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• Re: Gordon River (vancouver island) trip
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Sun, 27 Mar 2011 20:27:59 -0700
  ...Bell, The only cougars I'm interested in are those able to drive gold-plated Vanagons with VC's made of platinum blond. ;-) BenT...
• Re: cabinet use
  Historical mailing list - Deborah Walters
  Sun, 13 Oct 2002 13:24:32 -0400
  ...notebook, pliers, screw drivers, knife, misc. stuff (this is my "junk drawer") > C - sink cab Unperishable food, pots, pans, plates, cups > D - Refer condiments...
• Re: Vehicle Names
  Historical mailing list - Tom Buese
  Wed, 1 Oct 2008 15:37:49 -0600
  My 84 Westy is vanity plate named DETLEF in honor of the OG owner who owned it for its 1st 18 years & 38.5k...
• Re: rebuilding throttle body
  Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
  Fri, 18 May 2001 14:53:59 -0400
  ...Why >would it wear grooves in the side? > > > >Good Luck and Drive Safely >Ken Lewis >86 Crewcab,60 356 >http://Neksiwel.20m.com/ > > >On...
• Re: Just like a Vanagon, but modern..
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:17:12 -0800
  ...Right hand drive and diesel. Good looking modern beastie. Didn't see the plates. It looked to me like a modern Vanagon, but Japanese...
• Re: flywheel bolts
  Historical mailing list - John Anderson
  Wed, 4 Nov 2009 13:01:15 -0800
  ...There should be no effort bringing them together, then you simply spin the converter to alighn with the first drive plate hole (which should...
• Re: Importing a Van from the US to Canada
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Tue, 13 Jan 2004 16:21:37 -0800
  ...if I want to drive it from the US to Canada, how is the procedure? I need a plate and insurance. This seems impossible...
• Re: Rear Brake Drum Removal Suggestions?
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:52:05 -0600
  ...the drum inside surface, by sticking the screw driver between it and the steel backing plate as it can be bent/damaged/warped and...
• Re: Derek's worn clutch
  Historical mailing list - Carl Hansen
  Sat, 8 Aug 1998 23:45:27 -0500
  ...the pressure plate was broken, the disk was ok. I think you should be ok going another 220 miles. Be gentle, drive carefull. Ch...
• Thanks - Was AFM Cleaning
  Historical mailing list - Brian Doss
  Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:46:08 EDT
  As Matthew and Karl had suggested, I was able to move the plate which supports the "carbon rainbow" under the screws about a mm...
• 85 Camper Engine replacement, Calif Air Resources Board and Importing
  Historical mailing list - Westy Clarke
  Tue, 17 Feb 2004 09:41:13 -0800
  ...even have to reimport it or can I just drive it with Canadian plates? If I do the engine replacement in California, can I...
• Re: Wanted: Syncro camper body, no rust
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Tue, 8 Jun 2004 22:37:05 -0400
  ...Of course the drive shaft, skid plate, front transaxle, etc. Some features (locking differential vacuum lines etc.) are unique to the Syncro. Speedometer and...
• Re: unicat - another syncro substitute
  Historical mailing list - Andy Highland
  Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:59:33 -0700
  ...Complete with toilet, shower, gold plated faucets, dishwasher, towel warmers, butler... Someone's padding the hell out of it, and it isn't in...
• Re: Air bags & VWs
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 28 Nov 1996 13:05:23 PDT
  ...drivers who have been convicted of any sort of > DUI have to display a special license plate that designates what kind of > driver they...
• Re: Red Audi Vanagon in Denver(LVC)
  Historical mailing list - Mark Tuovinen
  Tue, 2 May 2006 10:48:36 -0800
  ...muffler coming out of the driver's side from > way back, an > audi 5 cylinder motor...California license plate that had an > abbreviation of...
• Re: Gas in Oil fill
  Historical mailing list - John P. Flaherty
  Mon, 18 Feb 2002 16:14:47 -0500
  ...Someone is used to American cars with the > gasoline fill tube behind the license plate, so pulls back the plate > and finds a tube...
• Re: Hot brakes!
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sat, 21 Apr 2018 15:49:21 +0000
  ...They are too small for the vehicle to be driven hard without regards. If you're trying to keep up with the California drivers...
• Re: DriversSide Rectangular LowBeam
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Mon, 4 Dec 2017 22:52:47 -0700
  ...four all new square headlight housings with > adjusters mounted on backing plates. Price will be in the $525 range and > the outer lights will...
• Re: Busses by the Bridge?
  Historical mailing list - Joy Hecht
  Mon, 9 Jan 2012 11:43:39 -0330
  ...If my van ever gets fixed, hopefully I'll drive down again, and actually be able to get to the west coast and see...
• Re: Friday flammables
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:52:36 -0500
  ...Thanks, Tom Hargrave www.stir-plate.com www.towercooler.com www.kegkits.com www.grow-sun.com -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto...
