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• Michelin Road Trip safety box giveway,
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Wed, 27 Jul 2016 17:12:16 -0500
  ...As a promotional, by mailing in my receipt, they sent me a snall case contain jumper cables,, a multiway flash light/blinker light, some...
• Exploding battery
  Historical mailing list - Zoltan
  Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:47:06 -0700
  ...Must have had one of the cables sparking. It made a mess and blew off that breathing cover behind the wheel on the outside...
• Battery Disconnect
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Tue, 15 May 2001 11:50:49 -0400
  ...The "second" battery is actually the one I want to save for starting purposes since it has the heavier cables going directly to the...
• Re: speedometer probs
  Historical mailing list - Dana Morphew
  Thu, 20 Dec 2001 08:58:01 -0800
  ...had known that before I wouldn't have wasted my time checking > to see if the cables were damaged). > Thanks for any suggestions, Tony > ----------
• Re: Ventilation Controls
  Historical mailing list - Richard A. Jones
  Tue, 29 Jan 2002 16:52:04 -0700
  ...the location were fixed, limiting what they could do with the cables, etc. So we end up with levers that are "open" to the...
• Re: How To Make New Battery To Starter Cable for 2.1 Vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - Tom Messick
  Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:58:43 -0800
  ...The one near me has a bench mounted one that makes cables that look like the pre-made ones. Soldering can make the cable...
• Re: Looking for correct name or terminology f or a push-pull
  Historical mailing list - Channing Davis
  Mon, 2 Dec 2013 21:36:15 -0500
  The same type cables are used in light and medium duty aircraft. A wire encased by a spiraling wire that serves as the sheath...
• Re: Front heat always!
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Wed, 14 May 2008 10:38:12 -0700
  ...VW Fox grade heater control levers and cables - right up to 1991. Oh, if only that cable got a shot of we-40 or...
• Re: Such a splendid waste of time
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:36:52 -0500
  ...that opens and shuts >with the second lever along with the cables to the flaps in back. > >In true DPO fashion. > >So it's...
• Re: Headlight rewiring - BOSCH Connector P/N
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Wed, 7 Aug 2002 15:45:16 EDT
  ...I wonder where I can get the rubber tubing that the cables are typically incased in. Just trying to ensure that >my< wiring lasts...
• Re: [WetWesties] Really Dumb Question About Aux Batteries RESTATED
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sat, 11 Jun 2011 14:18:26 -0400
  ...out of brass on the lathe and soldered them onto the ends of a couple short battery cables I had lying around. Yrs, d
• Re: (Symptoms) No Start, Hesitate at Start
  Historical mailing list - Pensioner
  Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:44:02 -0800
  Periodically one should change the air in the tires, kick the mice out of the cabinets, disconnect and re-connect all important cables/wires...
• Re: [Syncro] e-brake plastic guides? dealer only?
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Wed, 6 Oct 2004 09:52:00 -0600
  ...guides that transition the cable from the "T" junciton >> into the cables that snake their way to the brake >> drums. The guides are wearing...
• Re: Sticky vent controls?
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Fri, 20 Aug 2021 10:09:00 -0700
  You can see the cables to a degree… But taking off the instrument cluster and getting at ( at least the left side) it that...
• Re: Help: 89 Westy w/Noisy Speedometer
  Historical mailing list - Dan Beatty
  Sun, 19 Nov 1995 10:15:11 -0600 (CST)
  ...There appears to be a replacement cable available that will eliminate the "counter" and both cables. It's about $45 and we are tempted...
• Re: Floor Duct
  Historical mailing list - Neil Crawford
  Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:50:05 -0700
  ...The fancy-shmancy soft fin tubes wouldn't transfer to the undamaged cabes without lubricant, two cables were damaged (one being the primary reason...
• Re: tire chains / cables on snows?
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:57:49 -0500
  ...Winning combination > >my .02 > >Chris > >On 8/30/07, Jonathan Poole <jfpoolio@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I keep cables in my van at all times...
• Re: Friday Fishwrap: Catch FISH w/ your Vanagon's BATTERY
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Fri, 31 Jan 2003 10:26:06 -0600
  ...Get your jumper cables. Take out your battery (aux. > battery > > preferred in Westies). Or just connect jumper cables if you can > get close > > enough...
• Re: Parking brake adjustment, '82
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 5 May 2008 13:57:17 -0400
  Most likely the cables are binding or rusted into the jacket. Look at the jacket carefully. If there is any distortion or rust through...
• Re: Web Site
  Historical mailing list - Nomadix
  Sat, 23 Aug 2014 11:45:44 -0700
  ...http://vanagonwestfaliaaccessories.com You have to scroll down for ac unit and jumper cables. On Aug 22, 2014, at 7:00 PM, John Rodgers...
