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• Re: camping amidst bears, safety question
  Historical mailing list - Mike South
  Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:13:53 -0600
  ...one that's presumably permeated by food smells, at least from the > perspective of a bear's nose. > > so i put the food in...
• Re: VW tent for sale
  Historical mailing list - Pollard, Matthew
  Mon, 9 Nov 1998 11:52:50 -0800
  ...Old canvas degrades (as my Antelope backpack will tell you! circa 1970) and nylon tents degrade, causing a smell like cat shit! The smell...
• Possible funky smell solution.
  Historical mailing list - Nathaniel Poole
  Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:50:55 -0700
  Tracing down the funky heater smell problem I see what a previous poster meant about numerous places where oil can get inside these things...
• RE: 91 Auto Transmission Problem
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 28 Apr 1997 13:58:46 -0500 (CDT)
  I forgot to add - the fluid level is OK, it looks clean and does not smell burnt. Tim Hannink Orlando, Florida 1991 Vanagon 1975...
• Thanks!!
  Historical mailing list - tonyd
  Thu, 5 Nov 1998 16:35:02 -0700
  Thank you to everyone who replied to my "smelly" rear heater. Everyone had generally the same input/diagnosis which I will put to use...
• Re: removing smoke smell-- need help pls
  Historical mailing list - Horace K. Sawyer
  Mon, 18 Dec 2000 20:33:07 -0500
  I heard something about apples removing this from smoked-in cars, and there are other remedies, but I cannot remember! Anyone know any tricks...
• Re: rear heater smells like syrup
  Historical mailing list - Ben huot
  Mon, 18 Mar 2002 18:31:00 -0500
  My site is partially up, there is a section on the rear heater core. Here it is: http://www3.sympatico.ca/huotx/rear_heater...
• Re: Brown Stove Face Plate. High Temp Rust-oleum: "OK" Match
  Historical mailing list - MICHAEL H
  Mon, 4 Mar 2013 16:19:08 -0800
  ...the nice, new paint :) fumes will permeate the entire house and make it smell like a body shop :( � � then you take the left over...
• Re: Pesky Oil Leak
  Historical mailing list - Roger VanTill
  Fri, 2 Jul 2010 13:13:37 -0400
  I can't imagine what poodles smell like when they drip on your exhaust! On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:37 AM, John...
• 1990 Vanagon Fuel injection problem
  Historical mailing list - Ry L Blaisdell
  Mon, 10 Jun 2002 21:29:33 -0500
  ...My brother towed me home and I called my favorite bug mechanic, who suggested smelling the oil.. ....the oil was very gassy smelling. My...
• Re: FW: gas smell in oil update
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Fri, 5 Sep 2003 18:52:39 -0400
  ...I actually like that, 'cause I don't get > Diesel smell all over my hands. :-) Also, it's somewhat typical to get > your windshield...
• Re: Healthiest way to lead an UnHealthy Vanagon lifestyle? (a long attempt at Phrydey humour)
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:26:58 -0700
  ...Now I always smell before tasting. My ruined sense of smell can't detect most things, but it can at least detect that whiff...
• Re: Smelly dirty vanagons ..
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Thu, 17 Mar 2016 11:02:18 -0700
  ...Eastern Daylight Time, > dhanson928@GMAIL.COM writes: > > putting my wet dogs > inside. > > ive passed up many vanagons that looked and smelled like mobile dog...
• SMOKE! After I turn off my BA6 Gas Heater
  Historical mailing list - 80 Westy Pokey
  Sun, 19 May 2002 17:11:54 -0400
  ...The smell is not new. My BA6 was not running for a really long time, not for any fault of the heater, some of...
• Gas Smell: Flange to Filler Tube
  Historical mailing list - Patrick Flynn
  Mon, 17 Jun 1996 11:36:50 -0400
  My 75 Campmobile smells of gas when full and I recently checked the flange/seal to the filler tube and have noticed it is...
• Re: Smells like Gas
  Historical mailing list - Michael Wagner
  Sun, 1 Oct 1995 18:00:40 -700 (PDT)
  Filler pipe leak? I guess you'd have to remove that body panel to check if there's no visible leak, and it's...
• Re: EUROVAN EXHAUST
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 27 Nov 1996 22:36:48 -0500
  Just acquired a '93 and hopefully nothing wrong...except I do smell a strong sulfur odor sometimes when I turn it off and get...
• carfax please
  Historical mailing list - Jamie Foust
  Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:00:30 -0700
  ...Jamie --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos.
• Weitec spring users?
  Historical mailing list - Chris S.
  Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:19:10 -0700
  ...Could you share your experience with the product? Thanks! Chris S. --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos.
• Re: Faint coolant smell
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Tue, 8 Sep 2015 14:49:12 -0700
  ...Faint coolant smell Bill: Already put dye in the coolant when I started looking for leaks. Neil, Stuart: I'd be hard pressed to...
• Re: [NVC] ABC News: Embalmed in Your Own RV
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:52:07 -0700
  I wonder how many people would actually recognize formaldehyde when they smelled it? I would've thought that most folks in my age range...
