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Re: Heater advice

To: RWM@rwmann.com, datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Heater advice
From: SLBESQ@aol.com
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:49:28 EDT
In a message dated 9/12/02 5:57:40 AM Pacific Daylight Time, RWM@rwmann.com 
writes:


> Older air-cooled VW Beetles had optional kerosene heaters, not that I'd
> recommend that approach.
> 

in my firend's corvair van in illinois in the dead of winter, we had a little 
camping heater in the front of the footwell (the kind with the little propane 
tank).  the van's heater was useless, i assumed cuz the engine was so far 
away in the back.  the camping heater was somewhat useless as well.  our legs 
were on fire, but our heads and hands were still cold.  to top it off, the 
gas cap kept freezing (we only later learned), not allowing in any air.  the 
result was that after every 15 or so miles, the van would grind to a halt.  
after the van sat for an hour or so (until the pressure in the tank 
equalized), it would start and run fine...for fifteen or so miles.
now i live in california.
s
67.5MIZU

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