You can ONLY get unheated air from the rear side vents - air for those vents doesn't flow through the heater core. The rear underseat heater on a watercooled vanagon is actually an auxiliary heater core plumbed into the cooling system just like the main heater (doesn't use exhaust heat). Graham 90 GL > -----Original Message----- > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf > Of David Hicks > Sent: Sunday, February 21, 1999 9:21 PM > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Subject: A hot question... > > > Dear listers, > This is probably an easy question to answer if you know how to do > it. I don't. > I'm trying to figure out how to get heat to come out of the rear > side vents in > my 91 Multi. I can get heat out of the front, but not the back. I > can get cool > air out of the side rear vents, when there's heat coming out of > those in the > front, but I can't figure out how, to get heat out, even while > looking at the > manual booklet. > So, if someone could make me less clueless, I'd be grateful. Also, is it > possible to get heat out of just the side rear vents and not the > fronts? Yes I > know about the auxiliary under the bench heater back there that > uses heat from > the exhaust, but I'm just referring to the one in front for now. > thanks in advance, > David, 91 Multi > |
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