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  • Vanagon Swap Concerns
    Historical mailing list - KENWILFY
    Wed, 6 May 1998 09:03:54 EDT
    ...I am going to be traveling all of the country in a couple of years (getting ready to go to the mission field) and...
  • Re: [Long ] Bought tires (WAS: Field-scouting Tires)
    Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
    Mon, 16 Aug 1999 20:45:54 -0700
    My experience with 4 Syncros was that the speedo was optomistic on all of them by about 5-8mph at 70. True speed was...
  • Re: No V'gon Content, but pretty cool
    Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
    Mon, 19 Feb 2001 16:06:07 -0600
    ...who could walk up to others in the middle of a field > and just play their stuff" Just passing along a > tip. Gary,Please...
  • Looking for John Rogers - re: Rear lift method for bleeding cooli ng system
    Historical mailing list - Zoran Mladen
    Thu, 6 Sep 2001 18:27:16 -0600
    ...shot. > > Thanx in advance for your response! > > Z > > Zoran Mladen > Director, Field Marketing > Avolent > 303-583-3743 direct > 303-517-3986 mobile > 303-460...
  • Re: New List server
    Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
    Wed, 30 Jun 2004 03:14:52 -0500
    ...free to join. > > Eric > > > > > > Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to > > vanagon-request@freelists.org with 'subscribe' in the Subject field.
  • Re: Priorities
    Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
    Sun, 22 Jan 2006 11:40:32 -0800
    ...Priorities > > > >I just got an offer of a $200 field-level ticket for the Broncos-Steelers > > game. > > > > Walked out back to think about it...
  • Re: Unbelievable, was Re: Spare ECU
    Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
    Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:53:29 -0600
    ...We were building circuit cards for GE Medical and they were seeing similar cracked solder joint caused field failures. They loaned us a shake...
  • Re: RoadHaus - BC, Canada" Must See's" requested
    Historical mailing list - Kevin McLean
    Tue, 15 Jul 2003 08:51:59 -0600
    ...The tourist information buildings in Field, BC and Lake Louise, AB are great sources of information. If you want to keep it to van...
  • Re: 1.9L - oil needed to go from dipstick minium to maxium?
    Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
    Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:45:12 -0700
    ...J Squirrel" < camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote: > (Fans of W.C. Fields movies might get the reference to "minium" and > "maxium".) > > On a 1...
  • repost: Testing your generator
    Historical mailing list
    Thu, 13 Apr 1995 11:18:17 EDT
    ...Connect the terminal DF (dynamo field) to the negative post of the battery. If there is a third wire/terminal (D-) this should also...
  • Re: F KOA's
    Historical mailing list - S Sittservl
    Fri, 9 Jul 1999 21:22:20 EDT
    ...I'm not a fan of KOA's myself, but they also serve who only pave a field and wait for the RV's...
  • Re: Your Outrage: I'll go
    Historical mailing list - Mark Magee
    Thu, 13 Sep 2001 21:56:03 -0500
    ...I know...it is not your chosen > field. > > The Army, Navy, and Air Force have not met their recruiting goals in over 2 > years...
  • Re: ES-12 Refrigerant - Caution
    Historical mailing list - wb6otg
    Fri, 28 Jun 2002 15:34:03 -0400
    ...I ran the info by a friend knowledgeable in A/C and other matters associated with this field (I am not an expert) just...
  • Re: Should I Open When Subject Includes This: [SP%M]? (no msg)
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Sat, 9 May 2015 20:05:33 -0400
    ...with a Re: or Fwd: at the begtinning of the Subject: field it means that someone else's ISP or email software thought the...
  • Re: Problem solved-I think Re: My overflow tank is full of oil!!!
    Historical mailing list - Jeff Lincoln
    Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:32:18 -0400
    ...ve used those small issues to improve our service (completely unrelated field but the idea is the same). Besides - like someone else emntione it...
