deck covering an I5 engine, and
>I remember I said something about the exhaust going FORWARD under the
>left axle, adding another level of horror to CV joint service? I know
>I seen it linked here, but I can't find it now...

My Holden V6 conversion had the exhaust running forward to a small
muffler on the midline forward of the trans, with inlet/outlet on the
rear end; then back to the rear. The only worry was ground-clearance,
but this wasn't really an issue.

>South African T3... The pics I find seem to
>indicate they did away with the vents just forward of the D pillar in
>order to make room for sliding windows back there. So where did they
send the exiting cabin air?

The rear-pillar vents are in the normal place, though the vents
themselves are modified from the German originals. But these are
engine-compartment vents in all versions. The only cabin outlet vents
in T3s are those in the cab doors. I don't think you can say that T3s
had flowthrough ventilation, unlike 1956+ T1s (which had extraction
louvers in the rear pillars).
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Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
Fossil preparator
Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut
‚ Opinions stated are mine, not those of Otago University
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