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• Re: Where to start?
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Wed, 24 May 2006 22:43:51 -0700
  Who gets to break it to Mindy that her Splitties aren't Vanagons? Somebody's gotta tell her. Karl Wolz > -----Original Message----- > From: Vanagon...
• Re: Triple Electrode Spark Plug Available For 1.9L Motor
  Historical mailing list - Aristotle Sagan
  Wed, 27 Feb 2002 13:33:25 -0800
  > >What I was told by a tech rep for SplitFire plugs: > >The spark develops at all "sharp" edges of the electrode, therefore if you...
• Re: Splitty question
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Wed, 12 Oct 2016 16:38:01 -0400
  ...Are there some clear connections between the splitty and the vanagon? > > I have a bracket I was told was to hold the battery and...
• Help me split the case!!! (amended)
  Historical mailing list - Tom Young
  Fri, 21 Aug 1998 19:55:46 -0700
  ...or may not end up rebuilding, and it's time to split the case. Tom Wilson's book "How to Rebuild Your Volkswagen Air...
• Re: Traveller in distress (near Chicago) - UPDATE TWO
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:21:04 -0600
  Personally I will help a "camper" regardless if splittie, bay, vanagon, or euro. However I have found that the vast majority of the euro...
• Re: 91 Vanagon GL Top Speed?
  Historical mailing list - marty
  Fri, 29 Jun 2001 17:05:19 -0400
  I'll look into the splittie window, no ejection seat but I've filled the back with styrophome shipping peanuts and plan on "ejecting...
• Re: hidden bus
  Historical mailing list - Daniel Stevens
  Fri, 3 Feb 2006 10:54:47 -0500
  ...hidden Vanagon I used to have a '58 splittie (bus) and later a '64 splittie (bus) and now that I have two Vanagons the...
• Re: Alternative Fuels - Salt Water
  Historical mailing list - Mike S
  Sun, 2 Dec 2007 08:34:58 -0500
  ...He bombards saltwater with radio waves to cause it to split into hydrogen and oxygen. Interesting, but it will always take as much or...
• Looking for a brown window crank
  Historical mailing list - Spencer Allen
  Mon, 25 Apr 2016 12:21:57 -0500
  Anyone have a BROWN widow crank they can part with. Mine just split apart. pmail if you do. Thanks. Spencer 85 westy
• Re: slightly OT - MB L319 D camper
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Schwaia
  Wed, 27 Nov 2013 11:34:28 -0800
  The microbus version of the L319 is really cool (and pricy). Kind of like a VW splittie on steroids. Cheers, Jeff
• Engine rebuild
  Historical mailing list
  23 Aug 94 16:20
  Hi all, Has anyone rebuilt a flat four recently? I am about to split the crankcase and I was wondering what horror stories to...
• Re: Chasing the Unknowns Again (groan) ...
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 12 May 1995 16:16:54 GMT0BST
  I don't know if you have my details.... Richard Campbell Newcastle (U.K.) 1967 Split Screen - Canterbury Pitt Conversion Cheers Ricky
• Re: ? Splittie rust-repairable?
  Historical mailing list - UTORInfoCommons
  Thu, 27 Jun 1996 09:14:31 -0400
  IMHO any rust is repairable it is just a question of how much $$ you wanna spend and how much of a perfectionist you are
• Re: Herbie movie / Van/Bus sighting
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Mon, 1 Dec 1997 10:01:59 CST
  you mean NObody notice the blue/white 67 splittie in the TBS movie, "Huck and the King of Hearts" with Graham Greene??? :)
• Re: Help me split the case!!! <ditto>
  Historical mailing list - Tony Kimmons
  Thu, 20 Aug 1998 23:07:44 -0500
  I'm in the middle of this same operation on a 87GL. Would also appreciate any advice anyone can give. THANKS
• Re: what year?
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Sun, 12 May 2002 09:25:49 -0700
  Best Split? '68 (12v electrics) Best Bay? '79 (Hydraulic lifters, FI) Best Vanagon? '91 (Really cushy!) Always the last year of production. "Continuous Improvement...
• Re: Lighthearted Vanagon content - Boy or Girl?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Rountree
  Tue, 7 Jun 2005 22:06:32 +0000
  62 split window Kombi ... "The turtle" 74 lime green Westy... "The Loaf" 78 Champagne edition Westy "Darling" 87 Syncro Westy "Cynosure"
• Re: Looking for a part
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Mon, 23 Jul 2012 06:15:41 -0400
  ...It's just a common split pin. On 2012-07-23, at 12:00 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote: > Hi, > I=E2=80=99m...
• Re: Engine Assembly Wizzdom
  Historical mailing list - Mike
  Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:47:37 -0400
  ...The only time the case-split leaks is when some PO used a screwdriver to pry the case-halves apart. I've never had...
• List Split.
  Historical mailing list - Colin Moran
  Thu, 28 May 1998 11:19:16 -0700
  Hello!! I don't like the idea of another list split. The current list functions quite well. If you have trouble with too many...
