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On 9 Feb 99, at 11:48, Forsman/Harris wrote: > (1) Do > these type 3 front ends never rust out (unlike the Type 1 & 2 beams)? > I'm wondering if this is something that should be saved, or if every > type 3 owner out there is already in good shape with an extra in his/her > basement. The type 3 front ends DO rust out. Look under the rubber mounting pads after you take it off. Good ones are occasionally valuable. > (2) Does anyone really have so > much heat that they use the thermostat system mixing in cool air with > the hot? This just strikes me as crazy. Believe it or not, when the heater systems are working the air they can put out is VERY hot. The thermostat system you are talking about (not the engine cooling thermostat, etc) mixes in cool air to get the temp down to something tolerable. In so doing it ups the volume of hot air, and there is a real benefit to this. For those of you who don't know what we're talking about, there is a mixing box on either side of the nose of the tranny. These get input from the heat exchangers as well as from two 1" cool air hoses. Inside each box there is a bellows thermostat similar to that in the engine cooling system. This expands and contracts to control the flow of cool air into the mixing box. If you drive with good heat exchangers but no cool air hoses and use the heater, then the thermostats will open and dump hot air outside. Since no cool air come in when this happens the temp in the mixing box can get high enough to pop the bellows thermostats. The fresh air hoses are important. Make sure yours are in place. Jim - ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe? mailto:type3-request@vwtype3.org, Subject: unsubscribe