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  • Broken stud
    Historical mailing list - HotelWestfalia
    Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:41:26 -0800
    ...This one has four inch of stem left and it's in the corner with the least space. My question is; what are all...
  • Re: VW selling New Old Microbus
    Historical mailing list - george jannini
    Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:34:47 -0500
    ...Ended up at John's Car Corner in Westminster, legal with VT dealer's tags. From there- who knows?? George/ATL
  • Re: New Westy owner with a few questions
    Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
    Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:33:27 -0700
    ...scissors jack originally of course .. > they come with a quite good veridical screw jack that plugs into the > jacking ports in the four corners.
  • brake calipers, Bus Depot
    Historical mailing list
    Wed, 4 Oct 2000 18:39:32 EDT
    ...Original has it near the middle of the caliper block, the new one's is on the upper forward corner. Which is "normal?" Thnx...
  • Re: More Van Rollover news
    Historical mailing list - Terry Kay
    Mon, 9 Apr 2001 23:36:10 -0500
    ...Hit any corner hard while loaded to the max, contributes one hell of a shaky situation. And this will happen with any high center...
  • Re: Travel from Oregon to Austin
    Historical mailing list - Bill Marshall
    Tue, 7 May 2002 20:07:45 EDT
    ...Then shoot over to Utah and enjoy the scenery, then the corner of Colorado, then Albuquerque & the mountains of NM. then nasty ol' texas...
  • Re: simple-minded like me?
    Historical mailing list - paul cooper
    Sun, 1 Feb 2004 08:27:59 -0000
    That is soo funny .....................................typical Jap crap ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Haydon" <DanHaydon@CORNERSTONESOFTWARE.COM> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Friday, January 30...
  • Re: Instrument Cluster Woes
    Historical mailing list - Tim Demarest
    Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:31:43 -0500
    ...like the guy who lost his watch halfway down the street but >was looking for it at the corner because the light was better...
  • Re: Coolant Leak - 2.1L WBX
    Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
    Thu, 3 Sep 2015 20:26:33 -0500
    ...The cooler is mounted to the engine with one corner down, so > > naturally the coolant would drip from that corner. The cooler has been...
  • Re: Ultimate Camping List; Bears
    Historical mailing list - Ron Tipton
    Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:40:26 -0400
    ...i stepped into the corner just as mr. bear, chasing the dog, came into the same corner coming the other way. now i don...
  • Re: Thanks and Radio Antennae Question (82 van)
    Historical mailing list - John Lauterbach
    Thu, 13 Apr 2000 21:21:23 -0400
    ...Stock antenna mounted on front of van just below lower right hand corner of windshield. I had dealer install second antenna for my railroad...
  • non-stock relay turnsignal problem... (longer than it should be)
    Historical mailing list - Damon Campbell
    Wed, 9 Oct 2002 00:56:03 -0700
    ...Disconnected stock corner lamp parking light to achieve the more positive on-off blinkie turn signal. Decided i wanted corner parking light back, while...
  • Re: Addco anti-sway bars: Best Price is PST G-Max (renamed Addco...)
    Historical mailing list - P. Stanhope
    Tue, 25 May 2004 20:21:49 -0700
    ...BETTER than the > >bushings available in the upgrade kit. > > > > > > > >If you add the heavier front you need the rear to > balance out the cornering...
  • Re: Tires.. Again..Insurance reasons...
    Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
    Sun, 21 Jun 2015 14:34:46 +0000
    ...was going too fast!...See, he just couldn't make the corner, he went straight off......"  like that.  If the the vehicle was sold...
  • Wal-Mart Griup 41 Battery
    Historical mailing list - David Kao
    Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:25:46 -0800
    ...It is very tight from top to bottom and corner to corner. But it fits. I have to put some insulation material around the...
  • Out of storage!
    Historical mailing list - Jeff Palmer
    Sun, 5 May 2013 01:42:16 -0500
    ...One corner is catching on the roof. Is my top sinking or bed rising?? Thanks Jeff 85 Westfalia GL Winnipeg
  • Re: Three Items
    Historical mailing list
    Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:49:10 EST
    ...The vent on the passenger's door, the black one in the lower corner with the blue slider is grim. I'd like to...
  • Re: Lighter tyres for lighter steering?
    Historical mailing list
    Wed, 26 Feb 1997 14:25:29 +0200
    ...I could not do hair spin corners with one arm and Michelin, but with the light truck I can. Helmut '80 Camper
  • Westfalia AC duct parts, and front table needed
    Historical mailing list - Karl Mullendore
    Thu, 25 Feb 1999 21:57:41 -0500
    ...Also, I need the 90 degree 'L' shaped piece in the corner, and the intake grille/board on the backside of the AC unit...
  • Lowering a Vanagon
    Historical mailing list - Gregory Baskin
    Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:27:15 -0400
    So what am I missing here? Why would I want to lower my van? To improve cornering? If that's the goal, seems like...