• Re: CV Boots, accel & clutch cables
  Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
  Mon, 9 Jan 1995 13:02:25 -0800 (PST)
  >> Eastwood company has a Speedometer cable lubricator ... a little gizmo that >> fits on the end of a cable and allows a grease gun to...
• Re: Throttle Cable Weather Cover Replacement Part?
  Historical mailing list - Anthony L. Mourkas
  Wed, 3 May 2000 21:53:30 -0400
  ...They look very similar to those used to protect the cables on mountain bike "V" brakes. Happy hunting...... Tony Anthony L. Mourkas Hampden, Maine...
• Re: '85 Starter Upgrade Questions
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 22 Jun 2000 12:47:17 EDT
  Just FYI, I have these bigger battery cables (the long one that goes to the starter) new for $75. This cable is an OE...
• Re: vanagon Digest - 5 Aug 2003 - Special issue (#2003-795)
  Historical mailing list - don spence
  Wed, 6 Aug 2003 10:19:55 -0600
  ...say you have a "normally functioning handbrake with free moving parts (cables, shoes etc). The handbrake is marginal at best on most vehicles and...
• Re: battery cables
  Historical mailing list - Jack
  Sat, 28 Aug 2004 19:33:52 -0800
  ...battery cables To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Looked at all the usual online spots, I am looking for a positive battery > cable for an...
• Re: ventilation controls
  Historical mailing list - Pete O
  Tue, 10 May 2016 16:01:37 -0400
  ...ddbjorkman@verizon.net> wrote: > Hi All; > How does one adjust the cables to the 4 lever ventilation system? I'm > getting some blow by...
• Re: Heater Cables
  Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
  Thu, 1 Sep 94 9:49:53 PDT
  L.S.Griffiths@physics.salford.ac.uk writes: > > o Slide yourself under the bus keeping yourself lined up with > the long axis of the...
• Re: '85 Westy Cranks Slow During Wet Weather
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 9 Apr 2001 12:03:32 EDT
  ...I have new ground straps for the transmission - $6 each and new positive battery cables (seriously heavy duty) for $70 each. You could also...
• battery cables
  Historical mailing list - The Shaws
  Sat, 28 Aug 2004 18:57:17 -0700
  Looked at all the usual online spots, I am looking for a positive battery cable for an 87 doka 2wd. Would they be the...
• vent noise intrusion...
  Historical mailing list - robert feller
  Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:53:47 -0500
  ...Is there some missing foam, cables not closing 100% or bent door in there? I may have the dash out this summer during a...
• Re: SA T3 Ventilation System
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Sat, 3 May 2008 00:10:47 -0400
  As BenT notes, some round knob controls still make use of cables. That's the case on my 93 Corrado, for instance. Of course...
• Re: Sticky vent controls?
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Palmer
  Fri, 20 Aug 2021 10:54:49 -0500
  ...Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> If you take the heater box out you must take the cables loose and that >> means readjust them...
• Re: Clutch Cable
  Historical mailing list - Phil Marston
  Fri, 17 Mar 2000 07:48:52 -0000
  ...buses up to 1979 (the old "breadloaf" body style) used clutch > cables. They switched to hydraulics in vanagons. I *think* all > vanagons starting in...
• Re: Parking brake adjustment, '82
  Historical mailing list - Doug Fitz-Randolph
  Wed, 7 May 2008 11:54:02 -0400
  ...I still think you have bad cables. I did try to do what you said first - that is, I adjusted the cable with the...
• Re: A Current Question of humor
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:15:28 -0800
  ...rear bunk/seat and dig out the jumper cables from the back) with the jumper cables in place between the house and starter battery...
• Re: The rear speaker ground.
  Historical mailing list - Bruce Grove
  Wed, 15 Aug 2001 19:41:53 -0700
  ...cables are actually small tubes carrying electrical smoke, you can tell this because if you try and throw too much electricity down the cables...
• Re: Speedo cable interchange
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Mon, 30 Apr 2001 21:51:23 -0500
  ...Both have cables that screw on to the black box. 3. But the 82 has five connectors and the 83 has the three connectors...
• Re: Clean those ground connections!
  Historical mailing list - Evan Mac Donald
  Mon, 9 Apr 2007 19:07:02 -0700
  ...Tied left head to engine block, right head to engine block, and then one of these HEAVY cables from engine block to sheet metal...
• Re: Sticky vent controls?
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Fri, 20 Aug 2021 12:07:21 -0500
  ...You can even remove two large Phillips screws securing the slide bracket and work with it loose, retained only by the cables. If you...
