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• Re: stereo amp placement
  Historical mailing list - Phil S.
  Wed, 26 Jun 2002 15:44:15 -0700
  ...The Mosfet amp powers two JBL 10" subs and Titanium tweeters inside truck style speaker boxes. Phil***84' Westy Tiico "Millenium Falcon" ***60' Morris...
• Re: ANVC Breaking news: And what does the average serial killer drive?
  Historical mailing list - neil
  Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:26:29 -0800
  ...http://web.mac.com/tubaneil On 1/21/07, Roger Sisler <rogersisler2000@yahoo.com> wrote: > I've killed a few boxes of Cheerios in...
• Bulli Books
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Sat, 8 Mar 2008 12:57:53 -0800
  ...Opening boxes of books and re-packaging them as singles, then sending them all off again - well, I bet you have more muscles now...
• Re: Heat: A New Approach?
  Historical mailing list - Mark Janello
  Tue, 17 Oct 1995 21:27:15 -0400 (EDT)
  ...The four > approaches are: > > 1) Just freeze, don't expect air-cooled heat. > > 2) Keep your heater boxes in tip-top shape and all...
• Heater Box/Ball Joint/Tie Rod Questions
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 22 Dec 95 09:06:19 EST
  ...replace passenger side ball joint replace one tie rod new heater boxes how much would it cost for the ball joint? a really good...
• Heat smells rubbery
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 11 Sep 1995 21:33:49 -0400
  ...for the first time since installing new heat exchangers and control boxes. We're getting lots of heat. That's the good part. The...
• Re: Tranny Oil Question '66 Westy
  Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
  Wed, 15 May 1996 16:56:15 -0700
  ...First of all, is this something I Yes, and do the reduction boxes, too. YOu'll need the 17mm hex tool to get the...
• Re: Carying 4x8' sheets of plywood
  Historical mailing list - Austin
  Wed, 25 Aug 1999 22:14:19 -0700
  ...Fridge boxes work great for this. > >Marshall Ruskin > >>Anyone ever carry 4x8 sheets of plywood in a westy? >>steve >> In an Adventurewagen 4x8's...
• Shipping parts & stuff from Europe
  Historical mailing list - Kate
  Wed, 4 Apr 2001 10:21:22 -0500
  ...I want to ship about 4 heavy (I think under 40lbs but at least 40" x8"x8" ) boxes from Manchester England to NE Iowa...
• Re: Grendel, Monday
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 26 Sep 1995 10:40:56 -0700 (PDT)
  ...I've been lucky enuf to never have had to take a front suspension apart, other than replacing steering boxes.. Thom -- > I think sex...
• swapping engines...
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 20 Jul 1995 09:11:17 -0800 (PST)
  ...any suggestions on what else to do while i'm in there? like, clean up anything (heater boxes ? oil cooler ?), or what ? permission to...
• Re: auxiliary battery related
  Historical mailing list - Captain Ray
  Sat, 20 Nov 1999 14:28:24 -0800
  ...Buy spares, LOTS of spares. (Preferably from a list vendor while you're ordering those boxes of German oil filters and all that other...
• Re: Pelican-style dividers for under the Westy back seat
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sun, 10 Oct 2010 21:02:19 -0700
  ...or > plastic sheets... > > I just use cardboard boxes myself, and those gym bags and duffels. > Boxes for the spare parts that need to be...
• Re: Subject: German quality?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sat, 24 Aug 2013 16:42:01 -0400
  At 04:28 PM 8/24/2013, Karl Wolz wrote: >It's not an uncommon thing to buy a couple parts, switch boxes, and...
• 197WTB: 1977 bus parts
  Historical mailing list - Mark E Ingles
  Wed, 06 Jul 1994 00:50:05 CDT
  ...heat exchangers along with tubes that connect them to the control boxes. * I might be interested in a stock exhaust muffler Thanks in advance...
• RE: heater blower project
  Historical mailing list - Maher, Steve (SD-MS)
  Tue, 03 Oct 1995 09:34:00 -0700 (PDT)
  ...place, I think they're supposed to go BEFORE the heater boxes, not after. But it worked great, despite the fact that that little...
• 87' westy value
  Historical mailing list - MF
  Mon, 12 Feb 2001 19:00:51 -0500
  ...good cleaning and general repair, some reupholstering Engine, seized 2.1L, boxes of parts. Heads are supposed to be newly replaced prior to lower...
• Re: 86 Vanagon Fuse Box
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:59:50 -0700
  Yes, the 86 fuse boxes are the same, early or late. Many mid to late 80s VWs used the same one, Jetta, Golf, Quantum...
• Re: Names
  Historical mailing list - Jim Morgan
  Thu, 2 Oct 2008 09:27:00 EDT
  ...80 aircolled van "stink bomb" because of mice and oily heater boxes . I may change the name to Fridgedair because the blower fan dosent...
