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• Loosing it...Speedo
  Historical mailing list - BILLV
  Sun, 2 Aug 1998 22:37:27 -0600
  ...Anyway thanks for any input on this and in case my return is set to DEFAULT< my e-mail is billv2@prodigy.net BILLV...
• Re: mystery silver box?
  Historical mailing list - harald_nancy
  Sat, 30 Jan 1999 19:55:14 -0800
  ...In my Bentley '80 to '91, it's on page 27.25. Harald '90 westy ---------- > From: Davidson <wdavidson@THEGRID.NET> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON...
• coolant
  Historical mailing list - Mike Blotz
  Tue, 3 Sep 2002 10:52:10 -0600
  hey gang So I bled my cooling system properly this weekend on my new van. quite a bit of air seemed to come out...
• Re: I am selling my Customized T2 73 Bus due to my Vanagon's needs...
  Historical mailing list - Marc Perdue
  Thu, 1 May 2003 12:04:12 -0400
  ...I do not have time or room any more :( > because of my current VANAGON. > > I used a dipstick assembly from a VANAGON to cure...
• Re: rear brake adjusters?
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:51:51 -0500
  ...Jim On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:12 PM, B Feddish <bfeddish@netreach.net> wrote: > I got fed up with waiting for my...
• Interchangeable wheels?
  Historical mailing list - Jim Cochran
  Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:23:53 -0700
  I'm not sitting in front of my other van right now, but here's a question: will the wheels/tires on my 86...
• MORE "How to order T-shirts"
  Historical mailing list - Poor Richard
  Fri, 28 Jul 95 17:29:24 EDT
  It seems my wits have quite departed me... here's my address Richard Palmer 3010 Spanish Ct. #16 Raleigh, NC 27607-4166 Sorry, my...
• I finally got my Vanagon...
  Historical mailing list - Alan Bosch
  Wed, 13 Jan 1999 19:19:01 -0600
  ...Thank you to all who answered my questions during my search over the last six or seven months. The wisdom imparted made my search...
• Wanna know how the battery worked out? Hmmmm?
  Historical mailing list - David Priemer
  Wed, 21 Jul 1999 23:23:04 EDT
  ...Jump start my neighbors car. Fry several electrical components on some of my experiments. Kept faithfully by my side everywhere I go. I love...
• Re: New Vanagon: No Radio = No Antenna?
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Tue, 30 Jun 2015 15:49:26 -0700
  ...Image of my Canadian 88: http://tinyurl.com/nmf6ryx On 6/30/15, jpalmer@mymts.net <jpalmer@mymts.net> wrote: > My Canadian van is...
• Re: Retirement, four wheels and two wheels
  Historical mailing list - Joy Hecht
  Thu, 8 Jan 2015 15:22:38 -0330
  ...We shall see. > My, my, where to begin... > Stephen >
• Re: It's still friday, so..
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Sun, 31 Aug 2003 09:55:18 -0600
  I recently got an '89 Buick Skyhawk but am still driving my '87 Syncro Westy "too much". Hard to give up. Also: '03 Specialized...
• Re: Battery Light
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 11 Dec 2005 11:45:15 EST
  In a message dated 12/11/05 11:05:24 AM Eastern Standard Time, gronski@GMAIL.COM writes: > My alternator belt broke recently and...
• my vw experience (lacking)
  Historical mailing list - John Howze
  Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:46:39 -0800
  ...hope I don't have the feeling like that again with my Vanagon. How time stood still as the Honda Accord approached in my...
• My antenna...
  Historical mailing list - Michael aka ECHO
  Mon, 5 Feb 2001 02:44:01 -0800
  ...Some fool somehow jumped the fence at my work (gosh, they must love barbed-wire) and actually broke off the top part of my...
• Re: Newby
  Historical mailing list - Susan Bernavich
  Sun, 17 Sep 2000 19:39:20 -0700
  ...The > funnest memories of my life were when I drove and > restored my 1963 beetle. My wife drives a 1995 golf, > and her father...
• Re: closing slider quietly
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Mon, 3 Aug 2020 21:34:07 -0700
  ...I think my 84 did but I don’t remember if my 85 does I haven’t seen my van in over 5 months...
• Re: Spare Tire Interference
  Historical mailing list - Scott McDonell
  Fri, 29 May 1998 09:56:18 -0600
  I sure as hell don't 'coddle' my VC. My '86 Syncro (GL, non-Westy), aptly licensed "Rancid", doesn't get coddled at all...
• Demographics
  Historical mailing list - Jon Christensen
  Sun, 12 Apr 1998 13:14:34 -0500
  Hi All, Okay, I'll volunteer info on myself too. I am 36 and a resident of windy Kansas--it's blowing like crazy...
• Re: Antenna and headlights
  Historical mailing list - John Lauterbach
  Thu, 8 Jun 2023 22:25:57 -0400
  Thank you to all who replied to my question.  Looks like more than I can handle on my own at this time as the...
