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• Great Engine test stand event.
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Mon, 6 Jan 2003 01:20:30 -0600
  ...After a few trips to the hardware store buying generic fasteners (1/3 the cost of metric) and bolting the frames together using stock...
• Re: South African Vanagon (long)
  Historical mailing list - J. C.
  Wed, 1 Mar 2000 07:55:04 -0800
  ...Just look at this > > > baby...http://www.vw.co.za/range/bus/safety/frameset_safety.html > Can > > you just imagine it in your drive...
• Re: Possible Parts Source
  Historical mailing list - Anthony Bailey
  Tue, 2 Apr 2002 08:03:09 -0600
  ...A coupe of frames. And that > just touchs on what is out there in my storage. > I have 2 whoel 2.O Liter Aircooled...
• Re: What is that strip?
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Sat, 30 Oct 2004 12:43:39 -0600
  ...rust, including a few perforations, was found >>> sitting >>> in the window frames. On the front windshield, I ground/blasted all the >>> rust away, then...
• Re: Bud Vases (F)
  Historical mailing list - Racer X
  Tue, 15 Sep 1998 14:12:02 -0500
  ...Sam saying "Back Off", > "My Other Car Is A..." license plate frames, > "La Cucaracha" or "Dixie" air horns, > cow-moooo, train whistle, or other...
• FS: 1988 GL with Auto $3500
  Historical mailing list - Bobby Brown
  Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:17:53 -0400
  ...Removed all the glass and correctly fixed rust in the window frames and the seams with POR 15. Sanded, primed and repainted with Krylon...
• Re: Wolfie mods
  Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
  Wed, 7 Jul 1999 20:14:46 PDT
  ...There was another company but their price was @$50higher The Tire Rack http://www.tirerack.com/suspension/frames/hr_f.html Is the page...
• Re: syncro trans gear oil
  Historical mailing list - Todd Hill
  Fri, 14 Aug 1998 19:49:42 EDT
  ...but these refill plugs just get blocked by the Syncro sub-frames. >> Wonderful forethought by the VW engineers isn't it? Let's make...
• Re: vent wing frame removal
  Historical mailing list - Stacy Schneider
  Thu, 20 Jul 2017 14:30:24 -0700
  ...had my van painted and I purchased better used vent wing frames that the >>> body shop installed. One of the wings was slightly bent...
• Re: Looking for Grab handle packing ??
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Mon, 10 Apr 2006 02:05:08 -0700
  ...They can only supply those packing > pieces > for the door frames which are curved to fit the frame. > > My first question does anyone have...
• Updated with location: FS: 1988 GL with Auto $3500 Hickory, NC
  Historical mailing list - Bobby Brown
  Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:45:16 -0400
  ...Removed all the glass and correctly fixed rust in the window frames and the seams with POR 15. Sanded, primed and repainted with Krylon...
• Fiamma Bike racks:
  Historical mailing list - Davidson
  Fri, 7 Jan 2000 19:42:31 -0800
  ...For bikes with slanted frames, you can attach the bike block to the >> seat >> >post instead of the front frame. >> >4. You will need...
• Re: Fording Depth/ resurrection of a 66
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 19 Dec 1995 02:38:19 -0500
  ...I took out the pop out windows and will replace them with ones with actual frames that are still there. Uncracked windshields are in...
• Re: [Syncro] meet tim...
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:09:31 -0700
  ...And they are still using their 1980s technology in the frames etc of theirs as well. They just updated the internals and the breaking...
• Re: FS: 1988 GL with Auto $3500
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:24:39 -0500
  ...Removed > all the glass and correctly fixed rust in the window frames and the seams > with POR 15. Sanded, primed and repainted with Krylon...
• Re: Vans in the hood
  Historical mailing list - Kevin ...
  Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:52:01 -0700
  ...where GoWesty lives....Vanagons are EVERYWHERE (lots with GoWesty license plate frames)! > > Rich > San Diego > > --- On Wed, 10/19/11, Gary Anderson <Gary.Anderson...
• Re: FS: 1988 GL with Auto $3500
  Historical mailing list - Steven Johnson
  Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:27:51 -0700
  ...Removed > all the glass and correctly fixed rust in the window frames and the seams > with POR 15. Sanded, primed and repainted with Krylon...
• Re: Variable temp solder iron.
  Historical mailing list - johnny89
  Fri, 15 Dec 1995 12:22:56 -0300
  ...use a 'hot knife' for removing the wax cappings >from the frames of honey. Same problem as the soldering irons-- the >hot knife gets...
• Re: 85 Westy For Sale
  Historical mailing list - Turner,Ronald L.
  17 Jan 97 16:37:45 EST
  ...It reaches from the drivers door to the passengers door and slides into brackets screwed to the door frames. It has cloth sides which...
• Re: FS 85 Wolfsburg Westfalia Without Kitchen W/73.4K
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Sun, 3 May 2009 12:55:23 -0700
  ...Hey, > this > > thing just turned 24! Even the Wolsfsburg Edition specific black window > > frames are unfaded. The radio is not original and the pop...
