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Re: Hot VW's artical
Historical mailing list - Ric Golen
Sun, 7 Sep 1997 07:08:23 -0400
I hate to "migrate" some of the comments from the VintagVW list about Hot VWs, and VW Trends over to this list, but what...
Re: heater blower runs intermittently
Historical mailing list - Hans V.
Wed, 8 Mar 2000 19:23:26 EST
...I PUT PRESSURE ON ONE OF THE TERMINALS SIDE TO SIDE AND IT WOULD GO ON AND OFF . IT SEEMS ONE OF THE TERMINALS...
Removal of Electrical Connector Covers
Historical mailing list - Jeff Rogers
Sun, 26 Jan 2014 10:05:38 -0500
I am in the process of checking/fixing/repairing the wiring harness of my Transporter. I am getting stymied by some of the covers...
Re: NVC - computer questions (ultrabooks, openoffice vs. MS Office, downloading emails)
Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:38:52 -0800
...Some individual programs or some suites like SoftMaker <http://www.softmakeroffice.com/> Haven't used any of them, still using an older version of...
Re: Midwest Busathon? + Knoxvillw VW's
Historical mailing list
Mon, 14 Nov 1994 16:15:54 -0600
I'm up for it, but I'm not sensing a groundswell of support. Perhaps as part of Da Trip?? The Place in Knoxville...
Heads out of spec. How much is too much...???
Historical mailing list
Tue, 07 Jan 1997 22:13:48 -0500
One of my 91 vanagon carats' heads is 2/1000ths of an inch warped out of spec. Since it is slightly out of spec...
Re: Online Machine shop resource?
Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
Tue, 4 Oct 2005 08:06:45 -0700
...Most of the time you are doing one-offs and prototypes, and believe me, very rarely do they turn out just how you imagined...
RE: '54 Deluxe Progress
Historical mailing list - Erik Thomsen
Mon, 8 Apr 1996 09:52:24 -0700
...Subject: '54 Deluxe Progress Spent most of the day sandblasting the "Bilge Bus" and cutting about 10 pounds of useless metal off. Interesting discovery...
Re: Vanagon vs Volvo Crash Photos
Historical mailing list - David-M
Fri, 20 Nov 1998 09:29:59 -0500
...from all types of > vehicles. They seem to want to do this by mandating the > removal of anything that would make one vehicle inherently...
Re: Tune up time - which plugs?
Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
Wed, 2 Aug 2000 11:03:06 EDT
...I put a set of BPP4's in and the temps dropped to 225 to 250 degrees. The main benifit of the quad tip...
Re: putting up with caravan owners(in north florida)
Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
Sat, 18 Nov 2000 19:29:18 -0800
That reminds me of a thread about such folks on one of the motorcycle lists that I'm on. It went as follows: ++++++++++++++++++++++++ > I...
Fwd: Observational Inspections
Historical mailing list - Doktor Tim
Thu, 30 Oct 2003 17:22:34 -0800
...It's a >rule of thumb approach to a rule of thumb optimum use standard which is >atypical of the norm in actual use...
brake job status
Historical mailing list - David E Most
Wed, 10 Jul 1996 01:58:51 -0400
...Apparently, a couple of you misinterpreted my last post regarding the order of operations as my conception of the entire brake job. I was...
On the Road Again - NOT!
Historical mailing list - JRodgers
Fri, 21 Mar 2014 13:03:13 -0500
...Then I'm off the road, engine off, and coasting to a stop. Stopped - I can hear water gurgling/boiling but no steam. Then...
Re: right rear interior trim panel removal
Historical mailing list - Todd Last
Sun, 8 Jul 2001 11:33:17 -0700
If I remember correctly, you have to take out the off-white panel at the very back of the van in order to get...
Re: Merkur adjustable headrests installed in my vanagon tonite..
Historical mailing list - Ben T
Sun, 7 Apr 2002 04:43:28 EDT
In a message dated 4/7/02 12:32:30 AM Pacific Standard Time, JordanVw@AOL.COM writes: << folks, i installed a pair of...
Re: DID any of you do it?
Historical mailing list - Zoltan
Fri, 24 Jun 2005 22:56:56 -0700
Chris, So, you mean to hack off the needed part, destroying the neighboring ones in the process, and clean it off to fit where...
Re: Natural Disasters and Westys. Does anyone have a prep sheet?
Historical mailing list - David Beierl
Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:25:04 -0400
At 02:42 AM 3/16/2011, Sullivan Scott wrote: >The latest issues in Japan reminded me of one of my reasons for having...
Re: Cairo Report, now K&N
Historical mailing list - Bill Davidson
Tue, 9 Jan 2001 08:43:02 -0800
> Think about depth filtration of the K&N or paper (as opposed to micron > filtration with a thin membrane of some sort) from the...
Re: Sears disaster- LONG
Historical mailing list
Thu, 24 May 2001 23:11:07 EDT
reminds me of when i took my ex- '86 vanagon (Some of you may remember this story - "oil change monkeys") to sears to the...
