Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 21:39:01 -0500
Reply-To: Darrell Boehler <midwesty@MIDWEST.NET>
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From: Darrell Boehler <midwesty@MIDWEST.NET>
Subject: Re: Dead mouse in vanagon heater - which Bentley or who can help?
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Hi Daryl,
I had the exact same thing happen to me several years ago. They make one
terrible stink. They can get into the vents, heater, defroster from the
front. If you remove the upper grill and check on the outer left and right
side edges of the fresh air scoop there is a slit along each out edge.
There is no easy way to get them out of there. The first step in gaining
access to the front heater is to remove the dash. Look at section 80 in the
bentley book it has a bit of info there. If you are going to remove the
vent / heater system I would get an new set of flap seals for the vent,
heater, and defroster flaps.
Darrell Boehler
Ps. we will need to go camping some day with Larry Johnson so we can do a
Daryl, Darrell, and Larry routine.
----- Original Message -----
From: Daryl Jorud <djorud@PRTEL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, October 30, 1999 8:50 PM
Subject: Dead mouse in vanagon heater - which Bentley or who can help?
> Drat! Some rodent, probably a mouse, has gotten into the front
> heater core area of my 86 GL and given up the ghost. As the odor is
> anything but pleasant, something has to be done about it, and fast. Where
> do these little guys get in? Isn't this unit supposed to be screened off
so
> that little beasts don't crawl in? I have tried taking some of the air
> ducting off under the dash panel, but I can't find the dead critter. I
have
> the 80 to 87 Bentley manual, but it has absolutely nothing in regard to
> disassembling this unit. Only has heater info on the air cooled early
> vanagons and the diesel, nothing in regard to waterboxer heaters. Does
the
> later issue(s) of the Bentley manual have this information? I'm amazed
that
> the 80-87 does not. OR, can someone give me some tips on an easy way to
> solve this stinky situation? From what I can see, this job is going to
take
> several hours once I get the instructions of what to do first, second,
> third........... Thanks very much for help from anyone who has faced this
> kind of a stinky mess.
>
> Daryl Jorud
> Battle Lake, MN
> 86 GL
> 85 Double-cab
> 83 Rabbit convert.
> 82 Rabbit pkp
>
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