• Re: milestone
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Tue, 28 May 2002 09:16:54 -0500
  ...the smell of fresh engine oil burning off your muffler, God I love that smell. Stan Wilder 83 Air Cooled On Tue, 28 May...
• interior smells like exhaust...
  Historical mailing list - gordy jones
  Fri, 20 Sep 2002 14:20:39 -0700
  ...but ever since then, the interior smells like exhaust or something of that nature and it is not faint, it is very apparent. I...
• Re: diagnosing by smell - maybe brake problem?
  Historical mailing list - Joy Hecht
  Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:00:04 -0230
  On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 6:57 PM, neil N <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote: > Can you determine which wheel the smell is coming...
• Re: Another Vanagon Burns Up
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Fri, 1 Apr 2005 09:00:24 -0700
  ...Fan off not gas smell, fan on gas smell. I immediately shut down when on the driveway realizing the only place that smell could...
• Re: gas smell solution progress
  Historical mailing list - Richard Golen
  Sun, 25 Sep 2016 22:30:37 +0000
  ...I�m told the gasket in the evaporation tank itself can also need replacing but at the moment I am gas smell free. > > If...
• Re: Catalytic Converter???? Anyone go without it???
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 18 Mar 2012 19:43:23 -0400
  ...But there is no mistaking that smell of unburned fuel from some older cars. I really like that balst of black smoke when they...
• Re: Your GoWesty Engine...how do you like it?
  Historical mailing list - W Monk
  Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:50:39 -0400
  ...Maybe I am just insensitive to that smell, but my > > clothes do retain it, and when I wash them several days after the fire...
• Re: Dead mouse benind Westy cabinets?
  Historical mailing list - Paul Guzyk
  Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:23:04 -0700
  ...http://www.benplace.com/fridge.htm >For the last few days, I've smelled an awful smell, like a dead >animal, in my Westfalia...
• Re: 91 Westy rear heater core smell - no leak!
  Historical mailing list - Horace K. Sawyer
  Tue, 4 Jan 2000 21:34:12 -0500
  ...My nose knows. : ) This smell is driving me batty (more so than I already am, so they say). Hope this odor is not DANGERous...
• Re: Smelly rear heater
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Fri, 4 Oct 2019 23:19:36 -0600
  See No Original ~ On 4 Oct , 2019, at 10:19 PM, David Beierl wrote: > Look harder? Fluorescent dye in the coolant might help. With...
• Three Little Birds
  Historical mailing list - Steven Shelton
  Fri, 3 Feb 2012 09:13:10 -0500
  ...Of course, it retains the traditional funny smelling smoke wafting from the windows. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY_NQZyBc3g
• Re: funky exhaust odors
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 2 Apr 1998 01:08:35 -0800
  Austin wrote: > > Any ideas as to why exhaust can smell like rotten eggs (hydrogen > sulfide), esp. what causes it? > > Austin Beer, beans, and 7...
• Re: Re; New Guy
  Historical mailing list - Terry Kay
  Sat, 12 May 2001 23:25:51 -0500
  No, Ben, I give it a squirt of vitamin "E" It loves the smell of fresh ether in the morning. :>) Invigorating. ______________ |[ ] [ ] [ ]\ | | | | ||-(())----(())-| Terry 74 Campmobile...
• Rotten eggs located
  Historical mailing list - Lionel Tun
  Sat, 22 Feb 1997 20:59:45 -0000
  I have traced the rotten egg smell I was having intermittently. It is from the front windscreen washer fluid. It now clicks into place...
• Rear Heater Motor Problem - burny smell
  Historical mailing list - Marshall Ruskin
  Sat, 20 Nov 1999 06:35:41 -0600
  ...obviously) - I get that dreaded electrical insulation or strong burning plastic smell. However, the fan does work well, noise-free, and heat does come...
• Odor removal (A refreshing topic)....
  Historical mailing list - Daniel Schmitz
  Fri, 28 Jul 2000 13:11:43 -0700
  ...It smells like (can I say this on the list?) urine, and I suspect that an animal of some type must have caused this...
• Re: Cleaning Interior: carpet/rugs
  Historical mailing list - Tom Stone
  Wed, 13 Aug 2003 21:44:49 EDT
  ...The PO had a dog and the van smelled like wet dog whenever there was high humidity. I pulled off all the cushion covers...
• stinky heater boxes
  Historical mailing list - Jake Beaulieu
  Fri, 9 Apr 2004 22:24:17 -0700
  ...It stunk really bad when brand new, and after 9 months the smell has not completely gone away. The other heater box is original...
• Re: Smell of burning plastic
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Mon, 30 Aug 2004 00:18:34 -0400
  ...On Aug 29, 2004, at 10:47 PM, Jim Heissenbuttel wrote: > Anyone else ever have a burning plastic smell in the cabin when the...
• Re: gas smell solution progress
  Historical mailing list - Ken
  Mon, 26 Sep 2016 19:47:18 -0400
  ...gas smell solution progress Hi Richard, I only replaced the two very small hoses attached to the evaporation tank in the wheel wells. they...
