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  • Trip report: Back from 2 weeks in southern interior BC, Kootenay lakes region.
    Historical mailing list - Poppie Jagersand
    Sat, 21 Jul 2012 10:21:11 -0700
    ...wave and dumped 50 or more mm of water in Alberta. (flooded some of the roads so we were lucky to have come home...
  • Re: Distributor Woe's continue!!!
    Historical mailing list - JRodgers
    Mon, 23 Dec 2013 01:20:17 -0600
    ...get dirty ... > find out what is not timed or engaged correctly. > > flooded wet spark plugs can look just like no ignition. > I don't...
  • Re: swapping vanagon for Prius (was RE: license plate light bulbs
    Historical mailing list - Joy Hecht
    Mon, 23 Aug 2004 18:36:17 -0400
    ...Camp-mates were wringing out :::sleeping bags, trying to repair torn tarps, moving flooded tents, and :::comforting cold, wet, sleep-deprived children. Mind you...
  • Re: Alternators
    Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
    Thu, 9 Apr 2020 10:31:59 -0700
    ...We can debate what the best voltage setting at alternator should be, based on driving habits, time of year, agm or flooded battery etc...
  • Re: Trip report: Back from 2 weeks in southern interior BC, Kootenay lakes region.
    Historical mailing list - John Meeks
    Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:18:12 -0400
    ...wave and dumped 50 or more mm of water in Alberta. (flooded some of the > roads so we were lucky to have come home...
  • Re: Making an alternator a smarter charger? [LVC]
    Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
    Sun, 25 Jun 2006 17:55:25 -0400
    ...Making an alternator a smarter charger? [LVC] Hi electrical and lead-acid wizards, I've installed a nice Group 31 flooded cell deep-cycle...
  • Re: Boston Bob Big Valve Update? Not really... (LONG)
    Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
    Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:59:21 -0700
    ...a few minutes it would lose power, as if it > were flooded. If I kept my foot in the pedal, the engine would run...
  • Lighting the Dometic 182B Refrigerator (LONG!!)
    Historical mailing list - Brent Christensen
    Mon, 22 May 2000 20:53:12 -0700
    ...Pump too slow, and the chamber gets "flooded". 7. Now the tricky part - watch that LED (or the sight glass) for the faintest glimmer...
  • FW: We made it! The Great Michigan to Florida Trip. I thumb my nose at you Alberto!
    Historical mailing list - Todd Olson
    Mon, 19 Jun 2006 23:30:12 -0400
    ...We felt like little kids jumping around in the flooded parking lots and sidewalks. The good news is there were short lines for the...
  • More on the Truck Tariff
    Historical mailing list - Jack R
    Tue, 26 Dec 2006 14:22:49 -0500
    ...could be flooded with cheap imported pickups from Thailand," Beckman told a panel of Democratic senators last week. Stephen Collins, president of the Automotive...
  • Re: List member saves the day Sometimes just a bit of luck!
    Historical mailing list - Roger Whittaker
    Wed, 31 Jul 2024 20:44:32 -0700
    ...Spark > very healthy. > Gave thought to excess fuel, engine flooded? > Temp 2 sensor easiest to check. Bad connection or open ground ECU thinks > it...
  • Re: She's Home! (Was: '87 Vanagon turns and turns but won't start)
    Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
    Sun, 16 Sep 2012 14:38:06 -0400
    ...with the injectors unplugged that is a sign the engine was flooded. I wasn't the injectors running out of fuel but rather the...
  • Re: HELP! Westy Stranded in Bryce Canyon National Park...
    Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
    Sun, 1 May 2005 11:19:21 -0400
    ...In essence the >engine is getting too much fuel to start--it is "flooded." It is running rich we >would say if it were...
  • Re: She's Home! (Was: '87 Vanagon turns and turns but won't start)
    Historical mailing list - Don Preston Jr.
    Sun, 16 Sep 2012 18:02:00 -0700
    ...with the injectors unplugged that is a sign the engine was flooded. I wasn't the injectors running out of fuel but rather the...
  • Re: Making an alternator a smarter charger? [LVC]
    Historical mailing list - Mike Elliott
    Sun, 25 Jun 2006 15:25:42 -0700
    ...Making an alternator a smarter charger? [LVC] > > Hi electrical and lead-acid wizards, > > I've installed a nice Group 31 flooded cell deep-cycle...