• Re: Emergency break adjustment
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott )
  Sun, 23 Aug 2015 19:07:40 -1000
  ...If you don't check free movement of the cables, they can be seized , stuck or binding .. and it may ''feel' like your parking...
• Re: Important maintenance item for those with automatic transmissions
  Historical mailing list - Sean Garrett
  Tue, 11 Jun 2019 11:54:19 -0700
  I have had 2 cables break on me far from home. Easy to repair with common hardware store parts for temporary travel. It is...
• FS: VAG-COM Software - Tiico Owners
  Historical mailing list - cz1137
  Wed, 29 May 2002 12:49:50 -0600
  ...the Tiico so I don't need this software, or the cables. So it's for sale. Best offer over $50. Please P-Mail...
• Re: Cool spot for Bentley Book
  Historical mailing list - Steve Delanty
  Wed, 9 Jul 2003 16:26:51 -0700
  ...I stuff my jumper cables under there. They're pretty heavy duty, but if I roll them up nice and tidy they just fit...
• Re: another speedometer cable question
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:48:52 -0400
  ...On my '85 (two cables with the 02 mileage counter box), if I remove the speedometer cable from the speedometer itself, it will sometimes...
• slack in e-brake cable?
  Historical mailing list - Ryan Alfonso
  Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:18:29 -0800
  ...I'm wondering if anyone else has observed "total slack" on the left/right cables, the junction bracket, and the rod running to the...
• Looking for correct name or terminology f or a push-pull
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 2 Dec 2013 19:05:35 +0000
  ...You know the heater and vent cables?� They are flexible sheathed rods that can both push and pull.� By contrast a sheathed cable like...
• Re: Ignition Cables, unplugging from distributor
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:34:12 -0700
  ...So I thought to unplug the cables, one by > one, to see if I could find the missing cylinder. > > I wanted to unplug them...
• Re: Brakes Stuck.
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:24:13 -0800
  Hi, Assuming your problem is about a stuck parking brake, and not something hydraulic, two things come immediately to mind - draggy rusted cables that...
• Re: Solenoid-operated manual shifter?
  Historical mailing list - Steve Delanty
  Thu, 11 Dec 2003 07:46:45 -0800
  ...The Toyota uses cables, >I think (must look at my Hiace!) and would be relatively easy to >adapt. If it's NOT cable-operated...
• am I troubleshooting my starter correctly?
  Historical mailing list - Doug Demarest
  Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:46:27 -0700
  ...I took jumper cables connected them to my battery and touched them one to each of the large bolts coming out of the solenoid...
• Re: vanagon Digest - 12 Feb 2007 - Special issue (#2007-192)
  Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
  Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:52:02 -0800
  ...Fulton's speaker cables begat Noel Lee's Monster Cable. -- Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow...
• Re: Clean those ground connections!
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Lewis
  Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:46:10 -0400
  Jake, You can see one of the cables here: http://neksiwel.20m.com/cgi-bin/i/images/p9110067.jpg It is in the middle...
• Re: Surepower 1315 Wiring
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:56:06 -0800
  ...Needed the jumper cables then to get started again and run to my destination on the aux battery.
• Re: Shift rod bushings and ball for 85
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Sun, 30 Nov 2014 14:23:23 -0700
  ...com/ec_view_details.php?id=20699 http://www.busdepot.com/cables-pedal-lever-components/shift-linkage-parts/shift-linkage-parts?p=1 Probably...
• Re: Vanagon speedo marked '1000'?
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Tue, 17 Jul 2012 08:12:59 -0400
  Could you review for some of us, what these numbers are supposed to mean? Don't all vanagon speedometer cables connect to the cap...
• Re: Power Window Trouble
  Historical mailing list - Angus Gordon
  Sun, 16 Dec 2001 21:44:51 -0500
  I guess I should add to my previous post the disclaimer that it may not be worth it to you to change the cables...
• Re: HEAT glorious heat!!!
  Historical mailing list - Jim Morgan
  Fri, 15 Feb 2002 16:53:29 EST
  ...The secret is to keep the cables adjusted properly All seals and gaskets in place, and proper tune up.The Heat is all part...
• Re: A New Look In Jumper Batteries
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Tue, 9 Dec 2014 13:44:32 -0700
  Try it on a Car to see what happens ~ Disconnect 1 of the Bat'Cables & see what it will do without the Battery in...
• Re: install heater core in AC housing.
  Historical mailing list - Daniel Stevens
  Wed, 7 Mar 2007 16:39:27 -0500
  ...I had some difficulty in the cables. just gettiing them set up and in place with the small jumble of cables I had as...
• Re: battery cables
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 2 Aug 1998 00:10:24 -0400
  ...battery cables I'm still trying to figure out which wire comes directly from the alternator to the battery. I disconnected the smallish red...