Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 08:42:49 -0400
Reply-To: Edward Maglott <emaglott3@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Edward Maglott <emaglott3@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: GoWesty heater valve--it just works
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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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