Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 21:35:31 -0400
Reply-To: craig cowan <phishman068@GMAIL.COM>
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From: craig cowan <phishman068@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Why plug the dash air intake screen?
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I know where you might be able to find a really terrible grill.....
(actually it's in great shape. Just missing the emblem), for cheap.
And anyone else looking for various parts off an '80 westy......
It goes to the scrapper in a week and a half.....so act now! Everything goes
for the best offer.
-Craig
'85 with some new holes.
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Oliver Mueller-Heubach <
groundhogging@mac.com> wrote:
> Hi Joy (and Matilda!) good to hear from you! :)
> How have you been?
>
> Thanks Chris for the link on fixing vents "the long way." That may
> happen down the road- maybe if I strip Chopstick down for blasting
> and powdercoating. For the time being, I'll see how he does once I
> get the accordion tubes back in- whether it is cooking me or not. I
> don't have AC, so it can't harm that. I may just leave the tubes off
> if it is unbearable and put them on in winter. Likewise, I'll make
> some sort of magnetic cover for the intake that I can just pop on in
> the fall and off in the spring. It is tempting to rig some sort of
> swamp cooler in the intake- just a slop-proof trough for ice and
> water with a drain tube down by the spare tire. Maybe if I find a
> poor condition grill I can cut the middle and make it hinged so I can
> reload the ice. Or I could just get an air conditioner..lol I like
> the window mounted swamp coolers- there was a really boxy one on the
> Samba a while ago- would have looked hideous on anything but a
> Vanagon. The ones that sit on the floor/under dash are nice, but
> rather have the extra space
>
>
> On Aug 5, 2008, at 9:05 PM, Joy Hecht wrote:
>
> My A/C hasn't worked for years, but not being able to shut off the
>> heat is a
>> nuisance at times.
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>> Joy
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>> and Matilda, now back in Newfoundland perhaps for a while...
>>
>> (and back on the list after a long time off)
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>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On
>> Behalf Of
>> Chris S
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 9:57 PM
>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>> Subject: Re: Why plug the dash air intake screen?
>>
>>
>>
>> RE: blocked air fresh air intake.
>>
>>
>>
>> Once the foam seals break down inside of the air distribution box
>> you can't
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>> shut off the flow of air. If the Vanagon has A/C this greatly
>> reduces its
>>
>> effectiveness. The cheap fix is to seal off the outside air intake
>> instead
>>
>> of slightly longer method: http://www.knology.net/~vw/vanagon/dash/<http://www.knology.net/%7Evw/vanagon/dash/>
>>
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>>
>> Chris S.
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>>
>> 2008/8/5 Oliver Mueller-Heubach <groundhogging@mac.com>
>>
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>>
>> I noticed on the Craig's '80 parts Westy that someone crammed cloth
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>> behind the screen inside the front grill. My own '80 Westy had,
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>> similarly, the screen closed off with layers of black tape. Is this
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>> something to do with non-functioning vents? Cold air in winter? Bees/
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>> Insects getting in? The cloth in the parts van intake made me wonder
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>> if pouring water into the vents onto this "sponge" would create a
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>> rudimentary swamp cooler- but mold would be insane (then again, the
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>> cloth was more dirty than moldy..).
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>> Also, I have one piece of card/chipboard heat-welded to the back of
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>> my grill- the other, which there appears to have been, is gone. I
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>> assume these are for directing air into the aforementioned intake.
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>> 1-how much more airflow is there with both boards in place, and 2-
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>> how have folks attached a new board when the plastic heat welds have
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>> broken off?
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>> Thanks!
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>>
>> ollie
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>>
>>>
>> Oliver Mueller-Heubach
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>> groundhogging@mac.com
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>>
> Oliver Mueller-Heubach
> groundhogging@mac.com
>
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