  • Re: Kyle Wade ECU chip and rocker upgrade
    Historical mailing list
    Tue, 28 Jul 1998 07:31:31 -0700
    ...He doesn't want to get FLOODED with e-mail so he had sent it to me to Post to the list. I've...
  • Re: [Syncro] dual battery isolator
    Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
    Sun, 22 Aug 2004 23:54:46 -0400
    ...and can be maintained indefinitely, at most temperatures without damaging a flooded cell battery. Unfortunately, it will not bring a deep cycle battery to...
  • Re: Local gas prices (sorry long)(NVC)
    Historical mailing list - monte merrick
    Mon, 24 Apr 2006 19:09:05 -0700
    dutch harbor - a little drinking town with a big fishing problem in the beautiful aleutian islands - like the himalayas flooded up to the peaks...
  • Re: swapping vanagon for Prius (was RE: license plate light bulbs
    Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
    Mon, 23 Aug 2004 18:05:33 -0500
    ...Camp-mates were wringing out > :::sleeping bags, trying to repair torn tarps, moving flooded tents, and > :::comforting cold, wet, sleep-deprived children. Mind you...
  • Re: No start/ Yes spark II
    Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
    Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:48:38 -0700
    ...don't be tricked by it being flooded. a fuel injection engine with an air flow Meter is harder to unflood than a carb...
  • hokay ... it's FRYEDAYE!! ;) time for some off-topic stuff: national parks, part I
    Historical mailing list - joel walker
    Fri, 15 Jun 2007 03:05:56 -0500
    ...Death Valley consists of towering sand dunes, a timeline for the huge lake that once flooded it and Scotty's Castle, a "fantasy house...
  • Re: No start/ Yes spark II
    Historical mailing list - Steven Johnson
    Wed, 2 Nov 2011 12:07:58 -0700
    ...planet in my experience. > > > don't be tricked by it being flooded. > a fuel injection engine with an air flow Meter is harder to...
  • Circumnavigated the Great Salt Lake in Our Westy
    Historical mailing list - Tom Buese
    Thu, 4 Jun 2009 16:57:57 -0600
    ...after the GSL >> rose to record elevation in the mid 1980s & flooded the jetty, thus >> requiring the huge pumps(11' dia.) to lower the...
  • Trip Report ( Long!) Eagle, AK
    Historical mailing list - Mark Tuovinen
    Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:27:23 -0800
    ...Salvage mainly consisted of roof trusses, windows, and anything that was sturdy enough to stand up to being flooded and pushed around by the...
  • Re: Trip Report ( Long!) Eagle, AK
    Historical mailing list - Thomas Buese
    Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:04:15 -0600
    ...Salvage mainly consisted of roof trusses, windows, and > anything that was sturdy enough to stand up to being flooded and > pushed > around by the...
  • Re: Trip Report ( Long!) Eagle, AK
    Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
    Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:08:36 -0500
    ...Salvage mainly consisted of roof trusses, windows, and > anything that was sturdy enough to stand up to being flooded and pushed > around by the...
  • 1.9L vanagon syndrome (lawnnnggg)
    Historical mailing list - Brian brian
    Tue, 27 May 2003 14:05:42 -0700
    ...ago I cracked two caps in one night driving through a flooded construction zone during a downpour. The van is now up to 160K...
  • Cooling Systems
    Historical mailing list - Dan Aldrich
    Fri, 12 Feb 1999 10:01:21 -0700
    ...open >at, then, after it gets hot and opens, it is flooded shortly with much >cooler water, so it closes. It oscillates between open...
  • Big Trip report [Part 1, long]
    Historical mailing list - Tobin T. Copley
    Fri, 21 Jul 1995 11:23:48 -0700 (PDT)
    ...Jeff lives in the hills above SC, and the road up to his place had redwoods down across it and was flooded out in...
  • story: 7 months in a 1967 Camper
    Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
    Mon, 23 Jan 95 10:42:29 CST
    ...small mining town of El Cobre with 450 inhabitants was completely flooded by thousands of tons of copper-mud sludge after the tremor broke...
  • GNATT '95 - Trip Report
    Historical mailing list
    Tue, 27 Jun 95 09:10:45 EDT
    ...By the time we got to the highway we saw the highway had also been flooded; we had to take a circuitous detour. Onward...
  • trip report - Victoria BC to Labrador
    Historical mailing list - Larry Innes
    Sat, 19 May 2001 11:57:45 -0300
    ...world's largest underground powerhouse and a massive reservoir, which incidentally flooded 5000 sq. km of Innu hunting territory... We gas up (costs me...