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On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 12:03, Keith Park wrote: > >Ive seen 3 or 4, the late ones tend to get incomplete combustion with a low > B+ voltage and emit clouds of white smoke... they can also run away if the > cutoffs fail. These were all older cars at the time though. > Then they had been tampered with, or not maintained properly. Both Eberspacher, and Southwind had redundant safeties. The school bus heaters had quadruple redundant safeties. Made them a pain to keep running. Or, as I explained to Everett, don't fill the gas tank while the heater is running and make sure you have a good gas cap. -- Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT '71 FB AT '65 Bug (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org