On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote: > ---- Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM> wrote: > > joining the two hoses that used to go to the rear heater, together .. > > would be dumb. > > You're short circuiting the hot coolant that you only want going through > the > > front heater core. > > > > that's super obvious. > > so, does that mean that opening the valve to heat the rear heater would be > dumb? It does the same thing -- shunts the coolant from the delivery hose > through the rear heater to the return hose. > -- > David McNeely > The port in that valve is very small. ~1/8 " as compared to 1/2 " for the hose. Give the engineers *some* credit. John Meeks '91 Vanagon MV Northern Michigan Vanagon Rescue Squad www.vanagonauts.com |
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