• Hoo boy. The list doth split...
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 11 Jul 1996 00:13:03 -0500
  ...The split had to happen sooner or later because v@l is so popular that its very existence is threatened. It's happening now...
• Re: new head gasket split
  Historical mailing list - Daryl Christensen
  Mon, 26 Mar 2001 10:08:17 -0800
  Todd...I have had a couple gaskets split like that in my carreer (having replaced well over a hundred sets)...there is actually a...
• Re: The Ideal vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Sat, 18 Oct 2003 22:17:33 +1300
  ...GOOD ps gives no problems. > > -vertically-split tailgate option (as in current Toyota Hiace) > >Hmm...my opinion is that it's best to avoid...
• Re: EV Tires and Unique Splittie toy
  Historical mailing list - hal
  Sun, 17 Mar 96 18:20:22 EST
  ...I have come into possession of a very odd toy model of a Splittie; it's also a record player. It has a stylus...
• Re: '56 kombi - brakes (again)
  Historical mailing list - Mike White
  Wed, 12 Jul 1995 13:02:16 MST
  > What I find funny is that it seems like all split window busses have > problems with the brakes. :) I want to replace everything on...
• Antenna questions (Splittie w/Safaris)
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 3 Apr 1996 09:28:12 -0700
  The discussion regarding symbol anti theft stategies got me thinking about antennas in splitties... I am installing German Safaris in the '67 Westy Resto...
• Re: YIKE! Lost 3 qts oil in 30 sec, messy eng. compartment...
  Historical mailing list - Southard Family
  Tue, 5 Sep 2000 21:24:23 -0400
  ...Removing the > oil filter did not reveal any obvious splits in filter. Filter still > full of oil. Another possibility is the oil pressure sensor...
• Re: splittie - one of ten wrost(worst)
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Tue, 17 Apr 2001 16:08:09 +1200
  ...own way! and the van looks almost as classic as a >Splittie. Yes maybe, but there's classic Good looks and classic... Gimme a...
• Re: Bus windows
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Fri, 6 Jun 2008 22:28:27 -0700
  ...IIRC they had splitties well into 1979. I saw some Brazilian buses in Manila which looked oddly like a bay window bus but had...
• Still Friday Here...
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Fri, 26 Mar 2010 23:21:29 -0700
  Anyone else watch the 'Overhaulin' episode where they did a '65 21 Window Splittie and ended up with a restored (w/some change/upgrades...
• Re: Vanagon & GUNS
  Historical mailing list - John Andersen
  Sun, 28 May 2000 10:05:53 -0700
  Yeah we might take up personal habits and life styles and really split the list John Terry Kay wrote: > > Rich, > DON'T EVEN GO...
• Re: O2 Sensor Voltage, homemade voltmeter
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 3 Feb 2001 21:05:27 -0800
  Try "Plans" http://www.students.tut.fi/~eppu/dev/EGO-bar.html or commercial product: http://www.splitsec.com/products/arm1/arm1ds.htm
• RE; westy conversion (electric)
  Historical mailing list - Bob Mac
  Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:23:44 -0400
  Who had the site up of the electric splitty with the two surfboard solar panels on the roof. Now that's a conversion. Way...
• Hardees Splittie
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Olson
  Sat, 29 Sep 2007 18:08:41 -0600
  I saw this commercial for the first time today. Get rid of the sandwich and I had ten minutes of that... Jeffrey Olson Martin...
• WTB heater case clips
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Thu, 6 Mar 2008 16:58:43 -0600
  I need a set of the clips that fasten the two halves of the heater plenum after it has been split apart for repair...
• Re: New 23Window Horror Story...
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 15 Dec 1995 03:24:37 -0500
  ...A guy i know whos been doing vws for 20+ years has a split window bug (that's the back window), and he said...
• Re: Old splitty camper
  Historical mailing list - Jon Christensen
  Tue, 12 Mar 1996 16:10:12 -0600 (CST)
  On Tue, 12 Mar 1996, Jacob Shaun Dustin wrote: > This is for all you split window folks--I'm looking at an old > splittie...
• Re: Splittie Sells For $198K at Barrett Jackson Auction
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Fri, 1 Jul 2011 10:29:23 -0700
  That Split was 48 years old and perfectly redone. I'm sure that in 2135 a perfectly restored 1987 Westy will fetch that price...
• Re: VW Splitty used in Honda Commercial (no Vanagon)
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Sun, 9 Jan 2000 01:08:34 +0100
  ...SO! > > The Splitty was great. Of course it was. We VW bus owners, no matter if it is a 1951 Samba or a 2000...
• Re: trailer hitches and towing
  Historical mailing list - David Easterwood
  Thu, 23 Feb 1995 15:34:59 -0500
  ...I fabricated & welded together a piece that goes in the place of the front bumper on split window buses. Bolts right to the frame...
