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• Re: Rear Axle Nut ~Man that's big!!
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:19:11 -0700
  I bought the 1 13/16" socket and rented a 3/4" drive electric impact wrench. Piece of cake and cost $20 for the...
• Re: Curious locations for hardwired 3 way cig power outlet ?
  Historical mailing list - Christopher Gronski
  Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:19:11 -0400
  ...I also added a single socket on about ten inches of > wire in between the front seats, that is good for any items that...
• Re: Transmission Oil Change
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 16 Jun 1997 14:45:40 -0400 (EDT)
  Instead of using that BIG 17mm allen wrench, buy the little 17mm hex adapter for your socket wrench. Many bug shops have these, or...
• Re: Solar Panels and VW cigarette lighter
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Fri, 27 Sep 2002 16:20:06 -0700
  ...VW used two different cigarette lighters/sockets. If you asked for one for a Vanagon ... you got the one that's slightly larger. Just...
• Re: Vanagon Tool Box
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Fri, 30 Jan 2004 07:49:58 -0600
  ...8, 10, 13, 14, 17, 19 mm combination wrenches and sockets, > spark plug socket and extension, 6 and 17 mm allen wrenches, 6 mm...
• Re: 12V meter with USB and cigar lighter outlets
  Historical mailing list - Abel Longoria
  Mon, 20 Oct 2014 11:27:24 -0500
  ...I've bought some off brand usb and socket plugs in the past and have had bad luck with them. I use Blue Sea...
• Re: Power Steering Rack Question
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:28:17 -0700
  I also use a 15/16" socket on the steering wheel nut - fits dandy. On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Alistair...
• Re: Rear axle nut. Uuugh!
  Historical mailing list - Mark A Thomas
  Sat, 5 Nov 1994 21:00:19 -0600 (CST)
  ...I've never had a problem with that 3/4" breaker bar and ordninary sockets (not impact sockets), with that thick pipe, and I...
• Re: Major oil leak ...
  Historical mailing list - David Hally
  Thu, 8 Feb 2007 20:16:33 -0800
  ...I removed the pulley and used a 24mm deep socket. There is an adapter piece that came off with the sender, at first I...
• Re: dead ignition, need help
  Historical mailing list - mdrillock
  Mon, 1 Sep 2008 13:47:41 -0700
  You can easily hot wire around that part of the switch by using empty relay socket #2 of the main fuse/relay panel. Two...
• Re: Oil pressure sender
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:54:37 -0500
  ...I went and bought a 23 mm in error and then discovered that I already had a 22 mm deep socket that worked. Went...
• Re: torque, rear brakes
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 13 May 1996 09:53:15 -0700
  ...You're exerting 390 lb of force, *centered* 1 foot from the socket drive. If you take each of you separately, one is exerting...
• Re: Coolant leak - it was bound to happen
  Historical mailing list - Roy Nicholl
  Fri, 31 Jul 2015 17:48:07 -0300
  ...This seems to be the choice. >>> "wobble extension" >>> http://www.harborfreight.com/3-piece-3-8-eighth-inch-drive-impact-wobble-socket-extension-set...
• Re: Wiper Shaft Stripped
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:18:46 -0700
  ...I did this by putting a socket on each side of the hole with all of it resting firmly on the anvil area of...
• Re: instrument lighting
  Historical mailing list - Alex Towner
  Mon, 8 Mar 2004 03:37:35 -0500
  ...For the gauges at least, it might be possible to install colored bulbs in the factory bulb sockets on the back of the cluster...
• Re: Blinker issue
  Historical mailing list - Craig Cowan
  Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:46:24 -0400
  ...OK, I go to replace it and socket falls apart. I replace the socket and the bulb. Now both front and back blink but...
• Turn Signal Bulb Replacement/Rust - 84 Westy
  Historical mailing list - karen davis
  Sat, 17 Dec 2011 12:02:20 -0800
  ...What bulb replacement should I use? Also the socket piece has rust on the metal contacts. Does the plastic socket piece come all the...
• plug w/o mate engine compartment!?
  Historical mailing list - Joachim Preiss
  Sat, 28 Sep 2002 12:27:12 -0400
  ...Just couldn't find a matching socket. Description: engine compartment facing front of car, 3 pins male, approx. 3/4" diameter, with metal bracket...
• Re: that little light behind the heater controls
  Historical mailing list - Rob
  Sun, 11 Dec 2005 14:35:56 -0800
  ...How do you get the bulb out of the socket? Do the tabs pinch together and slide out? Separate and slide out? I figured...
• Shock Shaft Socket
  Historical mailing list - Robert Cardo
  Sun, 2 Oct 2005 18:18:28 -0500
  http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/tools.asp?tool=all&Group_ID=1632&store=snapon-store
• Re: How do you remove the struts from the hatch of a Vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:36:58 -0700
  ...I managed to remove the end with the > rubber socket and the clip, it's the OTHER end I'm trying to remove. I...
