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• Re: pull a part
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:43:36 -0700
  ...The 'pull apart' is a couple of blocks from me but I have > no > > need for anything that migh be on an aircooled, at...
• Re: CV Joint Removal (OK, we go back to the topic)
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Thu, 11 Aug 94 12:52:42 CDT
  ...Also, when I pulled the joints from the >junkyard axle, two needed to be pulled off with the heavy duty puller, but >the other...
• Re: Source of interior panel fasteners
  Historical mailing list - Tom Young
  Mon, 4 Aug 2003 18:51:08 -0700
  ...I ignored the suggestions by folks to > pull the engine to pull one head. So, I have the head bolts off of one > head...
• Re: I get no respect
  Historical mailing list - Ryan Press
  Mon, 5 Apr 2004 11:15:41 -0700
  David Brodbeck said: > On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Jack wrote: > >> At one time there was a law in California that required people to pull...
• My Ignition switch replacement experience
  Historical mailing list - jon
  Sun, 29 Oct 2006 18:28:15 -0800
  ...1) Remove shaft "cowling" 2) Remove horn plastic assembly (just pulls off) 3) Remove 24mm bolt 4) Pull steering wheel off (no puller required...
• Syncro Diff Lock Actuator Removal
  Historical mailing list - Tom L. Salicos
  Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:20:05 -0800
  ...I have pulled off the housing and released the lock ring, but nothing wants to unscrew or pull out. What's the magic here...
• Re: A/C - what it the purpose of the vacuum check
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Mon, 4 Jul 2011 18:09:19 -0400
  ...Pulling a vacuum not only gets rid of air (which doesn't really work as a refrigerant) but also water (which can be detrimental...
• Re: Technique For Removing Speedo needle?
  Historical mailing list - Mike
  Sat, 3 Oct 2009 07:57:27 -0400
  It is really on there, but it will pull right off. It will break easily, if you don't confine 100% of your pulling...
• Re: Engine Questions
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 12 May 1996 13:57:55 -0400
  ...Is it becvause it has been set at TDC? Does this mean I could set the pulley wheel correctly as well? - - - - - - - - - the crank pulley...
• Re: pilot bearing
  Historical mailing list - Tom Young
  Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:29:49 -0700
  ...On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, John Reynolds wrote: > Thanks to Weber@zap-net.com I found out that a pilot bearing puller can > be...
• Am I missing something? - Engine tin
  Historical mailing list - (Donna Cassano)
  Tue, 25 Jul 2000 11:53:42 -0400
  ...I don't have any plans on pulling the engine any time soon (knock on some wood), so I don't think that I...
• Removing Lifters.... magnetic puller
  Historical mailing list - Steve LZO
  Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:17:06 -0400
  Thanks for the quick responses!!!! After allowing blood to flow back to my brain, I realized I had pulled a Homer. They came out...
• Re: Time Delay LED Lighting Circuit
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 6 Aug 2017 20:48:39 -0400
  ...When door is closed, + lead is pulled up toward V+ through the lamp. Q2 base is pulled up through R1 5K6. It is biased...
• Re: crank pulley removal
  Historical mailing list - Craig Oda - Personal email
  Thu, 13 Jun 2002 10:08:13 -0700
  ...crank pulley removal > > > > I have a 1983.5 westy with a 3 groove pulley. As many of you know, I > > am in the process...
• Re: update: help needed can not drive van...oil seals for Syncro
  Historical mailing list - Ken Wilford
  Mon, 20 Sep 2010 07:45:04 -0400
  Jay, yes there is a different seal for the Syncro behind the crank pulley and that is what has caused your quickly destroying the...
• Re: '56 kombi - brakes (again)
  Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
  Tue, 11 Jul 1995 21:18:24 -0700 (PDT)
  Richard writes: > > Well, since it's come up, what causes that hard pulling when you first > stop? My '67 has only recently started doing...
• Re: Re was Alarm system, was Bus story - using a gun??? Now this gun stuff worries me; VC, honest
  Historical mailing list - Joy Hecht
  Sat, 27 Jan 2007 23:49:34 -0500
  ...To :::date and this is no exaggeration I have been pulled over 157 times by the :::police two of those time they pulled a...
• engine rebuild in FL
  Historical mailing list - Richard Smith
  Mon, 10 Apr 1995 05:30:48 -0500 (EST)
  IF you are just rebuilding the top end (valves/head gaskets), that can be done witout pulling the engine according to the bently manual...
• Re: Tiico: Harmonic balancing pulley
  Historical mailing list - Sean B.
  Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:54:38 -0700
  ...tiico freak out there put a harmonic balancing pulley on their > tiicos (say, a pulley off of a jetta/golf/wabbit/rocco/fox.etc...
• Re: Engine Timing - 2 Simple Questions
  Historical mailing list - John Lauterbach
  Sun, 9 Apr 2006 18:35:40 -0400
  Notch shape may vary depending in what has happened to pulley. Right front cylinder is #1 FRONT OF VAN LEFT RIGHT 3 1 4...
