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• Re: Brakes-
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Mon, 28 Apr 2014 11:39:58 -0700
  ...Don't know the brand myself, but it could be the same sub-contracter that makes them for ATE and boxes them in ATE...
• Terminal/connector source was Fridge on 12V
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 31 Aug 2014 17:24:24 -0400
  ...s an interesting source for OEM-quality connectors, crimp terminals, fuse boxes and tools; worth checking out and supporting if possible IMO. Aimed toward...
• '56 kombi update - new transmission
  Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
  Sun, 1 Jan 1995 00:09:36 -0800 (PST)
  ...4) the early reduction boxes look exactly like the later ones, on the outside, but the bearings are different sizes and the gears, while...
• '56 kombi update - new transmission
  Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
  Sun, 1 Jan 1995 00:14:07 -0800 (PST)
  ...4) the early reduction boxes look exactly like the later ones, on the outside, but the bearings are different sizes and the gears, while...
• Re: Porta poti humor
  Historical mailing list - developtrust
  Thu, 7 Mar 2002 10:36:43 -0800
  ...The potty convertible feature was an afterthought because I did not want two boxes. One for the seat/console and another for the port...
• Re: Porta-potti boxes
  Historical mailing list - Mike
  Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:29:42 -0400
  ...Porta-potti boxes >> My new porta-potty lid is so thin, that I wouldn't dare step on it to go >> upstairs. > > I have...
• Brand New 1.9 AMC heads available.
  Historical mailing list - dylan
  Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:34:45 -0700
  ...Brand New in the boxes. My days of building another higher compression waterboxer�are�done. I am running a 2.2 wbxer with these...
• Weber Progressive and Thermostat
  Historical mailing list - Frank Schultz
  Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:24:57 -0500
  ...My thermostat is gone, but I have all the other essentials, boxes, flaps, etc. A couple of questions: Are there any thermostats on the...
• Re: FREE skylight, in northern AZ
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:38:57 EDT
  ...and boxes are free -cardboard only dumpsters :) just a fyi. ************** The Average US Credit Score is 692. See Yours in Just 2 Easy Steps...
• Re: Cargo carrier good/bad feedback for Westfalia
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:08:59 -0400
  ...to the west coast during > May. > Putting in/out our storage boxes/containers is getting much for spouse. > > What experience have many of you...
• Re: Vanagon with Porsche power.
  Historical mailing list - William R. Kennedy, NJIT CIAT, 201-596-5648
  Wed, 10 May 1995 19:33:43 EST
  ...In this connection note that the Porsche engine, with good heater boxes, makes *great* heat. Maybe bus and early Vgon people could use this...
• window tinting - I smell a FAQ
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 2 Feb 1995 22:53:27 -0500
  ...that we all love to travel across state lines in our boxes, and no one wants to get hassled over something dumb like tinted...
• Vanagon Crossover Pipe
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 16 Apr 1996 15:06:37 -0400
  ...Everything from the heater boxes back needs to be replaced and I've found most of the stuff. The problem is that the crossover...
• Sound system upgrade for Eurobago
  Historical mailing list - Christopher Low
  Sat, 27 Sep 1997 11:04:51 EDT
  ...Put them in two boxes and set them on the rear seat. (Threw punny 3X5's out the window.) New Headunit(radio). This also...
• 1974 bug for sale (no vanagon or type 2)
  Historical mailing list - Rob & Lrae Winterkorn
  Mon, 3 Jan 2000 18:36:02 -0600
  ...spokes painted to match car with new performance tires, new heat boxes, shocks, brakes (all cylinders, lines and shoes) new carb and muffler. $4950...
• Re: repeated water pumps failing
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Fri, 4 Feb 2000 20:04:33 -0500
  ...Incidentally, the '86-91 pumps I am currently shipping (for $49.95) are genuine VW, still in the original VW boxes. (Can't always...
• Re: Need muffler in N TX
  Historical mailing list - Dylan Spurgin
  Sat, 12 Apr 2003 14:32:14 -0500
  ...I need everything after the heater boxes. ds >It's an 81 non-california vanagon > >If anyone in north Texas or southern OK has...
• almost free transport available from Medford OR to SF Bay Area...
  Historical mailing list - Paul Guzyk
  Mon, 21 Mar 2005 19:05:14 -0800
  ...Medford on I-5) to the Bay Area. (engine, tranny, parts, boxes, whatever) I'll help you move it, perhaps you can contribute something...
• Re: camping amidst bears, safety question
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Sat, 12 Feb 2011 07:39:34 -0600
  ...In Yosemite, where campers outside the developed campgrounds are required to use bear boxes and advised to sleep 100 yards from their storage and...
• Re: Very dented muffler from Bus Depot
  Historical mailing list - Beth & Jere Hawn
  Tue, 19 Dec 2000 17:13:27 -0800
  ...depot but why the hell can't they just purchase new boxes? Every time I order something it arrives in a beat-up old...
