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• Re: Belly pans for speed /mpg
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Sun, 18 May 2008 17:40:48 -0700
  ...It will be interesting to see if there is a significant or measurable fuel mileage diference between AWD and 2WD with his decoupler. I...
• Re: Load vs fuel consumption..
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sat, 28 Mar 2015 10:11:53 -0700
  ...I also have another van, an AWD Safari that I bought for the traction and to use for work....I record fuel consumption in...
• Re: 14 inch tire feedback
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Palmer
  Sun, 3 Jun 2018 23:12:59 -0500
  ...I have go forms on my AWD Safari van, too but in 15" > > On Jun 3, 2018 1:57 PM, "Dan N" <dn92610@gmail...
• Re: Fwd: * 10/4/2015 Needed NOW! Vanagon (1981) ONLY starts when cold /How To FIX this advice. PLEASE . . .
  Historical mailing list - Linda Merrill
  Mon, 5 Oct 2015 19:27:55 +0000
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• Re: Just like a Vanagon, but modern..
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:10:36 -0800
  ...to buy and to drive than a VW Syncro..The Previa AWD wouldn't be as backcountry-ready as a Syncro, but for winter...
• Re: No Vanagon Content/Macintosh bashing
  Historical mailing list - Chris Mills
  Tue, 26 Mar 2002 21:19:27 -0600
  ...67 Hamster Power) '65 Beetle - Type IV powered '99 CR-V AWD station wagon '81 CB900 Custom moto-chickle 2.5 Corvair engines for...
• Re: Headlight upgrade questions
  Historical mailing list - Jack
  Mon, 9 Sep 2002 13:39:16 -0700
  ...67 Hamster Power) > '65 Beetle - Type IV powered > '99 CR-V AWD station wagon > '81 CB900 Custom moto-chickle > 2.5 Corvair engines for...
• Re: interesting tire safety video
  Historical mailing list - Roger Whittaker
  Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:33:47 -0700
  ...My front tires wear more quickly on my van than > the > rears and it's AWD, but the main drive is rear. Factor: the...
• Re: Towing a Syncro
  Historical mailing list - sstones
  Thu, 21 Sep 1995 13:24:52 -0400 (EDT)
  ...GTX:(It was all > wheel drive) The problem with towing the AWD vechicles is that all is OK > until you take a turn, then...
• Re: Stupid Car Tricks
  Historical mailing list - Sean Solowiej
  Thu, 5 Dec 2002 15:12:11 -0600
  ...But in snow, not-terribly-judicious use > of the throttle results in beautiful figure 8's, huge circles, and wide > half-assed AWD donuts...
• Re: locked out
  Historical mailing list - Chris Mills
  Wed, 4 Sep 2002 13:26:16 -0500
  ...67 Hamster Power) '65 Beetle - Type IV powered '99 CR-V AWD station wagon '81 CB900 Custom moto-chickle 2.5 Corvair engines for...
• Why I bought a Westfalia (was: Tires)
  Historical mailing list - ZUMBRENNEN JOSEPH CORY
  Thu, 14 Mar 1996 11:06:49 -0700 (MST)
  ...Syncro...I was sure that I had discovered the perfect automobile. AWD, high ground clearance, house, etc...Book Value around $8000 for an 86...
• Re: New Microbus Website
  Historical mailing list - Steven Johnson
  Thu, 11 Jan 2001 08:36:32 -0800
  ...I said > I was more interested in the T5, and I wanted a full > time AWD V6 TDI w/ > 6 speed Westfalia. But the...
• Re: towing capacity with big brakes and turbo zetec engine
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:11:31 -0700
  ...I don't think it says if this is a 2WD vanagon or a Syncro AWD one. some factor there on the trans I...
• Re: Maico $399 respray any good?
  Historical mailing list - Chris Mills
  Sat, 16 Mar 2002 18:08:22 -0800
  ...67 Hamster Power) '65 Beetle - Type IV powered '99 CR-V AWD station wagon '81 CB900 Custom moto-chickle 2.5 Corvair engines for...
