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• '71 Clutch Cable
  Historical mailing list - Scott Allred
  Wed, 20 Mar 96 16:14:57 UT
  ...clip to attach it to the pedal and added a new wing nut. About 2 months ago the clutch started to feel strange -- kind...
• Friday Humor
  Historical mailing list - Kedar Warriner
  Thu, 12 Jun 1997 17:44:47 -0400 (EDT)
  ...That's what they're there for." Problem: "Number three engine missing." Solution: "Engine found on right wing after brief search." ----- End Included Message -----
• Re: economic woes and such ..
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:57:03 -0400
  ...with a parachute when the >plane is on fire or the wings are falling off. stimulus? well, the >less said, the better). Or when...
• Re: Cylinder Types
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sat, 13 Dec 2003 14:15:00 -0600
  ...In Alaska I saw an Eskimo repair a broken wing strut on a small plane with two files as a splint wrapped tightly with...
• Re: Some kind of shelf?
  Historical mailing list - Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\" Elliott
  Fri, 1 Jun 2007 16:06:47 -0700
  ...There > would be bolt ends and wing nuts near contents of box, but whatEveRR! > > ;^) > > Or simpler yet, one bolt per side. (like Frankenstein!) > > Dril...
• westy top, etc.
  Historical mailing list - Lee Tucker
  Tue, 1 Apr 97 22:54:02 -0400
  ...decided to make some, (although I found an auto shade called 'Wings' for vans that covers all three front windows very well). The problem...
• Re: Plug n Play headlight harness with relays - almost done
  Historical mailing list - Rico Sapolich
  Mon, 31 Jan 2000 01:29:08 EST
  ...In them Volvo mounts a ratchet relay controlling the headlights in the engine compartment on the inner fender wing. This relay does not seem...
• Re: Floppy vent window - Easy Fix
  Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
  Tue, 14 Sep 2004 06:32:21 -0700
  George Goff wrote: >A brilliant and straightforward solution to the problem of increasing the >friction on the lower pivot of the window wing has...
• Re: 1990 Carat with Analogue Clock?
  Historical mailing list - Todd Brown
  Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:56:22 -0700
  ...Odd configuration, some people like them Cheap fabric on all seats, rubber carpet, front wing windows that don't open, no tach, no front...
• head gasket job question
  Historical mailing list - Michael Ramer
  Tue, 27 Nov 2001 07:36:44 -0800
  ...then I do have a new 2.1l waiting in the wings. I was hoping to find one of those deal-of-the-century...
• Re: Dan H's Heater
  Historical mailing list - sstones
  Wed, 15 Feb 1995 15:27:08 -0500 (EST)
  ...I also tend to open the wing window (triangle) to keep the fogging down. Those windows do tend to fog up with me huffing...
• Re: Wing mirror question
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Tue, 5 Aug 2008 10:46:41 -0700
  On 8/5/08, Paul Clarke <paul.clarke@iqea.com> wrote: > > Hi > We have a mirror problem which is driving me crazy. Our van...
• Re: '91 westfalia 2000 bucks in Louisiana on Craigslist...
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Tue, 3 Jun 2014 18:24:36 -0700
  ...Probably some bullet holes too, given the vandalized wind wings and taillights. But, the engine is there and it's an automatic. Probably best...
• Re: another spade terminal question - syncro temp gauge sender
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:19:49 -0500
  ...Or just sand everything clean, tighten the grip on the existing connector by pinching the wings and plug it in through a blob of...
• 5-seater Westy?
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 28 Sep 94 00:55:48 EDT
  ...It served our purpose well, even though I had to drill the holes, rust-proof the openings for the bolts, and adopt some wing...
• Re: High Mileage - its all been done before
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:15:04 -0700
  ...last year and put up the results? > How about that 6" wing on the back? What would that translate into on a > van? Where...
• Re: Power output of actual vans? (long)
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:07:15 -0700
  Re "We've seen some full > width top wings and the smaller deflectors (linked posted on list a > few years ago, NZ? firm making...
• Re: Belly pans for speed /mpg
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Sun, 18 May 2008 17:40:48 -0700
  ...The Wing, on racecars, was used > to increase downforce..the car's ability to generate traction by using the > air to 'push' it down...
• Re: Some kind of shelf?
  Historical mailing list - Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\" Elliott
  Fri, 1 Jun 2007 12:44:57 -0700
  ...visualize it correctly? Also, the wingnuts -- the bar is pretty narrow, meaning a smallish u-bolt, putting the wingnuts close together, possibly too close...
• Re: Vent wing seals? Anybody?
  Historical mailing list - Karl Ploessl
  Thu, 28 Apr 2016 21:50:30 -0400
  that's the part number Richard found :-) On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 9:22 PM, Marc Perdue <mcperdue@gmail.com> wrote: > The picture...