Re: WARNING: SOUTH AFRICAN QUAD LIGHT GRILLES INCITE ROAD RAGE
Historical mailing list - Loren A. Busch
Wed, 27 Nov 2002 18:14:44 -0800
...Based on several (won't say how many) years of experience, the common use definition of various types of lights on motor vehicles would...
Re: Cleaning Engine, Do's and Don't
Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
Wed, 12 Feb 2003 09:32:13 -0500
...You'll be amazed how well everything comes off. I must have gotten half a gallon of oil out of the engine bay of...
Re: HELP NEEDED - Cooling System Flushing
Historical mailing list - Budd Premack
Sun, 4 Jul 1999 02:08:33 -0500
The cooling system of the 84 GL was properly flushed on Friday morning, in time for the anxious buyers and their kids to take...
Re: cultural diversity <F>
Historical mailing list - Keith Adams
Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:29:01 -0700
...The mandate of Canadian World Domination is nothing less than the creation of world peace through the use of diplomatic force. Thrusting peace upon...
Re: What kind of crackers do you keep in your van?
Historical mailing list - Greg Marshall
Fri, 1 Feb 2002 15:55:32 -0500
...He was truly a prophet, way ahead of this time. He became one of the > most popular lecturers and screamed about the dangers of...
'67 Rear Bumper Splash Pans/ Tips
Historical mailing list
Mon, 25 Sep 1995 10:36:00 -0700
...Do you still have a good pair of (rust free & relatively straight) splash pans off of a '67 non-euro bladed rear bumper? I...
Re: Battery venting, etc. (fwd)
Historical mailing list - Steven X. Schwenk
Sat, 13 Jun 1998 18:56:25 -0700
...Adjunct Assistant Professor > Director, Help Desk Services Human Dimensions of Resource Management > Office of Information Technologies Department of Forestry & > A 117, Lederle Graduate Research...
Stripping '87 Westy to paint
Historical mailing list - Marc Perdue
Sun, 15 Jun 2014 17:13:20 -0400
Hi all, I've spent a good portion of the weekend stripping parts off the van, getting it ready for new paint!! I've...
VWs on the WWWeb
Historical mailing list
Tue, 28 May 1996 17:47:01 -0500
...There is also the full text of the Medical Examiner's Office report. It could quite easily be termed "sick". As a matter of...
SUVs VS TINCANS!
Historical mailing list - Robert A. Alexander
Sat, 9 Jan 1999 18:11:02 -0500
Volks, thinking back to earlier discussions of the relative safety of vehicles like we drive as opposed to the run-of-the-mill vehicles...
Georgia D.O.W. 2nd Announcement
Historical mailing list - george jannini
Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:59:11 -0500
Adding a link to Facebook for the Dead of Winter Campout, February 4-5-6. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=249673779536 Also...
Re: I HATE TO SAY - tires
Historical mailing list - Richard Dunsheath
Sun, 6 Aug 2000 08:56:18 -0500
...one of the long narrow feathers on the neck or saddle of a bird b : the neck plumage of the domestic fowl 2 : a...
Re: asparagus and smelly vans
Historical mailing list - neil n
Fri, 21 May 2010 12:29:48 -0700
...Caught a nasty chest bug of some kind. Kept on working of course. <grin> Along with bug came a TOTAL loss of sense of...
Re: FW: Web site for pics of our Vanagons?
Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
Wed, 9 Jun 1999 00:00:57 -0700
I have a photo of my wife, my son, and myself posing nude in front of our Vanagon outside Yosemite. I think probably we...
tiico tranplant q's WRT Syncro
Historical mailing list - Matthew Pollard
Wed, 9 Jan 2002 18:54:06 -0800
So i'm in the middle of a tiico tranplant into my 86. I have a few questions that are syncro specific. - air intake...
Re: Sizes of large fastners?
Historical mailing list - Bill M
Sat, 12 May 2012 12:11:44 -0400
...Don't know about the pulley off the top of my head. Bill 87 Westy On May 12, 2012, at 10:56 AM, "kenneth...
Re: What is a tippet?
Historical mailing list - Ron Bloomquist
Tue, 9 May 2000 17:18:46 -0700
Hi Former Mendocinoianite, Since you were off the list for a while and doing more important things - I will give you the URL of...
Re: '88 Westy: Towing Capacity?
Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
Fri, 3 Jun 2005 08:22:47 -0400
The amount of weight that can be put on the ball (of your trailer hitch) by the portion of the trailer that connects to...
Re: Poor man awning
Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
Mon, 30 Apr 2001 17:08:20 -0700
...The inboard edge of the tarp is held under the edge of the side of the poptop, rain flows off the top and onto...
Re: Just out of curiosity; was RE: where to advertise westy for sale SOLD
Historical mailing list - Roger Whittaker
Fri, 2 Jan 2009 00:32:25 -0800
dear new owners after we bought our van we were followed by several different years of different models of vans -- twice two diesel vanagons...