• Re: Vanagon high-roof sighting
  Historical mailing list - John P. Golden
  Fri, 10 Jan 1997 21:53:50 -0800
  ...With the extra weight of the Syncro transmission (AWD), and the camping equipment, much is which is mounted under the van, it is pretty...
• Re: Towing with an '81 2.0?
  Historical mailing list - Chris Mills
  Mon, 8 Apr 2002 08:31:48 -0500
  ...67 Hamster Power) '65 Beetle - Type IV powered '99 CR-V AWD station wagon '81 CB900 Custom moto-chickle 2.5 Corvair engines for...
• Re: Trade 4WD for our 1988 Westy camper?
  Historical mailing list - Jack R.
  Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:49:47 -0400
  ...Anyone can own an SUV, but it takes a special person to own a Westy! Yes, I own an 84 Westy, and 2 - AWD...
• Re: Diesel as carb/injector cleaner?
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Fri, 13 Sep 2002 09:33:17 -0400
  ...67 Hamster Power) '65 Beetle - Type IV powered '99 CR-V AWD station wagon '81 CB900 Custom moto-chickle 2.5 Corvair engines for...
• Vanagon owners in upstate NY ---- Last plug for Westies at Watkins
  Historical mailing list - Joel Cort
  Sun, 19 Sep 2004 02:51:13 -0700
  ...s 2wd Suzuki for some all wheel drive vehicles, maybe an awd astro and a Subaru. But how do the Vanagon's do? I...
• Re: It's A Sickness, I Tell You...
  Historical mailing list - Matt Thyer
  Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:43:11 -0700
  ...I sold that and bought a 1996 AWD Safari. Just an hour ago the buyer of the Safari drove off. I didn't even...
• Change E-mail ... Oops ... Fw: 10/05 in BERKELEY, Calif. Re: Fwd: * 10/4/2015 Needed NOW! Vanagon (1981) ONLY starts when cold /How To FIX this advice. PLEASE . . .
  Historical mailing list - Linda Merrill
  Mon, 5 Oct 2015 19:23:27 +0000
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• Re: Sound deadening
  Historical mailing list - Chris Mills
  Mon, 25 Feb 2002 09:02:56 +0000
  ...67 Hamster Power) > > '65 Beetle - Type IV powered > > '99 CR-V AWD station wagon > > '81 CB900 Custom moto-chickle > > 2.5 Corvair engines for...
• no VW sports cars?
  Historical mailing list - Michael Rule
  Fri, 28 May 2004 07:31:48 -0400
  ...better than the small SUVs? I >> have a 92 >> legacy wagon AWD, gets over 30 mpg, gutless yet, but cheap to >> drive and >> bulletproof...
• Re: New muffler and stuff...
  Historical mailing list - Chris Mills
  Mon, 16 Sep 2002 17:02:06 -0500
  ...67 Hamster Power) '65 Beetle - Type IV powered '99 CR-V AWD station wagon '81 CB900 Custom moto-chickle 2.5 Corvair engines for...
• Re: AWD
  Historical mailing list - jon
  Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:30:38 -0800
  Back "in the day" (early 90's), the large percentage of cars wiped alongside I-5 in Oregon when it snowed were Audis. Not...
• Re: Camper van
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sun, 20 Oct 2013 08:12:07 -0700
  ...The GM Safari/Astro AWD vans interest me a lot and can be found very frequently for under $1000. With a robust chassis and...
• Re: FS: '86 Syncro with '91 Subaru 2.2L. Tacoma/Seattle, WA
  Historical mailing list - Laurence Smith
  Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
  ...Also >would be a good parts car to go from that tried VW motor to an AWD >powerhouse. Details are below. See www.kennedyeng...
• Re: Single wire Oxygen sensor: Substitution report..
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sat, 1 Nov 2014 08:44:13 -0700
  ...I have that other van, my $2000 AWD Safari work truck now, and almost everything I read on the Astro/Safari forums is about...
• Re: It's A Sickness, I Tell You...
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Wed, 23 Jun 2010 04:59:34 -0700
  ...I sold that and bought a 1996 AWD Safari. Just an hour ago the buyer of the Safari drove off. I didn't even...
