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Date:         Tue, 15 Mar 2016 14:12:55 +0000
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: GoWesty heater valve--it just works
Comments: To: Larry Alofs <lalofs@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To:  <CA+r=JhoqiWfYiYJZ55DZv5KcMayy=Nb3rwX2F8aAFzwxnLRVfg@mail.gmail.com>
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There is an easi(er) way. Pull the instrument cluster. You should be pretty quick at this by now, right? Take a 7mm wrench and release the cable that controls the heater valve. Drop the glove box and pull the two heater hoses. Now you can go underneath the car and pull all this mess down to driveway level and work on it there instead of up in the hole with the fan. Quicker and less frustrating.

Jim

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 8:23 AM Larry Alofs <lalofs@gmail.com> wrote:

> The control valve for the front heater is not replaced by removing the > dash. You find it up above the spare tire. Still a very awkward and > annoying job. > > Larry A. > > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 8:42 AM, Edward Maglott <emaglott3@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > The expensive gowesty part looks like an OEM German part for some other > > application. Judging by what they are charging, maybe it's a Porsche or > > M-B? Maybe somebody who works on a lot of German cars would recognize > it? > > > > Larry makes the very good point. I do not want to take my dash apart > more > > than once. I was getting ready to do that a few years ago but then the > > mullendore port fixed my squealing heater. Both my front and rear heater > > valves will not turn off completely. The last thing I want is heat in my > > nonAC westy during those summer drives. Then stopping to sleep with the > > whole front of the bed thoroughly heated by the rear heater. I put an > > additional valve in the heater hose coming from the engine which I shut > off > > in the summer so both heaters stay cool in summer. It's located under > the > > van near the drivers side axle. Pretty easy to get to to flip on or off. > > It's the same cheap FLAPS valve for the vanagon application. The one I > > have in there now started leaking badly this winter, especially when all > > the way open or closed. Less at a certain point in the middle. ugh, > glad > > that isn't up under my dash. I've ordered another new $6 one from > busdepot > > to replace it and hopefully it will last longer than the cheap one from > > FLAPS. > > > > Edward > > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 11:11 PM, Larry Alofs <lalofs@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > The main question is whether a valve will last. The "cost" of your > labor > > > to replace it is significant for this part. The lifetime guarantee > > doesn't > > > pay for that. > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 9:41 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > OK you have me beat by at least a factor of four on the price. But > what > > > > about that lifetime guarantee, considering the most of us have > already > > > had > > > > these things for 20+ years? > > > > > > > > Jim > > > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 8:38 PM Larry Alofs <lalofs@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > >> By "any FLAPS" you seem to mean NAPA, Balkamp valve $24.14 > > > >> > > > >> Autozone has Everco which looks just the same. Part #5852 $14.99 > > > >> > > > >> What fun > > > >> > > > >> Larry A. > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 9:11 PM, levi hawkins <b1levi@yahoo.com> > > wrote: > > > >> > > > >> > Ford heater valveAvailable at any flaps > > > >> > I think the part no is 660-1140 ? > > > >> > I went through a couple brand new ones from our usual distributors > > > that > > > >> > operated exactly as you described. Btdt > > > >> > > > > >> > Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android > > > >> > > > > >> > On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Jim Felder< > jim.felder@GMAIL.COM> > > > >> > wrote: I have been through three aftermarket heater valves in my > > 83 > > > in > > > >> > the last > > > >> > two years. None of them worked well in any way. If they were loose > > > >> enough > > > >> > to move without folding the cable in half, they leaked and ran hot > > air > > > >> in > > > >> > the cabin all summer. > > > >> > > > > >> > Cheap enough at about ten bucks each, but they don't work. GoWesty > > has > > > >> an > > > >> > alternative for about eight times that price, but it has a > lifetime > > > >> > guarantee, and hey--guess what--it works as advertised. If you > want > > a > > > >> valve > > > >> > that turns all the way open to heat the cabin, and all the way > > closed > > > to > > > >> > cool it, without bending your heater cable into pieces, I think > the > > > >> GoWesty > > > >> > product is your only alternative today. And then there's that > > lifetime > > > >> > guarantee. > > > >> > > > > >> > Jim > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > >


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