Re: Online Machine shop resource?
Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
Mon, 3 Oct 2005 22:23:17 -0700
...Whether it is down that dinghy alley on the wrong side of the tracks or > in some block building in need of a paint...
Fwd: : End the hegemony of the US auto makers
Historical mailing list - mordo
Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:16:12 -0400
...Lots of very new cars on the > very busy roads. Tons of Asian marques and a huge array of models. A lot of > turbo...
Re: List Sticker debacle
Historical mailing list
Sun, 12 Mar 2000 07:10:22 EST
...The idea of having a run off choosing five of the best of the best then one in a final vote sounds good to...
Re: I HATE TO SAY - tires
Historical mailing list - (Donna Cassano)
Sun, 6 Aug 2000 12:18:51 -0400
Actually was afraid that I might p*ss someone off enough to have them pull out their shackles. ; ) Peace - donna '84 Westy (Pepe) Richard...
Re: Place to mount shackles?
Historical mailing list - David Beierl
Wed, 25 May 2011 19:19:37 -0400
At 06:52 PM 5/25/2011, Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote: >ok, >what is the tensile strength, in lbs, of a double loop of...
Re: Chill baby -- Is That by Garnet Mimms & the Enchanters?
Historical mailing list - George Goff
Mon, 5 Jan 2004 01:05:12 EST
In a message dated 1/4/04 9:00:58 PM, rcampbell-vanagon6706@MAILBLOCKS.COM writes: << so for George to go off is a...
Free 88' Vanagon Rear AC and Dash North of Nashville TN
Historical mailing list - David Wilhite
Sun, 30 May 2010 18:49:00 +0000
Guys, I will be moving out of my house soon and need to de-clutter. I've got a rear overhead AC unit from...
Re: speaking of flat tires. . .
Historical mailing list - John P
Fri, 3 Nov 2000 01:57:58 -0000
How do you get the remnants of the lug nuts out once you have snapped them off?? Yes you are right on, this gets...
Dead of Winter Campout - Northwest Georgia USA
Historical mailing list - george jannini
Sun, 6 Jan 2013 21:42:58 -0500
Peach State Transporters will be holding its annual Dead of Winter Campout at Cloudland Canyon State Park in the northwest Georgia mountains February 1...
Re: Michelin Agilis 51 205/65-15 ?
Historical mailing list - Bill Minor
Fri, 19 Jul 2002 13:44:55 -0500
There are LOTS of definitions of "Off Road"... what is yours? Thanks, Chris ------------------------------- I'm running 185/14r Agilis 61 tires. I have 12...
You got a bangin' van there, dude!" (loss of power/spark)
Historical mailing list - Mike Riley
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:00:33 -0500
lets see you have spark to the center of the cap and the center of the rotor and none on the outer terminals of...
Re: Goopy stuff on dish drainer
Historical mailing list - Richard A Jones
Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:01:00 -0600
> nail polish remover is acetone I just removed mine--that had migrated to the back underside of the drain, with a couple of drips...
Re: Moderator Comment Re: Disc Brake Setup Photos
Historical mailing list - Mike S
Wed, 8 Apr 2009 21:03:12 -0400
At 08:18 PM 4/8/2009, Robert Fisher wrote... >Hey, some of us like our pRoN. : ) But how are pictures of a Vanagon...
Re: Official song of my bus!
Historical mailing list - Steve Johnson
Wed, 15 Feb 1995 15:29:44 -0800 (PST)
So RGOLEN@umassd.edu says: > > > Hell...there are some of us out there who remember 1966! > > ;-) > > Ric > And....those of us that DO remember...
Net Appliance GPS Conversation
Historical mailing list - Joe L.
Sat, 16 Sep 2000 09:49:44 -0400
I saw a new version of the "I-Opener" at Compusa the other day. That put me in mind of a GPS conversion of...
cost of replacing front window
Historical mailing list - gary hradek
Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:33:55 -0800
Can someone give me a range of prices for the cost of a new front window and installation for a vanagon? Anyone know of...
DID any of you do it?
Historical mailing list - Zoltan
Fri, 24 Jun 2005 20:25:11 -0700
I wonder if any of you changed one of the front corners of the van with a good one. I would like to get...
Is there such a too?
Historical mailing list - Zoltan Kuthy
Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:29:55 -0800
I am about to clean up some of the corroded connections of male and female wire ends. I was wondering if any of you...
Re: General Question On Battery Venting
Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:35:21 -0400
...Is venting of a modern non-sealed battery really > > necessary? > > This is my understanding of the construction of most of the batteries on the...
Re: Bolt extraction (with lasers)
Historical mailing list
Fri, 17 Nov 1995 13:59:15 -0600 (CST)
> > >Does anyone have ANY success stories involving an "easy-out" that's actually > >WORKED? Or are these gadgets the mechanical equivalent of Slick-50...