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• Re: refrigerator failure, '91 VW Vanagon GL Campmobile
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Sun, 5 Feb 2012 20:06:38 -0600
  ...checked in, ate dinner in increasing misery, returned to hotel, finally realized something serious was wrong, and i needed attention, since my wrist had...
• Re: Best place to get Timing Lights? (minor Vanagon content)
  Historical mailing list - Joseph J. Liasse
  Mon, 1 Jun 1998 23:35:41 -0400
  ...The advertising on the box claims it can detect everything short of what you ate for lunch yesterday. It cost about a hundred bucks...
• Re: brake noise, etc.
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 2 Oct 2001 21:01:24 EDT
  ...2nd choice would be aftermarket , manufactured by the OEM manufacturer (Pagid, PBR, Bendix, ATE, etcetera). These are often the exact duplicates of the factory...
• Re: Help in northern Ontario...
  Historical mailing list - Benny boy
  Fri, 27 Jul 2007 23:58:03 -0400
  ...of course, the bearing eploded and the disk >>> ate >>> the spindle... >>> >>> So those 2 girls are in need of a left spindle, the mechanic...
• Re: bmw brake booster "upgrade"
  Historical mailing list - Raimund Feussner
  Mon, 7 Nov 2011 19:40:47 +0100
  ...don't have any to sell you". > > The part is an ATE part just like the Vanagon one. It is similar in > size and...
• RE: 55mph/right-ln ethics/was speedo repair
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 1 Sep 1995 15:16:04 -0700
  ...So did the millions of people that screamed by us! No time for potty breaks either!!! eek! He ate sunflower seeds one by one...
• Re: *Sigh* Leaky Wheel Cylinder (PICS)
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 5 Sep 2009 16:58:36 -0400
  ...Want good rear brakes? Get the shoes from the dealer (now $60 list) along with the spring kit ($22) and ATE wheel cylinders. Make...
• Re: Ice Cream Camping
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Tue, 9 Mar 2010 16:34:47 -0600
  ...Gonna miss that stuff, but my7 ateries won't.... DM&FS At 08:12 PM 3/8/2010, Kim Brennan wrote: >32F (the temperature...
• Curious Fryd mynds, was something about Vanagons I think.
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 4 May 2012 20:18:33 -0400
  ...moths and the yellow jacket were the only ones he actually ate).* They were amazingly hefty, kind of like winged cigarillos, but still...*** *The...
• Re: 82 Aircooled Moving to Seattle
  Historical mailing list - Milt Schullian
  Thu, 27 May 2010 12:36:27 -0400
  ...ve done good honest work on my rig in the past. ates a little higher. I switched to Porbug in part because he is...
• Re: Strongbox center console
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Tue, 19 May 2015 13:54:24 -0700
  ...you need to > > use > = > > to cut the sheet metal prior to install: > > > http://www.rockymountainwesty.com/v/vspfiles/assets/images/drawertempl > ate= > > .pdf > > > > Marc >
• Re: Tires on alloy wheels, Suspension - Need some help
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Overmyer
  Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:41:07 +1100
  ate: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:25:43 -0400 From: Robert Stewart <robertmstewart@MAC.COM> Subject: Re: Tires on alloy wheels, Suspension - Need some...
• Re: Rear Brake Shoe Design Questions
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:24:37 -0400
  ...I am using the ATE brand, and can say that the shoes echo the shape of the drum exactly. However, since the upper part...
• Re: Eccentric hub?
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott )
  Wed, 7 May 2014 20:52:39 -1000
  ...So I >> finally put new high quality ATE drums on and it still does it! So I >> wasted my money! >> >> Is it possible a...
• Re: Stocking and Preparing your Westy - This is not spam
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Sun, 7 Nov 2004 20:32:25 -0700
  ...1969 to 1991 I ate c rats and the initial mre and then the mid mre. (missed the current mre by a couple years...
• Re: Brake Noises
  Historical mailing list - Robert Stewart
  Wed, 1 Jun 2011 23:36:57 -0400
  Hey Neil, Thanks for the reply, I have an 88 I am not sure that ATE or Girling front brakes. Thanks for the tips...
• Re: bmw brake booster "upgrade"
  Historical mailing list - Raimund Feussner
  Mon, 7 Nov 2011 19:45:52 +0100
  ...don't have any to sell you". >> >> The part is an ATE part just like the Vanagon one. It is similar in >> size and...
• Re: rear disc brakes project
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:25:46 -0800
  ...Etc. >> >> It should be noted that the Mk4 Jettas ate rear brake pads much faster than the fronts. This may be due to rear...
• Re: Tin-can westy toaster
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Sun, 8 Jan 2012 17:23:15 -0600
  ...I'll bet every mid-twentieth century hobo who ever cooked over a jungle fire ate stew out of a coffee pot. Right out...
• Re: Brake Repair '81 Vanagon => DIY Everytime
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Wed, 22 Jul 1998 08:21:13 -0100
  ...I have original ATE drums and rotors for under $50, plus pads and shoes for under $20, wheel cylinders for around $10, etc. If...
