James,

Would you know anything else about who made the A/C for your van?
This would be a great addition in almost all vans.
Could you tell us how you turn it on and how it operates:  Do you still work all the levers for heat and ventilation?  Do you have additional vents for the A/C or do they use the existing vanagon vents?  Can you get the A/C to blow out of the defroster? or the footwells?  Is it integrated in the heater unit or a separate unit under the dash (like right over the glove box)?  Do you have any pictures available?

Please let us know.

The system that Larry Chase installed came from Jerry at EuroAir

http://www.europeancoolerair.com
jwest@europeancoolerair.com
Phone: 972-771-3791

Thanks in advance,

Joel
89 Syncro Warm Westy
Rochester NY.

James Ballen <ballenjames@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
Can't say I know where to get a system installed in Texas, sorry...
but I will chime in on the dash-mounted A/C system. My '83 Country Homes
Camper had it installed at about 350 miles into the van's life. I don't
think it every got recharged, as the PO said he never used it.

Yesterday I bought one of the $35 134a recharge/retrofit kits, and installed
it. It was not hard to do at all once you figure out where your service
ports are and which one is which. Mine were labeled "S" and "D", which I
interpreted and Suction and Discharge, and were both located on the side of
the compressor in the engine bay.

Once the compressor kicked in, it started to blow REALLY cold. I gotta say,
the 4 dash mounted vents may not cool the whole cabin as quickly as some
other setups, but they sure do cool the driver and passenger pretty damn
fast...

The only thing I screwed up was while tightening the cheesy screw-on adapter
for the high-side valve, I stripped the threads out. I just put the old cap
back on. Hopefully I won't need to access the discharge anyway!

hope this helps.

-James

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>Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 22:27:49 -0400
>From: Brett Baer

>Subject: Re: Looking for A/C System
>
>Larry Chase has a dash mounted front AC in the RoadHaus. Got in
>installed down in Texas.
>
>Does anyone know more about this?
>Thanks,
>Brett Baer
>'87 Syncro Westfalia in squelching hot Austin, TX

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