• Re: bought a syncro
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:28:29 -0400
  ...might be able to make parts for the syncro :) > > > Alistair > now with: > > '72 westy > '82 westy > '86 syncro > '95 Subaru Legacy AWD > '84 Golf
• Re: 87 Vanagon Wolfsburg Tires
  Historical mailing list - Dietmar Schlei
  Thu, 11 Apr 2002 16:42:20 -0500
  Hi All I need some clarification here! One of my vehicles is a late model GMC AWD Safari Van. The vehicle weight is 6100...
• Re: Van-Again and debate for Californians
  Historical mailing list - Mark Dorm
  Tue, 7 May 2002 20:16:23 -0700
  ...Type IV powered <DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; &gt; '99 CR-V AWD station wagon <DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; &gt; '81 CB900 Custom moto-chickle...
• Fw: Re: Reverse Gear in Syncro
  Historical mailing list - Larry Sanford
  Sat, 14 Mar 1998 12:12:35 -0800
  ...locks >>and with it pulled out the AWD works. I deduced this by lighted >>Transmission diagram. The light on the rear axle lights up...
• Re: Checked your spare tire recently? Spare Tire Size
  Historical mailing list - Richard Koerner
  Sun, 26 Feb 2012 07:45:34 -0800
  ...Virginia for a Chevy Astro AWD van from a Ford dealer. They were, being a dealer, asking way too much for it, but a...
• Re: Friday: What's the perfect second car for Vanagon owners?
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Fri, 28 Aug 2015 14:48:24 +0000
  ...Merkur Skorpio or XR4Ti,Mazda 323 GTX (turbo AWD),Nissan Sentra SE-R from the early '90s,VW Quantum Syncro Wagon,continues for quite...
• Re: '93 Eurovan auto to manual
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( Scott Daniel Foss )
  Fri, 7 Mar 2014 15:24:50 -0800
  ...members may know that Justin of Greaseworks has produced an entire AWD TDI Eurovan using a crashed Canadian donor. On 3/7/2014 2...
• Re: Spare Tire Interference
  Historical mailing list - Derek Drew
  Fri, 29 May 1998 11:30:49 -0400
  ...I've >never heard about this with other AWD vehicles) > >Anyway, it seems that the tire rubs against part of my steering linkage. Has...
• Re: winter driving to Spokane
  Historical mailing list - James
  Mon, 10 Nov 2014 21:30:39 -0500
  ...I can get out and go when my neighbours with AWD CUVs are driveway bound. James Ottawa, ON > Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 11...
• Re: Start battery any new tips when replacing?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 25 Jan 2025 17:37:15 +0000
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• Re: Eurovan w/ 5-spd
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sat, 4 Jun 2011 20:53:55 -0700
  ...but he was officering a Canadian AWD 5 cylinder TDI Eurovan .... the whole works from that crashed van into your Eurovan ..for that price...
• Re: Adhesive "Gunk" Removal - NO Xylene, MEK, or Toluene!
  Historical mailing list - Chris Helvey
  Mon, 12 Oct 1998 08:37:14 -0500
  ...Kristin > > > 84 Wolfsburg GL Westy~Wolfy > > > 90 Subaru Legacy LS SW AWD~Althea > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > DO YOU YAHOO!? > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http...
• Automatic vs Manual trans. ( Friday )
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Fri, 11 Sep 2015 08:21:11 -0700
  ...Never liked having the car or truck shifting for me...but I needed a van with AWD for work and winter, so I picked...
• Re: sell my syncro- no way
  Historical mailing list - Tyrone & Marilyn Greene
  Sat, 30 May 1998 21:58:56 -0400
  ...It depends on what we are talking about since most everything except that which is invalved with the AWD system is typical to ALL...
• Vanagon pleasures...
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sun, 30 Aug 2015 07:41:22 -0700
  I've been "saving" my 84 5sp inline powered vanagon recently, driving my GM AWD Safari work van instead because I was hearing transmission...
• Re: <Syncro> viscous coupling fluid !