  • Re: electrical systems
    Historical mailing list - James Cook
    Thu, 19 May 1994 15:20:59 -0700 (PDT)
    ...fine tuning electrical/12 volt systems ------------------------------------------------ Those who are in the marine/yachting/sailing field often know a great deal about optimizing 12 volt...
  • Re. Jerry Can source
    Historical mailing list - Fitz-Randolph, Douglas
    Wed, 19 Apr 2000 13:57:25 -0400
    ...to the site and type "swiss can" in the keyword search field. These are 5 gal. Swiss military surplus in OD or black. I...
  • Re: AW: Camping in cold & battery
    Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
    Tue, 3 Dec 2002 11:13:00 -0500
    ...I think there just isn't enough power to energize the field coil below a certain speed -- until that happens it's working on...
  • Re: My Hula Girl won't stay on my dash
    Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
    Sun, 13 Jul 2003 22:47:17 -0600
    ...My Hula Girl won't stay on my dash > Ok this might be off in the left field, but it is important stuff. I...
  • Re: Listmom... "<Vanagon>" in message headings?
    Historical mailing list - Carrington, Tom
    Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:52:26 -0500
    ...Listmom... "<Vanagon>" in message headings? Several of the lists I am on put the list name in <> in the subject field; one only started...
  • Re: Fielder industries take notice
    Historical mailing list - Anthony Egeln
    Tue, 14 Mar 2017 21:14:49 +0000
    blockquote, div.yahoo_quoted { margin-left: 0 !important; border-left:1px #715FFA solid !important; padding-left:1ex !important; background-color:white !important; } I don...
  • Re: That damn virus!
    Historical mailing list - Nicholas Wilson
    Thu, 4 May 2000 16:58:31 -0700
    ...snipped > Just remember that if you get an e-mail message >with the subject "I Love You" in the subject field, just delete it...
  • Re: windshield repairs
    Historical mailing list - John McLean
    Fri, 19 Apr 2002 19:55:11 -0700
    ...She had a rock chip / bulls-eye fracture just below and to the left of her field of vision. As soon as they put...
  • Re: Vanagon List Meet/Campout Version 1.?
    Historical mailing list - Clint Kolda
    Wed, 1 Feb 2006 06:58:10 -0800
    ...A bunch of pull in style camping pads in a row, a large open field with areas to park close together, a big spot...
  • Re: Friday: Worst Vanagon/Westy "For Sale" you've seen?
    Historical mailing list - george jannini
    Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:32:25 -0400
    ...value? By the time we showed up, the owner had been fielding calls from VW dealers, but he honoured his original price. Thanks, picky...
  • Re: Van-O-Rama #14 - Sept. 7, 2014
    Historical mailing list - Stacy Schneider
    Sun, 31 Aug 2014 10:43:11 -0700
    ...There is 1/3 mile walking/jogging path, basketball court, > tennis courts, baseball diamond, and open field for soccer. > > There are BBQ grills on...
  • Portable instument amplifiers in Vanagons was Re: Everybus photos
    Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
    Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:23:53 -0700
    ...Well maybe not specifically for playing out in a field at a VW gathering, but you get my drift. Cya, Robert ----- Original Message ----- From...
  • Re: Arduino and Vanagons
    Historical mailing list - James
    Thu, 5 Dec 2013 00:07:46 -0500
    ...That means that the > Hall sensor connects the circuit to ground (drain) when in the presence of > a magnetic field, but opens the circuit...
  • re [F] Extra large engines
    Historical mailing list
    Wed, 31 Jan 1996 22:11:46 -0700
    ...These guys reminded me of some of the enthusiasts on this list who discover some ancient 'craft' out in someones field and spend the...
  • Rear screen for early 70's Westy.
    Historical mailing list - Dale James
    Mon, 10 Jul 1995 12:48:01 -0400
    ...my wife spotted a decaying Westy in a corner of one field. Closer inspection revealed it to be a 1970 model, with complete engine...