• Re: leaking power steering?
  Historical mailing list - Beckham, Chip
  Wed, 18 Sep 2002 09:29:59 -0400
  ...This apparently ate all the seals. As you can imagine I'm still smarting from the financial strain this caused (they had to cut...
• Weekend trip~West River Westies
  Historical mailing list - billm
  Sun, 18 Jul 2004 20:37:20 -0400
  ...We ate like pigs and then settled in around the fire for a few brews after the kids were put down. Saturday morning we...
• Wasserleaker -- we will soldier on, but how?
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Sat, 30 Apr 2005 06:52:32 -0700
  ...We drove a few miles south on Highway 1 parked on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean and ate while watching the sunset. We...
• Re: VW FOX - Been driving one since Feb. but have not seen one other than mine. Why?
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:24:17 -0400
  ...Unfortunately mine got eaten by critters (they ate all the wiring harnesses). It was cheap when I bought it ($7500 or so, w/AC...
• Re: vanagon Digest - 14 Sep 2010 - Special issue (#2010-891)
  Historical mailing list - Larry Chase
  Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:18:15 -0500
  ...larry & maggie roadhaus.com On Sep 14, 2010, at 6:41 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote: > ate: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 15:00:10...
• Re: Surprise Party
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:49:23 -0400
  ...Mine recently ate a string, or a "linear foreign body" as it's called post-eating, and it took a fair amount of soul...
• Re: Diesel conversion and SMOG
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 8 Dec 2005 19:44:53 -0500
  ...a TDI after my factory original > 170K+ mil= > e > 2.1 ate it, but individual slobs like us here in California are > prety much...
• Re: What can go wrong.....
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Mon, 15 May 2017 08:55:58 -0600
  ...I ate > the deal and was dropped > off at 1:00AM this morning. All because I left a rag in my engine > compartment and...
• Re: J.B. Weld Head Repair
  Historical mailing list - Steven X. Schwenk
  Tue, 31 Mar 1998 10:52:17 -0800
  ...and money fixing non-leaking > heads > only to have the problem crop up in another 20k miles 'cause the JB > weld ate > your gaskets.
• Re: Why I hate my Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Bradley Flubacher
  Sun, 7 Jul 2002 12:42:10 -0400
  ...with that engine? Thanks, Brad Raimund Feussner wrote: >Hm, > >Yesterday I ate 1400kilometers from north to south Germany (and back) >without any problems (besides...
• CCC's Red Rock food
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 20 Apr 1996 10:51:10 -0700
  ...for a specific dish, but in later months discovered we all ate just as well with far less stress if we simply "brought stuff...
• Re: List check in
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 13 Jul 2025 22:28:03 +0000
  Sorry for the late reply.  Diane and I just got back from West River Westies, ate lunch (at a restaurant), unloaded the Westy, took...
• Re: Brake Fade
  Historical mailing list - Stacy Schneider
  Tue, 6 Sep 2011 21:47:49 -0700
  ...I now have a set of S/A big brakes and S/A over sized rear drums with Stainless lines and new Ate rear...
• Re: Bus Depot Sucks HUMOR
  Historical mailing list - developtrust
  Fri, 25 Jan 2002 19:11:22 -0800
  ...them. > > I paid 80$ from a local source for the same ATE clutch cylinder that Bus > > Depot sells for about 37$ > > You just can...
• Re: Small Car Conversions
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 2 Feb 2016 20:05:01 -0500
  ...Son's 2013 GTI ate a water pump last year also. Sometimes old is also tested and proven! Fun Bus engine tired and proven...
• YABT: Yet another brake thread... :-(
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
  Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:26:31 -0700
  ...Autohausaz (my preference as my parents are in AZ, and I need it there fast) has drums by 'OP parts', TRW or ATE cylinders...
• Re: Ice Cream Camping
  Historical mailing list - Mike South
  Tue, 9 Mar 2010 16:44:09 -0600
  ...White Mountain machines > going full blast for the better part of 3 days in July. > > Gonna miss that stuff, but my7 ateries won't...
• Re: What in fuel can wreck engine?
  Historical mailing list - Paul N. Oliver
  Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:02:17 -0600
  ...All was forgotten, ordered, ate and left. It was a few weeks later when I came again to the same small eatery and after...
• Re: My first Friday post: fix the planet!
  Historical mailing list - miguel pacheco
  Sat, 20 Feb 2010 10:52:30 -0700
  ...westie ness ... > Los Osos California ... > home of Gowesty > January 8 2010 ate lunch in a garden cafe on the patio > had to park the...
• Re: 85 Vanagon - should I buy
  Historical mailing list - John H. Rodgers
  Wed, 1 Jul 1998 08:18:53 -0500
  ...few old buses, >> including a cherry 67 that looked great but ate up a lot of my cash. >> Will it be similar to those...
• Vanagon Parts Closeouts - HURRY!
