RE: couple questions

[Chris Coracini <Coracin@usdl.com>]

all A1's had the valve.  the flaps are on the A2 cars.

chris
86 16V scirocco

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>From: 	T Berk[SMTP:tberk@mindspring.com]
>Sent: 	Sunday, January 10, 1999 1:30 PM
>To: 	scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: 	Re: couple questions
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>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
>
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>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>
>>
>>
>>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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