• Re: Disable oil pressure warning system
  Historical mailing list - Zeitgeist
  Sun, 15 Jun 2014 11:53:52 -0700
  ...I >> don't have time to troubleshoot the wiring harness, and it seems moot >> since >> I've got an ALH waiting in the wings...
• Re: Swap a Mazda Diesel in a Vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Mon, 6 Jul 2009 11:37:38 -0700
  ...That would open up lots of possible motor > swaps...Honda Gold wing?� Evinrude?� Briggs and Stratton? hee hee. (serious, > for the first one) > � Don...
• Re: skylight knob?
  Historical mailing list - Michael aka ECHO
  Tue, 7 Aug 2001 14:48:40 -0700
  ...Should cost > less than > 5 bucks. > > I use a wing style casement window crank handle, since I > have been > unable to find a faucet...
• Re: FOR SALE: Schleswig Coachwerks Vanagon Cabriolet
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Fri, 4 Apr 2003 23:27:02 -0600
  ...The look of disbelief on that guys > face...looking at the top of his van on the end of the wing... > > Bob > > I have...
• Re: Fridge Question - Maybe Aux. Batt. Related
  Historical mailing list - dusty edwards
  Thu, 28 Jul 2005 18:40:42 -0600
  ...is, indeed, wired to run > the camping unit when the ignition is off? > > On Jul 28, 2005, at 6:25 PM, Dan Winget wrote...
• Re: feeding time right now NVC (Decorah eagles)
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:16:37 -0700
  ...It's wingspan of 3'+ carried a body that you are unlikely to support with your arm the way you would do a falcon...
• Re: Aftermarket Westie Front Tables for Sale (maybe...) + Report on Michelin ...
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 11 Jun 1997 23:09:12 -0400 (EDT)
  ...Drill a couple holes in the arm, and thread in some large wing nuts to lock into position. Simple, functional, decent looking, and best...
• Re: Clutch Got Soft
  Historical mailing list - Aristotle Sagan
  Tue, 16 Oct 2001 18:20:48 -0700
  ...WHAT'S UP?? Is this a hydraulic clutch or does it adjust like the >older air-cooled buses with a turn of the wing...
• Re: Carrying loose propane? thanks.
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Sat, 25 Sep 2004 01:53:57 -0500
  ...a secretive anagram for "iran bright", a codeword to those extreme right-wing wackos who want to nuke Iran. "Joel's LEFT BRAIN ..." 1...
• Re: clutch adjustment
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:19:25 -0800
  ...But our vanagon has no wingnut down there. > > there is a nut where I think it should be, but I'm hesitent to go...
• Re: Is is safe to just "wing it"?
  Historical mailing list - Vincent Dow
  Fri, 25 Mar 2016 17:03:43 -0400
  ...From your experience, will it be necessary to make >> reservations >> > for lodging in advance, or will it be safe to "wing it" as we...
• Re: All those needing stove flue caps...
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 20 Sep 94 13:36:42 PDT
  >I called Pete at Euro-American RV Products (you may know them as Delta-Six >Industries- but this is the retail wing). The stove...
• Re: body shops in SF area
  Historical mailing list - Ben McCafferty
  Thu, 29 Nov 2001 08:39:06 -0800
  ...Just hope you don't want the vent wing area fixed though, because they > weren't happy about fixing mine! Apparently it was hard...
• Re: Water cooled AT 1980?
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Sun, 26 Feb 2006 10:14:07 -0800
  Put a TDI behind one of those ATs and watch the slug grow wings! ;-) David Marshall Fast Forward Automotive Inc. 4356 Quesnel-Hixon Road...
• Manifold measuring - is this right?
  Historical mailing list - Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\" Elliott
  Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:15:29 -0700
  ...Bentley's doesn't give a procedure for checking intake manifold vacuum so I'm winging it. I let the engine warm up so...
• Re: Some kind of shelf?
  Historical mailing list - neil
  Fri, 1 Jun 2007 16:13:48 -0700
  ...There > > would be bolt ends and wing nuts near contents of box, but whatEveRR! > > > > ;^) > > > > Or simpler yet, one bolt per side. (like Frankenstein!) > > > > Dril...
• Re: Friday - yet more aircraft pictures
  Historical mailing list - Evan Mac Donald
  Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:27:28 -0800
  ...Two smaller exhausts aft of the wing roots (twin engines, which Alpha Jets have...) The winner is Alpha jet! ________________________________ From: Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW...
• Re: Westie glass repair near Berkeley?
  Historical mailing list - Oakland Westfalia
  Wed, 7 Aug 2002 11:17:58 -0700
  ...The same thing happened to me last month and I picked up a wing window off an 84 for $10 and installed it myself...
• Re: Is your Vanagon "alarmed"?
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Fri, 19 Mar 2004 23:42:13 +1300
  ...that little glass >triangle/wing window makes very little sound when >broken and all he has to do is reach in and roll down...
• Re: Blacks and Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Matt Drew
  Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:43:47 -0800
  ...So I just had the Window > Wipers powder coated, along with the Wing Window Frames, and they look > great. > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > + To unsubscribe from the Vanagon...
