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• no start problem
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 21 Jun 1997 10:31:00 -0400 (EDT)
  Volks- my Diehard battery fluid is above the plates, the terminals look clean & well connected. No battery or other warning lights have come on...
• Re: Coolant Leak
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Fri, 21 Feb 2014 16:50:57 -0600
  ...It seems to be coming from a small, 2" X 1" > > diamond shaped cover plate at the front of the driver's side of...
• Re: Clutchless in California
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 12 Dec 95 13:52:40 EST
  ...That gives the mechanic 1 hour to drop the tranny, 1 hour to replace either the broken cross shaft or pressure plate (typical problems...
• Re: replacing clock w/ tach
  Historical mailing list - Eric Henning
  Wed, 1 Dec 1999 08:13:17 -0500
  ...For some reason a can stand random, loud, soft or other noises, but steady predictable noise drives me batty (maybe this says something about...
• Re: Turbo diesel 5-speed DOKA Made Legal
  Historical mailing list - Dart 330
  Tue, 9 Nov 2004 08:33:24 -0600
  ...Basically it was junked and not legal to drive. In order to get a new legal title I had to have a State Trooper...
• Re: Frig will not stay lit
  Historical mailing list - Bulley
  Tue, 28 Sep 1999 07:09:34 -0400
  ...On ours, this floating plate had become very slightly skewed, when it should be exactly parallel to the other plates. This plate separates the...
• 1.9 ltr TDI, bolted to Audi 5000 quattro transmission.
  Historical mailing list - Michael Modl
  Mon, 1 Mar 1999 23:27:46 EST
  ...I've been bitching for years to VW for not sending us any of the same 4 wheel drive VW's available in Germany...
• Re: Braille parking - what would you do?
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Sat, 28 Feb 2004 00:16:04 EST
  ...The first thing they will ask you is if you know who the driver was. When you say, "I don't know, but I...
• Re: rare listing
  Historical mailing list - Abel Longoria
  Sun, 8 Mar 2015 22:11:35 -0500
  http://images.craigslist.org/01010_d2MCBZcr1xQ_600x450.jpg That image shows the license plate reversed... So it's a left hand drive winnie that...
• i saw a Vanagon on rte 287 in NJ. listmember???
  Historical mailing list - Paul Bucco
  Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:47:59 EST
  ...The plate was New Hampshire i think, and the driver was 30-45?? w/ glasses, male. Anyone on the list??? Paul F. Bucco Jr...
• Re: The stuff
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Fri, 2 Nov 2012 20:44:24 -0500
  ...oversize drain plug locally & had to drive the car the next day. Thanks, Tom Hargrave www.stir-plate.com www.towercooler.com www.kegkits...
• Re: To Buy or not to Buy? 86 Vanagon Westfalia
  Historical mailing list - George Thorburn
  Mon, 26 Sep 2005 22:04:15 -0500
  ...Does this van have a 1.9 or a 2.1 motor? There is usually a plate on the back of the drivers door...
• Re: 85 Brake Adjusting Plug
  Historical mailing list - Joseph Fortino
  Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:11:21 -0500
  ...missing this part below fits up to the backing plate, * notice both pass and driver side missing this part. Question >time, is it key...
• Re: No Coolant in Small Tank Behind License Plate
  Historical mailing list - Steven Johnson
  Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:11:40 -0700
  ...I talked to my mechanic who > told me to simply add distilled water to the license plate tank and keep an > eye on it...
• Re: Carat value
  Historical mailing list - Mudd \"Not Jack\" Sparrow
  Fri, 3 Apr 2015 14:01:37 -0700
  ...seen a lot of beat up POS daily driver vehicles in MD running >>> "historic" plates... people do it to get out of paying resgistration...
• Anybody in Williamsburg, VA this weekend?
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 16 Feb 95 23:46:01 EST
  ...drive to Williamsburg, VA this weekend. Anybody on this list planning to be there? We'll be driving the '87 weekender, license plates: ARR...
• Re: [Q]Syncro clutch
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 5 Jul 1995 21:52:24 -0500
  >Hi folks, a question for those who have driven BOTH a Syncro and 'normal' >vanagon. > --> Is the clutch on the Syncro supposed to take...
• Re: Westy type/serial plate
  Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
  Sun, 3 Jun 2007 11:29:44 -0700
  ...Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano KG6RCR Mark Drillock typed: > Yes, that sounds right. > > I have Mellow Yellow's evil twin in my driveway...
• Re: Iceland
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Tue, 25 Jun 2013 19:21:00 -0500
  ...you can drive in one direction in Iceland without running out of road? Thanks, Tom Hargrave www.kegkits.com www.stir-plate.com www...