• Off topic - 1 Polo and 2 Audi A3s
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 30 Jun 1997 10:04 -0600 (MDT)
  ...Returning to New Mexico yesterday, chanced upon a caravan of Arizona "Manufacturer" plated vehicles at a gas station just 4 miles south of Blanding...
• Re: what Transaxle will fit?
  Historical mailing list - Karl M.
  Sun, 24 Sep 2000 19:35:45 -0400
  ...Instead , you can replace the bellhousing with one from a diesel Vanagon, or get an adaptor plate and flywheel kit from Kennedy Engineering. Then...
• Re: ..... Can't get first or second gear.
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 21 Feb 2014 08:41:52 -0500
  Adjusting the plate under the shifter won't help much. If the 1/2 gear gate is not lining up the problem is worn...
• Re: alternators, voltages, rebuild, idiocracy
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:17:35 -0600
  ...www.kegkits.com www.stir-plate.com www.andyshotsauce.com -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf Of...
• Re: Righting A Wrong
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Mon, 1 Apr 2013 21:19:26 -0500
  ...Congratulations!!!! Thanks, Tom Hargrave www.stir-plate.com www.towercooler.com www.kegkits.com www.grow-sun.com -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List...
• Subject: Re: jack under driver's seat
  Historical mailing list - Garrick Chang
  Tue, 26 May 1998 21:50:00 -0800
  ...Not only does the cabinet get in the way on Westys, but so does the metal plate welded to the seat pedastal that allows...
• Need Radio Antenna for my Double Cab
  Historical mailing list - Maynard Southard
  Fri, 5 Mar 2004 16:27:49 -0500
  ...There is an official VW Block-Off Plate in its place. I think I can mount a radio there without much difficulty and placing...
• Re: ..... Can't get first or second gear.
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 21 Feb 2014 14:01:46 -0500
  A fine adjustment can also be made by loosening the plate on the transmission and moving it sided to side and re-tightening. Has...
• Re: White smoke when cold
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( Scott Daniel Foss )
  Sat, 18 Jan 2014 22:35:39 -0800
  ...Scott Jim Lahyey On 1/18/2014 8:53 PM, Alain Thibault wrote: > The expansion tank behind the license plate shows coolant under the...
• Re: Subie swap curiosity
  Historical mailing list - Sudhir Desai
  Sat, 4 May 2013 17:38:07 -0400
  ...easier with fewer parts. > The KEP adapter and flywheel/torque converter drive plate costs less > than their manual trans adapter and flyhweel.. > and there...
• Catalytic converter
  Historical mailing list - Gerald Masar
  Fri, 29 Jun 2001 14:24:04 -0700
  ...compartment, the bumper, cowling, lic. plate, etc. have been too hot to touch, even after a short drive. The van itself, a '90 Westy...
• Fwd: [T2] Stolen Bus
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Mon, 29 Mar 2004 17:09:28 -0800
  ...2322137800, old Oregon plates KJJ 426. Taken from my driveway in > Milwaukie, Oregon Sunday morning March 28th between 2:00 a.m. and 6...
• Re: Turbo diesel 5-speed DOKA Made Legal
  Historical mailing list - Al and Sue Brase
  Tue, 9 Nov 2004 11:22:55 -0600
  ...And someone mentioned that there is no windshield VIN plate. (This will be a big problem if ANY law enforcement officer EVER looks at...
• leaky trans
  Historical mailing list - Robert Harris
  Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:43:55 -0400
  ...goes into the case, and a little bit from around the drive plates the CVs bolt to. Makes me wonder how long it's...
• Re: Transmission slippage - help!
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Tue, 7 Sep 2010 22:21:45 -0700
  ...The thunking noise is likely loss of proper endplay due to the thinning plates or a damaged thrust bearing. Either way it's not...
• Re: Why did Schultz decide to use screws? for the dustplates up front??????????
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:48:59 -0700
  A tool worth having in your 'occasional' box is a hand held impact driver. You can find these hand tools as sets with various...
• Vanagon Specifications Sheet
  Historical mailing list - VW Doka
  Wed, 2 Sep 2009 16:20:52 -0400
  ...Flywheel Or Drive Plate-To-Crankshaft 80 (110) Oil Drain Plug 20 ( 25) Oil Pump Cover Nuts 20 ( 25) Pressure Plate-To-Flywheel 15...
• ATF Level too high - what now?
  Historical mailing list - Chris Knust
  Thu, 3 May 2001 08:42:44 -0400
  ...tranny�s bottom plate (don�t know the correct english term for that, sorry) with the tranny and final drive installed? How do I...
• Re: Power Window Switch Repairs
  Historical mailing list - Tom L. Neal
  Fri, 9 Jun 2000 21:56:09 -0700
  ...I even tried putting my spare passenger side one into the driver's side and there is so much extra wire it didn't...
• Re: Heat/cooling lever knobs
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sat, 20 Nov 2004 21:50:33 -0600
  ...The lever itself is made to detach behind the slotted dash plate somewhere and to simply slide out the slot, in the event of...