• Re: Westy screw caps
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Wed, 14 May 2003 09:40:08 -0400
  ...thick rubber > washers for mounting the fiberglass luggage rack to > the roof, roll pins for the latch mechanism on the > wing windows, various stainless...
• Re: Diesel Fuel vs. Gasoline
  Historical mailing list - Gnarlodious
  Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:49:36 -0600
  ...I have heard those Libertarian (AKA Corporatist) talk radio wingnuts blame this on government overregulation, but it just ignores history. Their statements simply underscore...
• Re: What the F....- Turn signal buzzer?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 4 Aug 2010 14:17:53 -0700
  ...maybe others can just wing it and figure out what model.. or just guess. but it makes a LOT of difference which of the...
• Re: Friday bird AKICIV (All Knowledge is Contained in Vandom)
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:43:26 -0500
  ...I was able to hold it, spread its wings and sit with several reference books trying to identify it. In the end I tentatively...
• Re: Sink P-Traps: great deal!
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Tue, 26 Jan 1999 12:13:43 -0400
  ...ON the type that has the one central wing-nut, what one needs to do is to go DOWN from the top (through the...
• Re: Summer Comfort Upgrades
  Historical mailing list - Bill Shawley
  Thu, 1 Apr 2010 00:46:35 +0000
  ...the perennial question on maintaining the viability of the celebrated > wind wing window feature so it can actually be opened and won't fold...
• getting closer on the crew.
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Henricks
  Mon, 29 Apr 1996 08:25:40 -0700 (PDT)
  finally got a new wing window latch in the crew yesterday. i ended up haveing to refinish a NOS chrome one as black ones...
• Re: How to Steal VW Vans Qu
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 31 Aug 1994 07:40:16 +0100
  ...jogger's Type III (same way as the busses, through the >wing window) that she wantonly parked in our parking spaces. Seems she'd...
• Re: How Many Tows Does it Take to Get Canceled by AAA? (Short)
  Historical mailing list - Rico Sapolich
  Wed, 25 Jul 2001 07:59:35 EDT
  ...Al Capp was an unrepented fa-a-a-a-r right winger, but I can't remember if his politics ever wafted into his...
• Re: stripped oil pan plug
  Historical mailing list - Michael Harrnacker
  Mon, 7 Dec 1998 20:37:37 -0700
  ...The idea is you insert the plug into the drain hole, and turn the wingnut until the inserted part of the rubber plug expands...
• Re: VW T5 MicroBus Concept
  Historical mailing list - Joel Cort
  Mon, 8 Jan 2001 06:57:18 -0800
  ...in mind that the replacement for the Eurovan is in the > wings, > and it may be a little bigger. > > Of course, as with all...
• Re: INFO needed: Anybody have one of those SA 85 liter tanks? These are the longer version of our 2wd tanks.
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Thu, 17 May 2007 10:25:25 -0700
  ...At worst, I'll have to wing it. Cheers, BenT
• Re: Splicing damaged brake pipes???
  Historical mailing list - Mike
  Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:24:45 -0400
  ...Mike B. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Wing" <rawing@AMERITECH.NET> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 9:46 PM Subject...
• Re: ignition buzz in speakers on 88 vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Wed, 24 Jul 2002 22:11:36 -0500
  ...I > am an aircraft mechanic but my Vanagon doesn't have wings and a > propeller, hence I have lots to learn from everyone. I...
• Re: swapping r&p
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:38:37 -0800
  ...look of the Bentley procedure, even if you decide to just > wing it on the precise measuring the Bentley calls for, the tough part...
• Re: Driver/Passenger window seals
  Historical mailing list - Marc Perdue
  Sun, 10 Apr 2016 17:06:26 -0400
  ...There was little to no rust on the frame of my wind wings. I cleaned them thoroughly after removing the old ones. I cleaned...
• Curtains
  Historical mailing list - Kyle Haskins
  Thu, 10 Apr 1997 21:49:04 -0500 (EST)
  ...Kyle "Wake up, your wings have been tied too long" ---Rusted Root--- -------------------------------------------------------------------- khaskins@indiana.edu http://php.indiana.edu/~khaskins/
• Re: Best way to break into a Vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - David W. Palmerston
  Fri, 30 Oct 1998 13:19:55 -0800
  ...my spare key..... > > Dammit, the one time I lock my little wing-window......... > > >> > > > > sliding windows. > > pry out the little plastic spacers that hold the...
• IMPORTANT: The lease is up Gerry [the server] must move!
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Fri, 16 Jul 1999 19:01:23 -0700
  ...If we can't find a home within two weeks, I can wing it for a while, but it can't have free parking...
• Re: Using a UPS unit as inverter
  Historical mailing list - Matt Roberds
  Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:59:28 -0500
  ...Typically these are a box with a cord and plug, a 120 V outlet on the front, and two big studs with wing nuts...