  • Re: Still Being Screwed...aka--Don't Use PartsPlace
    Historical mailing list - Bob Hufford
    Tue, 12 Sep 1995 12:48:44 -0500 (CDT)
    ...Thomas (MO), one in a friend's backyard, one in the field where I bought it a year ago, and I just bought a...
  • Re: 900 Line Wendy Steiner Ad on our list???-----Ugh!!!
    Historical mailing list - Bob O'Shaughnessy
    Mon, 22 May 2000 06:07:00 -0400
    ...in do not have "vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com" in the >"To" field if they were merely posting. They have swiped our e-mail >addresses...
  • what happened to my thrust washer?
    Historical mailing list - David White
    Tue, 19 Apr 2011 21:55:40 -0700
    ...Rural Idaho would have put me upside down in a wheat field without hurting anyone else at midnight. Glad I wasn't where I...
  • Re: Charging system update
    Historical mailing list - kenneth d lewis
    Sun, 23 Aug 1998 13:05:23 EDT
    ...sitting overnight so there was (probably) no residual charge on the field. Looking in Bentley, reference page 97.70 and follow current track 7...
  • Re: Torqued?
    Historical mailing list - Bill Kasper
    Tue, 20 Nov 2001 11:21:11 -0800
    ...Required fields include mass > of > the Carya ovata directing the vehicle vector (RVC) as well as the > density of > the polizei local in the...
  • O2 Sensor, Bucking etc.
    Historical mailing list - Gary Stearns
    Thu, 2 Nov 2000 07:50:30 -0500
    ...air! Are these sensors magic or was my stupid test creating static voltage or a "force field" or something? Try it! Gary [text/html]
  • Re: propane tank draining help
    Historical mailing list - developtrust
    Sun, 3 Feb 2002 15:11:16 -0800
    ...balcony and crack open the valve? Take it out in a field and open > the auto fill-stop valve (where the fuel come out...
  • Re: Idiots for Clunkers
    Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
    Mon, 3 Aug 2009 17:37:05 -0700
    ...re But what about the junky Vanagons, sitting in a field of weeds, that are continually advertised and rarely purchased? Are we to berate...
  • Update: Solved: Alternator not putting out volts 88 GL
    Historical mailing list - Bobby Brown
    Thu, 6 Aug 2009 12:31:37 -0400
    ...blue wire has to be hooked up to start the mag field in the rotor. > Once energized, the stator provides the current to the...
  • Rememberance Day In Canada (No Vanagon Content)
    Historical mailing list - Marshall Ruskin
    Thu, 11 Nov 1999 03:45:13 -0600
    ...Everybody wears ornamental poppies in their lapels, made by retired veterans, to remind us of the poppies that lie in "Flanders Field", the resting...
  • Re: Friday - hazards to our van (LVC)
    Historical mailing list - developtrust
    Fri, 17 Jan 2003 17:15:08 -0800
    Well, as they say a size of a football field caused an ice age that wiped out the dinosaurs, then the size of a...
  • Re: Trip / Vehicle Expense Tracker
    Historical mailing list - TJ Hannink
    Wed, 30 Apr 2003 08:37:57 -0700
    ...I track fuel usage and mileage in Quicken by putting the mileage, amount of fuel and cost per gallon in the notes field. I...
  • Re: NVC - how do I control a battery powered DC motor.
    Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
    Tue, 28 Sep 2004 06:53:16 -0400
    What type of DC motor? Is it permanent magnet, series field, shunt filed, combination? What. 1 HP, = 746 watts. Assuming 80%, you really need...
  • Re: do are vanagons even charge our batteries?
    Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
    Sat, 5 Jan 2008 20:45:14 -0500
    ...t allow for the alternator to set up the proper magnetic field and you won't be getting a charge out of it. I...
  • Re: it's Friday, she blew the microwave up
    Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
    Fri, 24 Sep 2010 12:54:42 -0700
    ...and make the rough places plain" > > and, just like W.C Fields , i never drink the stuff , "fish fornicate > in it" > > alistair > > > > > > > On 24...
