Re: couple questions

[T Berk <tberk@mindspring.com>]

I don't think the 82+ models use the early type valve to control heat. I
think they use a flap system to close off air flow past the heater core.
These flaps are controlled by vacuum generated by the engine. Possibly the
control arm has fallen off the flap's lever. Perhaps there is a vacuum leak. 

Good luch, hth,
TBerk


At 12:44 PM 1/10/99 -0500, Mark A Peele wrote:
>1. Probably the heater valve that your heater control connects to. It is
>in the engine bay in the middle of a heater hose that goes from cylinder
>head to firewall (to heat exchanger/core). Check to see if the cable is
>attached properly. If it is, the valve is probably bad (assuming the
>radiator hoses are hot).
>
>
>Mark . . .   (THINK VW)
>Scirocco 1982, Golf GT 1987
>Scirocco 1981 S (working on this)
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>From: "Zach Vrooman" <zach@discover-net.net>
>To: "scirocco mail list" <scirocco-L@scirocco.org>
>Subject: couple questions
>Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 21:02:57 -0600
>Message-ID: <199901070248.UAA03534@discover-net.net>
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>Hi all. Here's my questions
>
>1) My rocco has very little heat. What I do get is lukewarm, or slightly
>above. This morning, I let it run to get some heat going (-20 below last
>night) about 6-8 minutes or so, I don't remember. Anyway, I got in and
>looked at the gauge, and the needle was about halfway up. I thought
>"HEAT!
>YES!" Alas, it was not to be. I turned on the defroster and not much in
>the
>way of heat. :(   So, I am taking this to mean my thermostat has gone the
>way of the dodo. No problem, I have a stat and gasket (plus all hoses, I
>figured WTF, only money.) How would a half-wit such as myself find out
>for
>sure? I remember someone saying something about grabbing a hose to see if
>it's warm, but I don't remember which hose. Can someone elaborate for me?
>
>2)The driver's seat on my car was broken when I got it. After much
>searching, my dad located one in CA. The seat is from a Wolfie. My '86
>isn't a Wolfie, so the pattern isn't the same. The parts car I got last
>summer has the sport seats, in the same pattern as my '86. My question
>is:
>Is the upholstery(sp?) easily switchable? I ask because the driver's seat
>in the parts car ALSO was broken, which I'd discovered AFTER I threw it
>into my 86 :(
>Hopefully it will, then I'll be that much closer to having the interior
>finished. 
>
>
>TIA,
>zach 
>86 8v(brrr..)
>84 8v
>85 GTI
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