  • Re: CB radio PA speakers
    Historical mailing list - Myc E.
    Thu, 17 Apr 2003 11:05:35 EDT
    ...the external speaker is in the drivers side corner and the cb hangs from the ceiling (with a little extra support for that ol...
  • Re: Curtain Behind Front Seats - How?
    Historical mailing list - LOREN BUSCH
    Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:14:40 -0700
    ...Use the snaps that normally go on the upper corners of the front window area. Snap them to the snaps behind the doors, let...
  • Re: Right front corner - owie!
    Historical mailing list - Joy Hecht
    Wed, 8 Jun 2005 00:14:03 -0400
    Hi Karl, I'm sorry the idiot decided to run into your van (what's that van's name and gender, anyway?). But real...
  • Re: Wal MArt camping in a Vanagon
    Historical mailing list - miguel pacheco
    Tue, 20 May 2008 05:29:51 -0600
    ...is listed as no camping, but this parking lot's NE corner is ususally inhabited by at least half a dozen RVs. I will...
  • Re: Rainwater leak drivers side floor
    Historical mailing list - Erin Daniels
    Sat, 4 Jan 2020 14:06:11 -0800
    ...if that then the leak is >> probably at windshield lower corner. >> I had this problem due to a bad windshield replacement job (with new...
  • Re: Convex mirror dot placement
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:07:26 -0400
    ...I used ~3" square mirrors with one corner rounded off, placed in the lower outer corner of the mirror. That left a skinny slice...
  • Re: Power window regulator broke: floating black part, maybe cable guide.
    Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
    Thu, 6 May 2010 06:08:42 EDT
    ...That corner guide piece and its sister or brother at the other corner are held to the track with plastic rivets. I "presume" plastic...
  • Installed my Air Lift kit
    Historical mailing list - Gary Stearns
    Mon, 19 Feb 2001 12:10:47 -0500
    ...Cornering is flat, the front end turns in much better as you can feel the rear carrying more of the cornering load. Cool. For...
  • Re: ?How to remove air deflector / heater cover in a '90 Carat
    Historical mailing list - Tim Hannink
    Mon, 5 Aug 2002 10:04:19 -0400
    > It just slides off, but sometimes the upper corners hang up on the bottom of > the dashboard. Pull down on the upper corner while...
  • Re: camping accessories
    Historical mailing list - mad madeline
    Thu, 5 Oct 2006 20:19:38 -0700
    ...the table that is mounted on the corner behind the driver's seat, over to the corner at the battery box. We have made...
  • Re: Enforcers (friday)
    Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
    Fri, 9 Nov 2012 15:52:20 -0800
    ...Traffic Control at Corners Your China experience reminds me of the story told about the first days of the automobile. Among other stupid laws...
  • Quarterly Tent Pole Request :-)
    Historical mailing list - Dan Houg
    Thu, 11 Apr 1996 13:40:19 CST6CDT
    ...I am on a quest for the 4 corner 'Y' poles for the big orange, blue and white tent. If anyone has a trashed...
  • VW's for sale in MD.
    Historical mailing list
    Thu, 04 Jul 1996 08:00:59 -0500 (EST)
    ...2 vans are at a used car lot, right around the corner from here. I could take a look at them, or call them...
  • Re: Road America Get-together
    Historical mailing list - Bill Marshall
    Wed, 29 May 2002 10:33:07 EDT
    ...What should it be called? I have no ideas at all!> My ideas: -Coolant-leak Corner -The Oil Spot -Air-Cooled Area -The Vanagon...
  • Re: How do you remove the &*$%# Rear Heater Cover...remove seat???
    Historical mailing list - Fredrich Hesterberg
    Sat, 20 Jul 2002 19:27:34 -0500
    ...Please take a hacksaw blade and cut the bottom lip of the plastic cover for the heater, in the bottom corners. Then take the...
  • Re: Cracked Slider Hub Pictures
    Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
    Wed, 16 Nov 2005 12:02:34 -0800
    ...What idiot put a square corner on a opening in a piece subject to lateral stress? Can you spell 'Comet Jet'? On 11/16...
  • Re: child seat modification
    Historical mailing list - Susan Powell
    Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:21:54 -0500
    ...I welded a small tab on the back corner frame close to the hatch to hook the harness strap. It unhooks easily when adults...
  • Initial impressions of Betts springs/OME shocks
    Historical mailing list - Karl Mullendore
    Wed, 6 Dec 2000 18:09:54 -0500
    ...It seems to corner more precisely, more direct. Of course, I haven't touched the alignment yet. Initial height specs, measured from the center...
  • Re: just finished installing my shadyboy awning
    Historical mailing list - Tom Miller
    Tue, 7 Jun 2005 21:37:23 -0700
    ...just finished installing my shadyboy awning >> I use the ropes that attach the outer corners of the awning to the >> bumpers >> and have had...
  • Windshield sun shade
    Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Vickers
    Sun, 17 May 2015 21:23:31 -0700
    ...bit of extra material around the edges to fill in the corners. Black on one side, silver on the other. Comes with storage bag...