• Re: Are Today's Young People Mechanical Nitwits?
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Lincoln
  Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:58:54 -0500
  ...it is in modern computers: > people expect them to be "black boxes" that just work. For cars and > computers that are extremely well-built...
• Heater, heaters, heaters....
  Historical mailing list
  09 Feb 95 10:50:00 -0700
  ...There's also a section of plumbing that connects to the existing heater duct plumbing from the heater boxes. There are little flaps in...
• Recent purchase...
  Historical mailing list - Jon Hathaway
  Fri, 13 Jun 1997 06:17:39 -0400
  ...when the 4 boxes arrived yesterday we opened them with great anticipation... The actuality surpassed our wildest expectations!! over a dozen major pieces in...
• Re: porsche engine conversions
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:47:23 -0700
  You would use the porsche heater boxes. You could also put in a watercooled porsche engine. I don't know the year - early 2000...
• Re: [VIDEO] The Dempster Highway in a Vanagon Westy - beacon
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:25:49 -0700
  ...Saturday, June 20, 2009, 1:24 PM Little black boxes!� Hmmmm! On a trip into the boonies such as this has anyone ever thought...
• '80 Vanagon heater tubes?
  Historical mailing list - Wil Haslup
  Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:53:57 -0400
  ...These fit between the heater boxes and the flapper valves. I sold my '80 a couple weeks back and then found these in a...
• Re: exhaust for stock motor
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 21 Dec 1995 15:33:22 -0800
  ...for the Brazilian kind). > >Also sealing the flanges to the heat boxes is a bitch, they're dented >and rusty. > >Thanks for any input...
• more on silver sockets
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 20 Feb 1997 09:38:03 -0800
  ...Are these the real thing? One of these days I'll have to clean out all those boxes of old Thing parts in the...
• WTB: Air-cooled Muffler, but a weird one...
  Historical mailing list - Justin M. Mayrand
  Wed, 13 Jul 2005 14:55:10 -0400
  ...It is one log tube that bolts directly to the air-boxes (exhaust manifolds). No mid-pie, crossover, etc. I am assuming it is...
• Re: 86> ECU's,Air Boxes and Master Cylinders FS Great DEALS!
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 07 Aug 1997 17:01:57 -0700
  ...recently gotten my hands on a few 86 and newer Air Boxes. I got them at a > reasonable price and I too plan to...
• Re: The Latest Odd Cargo in my Vanagon (Frydaye)
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:23:23 EDT
  ...Trophies, Award Plaques, > banners, Tons of pictures, old recordings, boxes of older music, asorted > old > uniforms, banners, percussion equipment, etc. etc. etc. > > They will...
• solex 28 pic & 28 pict
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Tue, 4 Jul 1995 18:10:11 -0700 (PDT)
  Again while cleaning up the garage, I came upon the boxes of bug stuff that I've been humping around for years (I once...
• Re: UPS is VERY expensive
  Historical mailing list - Brian Wasson
  Fri, 1 Apr 2005 10:40:16 -0500
  ...I've shipped a number of bicycles in big boxes, and always use FedEx Ground. Never had a problem! Thankfully the local FedEx distribution...
• Re: Dual battery install questions
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Tue, 31 Oct 2006 06:20:17 -0800
  ...work? > > 3) I'm assuming I drill holes into both battery boxes from below and feed the wires underneath the van. Is there a...
• Re: Another Hitch Question
  Historical mailing list - Zeitgeist
  Sat, 22 Jun 2013 12:43:28 -0700
  ...Those boxes can be found on the interwebs at hitch supply sites Sent from my iPhone On Jun 22, 2013, at 11:40 AM...
• Re: Sterilite - was US Plastic was
  Historical mailing list - Rob
  Thu, 9 Aug 2012 10:05:16 -0700
  ...Sterilite breaks really easy & I've broken enough Sterilite boxes to know (in the warehouse). I buy the Rubbermaid (or that type) myself, I...
• Re: end of camping season????
  Historical mailing list - Jack
  Mon, 20 Sep 2004 19:16:07 -0800
  ...Some of these plastic storage boxes are > modular (for better storage) and that might be better for storage, but with > less rigidity. malcolm
• Re: a speaker recommendation
  Historical mailing list - Monsieur Lafaire aka obeechi
  Mon, 2 Jun 2008 11:23:28 -0700
  ...So maybe I'll have to put the bass in the hatch inside movable boxes... or maybe mount them in boxes installed just to...
• Needed Parts..
  Historical mailing list - Michael Puma
  Tue, 18 Jul 1995 12:03:24 -0400
  ...I also may need to find some used heater boxes. If anyone in the DC area has these parts, please let me know! I...
• heating
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 3 Sep 1994 09:35:22 +0100
  ...I just had the insulated pipe from the heater boxes that runs under the camper rust off. What do I do? I was so...