• vw parts and cars/vans/buses for sale
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 10 May 1999 15:33:06 EDT
  ...no trans) '75 Westfalia Parting out (complete poptop w/ excellent canvas, misc camper bits) '67 Split window Bus parting out '65 Beetle parting out...
• Re: Christmas updates?
  Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
  Wed, 27 Dec 2017 07:31:33 -0700
  ...Most of my > past items have been bus or splitty or some persons idea of a bus that is a > mix of a splitty...
• Re: Better than stickers /f
  Historical mailing list - M. Grant
  Wed, 7 Feb 1996 18:59:17 +0000 (GMT)
  ...Fournier II wrote: > I see...late model vanagon owners could have rectangular streamers, bay > window owners' streamers could be slightly curved, and splitty owners...
• Anyone near NorthCorona?
  Historical mailing list - Robert King
  Sat, 22 Jun 1996 10:26:51 -0700
  Is there anyone near North Corona who could take a look at a split microbus for me? It's somewhere north of San Diego...
• Re: splitting californians
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 15 Nov 1994 09:55:35 -0800
  I'm in Moraga, 45 minutes east of SF. /Martha Rubin nrubin@s1.csuhayward.edu '79 bug 'vert, '81 westy, previously owned: '78 rabbit...
• Re: peanut butter storage
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 7 Jul 1995 10:01:29 -0700
  Mix it with Dot-5, split some pitted prunes, stuff it with the mixture, and serve as a tasty appetizer at the next vanagon...
• tons of VW stuff for sale!!!!
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 26 Nov 1998 13:17:10 EST
  ...late bus gas tank -split bus under dash tray ('67 down bus) -1500cc bug engine cheap!! -bug rear apron, '67 down -bus seats, '79...
• Re:Uh Oh I'm in trouble.....
  Historical mailing list - Steve Johnson
  Wed, 4 Jan 95 16:35:52 PST
  ...the other is a split single cab!......both have been under > cover (carport anyway) and the 1600 is thrown in. The guy will be...
• Re: Friday Fwd: Stretched Splittie
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:21:06 -0700
  ...Stretched Splittie > > > > On 4/12/2013 12:21 PM, David Beierl wrote: > > > > https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/LEVUQEYLglthsxofighxD9MTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink > >> > Might be Photoshopped...
• FS 64 split winfow w/double door
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 2 Jan 1996 09:46:43 -0800 (PST)
  hello, I found a neighbors garage and a 64 split window inside. I was looking at it and talked to the guy. He says...
• Splittie VW Emblem Anti-Theft Device
  Historical mailing list - Jon Christensen
  Wed, 3 Apr 1996 09:02:40 -0600 (CST)
  ...I've always liked the way it accented the split in the windshield. 8-) Jon Christensen '56,'71 Ghias; '56,'67 Bugs; '60 & '61...
• Re: Which is more likely?
  Historical mailing list - Allan Streib
  Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:20:24 -0400
  ...Maybe they did not change bearings at all and I > could change at least the conrod bearings without splitting the case. > This is a...
• Re: NVC Splittie coming my way: what to do?
  Historical mailing list - John Jensen
  Fri, 21 Oct 2011 07:04:49 -0400
  ...I guess a splitty could be nice yard sculpture...in some neighborhoods. But then, a Vespa was once exhibited in the Guggenheim museum in...
• Re: Blue Vangon Westy sighting... Tour de France
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Vickers
  Mon, 11 Jul 2011 09:43:57 -0700
  Spot the Vanagons at the Tour! I've seen a total of four so far plus a red Splittie (twice in two days) and...
• Re: List Split Announcement [IMPORTANT]
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 10 Jul 1996 10:56:44 -0700
  Ric wrote: "something about making optional the splitting of the list..." Hear, hear! I concede it's Gerry's right to do what he...
• Re: 85 spedo repair
  Historical mailing list
  02 Dec 96 08:58:40 PST
  ...Pushing in trip odo while moving results in breaking/splitting of odo drive gear. Apparently heat may do this too. Fix - Glue pieces together...
• Re: Seinfeld and Kramer in a Splittie Doka
  Historical mailing list - Rob
  Fri, 28 Sep 2012 21:37:25 -0700
  That was worthwhile, thanks. Rob At 9/28/2012 04:42 PM, Richard Koerner wrote: >http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/ > >Pretty cool... > >Rich >San Diego
• Re: Famous Splitty Owners
  Historical mailing list - Dan Houg
  Sun, 7 Apr 1996 09:16:53 CST6CDT
  My cousin owns the van bought new and driven by "Casey Jones" of WCCO fame in Mpls. he used to have a great kid...
• Re: Vanagons/Bays/Split For Sale
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 10 May 1996 02:41:53 -0400
  65 MICROBUS, orig rust free, California car, California title, 600cc motor, ..... ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ how'd they drive it all the way to connecticut? could it do...
• Sorry..
  Historical mailing list - Scoob
  Sun, 28 Sep 1997 18:11:15 -0400
  Sorry, was not aware that the list ahd split into aircooled and vanagon. Thanks for making me aware, and once again my appologies for...