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Tue, 5 Aug 1997 23:03:12 -0400
  ...Brake Calipers '86-up Vanagon (New, original ATE/Germany) $149 ea. (Last *wholesale* cost was $180) Boge Rear Shocks, Vanagon Syncro $62.50 each...
• Re: '86 up brake improvent on vanagon??
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Wilford
  Wed, 9 Jul 2003 14:44:39 -0400
  ...Someone had told him that the 86-91 brake setup was superior to the earlier (80-85) ATE setup and that he would be...
• Re: Brakes-
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 25 Apr 2014 19:46:00 -0400
  ...The only cylinders I know of that have the piston push out spring is the ATE. Even if you go to the dealer they...
• Re: Volvo B230FT Engine --> Vanagon? 944 turbo?
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Wed, 4 Nov 2009 08:49:42 -0800
  ...Next failure point is the CVs, ate these like crazy until I put in 108mm Porsche 930 units. Next failure point is accelerated wear...
• Re: P22 Westy layout
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Mon, 18 Oct 2004 20:52:10 -0500
  ...Download that picture of the back seat and after enhancing the light spectrum try to guess what kind of dog ate that seat. Stan...
• Re: Westy Configurations and Bear-proofing
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:13:56 -0500
  ...thought better of it, as the bear, if it found and ate the stuff, would associate it with the human smell that would be...
• 1967 makes it to Ohio (long)
  Historical mailing list - GAK
  Thu, 16 May 1996 18:35:47 -0400 (EDT)
  ...When I finally did find a belt that fit, we put it on and the engine ate it right up. Huh? Well I looked...
• Re: Aircooleds and Airplanes
  Historical mailing list - Kevin Prichard
  Mon, 17 Jul 1995 17:45:21 -0400 (EDT)
  ...an increased engine seize rate, we'll sell more motors!") Kevin Prichard The Atlantic Software Group 1981 Vanagon L - The Bus That Ate Manhattan
• Re: draining coolant
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sat, 4 Oct 2008 19:12:17 -0700
  ...I don't know if this is really true or not ........one guy claimed that phosphate-free VW Blue coolant ate out a wbxr...
• Re: Low Brake Pedal, Caliper Piston Movement.
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 26 Jun 2015 10:35:56 -0700
  ...big > that it actuates the adjuster lever. > Wheel cylinders are new ATE. > Master cylinder was replaced not that long ago. > I flush the hydraulics...
• Re: Engine Case Cleaning
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sat, 24 Jan 2004 07:47:14 -0600
  ...They also say there is no aternative other than pressure washing or >perhaps oven baking. I have tried various engine shampoos and pressure washing...
• Re: Chinese restaurants ....no Vanagon content
  Historical mailing list - phil stanhope
  Mon, 15 Apr 2002 21:02:13 -0700
  ...said the people would > just steal the > dog....for > >supper. > > > >I ate all kinds of things that I didnt recognise > but whenever possible I...
• Re: Chapalilla, Mexico Overheat
  Historical mailing list - John Carpenter
  Tue, 7 Apr 2009 08:49:13 -0600
  ...The SVX just ate it up, so no >> problems there. When I completed my climb and turned towards >> Compostella, the engine temp shot up...
• Re: Capacity?
  Historical mailing list - Dana Morphew
  Tue, 12 Mar 2002 07:39:28 -0800
  ...What I read most recently was > that GL-5 had some component (sulfur, I think?) that ate synchros about 50% > faster than GL-4...
• Trip Report, Baja Aug 2021, about 1,500 miles
  Historical mailing list - vw_van_fan_Mark
  Thu, 12 Aug 2021 13:15:36 -0700
  ...We also kayak fished and ate the tasty catch. Baja is made up of 2 Mexican States and we camped in both. The southern...
• Re: rear disc brakes project
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:28:10 -0800
  ...It should be noted that the Mk4 Jettas ate rear brake pads much faster than the fronts. This may be due to rear brake...
• Re: adding an oven to a westy
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Sat, 7 May 2005 21:17:53 -0400
  ...www.coleman.com/coleman/colemancom/detail.asp? >> product_id=5010D700T&c >> ategoryid=27400> >> jimt >> >> >> On 5/7/05 6:25 PM, "Dusty Edwards" <dusty...
• Brake Expert Questions/PICS/Rant
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:38:47 -0700
  ...New rotors, "factory" rebuilt ATE calipers, pads all messed up with brake fluid. http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/faultyaterebuiltcaliper Questions: Is this type of failure...
• Vacuum Brake Booster
  Historical mailing list - Helen Fahy
  Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:17:05 -0400
  ...Were there rebuild kits for the ATE MCs? I am just interested, I have never rebuilt brake hydraulic components. The risk is too high...
• Re: State of the List... State your ages!!!!!!! :<)
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Sat, 8 May 2004 16:35:19 -0700
  ...Kept it until the beach weather ate it up. Bought '83.5 Vanagon GL for wife to haul GIrl Scouts in. Then a Baja...