• Re: oil drain plug miseries...
  Historical mailing list - Jim Morgan
  Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:23:05 EST
  ...Hopefully you will get to a point where you could pull it out or colapse it and pull it out. I have not done...
• Re: First try at a trannie only pull - questions
  Historical mailing list - Warren Lail
  Fri, 8 Apr 2005 14:36:55 -0500
  ...If they don't, you will have to turn the engine just a bit (grab a pully, etc, and tug on it) to get...
• Re: 1985 Vanagon GL
  Historical mailing list - Marion Lathem
  Sat, 19 Aug 2006 10:50:06 -0500
  ...I'm going to build one of those rigs like in Bentley to hold the crank pulley firm, so I can again try to...
• Re: V-Belt Pully Bolt
  Historical mailing list - Craig Oda
  Mon, 27 Dec 2004 14:38:57 -0800
  I seem to remember getting the main pulley bolt off with a 6 ft piece of jack handle over a 1/2" socket drive...
• Fridge blows out while moving? Try this.
  Historical mailing list - Justin M. Mayrand
  Sat, 17 May 2003 22:05:38 -0400
  ...Now, the first thing I do when pulling the fridge (and I am a pro now - max 10 mins to pull it) is to...
• 86 weekender interior for sale in Oakland, CA
  Historical mailing list - Paul Guzyk
  Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:42:18 -0800
  I was at the Oakland Pick N Pull today. They have a reasonably fresh 84 hardtop Vanagon in the lot. The PO installed what...
• Re: Nuts!...Axle Nuts!
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 4 Jul 1996 05:12:50 -0400
  ...i once renting the kind of puller that screwed in with the lug nuts, and well, it pulled the lugs right out of their...
• Re: Heater Ventilation Slider Controls
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Wed, 21 Aug 2013 13:13:51 -0500
  ...I > pulling pretty hard. Do they ultimately slide off if I just pull harder? > Trying to remove the face plate so I scan change...
• Stiff Heater Cables when pulling
  Historical mailing list - Woodcock, Frank
  Thu, 18 Feb 1999 13:48:37 -0000
  ...However it takes a lot of force to move the control slider to the right and pull the cables to open the heat exchanger...
• Nice trip/nice guy
  Historical mailing list - mike .
  Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:08:08 -0700
  ...Pulled in late right next to a very large diesel pusher pulling the cleanest VW bus I ever saw. Next day Rich came over...
• Re: Timing tips for Idiots
  Historical mailing list - Tom Young
  Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:43:54 -0700
  ...Then, you can use a ratchet wrench on the center bolt of the pulley - turn clockwise only - or even just turn the engine by...
• Diesel V-belt mystery
  Historical mailing list - Juha Koivisto
  Tue, 29 Feb 2000 08:02:47 +0200
  ...Before I have only one much longer belt which accidentally fits to the pulleys. Crank has 118/140 pulleys, cooling pump has 100/140...
• power steering V-belt falls off
  Historical mailing list - Rob MacLeod
  Mon, 17 Apr 2000 23:45:24 -0600
  ...However, it is not clear to me one could alter the plane of the pulley. The pulley of the power steering motor turns fine...
• Re: Anyone ever replace Vanagon antenna?
  Historical mailing list - Vanagon Man
  Sun, 25 Nov 2001 14:53:10 -0500
  ...pulled it out thru the ashtray opening.........that was back when i used to avoid pulling the dash......now I am always pulling the...
• had a no start situation today
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Tue, 1 Nov 2011 18:44:15 -0700
  ...Then I pulled cover from fuse panel and pushed on fuses and generally jiggled panel. Fuel pump cycled on, and I could start the...
• Re: Pulling the engine tonight, anything I need to know?
  Historical mailing list - robot .
  Mon, 5 Feb 2001 16:59:19 -0800
  ...tim >I'm pulling the engine tonight on the "new" (to me) 83, I just >bought. Anywords of wisdom. The last VW engine I...
• Re: Headlight Turn Signal wiring weirdness
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Fri, 17 Aug 2012 19:19:27 -0700
  ...Pull out the left front assembly and pull back the rubber boot. Then cringe at the horror within. The brown wire is probably not...
• Re: Survey--shower mod
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 1 Feb 2001 09:30:09 -0700
  ...It pulls out about 3 feet and has the pump switch on the faucet head. You just pull it out the window or door...
• Diesel pulley needed urgently!
  Historical mailing list - Denmiester
  Thu, 30 Sep 2004 09:16:03 -0400
  ...Trying to put a diesel engine back together on my 82 Westie, and need the adjustable second pulley assembly on the end of the...
• Re: Friday
  Historical mailing list - The Shaws
  Fri, 28 Jan 2005 20:24:27 -0800
  ...I pull the keys out the ignition and then with keys in the same hand pull the e-brake getting my finger between several...
• Re: Pulling air filter box from Dodge Caravan. Anything else worth pulling? (...
