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vanis13
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Location: ABQ NM USA.... Except when not
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 Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2025 12:51 pm Post subject: Re: What did YOU do to your van today? |
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| riceye wrote: |
...in 2012 at 172,000 miles after some really negative comments about Redline here on our forum. A little over 50,000 miles. This was the plug at that time:
....Anyway, here is the plug yesterday. I've accumulated about 65,000 miles since the 2012 fluid change.
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so you use that 50x41/2 box to knock on ;-P
what's the story on that box, you've had it a while. a little more patina over the last 13 years.
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riceye
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Joined: March 09, 2006
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Location: Caledonia, WI
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| Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2025 1:23 pm Post subject: Re: What did YOU do to your van today? |
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| vanis13 wrote: |
| riceye wrote: |
...in 2012 at 172,000 miles after some really negative comments about Redline here on our forum. A little over 50,000 miles. This was the plug at that time:
....Anyway, here is the plug yesterday. I've accumulated about 65,000 miles since the 2012 fluid change.
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so you use that 50x41/2 box to knock on ;-P
what's the story on that box, you've had it a while. a little more patina over the last 13 years. |
Haha! Yeah, it was my father-in-law's. He used to love a good cigar.
It's just the right size to contain my evening chilling-out fun supplies.
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There's gonna be some changes made.
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jlrftype7
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Joined: July 24, 2018
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Location: Chicago
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| Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2025 4:54 pm Post subject: Re: What did YOU do to your van today? |
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Had a strange source of heat out of the passenger floor duct area at speed. But drivers side only gave ambient air temps while driving.
I’d already adjusted the 10cc heater valve cable a few weeks ago, and that got rid of the really small amount of hot air out of the drivers side once adjusted.
So, I went to the next step and added an in line shut valve in the heater hose under the dash this morning. Ran the engine , ran the heater, checked the floor vent output with valve on and off. No heat from the passenger vent.
Hmm, then I spotted the real culprit… 
The big oval rubber grommet in the floor where hoses and cables run through, was no longer fully seated. Hot air from the Radiator was flying up through the gap, not a heater core issue.
Then wrapped the grommet to the floor with aluminum duct tape and added a small piece of Reflectix to act as one more heat shield against the body and behind the plastic ductwork.
Test drove on Lake Shore , only cool air out of the passenger and drivers floor vents- success.
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'67 Type 3 Fastback, my 2nd car- gone
'69 Semi-Auto Stick Shift Beetle-gone
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