• Re: Oil temp's up again
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 23 Apr 1996 16:24:37 -0700
  ...Naturally this same inquiry would be appropriate for the gas motor water cooled boxes. I've recently leaned that both Ford and Chevy have...
• look out Felder Industries! - westy table mod
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sun, 21 Jul 2013 11:12:30 -0700
  ...One of them pulled some bits of aluminium out from under his bench. "Perhaps this thing checks all the boxes; looks pretty, works mostly...
• Re: 82 Vanagon Exhaust parts ?
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:51:54
  ...It replaces everything from the heater boxes back, and only costs about $80 new, but does not have provision for a catylitic converter. -Ron...
• vanagon engines/trans, etc. for sale
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 21 Feb 2000 13:02:19 EST
  ...2.0L aircooled vanagon engine, complete, runs, has all FI, htr boxes, and ecu. $400 1.9L vanagon waterboxer engine, recent head gaskets, complete...
• Re: Are There Junk Ball Joints? - What Bullshit.
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Fri, 27 Sep 2002 00:51:14 EDT
  ...his boxes will comply with the laws of the country which is that the box state the country of origin not the country of...
• Re: 88 2.1 engine for sale
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Wed, 20 Sep 2006 01:45:00 -0700
  ...They need to > have boxes built around the parts in addition to the pallets. This has at > least been my experience (both directions). > > The...
• Re: Suggestions for shipping a van from Germany to Halifax NS
  Historical mailing list - 80 Westy Pokey
  Mon, 27 May 2002 14:28:30 -0400
  ...vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > >snipped ----- >a Vancouver-area shipper tells me that if we pack our belongings in unmarked >boxes (no recycled liquor boxes...
• Re: Speaking of heater fans...
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 10 Jan 95 17:58:11 EST
  ...What it does is draw air from the interior from the rear footwell as well as from the heater boxes and up and out...
• Sometimes you just gotta hear the Vanagon Song (Explicit Lyrics)
  Historical mailing list - Richard Koerner
  Sat, 1 Apr 2017 01:35:33 +0000
  ...as to why we spend so much time and money on these marvelous rolling boxes from 25 or 30 years ago. Rich San Diego
• Re: "Wesfakia" logo?
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:01:47 -0700
  Often times your hardware (or art supply) store has stencils of various types, or past-on letters (like for mail boxes etc). Or use...
• 78 VAN , ALSO 2 BARREL WEBER (NEW) FOR SALE
  Historical mailing list - Michael Beggs
  Thu, 20 Jun 1996 01:19:23 +0500
  ...Converted to 1840 cc upright engine (20,000 miles on engine), NEW German exhaust, NEW Dutch Heater Boxes, New stock Solex, NEW Bosch Generator...
• Carbon buildup
  Historical mailing list
  20 Dec 95 00:30:00 -0600
  ...This is for my 79 Westy, with 2 exhaust ports on the heater boxes. I would assume that the same methods could be applied...
• Speaking of CB Antennas......
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 10 May 1995 07:11:13 -0400 (EDT)
  ...So I am about to replace it, and I'm wondering if anyone out there has had any experience with those "black boxes" that...
• To: The "House Electricians"
  Historical mailing list - PSavage
  Fri, 10 Nov 2000 17:41:52 -0800
  ...secure when I begin poking cautiously into the panel innards & junction boxes! If all the suggestions offered thus far fail me, I shall pmail...
• Re: HEAT glorious heat!!!
  Historical mailing list - G. Matthew Bulley
  Fri, 15 Feb 2002 12:36:00 -0500
  ...If your heater boxes are in good shape, and you have a few days and a couple hundred bucks, you can have heat that...
• Re: bus depot probs?
  Historical mailing list - Rico Sapolich
  Tue, 23 Apr 2002 18:35:18 EDT
  ...what's up? >> I think the Bus Despot is out of boxes, so outgoing shipments have been put on hold until someone returns something...
• Re: Shipping a transmission cross country - looking for ideas
  Historical mailing list - Simon Reinhardt
  Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:29:41 -0600
  ...I used the bubblewrap that has larger bubbles, and my cardboard was once a couple of bike boxes. I chopped them up to fit...
• Re: Plastic welder?
  Historical mailing list - jbange
  Tue, 8 Feb 2005 07:49:49 -0800
  ...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: WTB: Air-cooled Muffler, but a weird one...
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:00:52 EDT
  ...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: What Vanagon years will this heater distribution box fit?
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Thu, 5 Dec 2013 14:59:36 -0600
  ...A 2.5" round hole near the cold air intake for 82-86 boxes, for > cold air dash end vents. Oval side hose hole...
• Re: mouse profing
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Tue, 7 Aug 2012 17:10:00 -0500
  ...have always kept some of those yellow boxes of mouse poison around .. > >> and put those little boxes in nooks ..say behind a rear tail...