• Vanagon Crashworthiness
  Historical mailing list - HARRIST
  Tue, 28 Apr 1998 15:05:00 EST
  ...But there's a reason they shoot these tests at 1000 frames a second with a dozen or so cameras mounted above, below, inside...
• Re: heating ideas: insulation!
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 2 Oct 1995 12:35:04 -0300
  ...Most noticeable up inside window frames etc. I thoroughly sprayed those areas, but couldn't insulate easily. Insulation ends at window sills. Floor seams...
• '89 Vanagon 10 years of Curiosities and Observations
  Historical mailing list - Michael Lichtenberger
  Thu, 1 Jul 1999 02:30:00 PDT
  ...5) I have whistles from air leaks at the top of the door frames. Any good remedy besides playing with the heating and ventilation...
• Re: Extra Vanagon Cooling
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Fri, 23 Apr 2004 21:34:01 -0500
  ...in traffic with little or no air flow for short time frames. > > >http://www.engineceramics.com/vw/undercoil.jpg > > >My system still uses the...
• Re: Vanagon shocks and coils spring
  Historical mailing list - Al and Sue Brase
  Thu, 10 Feb 2005 12:22:25 -0600
  ...I've pressed bushings into a lot of American cars a-frames and none of them have felt it necessary to weld the bushings...
• Re: For Sale -- Magnetic Window Screens
  Historical mailing list - Joe Federici
  Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:30:09 -0400
  ...would do a fine job of forcing the screens against the frames there easily). Can't comment as to whether the fabric has a...
• Re: Trailer suggestion
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Thu, 14 Aug 2014 18:21:45 -0700
  ...Trailers have appliances, frames, some cabinets and a couple of wheel bearings to look after....That stuff doesn't go bad with age if...
• Re: To ship or not to ship? bus to hawaii?
  Historical mailing list - Grungy
  Mon, 7 Feb 2005 12:55:50 -0600
  ...Aluminum window screen frames and aluminum window screens also corroded rapidly. Aluminum window screens will turn to powder fairly rapidly (lots of surface area...
• Re: HF Specials
  Historical mailing list - Edward Maglott
  Fri, 1 Jun 2012 12:47:04 -0400
  ...At the very fine (and critical) settings that are required and >the fragile nature of bike frames and components, a low-cost, possibly >wrongly...
• Re: how do you get super glue off velour?
  Historical mailing list - Richard Brassaw
  Sun, 23 Mar 2003 08:00:43 -0800
  ...If you tried to clean your safety glasses, the plastic frames would dissolve. After 30 years, practices may have changed as public concern (justified...
• Re: RAIV / Rabbits, Sciroccos, Dashers, Vanagons too!
  Historical mailing list - Chris DeLong
  Mon, 26 May 2003 06:31:16 +0000
  ...Most of them had lotsa rust or had been wrecked at one point and poorly repaired or the frames were just twisted from so...
• Re: HF Specials
  Historical mailing list - JRodgers
  Fri, 1 Jun 2012 18:47:09 -0500
  ...At the very fine (and critical) settings that are required and > the fragile nature of bike frames and components, a low-cost, possibly > wrongly...
• Re: Engine oil change interval (VW content...)
  Historical mailing list - Dominique Cormann
  Tue, 8 Feb 2000 16:51:39 -0500
  ...Correspondence' column of August '99 (also > at:) > >> > >> > http://roadandtrack.com/RoadAndTrack/FrameSet/0,1169,_sl_RoadAndTrack_sl_Art > >> icle_sl_0_cm_1182_cm...
• Re: Oxymoron Alert: AC While Camping
  Historical mailing list - Steven Johnson
  Wed, 9 Jun 2010 09:51:37 -0700
  ...A damn huge dust devil blew through and bent the slide out frames enough to make the thing unusable.... :( Steven On Wed, Jun 9...
• Re: Restoring Westy cabinet edge pieces
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Fri, 20 Jul 2012 08:38:46 -0700
  ...as well as from the round > inside corners of the cabinet frames. > > > > I used a heat gun to soften and stretch all of these...
• insulating a vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Tim Smith
  Wed, 09 Jul 1997 11:42:01 -0700
  ...be back again, so do it thoroughly) Spray UP into window frames!!! - get one ~80sq.ft. bundle of the 4"+/- thick fibreglass house insulation...
• Ex Bus Boy and Bus For Sale (CA)
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 16 Jun 1997 02:02:19 EDT
  ...and selected from my inventory the best possible good used popout frames & glass to go with it as well. Good used sunroof assembly also...
• Re: What about this specific actuator in an 89?
  Historical mailing list - Ray Hunnam
  Sun, 16 Nov 2003 19:23:53 +1100
  ...I cannot answer about the front door or sliding door frames as it was only my hatch door actuator that went kaput. Ray -----Original...
• Re: fiamma bike rack
  Historical mailing list - Martin Laycock
  Sat, 8 Jan 2000 17:08:38 -0800
  ...If you need to carry two ladies bike frames then the rubber tie down straps would do fine. While touring around I have seen...