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Thu, 1 May 2008 10:26:02 -0700
  You might want to check out the overhead light (above the rearview mirror) or, on the LE and SE vans, the overhead console. Might...
• Re: New Type of CV Boot Available - 10 Minutes and boot replaced
  Historical mailing list - Steve
  Thu, 8 Apr 1999 16:01:49 -0700
  ...I was pulling into a gas station today, and an attractive teenage girl > leaned out of her car, and yelled, "I like your car...
• Re: Installing a TD harmonic dampner on Vanagon diesel
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Pollard
  Fri, 23 Feb 2001 15:30:17 -0800
  Ken, you got the pulley thing backwards. A smaller pulley would turn slower and cause the waterpump & alternator to spin slower- BUT with more...
• Re: fridge removal
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Sun, 19 May 2002 10:24:50 -0700
  ...i >have a service manual i got from either the wetwesties >or westfailure that says i can just pull the fridge >without pulling the...
• Re: Suggestions for removing locking gas cap w/o key
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Sun, 18 Sep 2005 03:35:15 -0700
  On 9/17/05, Conrad Klahn <conradk@mac.com> wrote: > > > <snip> << I have no problem pulling the locks, but need suggestions for removing a...
• Re: Air and heat knobs on levers
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Mon, 4 Mar 2013 12:20:24 -0800
  Use pliers on the "shaft" of the levers, not the knob, when you are pulling with the pliers, brace your pulling hand so that...
• Re: Diesel waterpumps
  Historical mailing list - Stefan Weir
  Sun, 30 Jan 2000 23:38:16 EST
  ...Of course after typing all this, I realized he could have changed the pulley...I will ask him this week if he used the...
• Re: Pulling the Dash (fascia)
  Historical mailing list - Timothy Hannink
  Mon, 26 Nov 2001 09:19:02 -0500
  ...Pull knob from rear heater fan switch Remove rear heater fan switch Pull knob from front fan switch Pull levers from heater controls (be...
• What is lurking under you fuel expansion tank?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
  Sat, 27 Jul 2002 20:48:16 EDT
  ...It would not fit into the drivers side of the fuel tank, so I pulled and pulled and it still would not fit into...
• Re: leaking,pulley wobbling,noise making water pump
  Historical mailing list - Carrington, Tom
  Mon, 21 Jan 2002 16:08:18 -0500
  ...leaking,pulley wobbling,noise making water pump > > i have a few questions about my water pump, 85,1.9L > westy...it has started to...
• Re: Info about the dash knobs, please?
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Tue, 16 Sep 2003 13:48:05 -0400
  ...When starting a cold engine at a temperature *above* 15 degrees F, pull out the knob before starting, and push it back in once...
• 86 Exterior Sliding Door Lock Barrel - Voluntary Release
  Historical mailing list - Joe Novak
  Tue, 22 Mar 2016 09:07:57 -0700
  ...I should point out that i knew this was coming as its been threatening to pull free for a while. Last weekend, I pulled...
• Re: How to torque the 3 Groove Pully?
  Historical mailing list - Pat
  Sun, 2 Jun 2013 16:30:39 -0400
  ...How to torque the 3 Groove Pully? Howdy, I need to torque the 3 groove pully on my engine but I don't have...
• Re: Cabin Air Flow
  Historical mailing list - ed donnen
  Thu, 3 May 2012 07:01:16 -0400
  >Scott: ...the stock tail pipe is in the corner of the vehicle ..so that a vortex there pulls exhaust away. Don't forget that...
• fuel inlet pulls out of Solex carb! how to fix?
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 22 May 94 10:33:12 MST
  ...the fuel inlet pipe on one of the two Solex carbs pull out. She now has it epoxyed back in place and will try...
• Re: Is it safe to pull out the chrome window strips?
  Historical mailing list - Cory Zumbrennen
  Thu, 5 Apr 2001 14:35:29 -0600
  I stand firmly on the, "pull those ugly things" side! I have done it to numerous VW products without any problems. But I havn...
• Re: Receiver hitch
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Mon, 11 Apr 2005 20:31:26 -0700
  Oh, I don't doubt they will take a pull, a more or less direct pull, but it was the force applied perpendicular , ie...
• Re: Oil filler tube extension pulled out.-- Well shiver me timbers
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:22:53 -0500
  I've pulled the Ol' Extension out of the hole more than once. Put it back in and PUSH! :-) If you have managed to...
• Note Re: More Fuel Pump Weirdness - Has Mercury gone retrograde again?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:30:27 -0400
  At 04:28 PM 4/21/2010, David Beierl wrote: >The standard pump pulls fuel from the tank very nicely -- it's a >positive...
• Re: Tiico and the Burp Tank
  Historical mailing list - Damian Shaw
  Tue, 14 Aug 2001 09:18:57 -0600
  ...but the a/c compressor pulley will not rub against the coolant overflow tank when your Tiico is in. The closest tollerance will be...