Date:         Sat, 28 May 1994 11:54:46 -0400
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         steve@molly.tn.cornell.edu (S.Smith)
Subject:      Diesel vanagon heat

 
Appreciated the great ***flame*** war on levers this week - did
a great job of putting me behind on my work schedule  :-)

I seem to remember it originating in someone posting that they 
had marginal heat in their diesel Vanagon (hereafter dV):

for the record, my 83 dV keeps up as well as my other watercooled
VWs/Audis - this in the balmy central NY (Finger lakes) region - coming
off the second coldest winter to date, Think we had two months straight
of below freezing temps - and a bone-chilling couple of nights at
25-30 below 0 F!!

Old faithful (white top on blue body) never failed to start - accompanied
by a belching of blue smoke for a couple of minutes - but very driveable
after warming up.  The heater (i only have the front heater :-(

would bring the cabin up to about 50F int his climate - which isnt 
toasty but is really beyond the call of duty for this weather imho.

I have a diesel burning aux heater which i never have gotten to work -
yes, its the one withthe timer s you can send the kids out to warm up
the car body before you go to work, i tracked the fault down to the
flame switch, but as they cost $300 at VW I want ot get some 
resistance specs before i pretend to work for the VW dealer (thinly
disguised dig at delaer mechanics who usually play swap parts charade
with you bank account as leverage)

Joel "I got it all here on fiche" Walker got me the fiche and a manual
****Thanks J !!*****  that got me started on this; i promised myself
i would get it fixed last winter but .......

Anyone ever measured the cold or hot resistance of the flame switch
on their (gas or diesel) heater ??

email back (ss76@cornell.edu) would be least abusive of BW as this
is a relatively obscure one methinks .

TIA, sps