• Re: Transmision tools
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Young
  Fri, 16 May 2003 22:46:19 -0700
  Long Enterprises has the pinion nut socket for $100 US and a rebuild kit for about the same price. Pinion Bearings and other parts...
• Re: that little light behind the heater controls
  Historical mailing list - TC
  Tue, 13 Dec 2005 07:17:32 -0800
  ...a compatible bulb socket (12cdn) with replaceable bulb($2cdn) So i took my lumps an sure enuff the comptabible buld socket slipped right in...
• cigrette lighter or silver socket - amp problem with air compressor
  Historical mailing list - karen d
  Sun, 9 Jul 2006 20:25:21 -0700
  ...Then decided to get euro plug so I could convert silver socket to cigerette lighter but this part only comes in 8 amps, thus...
• Re: loose cigarette lighter
  Historical mailing list - Allan Streib
  Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:04:58 -0400
  I know what you mean, but the nice thing about the stock lighter socket is that it's illuminated. I'd just like to...
• Re: How to find a particular three-way electrical switch.
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:19:31 -0400
  ...As a kid I absolutely lusted after a set of Greenlee chassis punches -- octal and miniature seven and nine pin tube sockets, relay sockets...
• Re: Is it safe to saw through an o2 sensor ?
  Historical mailing list - John D. Stepto
  Mon, 12 Jun 2000 15:24:25 -0000
  There is a deep slotted socket for O2 sensors available at your FLAPS to remove it. Put some heat on it, then try it...
• Re: 88 GL - Oil Cooler R&R
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 4 Jan 2014 21:05:52 -0500
  ...I prefer a deep socket. This will also fit the front wheel bearing nuts and the radius rod nuts. The nut gets set separate...
• 88 GL - Oil Cooler R&R
  Historical mailing list - JRodgers
  Sat, 4 Jan 2014 16:15:52 -0600
  ...1) 24 MM is the largest socket I have - I don't what size that nut is - and if I have to buy one...
• Type 4 engine: plastigaging rods
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 05 Jan 1996 19:57:14 -0700
  ...Suggestions? On my rods, once the bolts are tightened a bit it's no longer trivial to get a socket on at least one...
• Re: speaking of tools (was "Huge Nut on Rear Drum")
  Historical mailing list - (Donna Cassano)
  Thu, 20 Jul 2000 23:10:59 -0400
  ...I looked up the > relelvant info in Bentley and Haynes, grabbed my socket set, and rolled > under the van, ready for action. > > Well, I...
• Re: Cigarette lighter socket standard?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 5 Nov 2001 11:34:25 -0500
  At 11:13 AM 11/5/2001, Dave M wrote: >Is the cigarette lighter socket on Vanagon's a standard size? >The reason I...
• Re: WTB Heat shield for stove lid
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:00:32 -0600
  On 4/25/05 14:49, "Jeffrey Earl" <jefferrata@YAHOO.COM> wrote: > > Oh, and that little mysterious silver socket on the > dashboard? Pencil sharpener...
• Re: wrench/socket (nut and bolt head) sizes
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 5 Jul 2011 01:06:39 -0400
  ...wrench/socket (nut and bolt head) sizes very nice.. but ...please, what the hell is anything like "19/32" !!!! ? an example of one place...
• brighter tail lights - again
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Mon, 30 May 2005 09:09:29 -0700
  I have been running 50 W halogen bulbs in my back-up lamp sockets for 3 or more years now. No melting of housing...
• Re: Minimal vanagon support kit
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Mon, 7 Sep 2009 19:41:17 -0700
  ...Spark plug socket 3" & 10" extensions 1/4 sockets and ratchet 5 mm -13 mm deep metric Allen wrench set 6 mm XZN socket...
• Re: Q: Size of forward Syncro tranny drain plug (fill hole)
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Sun, 23 Mar 2003 23:44:44 EST
  ...is a 17 mm hex socket drain plug so you need a, guess what, 17 mm hex socket wrench. Since you asked this, I...
• Re: Something strange on dash.....
  Historical mailing list - neil
  Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:33:23 -0400
  --- Zeitgeist <gruengeist@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > Might be a Euro auxiliary 12v socket. Both my '73 > Thing and '70 Euro-market > Bus had those installed...
• Re: Couple of diesel dash questions
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sun, 5 Dec 2010 17:12:26 -0800
  ...that silver thing is an electrical socket like a cigarette lighter socket, but different. A plug-in accessory socket. Scott www.turbovans.com ----- Original...
• Re: Detailed list of what size sockets/wrenches/tools do you carry??
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:39:34 -0800
  ...Detailed list of what size sockets/wrenches/tools do you > > carry?? > > > > > >> Hi Chuck: > >> I have been asking that same question of the various lists...