• Opinions-More Thoughts
  Historical mailing list - J Stewart
  Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:18:25 +0000
  ...I emailed the pics I took of it with my cell phone to myself so I could open them up on my laptop when...
• Re: age of listees?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:02:05 -0800
  --snip-- (all my friends don't believe me when I tell them my car has 2 beds, a fridge and a stove in it...
• Re: Smart Car / Vanagon combo pack?
  Historical mailing list - Nathaniel Poole
  Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:30:53 -0700
  Nothing tops the cool factor of a Smart car (except an old VW), but for my money they are too expensive and offer too...
• Re: Potts new Vanagon(s)
  Historical mailing list - Rob
  Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:33:55 -0700
  ...My '84 is a bus, my '87 was a bus, my '79 was a bus, my '71 was a bus, my '63 was a...
• Re: Frydaye Evening coming down ... ;)
  Historical mailing list - joel walker
  Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:49:02 -0500
  not sure why, but this bubbled up in the septic tank of my mind ... ;) unca joel Vanagon Gasket Blues in the Night by Johnny...
• Re: My window won't stay fixed (fwd)
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 10 Jul 1995 15:27:47 +0600
  ...Hutton... > > This is real freaky...My Van had blow-by...yours did. My diesel blew >up..yours did. My timing belt lost teeth, yours...
• Re.The wasserleaker club
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Overmyer
  Tue, 15 Sep 1998 21:01:05 -0700
  Thanks to tbill,Jim,Thomas,Robert & Joel who responded with suggestions as to possible sources of my newly discovered coolant leak near one of...
• 6 mils of lash...
  Historical mailing list - Richard Bias
  Wed, 22 Dec 1999 08:55:53 PST
  ...Last night (I did my heads a couple of weeks ago) I adjusted my valves to 6 mils of lash. My poor wasserboxxer sounds...
• Help with 1991 Vanagon headlights
  Historical mailing list - Neil Wasbrikoff
  Wed, 17 Jan 2001 13:36:42 -0500
  Hi Folks, Last night, I left my house at twilight. It was hard to tell how dim my head lights were... Finally, it go...
• Re: I finally got a transplant
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Martin
  Wed, 14 Jun 2017 05:05:19 -0700
  ...Sent from my iPad > On Jun 13, 2017, at 6:41 AM, Mike <collum@MYFAIRPOINT.NET> wrote: > > Woo hoo! > > After more than 8 years...
• Re: And now - still trying for NEW TIRES
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Wed, 9 Mar 2011 12:02:00 -0800
  And while I'm at it, that 'H' really 'urts my eye. The Synchro I have for my Vanagon surely weighs a few thousand...
• What the heck? lol
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Wed, 2 Jun 2010 12:28:17 -0700
  ...I keep my foul language under the van along with the bruised knuckles. I am comfortable being able to tell my dada or my...
• Re: radiator bleeder location
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 20 Nov 1996 20:32:35 +0000
  > Can i use a oil cooler off a gas gti/gl jetta to replace my leaking cooler?? As far as I can tell, the...
• Re: Flue Vent cover replacement.
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Sat, 5 Dec 1998 00:32:35 -0500
  > My question is concerning the replacement of my flue vent cover. I >called up a couple of my local VW dealers. They quoted me...
• stucco's mail kills my eudora
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:03:05 -0800
  at home, using my old computer, an '89 SE/30, OS 7.5, (dedicated mail reader), stucco's winmail.dat atttachments hangs my Eudora...
• Re: Midlife Crisis-NonVanagon-WhoCares-I Love this List
  Historical mailing list - CHRIS STANN
  Mon, 21 Aug 2000 21:08:11 -0500
  > Hello fellow and fella Vanagonites, > > In two weeks I will be giving myself the MacDaddy of 40th birthday > presents of all. I'm quitting...
• Re: \b\i\f1\cgrid {Create Shortcut
  Historical mailing list - Benjamin Tan
  Thu, 26 Jul 2001 19:33:08 EDT
  ...Anyway, all I do is plug in my digital camera to the USB connector and it brings up an icon in <mycomputer> on my...
• Re: headlights and plasma lights
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Sat, 24 Nov 2001 09:39:15 -0600
  jim&kim wrote: > My only experience with plasma lights is on the receiving end of them. I > find them intolerably bright and intense when...
• What a weekend...Help...Overheating 1990!
  Historical mailing list - kevin obrien
  Sun, 7 Jul 2002 17:06:03 -0700
  Well...having written a long description of my 4th of July from Hell...it seems it disappeared from the site. So... I've got...
• Help: Green cylinder O-ring question.
