Date:         Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:43:04 -0500
Reply-To:     mcneely4@COX.NET
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From:         Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject:      Re: Removing the A/C duct work
Comments: To: Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@yahoo.com>
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---- Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@yahoo.com> wrote: 
> Seriously, folks, I do not claim to have the best-maintained '87 Westy out there and lord knows my A/C system could use some attention but on a hot day, once the initial cooldown takes place (and that does not take an unreasonable amount of time), keeping the right dial at about the halfway mark and the fan on 2 keeps it cool.  I'm talking 85F+ and humid. Honest.  
> I'd be happy to offer any doubters a ride.  Believe me, after all the gloom-and-doom I read about Vanagon A/C I thought I'd never be able to stand driving in a Virginia summer in the thing but it works, or it can be made to work.
> 
> What is even more puzzling is that I have all the receipts since new and the two prior owners spend a LOT on trying to fix the A/C.  All I did was that R134A conversion and it seems to work.  Dumb luck, maybe, but I ain't complaining.   
> 
> Stephen

Stephen, I'm talking 105-115 on a brutal summer day in Oklahoma, Texas, Eastern Colorada, Arizona.  I lived in Kentucky for six years.  People always complained about the heat any time the temperature crept up to the mid to upper eighties, and if I mentioned that it really gets hot other places, like the ones where I had lived previously, they would always respond regarding the humidity.  Finally, in the summer of 1988 I think it was, temperatures got up to around 100 for a couple of weeks.  That was the first time I was every hot there, though it was regularly in the upper eighties with the humidity quite high.  I told them that they finally got a chance to experience what it's like in Houston.

mcneely

> Sometimes.  If the A.C. is running really well with a full charge of coolant, and you run the fan on high, you can be comfortable.  mcneely

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David McNeely