• Fryday (Modern Vanagon Replacements?)
  Historical mailing list - KIM BRENNAN
  Fri, 9 May 2014 23:14:08 -0400
  I know there are some folk that have considered the Sprinters as the replacement of choice in modern vans for our beloved boxes. But...
• Re: Vanagon In Autoweek Magazine - August 1, 2005
  Historical mailing list - Evan Mac Donald
  Fri, 5 Aug 2005 13:24:03 -0700
  ...they like bread-boxes on wheels. has something to do with the idea of a tent-on-wheels. or outhouse-on-wheels. or something...
• Re: More power
  Historical mailing list - Mike Rouby
  Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:59:41 -0800
  ...now > and get the muffler that bolts straight to the heater boxes ie. German > Supply part no. 071 251 053 E --------------------------------- Any questions? Get...
• Re: Ebay vin# switcharoo?
  Historical mailing list - joel walker
  Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:04:10 -0500
  ...no connection boxes for power/etc. square headlights could have been transplanted, but a watercooled lower grill??? also i don't recall my 80...
• Replacing foam gaskets on the heater box doors
  Historical mailing list - roger sisler
  Wed, 3 May 2006 08:33:55 -0700
  ...Will it fit a late vanagon? I have both both late and early boxes dissasembeled for comaprison.I wqanted to combine parts for the...
• Dimensions/Measurements of Breather Tower and rear heater core o-rings
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Thu, 3 Jan 2013 22:13:26 -0400
  ...a heater core o-ring somewhere in one of these moving boxes, but it might be warm again here before I find it. It...
• 914 gearbox in bus
  Historical mailing list - Ian Hallett
  Tue, 9 Apr 1996 11:08:48 +1000 (EST)
  ...Can you get reconditioned 914 5-speed boxes and how much would they cost? By the way, a 26yo supercharged VW won the open...
• Re: AT *vs* manual
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 3 Dec 1997 21:08:07 -0500
  ...Vanagons are big metal un-aerodynamic lousy coefficient wind drag boxes on wheels.... not race cars... but then again, how much krap/camping gear...
• Re: VW Iltis was:Syncro Diff Is Weird One Without Viscous Coupling!
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Tue, 20 Oct 1998 01:51:30 -0700
  ...it strapped to the hood? Because the rear was filled with luggage and food.(two boxes of freshly boiled shrimps, a summer specialty) PerL
• Re: Regearing transmission
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 18 Oct 2000 21:42:53 -0600
  ...final drive ratio. (Canadian version) This is higher than 091 2wd boxes. For example, a 1986 DU has a 0.85 4th and a...
• ?Flattening Glossy Photos? - Absolutely NO Van Content.
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Mon, 14 Mar 2005 03:07:13 EST
  ...dozens of glossy, black and white snapshots which were stored in boxes have curled severely. Is there a good and proper way to flatten...
• Re: ANVC Breaking news: And what does the average serial killer drive?
  Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
  Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:41:55 -0800
  ...On 1/21/07, Roger Sisler <rogersisler2000@yahoo.com> wrote: >> I've killed a few boxes of Cheerios in my time.Does that count? >> > >
• Re: Speaking of hot air...
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 1 Aug 2007 18:12:40 -0400
  ...I presume these boxes need to be vented and the holes to the underside of the van are where the hot air is getting...
• Re: What I did a few weeks ago--a pallet in my Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:26:09 -0500
  ...I had about 30 boxes at about 70 lbs. and a couple of boxes in the back. An iPod and some water bottles and...
• Re: Ordering Parts Online
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Sat, 22 Jun 2013 00:15:31 -0400
  ...In this era of global sourcing, it's is possible to find products of multiple origins and quality in identical boxes on the same...
• Re: Vitrifrigo trip results, wiring, battery life,
  Historical mailing list - Ron Tipton
  Thu, 6 Aug 2009 09:23:57 -0400
  ...SO, after some measuring I decided to enlarge the stock > battery > boxes by 2.5" which will enable installation of a pair of group...
• Re: Heater to cool question
  Historical mailing list - William R. Kennedy, NJIT CIAT, 201-596-5648
  Wed, 08 May 1996 09:40:02 EST
  ...The heater flapper boxes just deter- mine whether the heated air is ducted out next to the transmission or in- side the car. They...
• Re: Question - '78 Bus Exhaust
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 7 Jun 1996 00:08:37 -0400
  ...They're triangular in shape and metallic in composition and this should bolt up yer new exhaust to the heater boxes on yer 78...
• Re: Adapting reduction gear boxes to later IRS
  Historical mailing list - Todd Hill
  Mon, 23 Nov 1998 13:29:01 EST
  pdooley@GTE.NET writes: << Helmut, that thought crossed my mind too. The early buses used them, why can't we? This would change the...