• Re: High beams not working
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Sat, 16 Nov 2013 12:53:57 -0500
  9004, socket pigtail, 84-1039, NAPA Frank On Nov 16, 2013, at 12:47 PM, OlRivrRat <OlRivrRat@comcast.net> wrote: > Frank ~ Do you have...
• Re: dim headlights - also Rear fog lights
  Historical mailing list - Steve Macaulay
  Mon, 9 Aug 1999 14:23:07 -0700
  ...The hardest part about this setup may be in locating the proper bulb socket. Bus Depot lists a part on their website - bulb socket...
• Coil Confusion
  Historical mailing list - Steve Schwenk
  Fri, 13 Oct 2000 13:02:43 -0700
  ...Instead, it has a female copper socket inside much like the ones on the distributor cap. Both have the same part numbers. Anyone else...
• High beam not working
  Historical mailing list - Greg Marshall
  Tue, 11 Nov 2003 16:09:31 -0500
  ...Checking the voltage with the high beam switch on, I get just under twelve volts at brown and white on the socket. With the...
• Re: Secrets of exhaust nuts
  Historical mailing list - Jim Morgan
  Sun, 13 Feb 2005 10:36:31 EST
  ...The main thing is to use a 6 point socket that fits well and heat!! Jim Morgan 86GL "breadbox" 215,000.0
• Re: Need "MUST-HAVE" Tool List
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Tue, 2 Jan 2018 14:44:04 -0500
  ...3/8" drive metric deep socket set > 1/2" drive metric socket set > (3/8" drive metric socket set) > 3/8" drive beam-type...
• Rear Axle Housing Bolts: Use shallow O2 Socket?
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Wed, 22 Apr 2015 10:35:33 -0700
  ...it will fit, but have others found that a shallow O2 socket can handle the (110 Ft-lb ?) torque for the axle housing to...
• Re: Rear Axle Housing Bolts: Use shallow O2 Socket?
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Wed, 22 Apr 2015 21:49:38 -0700
  ...impact socket. I'll cut it shorter then weld a a plate steel arm and possibly a socket to that for torque wrench. Given...
• More Tailight Glow
  Historical mailing list - George Chapman
  Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:28:01 -0700
  ...power a bulb in the "cateye" socket--- if I had the appropriate bulb clip (like the other sockets). I found some clips at the...
• Re: How to get spare tire out??? Urgent!
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sat, 5 Mar 2011 11:22:51 -0800
  try an 6 point socket for one thing, not a 12 point. I have seen a vanagon or two where someone stuck in the...
• 19mm oil drain plug?
  Historical mailing list - Cronin, Paul
  Thu, 6 Jul 2006 08:20:13 -0400
  ...The oil drain plug had been switched out to a 19mm, and with the recessed location I was unable to get a socket to...
• Re: inverter lighter plug cable?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 4 Sep 2006 22:38:30 -0400
  ...It shouldn't be plugged into the factory cigarette lighter socket. Get some heavy duty socket and plugs and install proper, (12 gauge) wire...
• Re: Video of Noise at Clutch Operating Lever. Help Diagnose Please?
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Mon, 26 Jun 2017 10:10:31 -0700
  ...My FTE slave cylinder has a plastic socket which appears longer than the metal OEM type. image of FTE slave cylinder http://www.van...
• Re: How to repair Sun visor
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Sat, 24 Sep 2016 23:18:27 +0000
  ...The Gowesty replacement looks like it doesn't have > the ball but has the socket. At least what I think I'm seeing > Dennis...
• 86-91 oil pressure switch
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Sat, 30 Aug 1997 20:49:42 CDT
  ...the shield sticks up just enough to mess up the socket going in. the weird thing is ... the sender is 24mm (and you'll...
• Electrical problem--Parking lights, side markers and rear markers not working on '87 Syncro
  Historical mailing list - Don Clark
  Mon, 1 Oct 2001 15:37:35 -0400
  ...Both sockets corroded. Side marker not receiving voltage. Front parking light receiving voltage. Socket and bulb replaced on front right parking/directional light. Directional...
• Re: tools question;
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Sun, 22 Nov 1998 13:14:52 -0800
  ...deep sockets: 4,5,6,7,8,9,10 > 3/8"-- 8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16mm ........ deep sockets: 9,10...
• Re: Big tools for your big nuts; was RE: Why my rear axle nuts got loose
  Historical mailing list - Mike South
  Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:24:50 -0500
  ...Look at the page with the 46mm x 3/4, > http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_00974467000P?keyword=46mm+socket&pr...
• Re: CV Joints
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:34:11 -0400
  ...Finally an electric impact and socket to spin the bolt out. The bolt out made minor marking on the outside of socket head cap...
• Re: Snap-On triple square socket driver
  Historical mailing list - miguel pacheco
  Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:48:59 -0600
  ...store=snapon-store > > I bought the Vanagon manual trans drain plug socket driver from Snap-On > online about a year ago; worked like any...