• Re: vanagon Stock carpet kits?
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 23 Sep 2005 22:02:37 EDT
  ...I'm talking all the carpet that wraps > around the seat boxes, etc. Am I dreaming? > > Jeff / 87 Syncro Westy > i have a bunch...
• Re: Possible funky smell solution.
  Historical mailing list - Nathaniel Poole
  Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:53:28 -0700
  That must be frustrating given what they want for these boxes. I hope your solution works for you, although engine cleaner stinks to hi...
• More about Brazilian buses
  Historical mailing list
  6 Sep 94 13:23
  ...It has the chassis of a split and the running gear also (reduction boxes etc..). I've got a photo which I'm gonna...
• Re: new driveshafts for raised vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Phil Zimmerman
  Fri, 1 Apr 2011 11:32:34 -0700
  ...KurbelgelenkwelleCleanKlein.jpg --------------- Wow, what an improvement over the ol' gear-reduction boxes on the early Busses. I dog-leg VC-Jointaxle� So simple! Donno...
• ECU location on 86 Westy
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 13 Apr 1996 09:34:07 +0000
  ...and what it looks like? I opened a couple of black boxes connected to wire harnesses, but all I found was two relays in...
• Re: cams and lifters and more power wasRe: lifters for new engine?
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Sun, 23 Mar 2003 20:50:40 -0600
  One of my employees has recently drilled out the baffles on the 72 bus muffler he installed in his 81 vanagon heater boxes. he...
• vanagon engine $100
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 2 Dec 2008 10:00:03 EST
  ...and heater boxes. $100 takes it. local pickup only in southeast pa. pmail me off list if interested also have the manual tranny from...
• Re: Ordering Parts Online
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:15:13 -0400
  ...They typically ship to us in large compartmentalized boxes kind of like egg cartons with a part in each cubby. The product is the...
• Re: in bear country - food in the van or not?
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Fri, 3 Aug 2007 20:53:09 -0700
  ...J was staying in a cabin, and had just unloaded > > the van into the bear boxes, and a bear came by, stood up and...
• FF/Re: A NAME FOR VANAGON FANATICS!
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 13 Oct 1995 10:32:32 -0500
  ...especially since all the buses are shaped like >boxes. and the first three generations had a "boxer" engine (flat, >horizontally-opposed cylinders ... even Bill...
• Re: Mice
  Historical mailing list - Maher, Steve (SD-MS)
  Thu, 14 Sep 1995 12:11:00 -0700 (PDT)
  ...system? Even if they get stuck, they'd >smell no worse than the diesel :-) :-) Try my popcorn-in-the-heater-boxes trick (see "Manifold...
• got my turn signal lens finally. (from bus depot)
  Historical mailing list - John Dagastino
  Sat, 20 Jan 2001 10:50:26 -0800
  was in two boxes.,...very well packaged. onlly thing is, now that i have the new one installed.,...i can plainly see how old...
• VW Junk mail ................ Do you want it?
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Wed, 9 Jul 2003 11:27:45 -0700
  ...I'm on 4 VW list and everybody is going to blackball you if you continue to load out boxes with your trash. If...
• Ron out thru Sun.
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Wed, 21 Jul 2004 19:12:25 -0400
  ...We're up and running again now, so we'll be shipping a ton of boxes tomorrow. (Even while the system was down we...
• Motor swap info..
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sun, 26 Feb 2017 06:28:03 -0800
  ...I'm familiar with my VW inline and have most of an ABA, not needed, in boxes, leftover from the hybrid inline I have...
• Re: Heater boxes, overalls, gasoline politics
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 14 Nov 1995 23:28:42 -0600
  > > Oh, and speaking of political gasoline buying, my current >vendor (Shell) is one of the largest producers in Nigeria... which >just hanged a group...
• Re: Tire Thread
  Historical mailing list - Chris Stann
  Mon, 18 Feb 2002 16:40:27 -0600
  ...Just do a search on 185 0 14 sizes and check all the boxes under "light truck tires" and leave rest blank. http://www...
• New Vanagon parts deal...
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:12:47 -0400
  ...I purchase several boxes of "left overs" as it was described to me. I'm going to sell off what I can not use...
• Re: R12 to R134a Air Conditioning Conversion
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Wed, 16 Jun 2004 14:26:28 -0500
  On Jun 16, 2004, at 11:35 AM, Mike Miller wrote: > > Since the AC is marginal for our big boxes with R 12, it...
• Re: Plastic welder?
  Historical mailing list - Aaron Pearson
  Tue, 8 Feb 2005 08:35:33 -0700
  ...i used to work for a whitewater rafting comapny, and we used one to make custom boxes and containers to fit in the boats...
• Re: Eurospec Rectangular headlights
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:41:43 -0400
  ...FWIW, I still have the original boxes from my last set, so I was able to verify the part numbers. On Aug 28, 2006...