• Re: Keeping Cool in a Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Ken Lewis
  Sat, 19 Apr 2003 17:01:59 -0400
  ...It has a magnet on the back which holds a metal plate, pinching the tent fabric. It might be helpful to move some air...
• Re: Clutch job
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Fri, 26 Jan 2001 14:47:30 -0800
  ...Just slide the clutch plate back and forth on the splines to get excess grease out of the grooves, wipe it off and you...
• Aux battery removal
  Historical mailing list - PB
  Fri, 30 Jun 2017 22:17:24 -0700
  ...I have now removed the seat, and the rectangular plate overlaps about 2 inches over the battery cavity. I couldn't get the seat...
• Re: Mechanic say's Oil pump can't leak slowly
  Historical mailing list - kenneth d lewis
  Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:28:47 EDT
  ...It is easy to make things worse in this area i.e pulling out a stud or deforming the flat cover plate. Drive Safely...
• Final Drive Oil Seal Bushing
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Mon, 4 Jul 2005 21:18:19 -0700
  ...The first step is to put the auto tranny unit and the final drive together. Auto unit is a fresh rebuild from German Transaxle...
• Re: donor van small part needed,
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Mon, 19 Aug 2013 20:39:29 -0700
  ...I think you can use a blanking plate, the same one that is on the front vertical jamb of driver's door. Or you...
• Just like a Vanagon, but modern..
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:35:53 -0800
  ...Right hand drive and diesel. Good looking modern beastie. Didn't see the plates. It looked to me like a modern Vanagon, but Japanese...
• Re: First Time Rear Brakes
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Tue, 6 Jan 2004 13:01:02 -0600
  ...My back plates don't have holes for adjustment of the star adjuster. From the Bentley, it appears that they have made a hole...
• Re: vanagon sighting
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:09:37 -0700
  ...I think the van was an '84 or '85, it > was the coppery brown colour (what is that colour called?) and was driven by...
• Re: Drive side swivel seat
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Jowell
  Sat, 14 Feb 2015 06:19:54 -0500
  ...Eastern Standard Time, dennisjowell@GMAIL.COM writes: > wanted to remove the driver side swivel seat bracket to allow room for battery controls and a...
• Re: coolant
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:49:35 -0700
  ...like an inch in the license plate bottle every few weeks. Ifind many of those bottles empty. Check the gasket on the cap ..on...
• Re: need some ID on parts
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Wed, 28 May 2003 16:38:18 -0400
  ...drives better without than with the circuit likely has a problem. >and beside it is a little black box bolted on a plate, >what...
• Re: Westy camping in Europe, home now, part 1
  Historical mailing list - John Dillon
  Sun, 19 Jul 2015 09:34:18 -0400
  ...The only > other vehicle we saw with US plates was an aircooled Westy, with > European plates in the normal spots but a couple of...
• Driveline vibration 87 automatic
  Historical mailing list - Finn Runyon
  Mon, 9 Sep 2013 07:21:38 -0600
  ...The next thought that I don't want to consider at the moment is the torque converter or the flex plate? Again any advice...
• Re: Rear Wheel (Bearing?) squeak
  Historical mailing list - Pat
  Tue, 8 May 2012 22:20:01 -0400
  Dennis got me thinking about the backing plates. Where the shoes contact the plate should be lubed with brake grease or anti seize. Lots...
• Re: Anyone have suburban heater in vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sun, 30 Sep 2001 01:47:15 -0500
  ...behind the driver seat. A hole was cut in the side of the van to accomodate the air intake and exhaust plate. The heater...
• Re: Overflow reservoir
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Sun, 26 Feb 2023 16:54:47 -0800
  ...On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 3:25 PM Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@hotmail.com> wrote: > Vanagon reserve coolant bottle for behind the license plate...
• Re: 82 Diesel Question - Seal around Cold Start Valve?
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 18 May 2000 21:58:03 EDT
  ...Remove the cold start arm from the pump (has a clip on it) and use the torx driver to remove the plate behind the...
• Re: Things to put under the driver's seat
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Wed, 11 Aug 2004 07:20:54 -0400
  ...smaller easier removable AL plate. Eric Rocket J Squirrel wrote: > Later Westies have an aux battery under the driver's seat. I don't...
• Re: Coolant Leak
  Historical mailing list - Steven Shelton
  Fri, 21 Feb 2014 12:04:37 -0500
  ...It seems to be coming from a small, 2" X 1" > > diamond shaped cover plate at the front of the driver's side of...
• Auto Trans Maintenance?