  Historical mailing list - Eric Small
  Mon, 22 May 2000 22:17:33 EDT
  ...getting this right on my own is my only hope of keeping my van. Eric So.Portland, Maine sick '86 GL Weekender
• Re: Road Trip
  Historical mailing list - Karen Winter
  Mon, 16 Jun 1997 14:32:43 -0400
  Karen Winter wrote: > > I am planning my first road trip in my Westy. My SO and I would like to > travel North from TN...
• Why I love my vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Jenny Loerzel
  Tue, 24 Apr 2001 14:14:28 -0500
  Why I love my vanagon. Because... She came to me in a dream, one from which I have never woken. She puts a smile...
• Re: No Charge: HELP!
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Thu, 2 Sep 2004 07:27:40 -0700
  ...I guess it is time for my seasonal major Westy > problem. > :( > > First both my batteries dies (see thread below) now my new battery > does...
• Belt changed and what a community
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Mon, 11 Jul 2016 18:46:13 -0400
  ...I appreciate you folks and as a team my bus keeps getting healthier. I heard a vanagon drive in to my yard this afternoon...
• Re: Tire thread - my mechanic disagrees
  Historical mailing list - Steve Macaulay
  Mon, 19 Apr 1999 14:28:27 -0700
  << He said that my tires (max load 1400 lbs; max > pressure 35 psi) are fine My PO had purchased new Michelin tires with specs...
• Trip Report: Oregon to California
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:29:39 -0800
  ...My new "cheaper" inverter seems to be happy charging my laptop and cell phones and my little solar panel seems happy charging my extra...
• Re: Yee haw, got my solar setup installed
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Sun, 28 Aug 2005 20:24:55 -0600
  The wiring in my westy is no where near stock. But as long as I have my own drawings of where the wires are...
• aftermarket wheels
  Historical mailing list - Paula Rhodaback
  Sat, 2 May 1998 21:45:11 -0700
  A big thanks to everyone that responded to my wheel and tire size questions they were a big help, anyway i forgot to ask...
• Re: Suspected leak ???
  Historical mailing list - Kelly Bauman
  Mon, 29 Jun 1998 13:12:42 -0700
  Alain, My van does exactly as you describe. My mechanic says my cooling system is leak free yet I get these unexplained huge drops...
• More On Tire Inflation & fatal Exceptions"
  Historical mailing list - PSavage
  Sun, 19 Nov 2000 16:34:01 -0800
  ...I already know what it says on my tires, but wondered about the *choice* of pressure within that range, based on my driving plans...
• oil leak update
  Historical mailing list - Kevin Hayden
  Mon, 20 Aug 2001 00:22:46 -0400
  ...so my mechanic(or future mechanic) can get my vanagon back on the road again? ps. I do not own a Bentley....nor does...
• Re: Is boston Bobs Gone?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Donalds
  Thu, 20 Mar 2003 09:09:09 -0500
  Fellow vanagon types news of my demise is premature. it seems that networksolutions was not clear that I had in fact payed my bill...
• Mysterious short circuit
  Historical mailing list - developtrust
  Sat, 5 Mar 2005 15:27:47 -0800
  A mysterious short circuit is blowing my #3 fuse. It only happens when the key is in the ignition and when I depress the...
• Re: fan switch and high rpms
  Historical mailing list - Jenny Loerzel
  Tue, 12 Sep 2000 15:45:01 GMT
  Hi Everyone, Thanks to all that responded to my rpm dilemma. I will be checking out my a/c functions and make sure none...
• Re: How To Choose YOUR Engine Conversion
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Thu, 20 Sep 2012 12:31:46 -0700
  ...If I had unlimited funds, I would have a Porsche 997 sequential shift all wheel driveline in my van, but I guess my 93...
• Re: fan switch and high rpms
  Historical mailing list - Scott Walker
  Mon, 11 Sep 2000 19:41:00 -0400
  ...I have >been told that my fan switch is bad. My question is: at the same time as my >fan went a "lil' crazy...
• Rings? New engine?
  Historical mailing list - Blake Thornton
  Sat, 26 Jun 2004 14:37:41 -0500
  I am afraid that my 84 might need some serious engine work. Here are the symptoms: - When I start up the van, it blows...
• Re: Why do we all love our "bricks" so much?
  Historical mailing list - Joel Danke
  Fri, 29 Dec 95 15:33 CDT
  ...I run a 2L type IV, which I rebuilt upon purchasing my bus. My very first complete rebuild (my only other experience was a...
• Resourceful Slave Cylinder Fix
  Historical mailing list - Jon Christensen
  Sat, 26 Oct 1996 23:39:30 -0500 (CDT)
  Hi All, My clutch slave cylinder on my 84 'Brownie Bus' pee-ed out on my the same day the snow took away our...
• Re: .................... and vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Doug Alcock
  Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:19:30 -0500
  >>I did edit my online social profile elsewhere to >>include the need for 'her' to drive AND enjoy driving a standard >>transmission. I can...