Date:         Thu, 23 Apr 1998 19:27:47 EDT
Reply-To:     kenneth d lewis <kdlewis@JUNO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         kenneth d lewis <kdlewis@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Removing rear heater (Putting copper in coolant line)
Comments: To: ebrown@ADOBE.COM
Comments: cc: Vanagon@vanagon.com

Eric;
If I understand your post correctly you do NOT have a heater but a copper
pipe connecting the two hoses together. If this is so I would remove it
as soon as possible and plug both hoses. What is happening is hot coolant
is being sucked out the right head and being drawn, unrestricted all the
time, into the cooled return of the water pump. This will effectively
reduce the cooling efficiency of your vehicle.
Drive Safely & Good Luck
Ken Lewis<K-ville,NC>
86 VW Transporter Double Cab Pickup
60 Porsche T-5 Coupe
85 VW GL Vanagon<Elvis>

On Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:11:06 -0700 Eric Brown <ebrown@ADOBE.COM> writes:
>The previous owner of my 87 Van found that the rear heater had a
>coolant
>leak. So he removed it and didn't do a very good job gerry rigging the
>two
>coolant hose connections together. So, I undid his gerry rigging and
>got a
>standard piece of 3/4" copper hot water tubing and bent it into a U
>and
>connected to two coolant hoses under the bench seat. (Before, the
>tubes were
>connected straight on and were crimping thus allowing very little
>coolant to
>flow.)
>
>Does anybody know if this copper is going to react in a very bad way
>with
>the coolant or if there is a better way to solve my problem. I was
>told the
>rear heater never puts out much heat in vanagons anyway.
>
>Thanks,
>Eric
>

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