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 26 Jun 1997 21:47:18 -0800
  ...The filter screen is behind an odd shaped plate held on with screws...also, more oil will come out when you remove the plate...
• <No subject>
  Historical mailing list - Smola, Tony
  Wed, 20 Feb 2002 22:08:00 -0600
  ...It appears that only three of the seven plates are active or possibly the oil has cooled in this three plate process enough that...
• Re: Power steering rack leak
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Thu, 29 Nov 2018 17:28:42 -0500
  ...We looked around a bit and there is fluid coming out around a two bolt part of the power steering on the driver’s...
• Re: Carat value
  Historical mailing list - Brett Ne
  Fri, 3 Apr 2015 12:27:53 -0700
  ...seen a lot of beat up POS daily driver vehicles in MD running > >"historic" plates... people do it to get out of paying resgistration...
• Re: Tiico Engine Conversion
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Mon, 13 Nov 2000 13:04:31 -0800
  ...motor mount > plates. > > I'm making a video as I go on how to install an inline-4 in your driveway > with only simple...
• Re: CV joint Ball Bearing (and Re: Front Glass)
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 17 May 1996 11:13:47 -0800
  ...Now after removing the plates I carefully put the CV onto the drive axle, and put the clips in. Jack the wheel up as...
• Re: adjusting rear brakes! removing rear drums
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Tue, 23 Dec 2014 10:29:07 -0600
  ...Will not come off. > Any way to drive it off with a drift through the backing plate? Make a > mullandore port? > Mike > ----- Original Message...
• Re: Subie swap curiosity
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sat, 4 May 2013 13:44:20 -0700
  ...The KEP adapter and flywheel/torque converter drive plate costs less than their manual trans adapter and flyhweel.. and there's no clutch kit...
• Re: Vanagon sighted in Germany
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 10 Dec 1996 07:15:31 +0000
  ...The plates says > MYK-?? ??? which is in the middle west section of Germany. > > It is a turbocharged Diesel and as I know the real...
• Re: Halogen Back-up bulb
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 28 Jun 1999 14:22:15 -0400
  ...after that 6 minute period, I felt >the lens, and it seems to be warmer on the halogen side (only 1 halogen >bulb, drivers...
• Shift lever broke off in my hand
  Historical mailing list - John Branstrom
  Sun, 16 Mar 2003 14:30:50 EST
  ...On my next shift from first to second the lever broke completely off at the plate and I was waving it around. Luckily it...
• Re: Watch Those Out of State Plates and Don't Take any Crap
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Sat, 21 Oct 2006 19:04:57 -0600
  ...The officer was a bit surprised to find that the > driver was a woman his mother's age. Suddenly everything was very > polite and...
• Re: Bread Loaf citing
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Fri, 3 Oct 2008 09:38:56 -0700
  ...personalized plates and Vanagon names...... Put some nice touchy-feely bumper stickers on your Westy: "I Hug Whales", "Music Therapy Saved My Life", "I...
• Re: oil all over rear hatch?
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:12 -0500
  ...the drive, the rear > hatch was covered in a thin film of what appears to be motor oil. > Even the license plate and rear...
• Re: switching from manual to automatic
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:23:32 -0500
  ...A trans, flex plate,torque convertor, throttle adapter for automatic.Wiring harness for the neutral start switch and lights in the shift housing,trans...
• Re: clutch shudder
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sun, 26 Aug 2001 22:36:11 -0500
  ...BTDT!! John Rodgers 88 GL Driver
• Re: Knocking Rod arm/B. Bobs
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Tue, 25 Mar 2003 09:47:08 -0600
  ...That knock could be loose torque converter, loose flex plate, broken flex plate. That 35$ Oil pressure gauge is something you're going to...
• Re: trans mount
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 12 Jul 1995 13:55:59 -0700
  ...The plate next to the >transmission is not fixed to the rubber. I think it should be. When I >lower the trans. the plate...
• Re: Strange place for an identification plate on 91 Vanagon.
  Historical mailing list - Jeff
  Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:55:58 -0700
  ...Strange place for an identification plate on 91 Vanagon. ---- Richard Golen <rgolen@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote: That plate, actually a metalic sticker, is found on...
• damage from missing bellhousing bolts
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 21 Feb 1995 00:04:20 -0500
  ...cracked case bearing damage (release bearing?) thrust plate damage flywheel damage bent input shaft (transaxle) This is what I have found on my Bus...
• Re: Air bags & VWs
  Historical mailing list - Austin
  Thu, 28 Nov 1996 12:51:41 -0800
  ...drivers who have been convicted of any sort of DUI have to display a special license plate that designates what kind of driver they...