• Re: [Fwd: Gas in my Oil???]
  Historical mailing list - Stephen White (aka Thoreau)
  Wed, 30 Apr 1997 15:33:50 -0500 (CDT)
  ...Chasteen wrote: > When I was checking the oil on the vanagon today, I noticed a strong > smell of gas. I smelled the clean cloth...
• Re: Odor removal (A refreshing topic)....
  Historical mailing list - Gary Stearns
  Fri, 28 Jul 2000 16:41:04 -0400
  ...The same smell lingering in the air. Though about it and realized that the storage areas under the front seats would have made delightful...
• Rear heater motor caught on fire
  Historical mailing list - Mike South
  Tue, 3 May 2016 10:28:52 -0500
  ...My daughter complained about a smell. I could smell something, but it was pretty faint. Fan hadn't been used in a while, it...
• Re: black exhaust residue
  Historical mailing list - KBatzler
  Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:28:03 -0800
  ...Plugs stay clean, nice light brown. >Exhaust smells good, no heavy fuel smell, and no real oil burning smell. I >know the preceding sounds...
• Re: FrontFire?
  Historical mailing list - Michael Diehr
  Tue, 16 May 2006 12:09:48 -0700
  ...Immediately post rebuild, it would idles somewhat roughly, smelled like it was running rich, poor fuel economy. Drove it around for about 500 miles...
• Re: Online Hawaii Radio Station that's great
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:45:36 -0800
  On 3/12/10, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote: > Ok, it's Fridae. .... > The air just smells > fragrent there sometimes too. > > there...
• Re: Phunky Phridge Smells
  Historical mailing list - Marshall Ruskin
  Mon, 1 May 2000 17:46:42 -0500
  ...To look at it, it is the cleanest looking just not >the cleanest smelling. > > Aby ideas on how to combat the evil Phunk of...
• Re: Was bummed (now happy and confused) about 87 GL
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 21 Aug 1998 11:57:49 EDT
  You just did head gaskets right? Uh does the white smoke smell like anti- freeze? White smoke is usually water vapor. Ken Wilford John...
• smells in a Westy
  Historical mailing list - Denis B�lisle
  Fri, 6 Nov 1998 21:47:51 -0800
  Has anyone else noticed this? Yes mine, water trap between the two layer during hot day no way to sit inside Denis Qu�bec...
• diagnosing a leaky injector
  Historical mailing list - Bradley Flubacher
  Mon, 4 Aug 2003 19:55:20 -0400
  I seem to have a persistent problem of a smell of gas in my oil. I'm beginning to expect a dripping injector. Can...
• G-Mail issue
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Thu, 6 Dec 2007 17:53:09 -0800
  From google groups: <http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Problem-solving/browse_thread/ thread/530927a08717557d/42f90d55ac9e6ff9?lnk=raot#42f90d55ac9e6ff9> Smells like a server problem...
• Re: camping amidst bears, safety question
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:38:29 -0800
  ...one that's presumably permeated by food smells, at least from the perspective of a bear's nose. so i put the food in...
• Re: Fuel leaks/smell
  Historical mailing list - Martin Laycock
  Tue, 7 Mar 2000 12:53:01 +0000
  ...Martin At 16:59 06/03/00 -500, Ezra Hall wrote: > Since purchase last Sept, we have had a gasoline smell problem after fill...
• bus stuff
  Historical mailing list - Sean Bartnik
  Tue, 16 Apr 96 18:04:26 EDT
  ...When I have a full tank of gas, I can smell the gas inside the car. It's not related to the new gas...
• Re: Clean up Fuse Block under dash?...maybe add dielectric grease?
  Historical mailing list - David McNeely
  Tue, 2 Jul 2019 20:33:58 -0700
  ...The smell that people associate with the sea is not salt, but the organics in the mist, and organics from muds, sands, plants, and...
• unclas diagnosis of brake issues - what do you all think? (was: Help...
  Historical mailing list - Thomas, Geoffrey
  Wed, 24 Mar 2004 09:38:36 -0500
  ...Front bearings in 2WD vans are adjustable, I think. > Brakes can stick and cause a bunring smell as well. Unfortunately, w/o > Smell-O...
• Re: camping amidst bears, safety question
  Historical mailing list - Sheilah Rogers
  Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:15:30 -0800
  ...one that's presumably permeated by food smells, at least from the perspective of a bear's nose. > > so i put the food in...
• Re: rear heater smells like syrup
  Historical mailing list - Brent Christensen
  Fri, 15 Mar 2002 11:37:54 -0800
  >First my when I turn on my rear heater it smells like syrup. Anybody know >anything about this? You have a coolant leak. Probably...
• Re: Gas smell in Oil months after using Magical Mystery oil Please help.
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sun, 11 May 2003 22:26:15 -0600
  Fuel smell in the oil is highly significant in that it tells you that your cylinders are not getting enough lubricant and you are...