• Re: What is that strip?
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Sat, 30 Oct 2004 16:18:36 -0500
  ...rust, including a few perforations, was found sitting > in the window frames. On the front windshield, I ground/blasted all the > rust away, then...
• Re: Vanagon Crashworthiness
  Historical mailing list - EMZ
  Tue, 28 Apr 1998 23:44:11 -0400
  ...But there's a reason they shoot these tests at 1000 frames a second > with a dozen or so cameras mounted above, below, inside...
• Re: Fwd: ultimate sleeper porsche rusting van -- just for fun
  Historical mailing list - John Reynolds
  Sat, 10 Apr 2004 10:32:04 -0400
  ...55 Buick with Corvett suspension / sub frames, 17" wheels that look stock, Super large GM crate motor. See www.autoweek.com and search for...
• Re: Want to paint camper roof
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Wed, 15 May 2002 09:06:44 -0700
  ...plated mild steel nuts, and washers-- > And how about them aluminum frames? > Every component on that semi is held to that frame with mid...
• Re: Motor Scooter hung off backside?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Sun, 4 Jun 2006 16:20:28 -0700
  ...It could be lengthened, as described by Greg > Potts on his Westrailer project, by welding on some mattress frames. But > I am welding-challenged...
• Cleaning out warehouse sale! (Cheap Stuff!)
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 2 Feb 2001 11:23:36 EST
  ...No bulbs, no frames or wiring. This is the same as Cabriolet inner lights. $75 each. 1- Sunburst Alloy Rim with big ding in...
• Re: 134 conversion
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Fri, 4 Feb 2005 16:30:32 -0600
  ...The humidity was so bad I had to clean mildew off the insides of the glass in picture frames. There were weeks when the...
• Re: Awning- which one?
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:19:52 -0500
  ...I have thought about a tubular frame (or frames) with a fabric skin glued to it (them) that would flip over the westy top...
• Digital format 'Bentley' project (longish)
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 3 Aug 1996 00:34:16 -0300 (ADT)
  ...I have ready access to hardware for loading VHS/8/Hi-8 video/frames into PCs or for flatbed scanning, but I don't...
• Re: Tiico and Diesel Bent Frame Rails
  Historical mailing list - Maynard Southard
  Tue, 11 Jun 2002 08:57:16 -0400
  ...be installing a mounting system on flimsier US model V- > > > gon > > > frames. Just speculation. > > > > > > > > > > > > Daniel Snow > > > > > > '82 Vanagon Diesel > > > '78 Puch Maxi Luxe Moped...
• Re: Possible Parts Source
  Historical mailing list - Vanagon man
  Tue, 2 Apr 2002 15:21:13 -0500
  ...A coupe of frames. And that > just touchs on what is out there in my storage. > I have 2 whoel 2.O Liter Aircooled...
• bus is painted, found a motor and failed the MOT
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 30 Jun 1996 17:23:28 +0200
  ...Many thanks to all those who helped me sort out the disassembly of the window frames and the paint codes. The colours are quite...
• Bumpers -- Not
  Historical mailing list - Craig Morton
  Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:49:14 -0800
  ...The door frames are thick, solid oak, and oak is visible around the window openings (as on the four side windows in back) -- though...
• Re: Reinstalling Front Side Glass
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:09:26 -0800
  ...When you reinstall the front glass do you put the wing frames in first, >> and >> then the roll ups, or the roll ups and...
• Re: Bumpers -- Not
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:04:23 -0600
  ...The door frames are thick, solid oak, and oak is visible around the window openings (as on the four side windows in back) -- though...
• Re: Propex Usage Experience
  Historical mailing list - Steven X. Schwenk
  Wed, 13 May 1998 12:29:09 -0700
  ...It's great stuff....just cut slightly larger than the window, and you stuff the excess in along the window frames....it stays there...
• Re: Video guides - Timing belts - Subie engines
  Historical mailing list - Jim Akiba
  Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:44:36 -0400
  ...If a picture is worth a thousand words and there are 29.97 frames per second in NTSC video, even if you trim it...
• Re: Tiico and Diesel Bent Frame Rails
  Historical mailing list - Phil S.
  Tue, 11 Jun 2002 13:25:28 -0700
  ...be installing a mounting > system on flimsier US model V- > > > > gon > > > > frames. Just speculation. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Daniel Snow > > > > > > > > '82 Vanagon Diesel > > > > '78 Puch Maxi Luxe Moped...
• Re: replacing window glass seals
  Historical mailing list - Brett Ne
  Wed, 20 Nov 2013 06:54:17 -0800
  ...find a way to attach the screens directly to the window frames and not have to use these screw holes. What's the best...
• Coatings for exhaust systems
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Wed, 13 Oct 2004 09:19:38 -0500
  ...I*TC 213 Ceramic Coating for Metals* ITC 213 will protect all metal parts (including elements, burners, kiln frames, and new elements coated before...
• Re: mystery vents
  Historical mailing list - Mike
  Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:57:44 -0400
  ...If it does, why do we use it around our window frames and other openings in our houses? I have already used some in...