  • Re: Interesting ads
    Historical mailing list - Matthew Henricks
    Fri, 2 Feb 1996 17:49:23 -0800 (PST)
    ...To properly give a perspective on how > large this find is consider enough parts to cover a football field! The > parts are currently being...
  • shower for Westy PT 2
    Historical mailing list - Gerald Masar
    Fri, 13 Sep 2002 23:10:51 -0700
    ...I am leaving in a week, so I will take it and see how it works in the field. So, "Caveat Emptor!". Jerry
  • Re: Skylight
    Historical mailing list - The Skylight Guy
    Sat, 26 Oct 2002 09:01:27 -0700
    ...I haven't > noticed any flaw at all and as a former cow orker in the quality engineering > field, I am rather picky about...
  • Re: portable generator to run portable ac unit
    Historical mailing list - Michael Snow
    Sat, 2 Aug 2003 09:25:09 -0700
    I frequently use Onan, Kawasaki, and Honda gasoline generators in the field, but the noise that most of them produce makes them worthless for...
  • Gowesty reduction starter user input please
    Historical mailing list - Neil N
    Thu, 2 Feb 2017 17:06:45 -0800
    ...My only real concern doing this >> repair "in the field" is snapping the starter mount stud at clutch >> housing; >> AFAIK, it needs to be...
  • Re: Michelin Agilis 51 205/65-15 ?
    Historical mailing list - Bill Minor
    Fri, 19 Jul 2002 13:44:55 -0500
    ...I have 12,000 miles on them with about 2000 of that off road on Oil Field, rough loose gravel and compacted but sharp...
  • OT- Animated Radar Image of Columbia Disaster
    Historical mailing list - Tom Forhan
    Sat, 1 Feb 2003 16:26:18 -0800
    I was very saddened by a radar image of the debris field as picked up by a National Weather Service radar at Shreveport LA...
  • Need instructions on field R&R of AFM '84 1.9L Van down
    Historical mailing list - jhlauterbach
    Wed, 23 Nov 2011 07:13:59 -0800
    I barely made it to my Florida home last night. Started out from Macon,GA, where van had been running "like new." About forty...
  • Re: Van-O-Rama #14 - Sept. 7, 2014
    Historical mailing list - Ben
    Thu, 4 Sep 2014 12:22:06 -0700
    ...There is 1/3 mile walking/jogging path, basketball court, tennis courts, baseball diamond, and open field for soccer. > > There are BBQ grills on...
  • Re: Any repair recommendations while dashboard is removed?
    Historical mailing list - Neil N
    Fri, 30 Jun 2017 10:11:38 -0700
    ...Including an aspect related to a field repair water pump replacement. That strap is still holding. Would suggest that if the OP doesn't...
  • WOOHOO! Took 2nd Place At Manassas Bug Out!!
    Historical mailing list - J Stewart
    Mon, 30 May 2011 11:19:49 +0000
    ...This has never happened to me before, I was the first vehicle on the field on the water cooled side at 7:00 am...
  • Camping at Litchfield Bug In.
    Historical mailing list - Jim DiGennaro
    Mon, 7 Jun 1999 22:41:10 -0400
    ...I'm told by Chuck Pisconski that there will be shower s available at the show field and he's asking for pre-registration...
  • Re: Can Germans make a decent two stoke engine?
    Historical mailing list - Rico Sapolich
    Tue, 7 Nov 2000 08:43:15 EST
    ...It was not until the Japs stole his designs that they were even able to smell what he fielded. So much for design by...
  • Stealth camping: pre-van
    Historical mailing list - Steve Sullivan
    Thu, 10 Feb 2000 12:31:07 -0800
    ...Sometimes that meant those impersonal corporate office/industrial parks, sometimes it was a field next to a suburban road where I couldn't be...
  • Re: Bilstein shock query
    Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
    Wed, 12 Feb 2020 16:41:42 -0500
    ...But, my travels through a field or dirt road are nothing compared to what I’ve heard folks do with the synchros. So I...