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 8 Feb 1997 04:05:56 -0500
  ...kind of setup the Subaru uses? What about the "electronic 4wd" you see on ford aerostars and such? What about the 400hp porsche AWD??
• Re: SUV was road rage
  Historical mailing list - Frederick M. Wasserstein
  Wed, 14 Feb 2001 17:46:15 -0600
  ...Sure, my outback AWD did the same thing when we were a family of four. It was small, trendy, chic, and granola enough that...
• Re: Rochester, NY shops...
  Historical mailing list - Cort, Joel
  Tue, 21 Jul 1998 08:37:33 PDT
  ...Joel Cort, wannabus also Soon to be with 89 Westy Syncro Currently with 91 Subaru Legacy (AWD) ---------- From: Alan Bosch[SMTP:arbosch@RA.ROCKWELL...
• Re: VANAGON WITH AUDI ENGINES
  Historical mailing list - John H. Rodgers
  Fri, 27 Mar 1998 17:34:47 -0500
  ...I wanted a Chevy-powered vehicle, I'd buy a Safari AWD (no, thanks). If I wanted a Suburu-powered vehicle, I'd buy...
• Re: 14 inch tire feedback
  Historical mailing list - Roy Nicholl
  Mon, 4 Jun 2018 08:17:36 -0300
  ...I have go forms on my AWD Safari van, too but in 15" >> >> On Jun 3, 2018 1:57 PM, "Dan N" <dn92610@gmail...
• Re: What does an Air flow meter do?
  Historical mailing list - Mark Rokus
  Tue, 24 Nov 1998 21:44:57 -0500
  ...gets better gas mileage and just plain feels right now. > > Kristin > 84 Wolfsburg GL Westy~Wolfy > 90 Subaru Legacy LS SW AWD~Althea > > <<I...
• Re: no VW sports cars?
  Historical mailing list - Tim Demarest
  Fri, 28 May 2004 09:13:35 -0400
  ...better than the small SUVs? I >>>have a 92 >>>legacy wagon AWD, gets over 30 mpg, gutless yet, but cheap to >>>drive and >>>bulletproof...
• Coolant gauge calibration
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:32:43 -0700
  ...ALH TDI / AWD 1.8T / AEG 2L [Jetta IV] These tend to make the gauge read even higher, to the point where the LED...
• Re: no VW sports cars?
  Historical mailing list - Gary Schreiber
  Fri, 28 May 2004 07:55:07 -0400
  ...better than the small SUVs? I > >> have a 92 > >> legacy wagon AWD, gets over 30 mpg, gutless yet, but cheap to > >> drive and > >> bulletproof...
• Re: ok, now a tire question
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 13 Jun 2014 23:13:46 -0400
  ...The "new" 97 > Safari AWD came with two sets of Michelins...one set has two tires > with separations the other set only has one...
• Re: Priced a little high?
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Mon, 21 Jul 2014 14:51:53 -0700
  ...I know this from experience, having just researched and acquired what I call my "Poor Man's Syncro" general motor safari awd van for...
• Re: Syncro tire dia. spec. - tolerances?
  Historical mailing list - Davidson
  Fri, 16 Apr 1999 09:43:49 -0700
  ...wouldn't cause a problem - he seemed pretty knowledgeable about various awd systems (Subaru, Volvo, etc.) - and he certainly had an easy opportunity to...
• Re: Anyone use Les Schwab for tires?
  Historical mailing list - Chris Mills
  Mon, 16 Sep 2002 16:21:12 -0500
  ...67 Hamster Power) '65 Beetle - Type IV powered '99 CR-V AWD station wagon '81 CB900 Custom moto-chickle 2.5 Corvair engines for...
• Re: no VW sports cars?
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Fri, 28 May 2004 08:17:36 -0500
  ...better than the small SUVs? I > >> have a 92 > >> legacy wagon AWD, gets over 30 mpg, gutless yet, but cheap to > >> drive and > >> bulletproof...
• Re: It's A Sickness, I Tell You...
  Historical mailing list - Jack R.
  Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:32:55 -0400
  ...I sold that and bought a 1996 AWD Safari. Just an hour ago the buyer of the Safari drove off. I didn't even...