  • Re: bumper build - weld up done
    Historical mailing list
    Thu, 1 Aug 2013 23:27:20 -0400
    ...But the welds will be ground down a bit to make either a rounded or beveled corner. > > http://shufti.wordpress.com/2013/08/01...
  • Oops re: Preventive maintenance
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:10:24 -0400
    ...to have to suck it up and live with it. <dons dunce cap and sits in corner muttering "but it still moves..."> Yours, David
  • Re: A question of Smell
    Historical mailing list - sstones
    Mon, 27 Feb 1995 14:54:43 -0500 (EST)
    On Mon, 27 Feb 1995, Matt Bushore wrote: > > During spirited cornering, I can smell gas comig through my > heater vents. I am quite certain...
  • How can the radio be removed?
    Historical mailing list - David E Most
    Tue, 20 Aug 1996 16:05:21 -0400
    ...It has the 4 little holes, one at each corner, on the face plate. I don't have a manual for the radio, and...
  • Different tire sizes, 87 Vanagon
    Historical mailing list - Jack Ck
    Thu, 25 Sep 1997 23:15:05 -0700
    ...I have 215/60 14" at all 4 corners now, I am thinking of putting 215/70 14" sport utility tires at the back...
  • Re: '84 Vanagon front door rain leaks
    Historical mailing list - J. Andersen
    Mon, 20 Apr 1998 18:11:06 -0700
    My 81 does the same thing in the right bottom corner of my front windshield, to the extent that when I open the passenger...
  • Re: shocks
    Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
    Fri, 24 Mar 2000 03:21:02 +0100
    ...My friend did this in a Ford, it did corners like a racing car. Oh, as for shocks, I am pleased with Monroe units...
  • Re: propane regulator
    Historical mailing list - Richard A. Jones
    Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:55:54 -0600
    ...They said the square design fails where the round one doesn't because of the corner stress on the rubber diaphrams. Richard A.. Jones...
  • Instrument cluster lenses
    Historical mailing list - BajaLeo
    Wed, 13 Mar 2002 21:29:31 -0800
    ...You can't get up to the very top corner easily. Thanks, Leo _____________________ Leo Lipert San Juan Capistrano, CA '84 Wolfsburg Westy '00 Golf
  • Any Vanagon/Westy owners near Carlsbad, CA?
    Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
    Fri, 10 Sep 2004 18:33:00 -0700
    ...But how how about down here in the lower left-hand corner of the 48 contiguous states? -- Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott 71 VW...
  • Re: early experience of the garage
    Historical mailing list - Joy Hecht
    Sat, 17 Feb 2007 08:42:39 -0500
    No no, that's me! I corner the market on stupid questions. Or at least on the share of my questions that display utter...
  • Re: Rear hatch leaking water into my Westy?
    Historical mailing list
    Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:51:23 EST
    ...and thirdly remove those little plastic plugs in the bottom corners of your hatch.. chris ************** Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay...
  • Re: vanagon front seat ideas? what other seats fit? what have some of you
    Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
    Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:22:56 +1200
    ...But no real side support for cornering. This can kill. > With a drill and some bolts and washers, you can make just about >any...
  • Re: Tire pressures..why
    Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
    Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:58:59 -0600
    ...Then, when "Joe-average driver" goes into a corner = too fast to have a hope of making it....The front end understeers and the...
  • Re: Regreasing my CV's. Flip driveshafts on reinstall good idea?
    Historical mailing list - dylan friedman
    Sun, 16 Aug 2009 07:32:22 -0700
    ...Yes they have 12 points but the angle of the corners is different from normal 12 point bits. The XZN has sharper corners to...
  • Re: This is getting depressing
    Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
    Sun, 9 Mar 2003 18:06:35 -0500
    ...On VW boxer engines the problem is especially acute because if you corner hard enough, you can send the oil clear out of the...
  • Re: Pop-Top Not Closing all the way
    Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
    Sun, 6 Jun 2004 21:00:20 -0400
    ...It is like > that corner of the pop-top isn't coming down all the way, and I can > actually push it down all...
  • Re: Part number help
    Historical mailing list - Jim Thompson
    Tue, 10 Aug 2004 09:29:24 -0700
    ...255941133 Adjustment piece (located on Top/Inner Corner) 255941141 C Adjusting Screw (located on Top/Outer Corner) *Note: For Horizontal Adjustment 191941297 Adjusting Screw...
  • Rust Warning / vanagons
    Historical mailing list
    Sun, 12 Nov 1995 16:57:06 -0400
    ...Check way up in the corners of the front wheel wells for cracks/rust, behind the gas filler on 2WD, that's where my...
  • Re: Are pop-up tops really necessary??
    Historical mailing list - bueses
    Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:18:39 -0700
    ...It mounts to the >>> driver's side front seat box corner, not the side wall. It pivots around >>> on it's curved leg. I...