• no start no click
  Historical mailing list - Thomas Casal
  Wed, 25 Aug 2021 11:34:59 -0400
  ...change and cut out the base plate of the seat to access that space under the drivers seat since i parked it a month...
• Re: Vanagon driver and passenger seats
  Historical mailing list - Ben T
  Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:48:54 -0700
  ...IIRC, he simply drilled four holes in the upper plate of the swivel and attached the Recaro seat to that. BenT sent from my...
• [T1] Break job...
  Historical mailing list - Bob
  Sat, 17 Jun 1995 09:52:27 +0000
  ...My backing plate was so (c)rusty that it looked like the cylinders were tack-welded on. Well, my friend Oxy-Acetylene had something...
• Re: ready-aim-fire Zippos!
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright, SMUS Network Analyst
  Thu, 14 Mar 1996 14:06:08 PDT
  ...legs, out > front....yadada yadada etc." HEH!!! I notice from the plate on the side of my '76 that it turned TWENTY YEARS OLD...
• Re: Why did Schultz decide to use screws? for the dustplates up front??????????
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:22:11 -0700
  ...If I'd been thinking, I would have gotten a proper sized Phillips bit and used that with a socket and 3/8" drive...
• Re: Whiff of propane
  Historical mailing list - Zoltan
  Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:01:56 -0700
  One source of leak may come from under the specification plate. By now, the rust has grown so thick and the metal has thinned...
• Re: 2.2 into a 1.9 case
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Tue, 24 Jul 2012 22:01:08 -0500
  ...Thanks, Tom Hargrave www.stir-plate.com www.towercooler.com www.kegkits.com www.grow-sun.com -----Original Message----- From: George Laubach [mailto:skiplaubach...
• Re: Corvair-powered Bay on Virginia CL
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:03:48 -0600
  ...of their driveways because the alternative was to pay a junkyard to > pick the car up. > > Thanks, Tom Hargrave > www.stir-plate.com > www...
• Re: Kelly Park VW show, valuable documents and sheetmetal
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 11 Apr 1995 11:29:29 +0600
  ...Were there "skid plates" or whatever >you want to call them available on post 68' vans (i,e,the pan that bolts >underneath the...
• T4 Diesel Conversion
  Historical mailing list - Paul McQueen
  Tue, 16 May 2000 18:16:29 +0100
  ...the existing transmission via a stator plate. I know these engines are tough & torquey, some taxi drivers report 1/4 m miles without a...
• Re: Starter sings
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Sat, 23 Oct 2010 14:47:33 -0700
  ...sounds like the gear isn't full disengaging from the flex plate/flywheel. Could be excessive gunk, a weak spring or? Cya, Robert On...
• Re: Yet another rusty propane tanks question...
  Historical mailing list - Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\" Elliott
  Wed, 1 Aug 2007 11:15:56 -0700
  ...rusty, salt driven vanagons from new england. if the tank holds propane, then > your fine. they all have the ID plate rusting off. the...
• Re: Switching bodies between chassis advice seeked
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Mon, 28 Oct 2002 02:00:30 -0500
  ...panel for the fill up point.) then add the syncro drivetrain...and skid plate. I would consider doing it...if I had about 2...
• Re: Towing a syncro and driving on missmatched tires
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Fri, 12 Jul 2002 12:41:18 -0300
  ...the head) by the drive-shaft falling out, support it by some strong wire on the syncro skid plates as you "break" it loose...
• Re: Smells like Gas
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 2 Oct 1995 22:32:43 -0700
  ...It is a daily driver, >and I noticed it about 3 days ago. It only smells like gasoline on the >inside of the van...
• Re: Factory Hose Clamps
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Sat, 9 Jun 2012 08:51:40 -0500
  ...Thanks, Tom Hargrave www.stir-plate.com www.towercooler.com www.kegkits.com www.grow-sun.com -----Original Message----- From: JRodgers [mailto:jrodgers113@gmail...
• Re: Techron vs. other brand(s) injector cleaner - '91 Vanagon GL
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:21:31 -0500
  ...Tom www.stir-plate.com -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf Of T-rev Reynolds Sent: Wednesday...
• Re: Friday; 12V generator ideas / Tiny Honda Generator
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:35:29 -0800
  ...pricey at $1000. > > Maybe we need KEP to make an adaptor plate to use old Bosch alternators this way? > > Product info; > http://www.christieengineering...
• Re: [Missing van]
  Historical mailing list - Joe Fortino
  Fri, 2 Mar 2001 09:59:10 MST
  ...a vanagon 80ish no front window drivers door off, parts all over inside with Nevada lic plates.. I need some parts and didn't...
• Re: Can anyone order VW dealer parts without a large markup?
  Historical mailing list - EMZ
  Wed, 5 Mar 2003 23:51:25 -0500
  ...coolant pipe from water pump to the thermostat housing 3 - Syncro front brake backing plates Can anyone help out? Eric 86-VW4x4 vw4x4@fyi...