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• Re: 4 Bike carriers
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Palmer
  Fri, 20 Aug 2021 15:17:58 -0500
  ...I do have a 3 bike carrier for my ball hitch but we are now four so … that increases the cost of the endeavour...
• Fwd: Re: EVC Web Submission
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 2 Dec 1997 18:49:46 -0500
  Can anyone give me a ballpark idea of how much I should be paying for a 93 MV weekender with 60,000 miles, automatic...
• Re: front end
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Tue, 4 Apr 2000 08:12:19 -0700
  ...Lift and see if there is any movement in that ball joint. If so, replace. They are bolted in, but you'll need an...
• tailgaters - Fryday fun!
  Historical mailing list - James T.
  Fri, 25 Jan 2002 19:56:45 +0000
  ...FI sensor and have a fine needle like a beach ball/foot ball inflating pin as the end. Fill said windshield washer tank up...
• Re: Lower Ball Joint Adaptor Questions (PICS)
  Historical mailing list - Mike S
  Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:49:35 -0500
  At 04:23 PM 1/28/2009, neil N wrote... >The lower ball joint adaptor is removed, and I need to drill out bolt...
• High-beam Lens
  Historical mailing list - Douglas Ford
  Thu, 13 Dec 2001 22:22:24 -0500
  Guys, Anybody out there have a high-beam lens for my '90 Vanagon? Right- side lens hit by a baseball, (foul-ball) Thanks in...
• Re: Boston Bob? or GoWesty?
  Historical mailing list - Greg Stelz
  Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:06:02 -0800
  -----clip----- In fact, the aircooled VW engines are used in homebuilt aircraft. -----clip----- Wow!! That takes some serious balls. LOL Greg --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo...
• Volkswagenball
  Historical mailing list - Roger Van Till
  Wed, 12 May 2004 21:19:40 -0400
  ...Click on the Quicktime links for a full tour of the ball. http://www.uvm.edu/~fleming/exhibitions/conProSer.php Roger Van Till '89...
• Re: Metallic "click" when depressing clutch pedal (Searched archives)
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Tue, 5 Sep 2006 16:37:15 -0400
  Maybe try a daub of grease where the little ball of the clutch operating shaft arm,meets the slave cylinder. I have seen these...
• Re: Cairo Report, now K&N
  Historical mailing list - Bill Davidson
  Tue, 9 Jan 2001 08:43:02 -0800
  ...If the first tree hit doesn't get the ball, one down the line > will as the speed of the ball drops. Oil wetted...
• This says it all.
  Historical mailing list - Brian T.
  Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:26:50 -0700
  ...When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He...
• Re: PS Re: Headlight Switch
  Historical mailing list - george jannini
  Sat, 19 Jan 2013 13:15:40 -0500
  Tiny little springs, little tiny balls, big giant hands. Oh what fun! Geo/ATL On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 12:15 AM, David...
• Re: Steering knuckle install
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 21 Feb 2015 21:36:50 -0500
  ...Steering knuckle install Hey guys and gals, I'm installing the steering knuckle with new lower and upper ball joints. The Bentley states that...
• Re: MOD AGAIN re FIFA World Cup
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:50:57 -0700
  Real football is a sport where players use their feet, mostly, to play the ball. American football is a sport where the players use...
• How does clutch slave cylinder attach to clutch lever arm?
  Historical mailing list - John Clemens
  Sun, 12 May 2002 02:41:18 -0700
  ...But on my 1983 Westphalia the ball on the end of the clutch lever arm doesn't stick inside the socket on the end...
• Re: Ronal R9 ET35
  Historical mailing list - Brent Weide
  Mon, 27 Mar 2006 20:15:48 -0500
  ...stuff I got from Ronal: (10) LugBolts Ball Seat - M14X1.5X 40mm (for fronts) (10) LugNuts Ball Seat - M14X1.5 (for rears) (4) 12mm...
• Re: Mirror replacement alternative: tightening (was Re: Truck Mirrors Installation - Pics Needed - Advice)
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Wed, 28 Apr 2010 04:39:42 -0400
  You may also use a thin flat rubber washer inside that ball joint to help keep the mirror in place. If you tighten the...
• Re: Front end suspension
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Thu, 12 May 2011 08:54:15 -0400
  Both of my lower ball joints needed replacing at around 170,000 miles. I have done both upper and lower myself. It's nothing...
• Re: shifter ball and cup - cuup removal
  Historical mailing list - Daryl Christensen
  Sat, 7 Aug 2010 21:49:10 -0700
  ...shifter ball and cup - cuup removal Bentley doesn't say mucha bout driving out the pin that holds the cup to the end of...
• Re: (rear) cv joint
  Historical mailing list - Sudhir Desai
  Fri, 3 Mar 2006 23:06:34 -0500
  a nick in one of the balls could mean that the associated bearing race (appropriate term?) is also damaged. sudhir On 3/3/06...
• Re: Ice Cream Camping
  Historical mailing list - B Feddish
  Tue, 9 Mar 2010 05:59:47 -0500
  Why not just get an ice cream ball and be done with it? http://www.llbean.com/llb/shop/46727?from=SR&feat=sr...
• New Windshield..no extra
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 8 Nov 1995 07:26:01 -0800
  ...They wanted to charge more but since I stopped the check I had them by the balls. Martin '71 bus
• Re: tightening floppy manual exterior mirrors
  Historical mailing list - Clint Kolda
  Sat, 16 Sep 2006 09:44:51 -0700
  I took mine apart and installed a rubber garden hose washer in the ball socket joint. this seems to work well even with cracked...
• Re: Lower Ball Joint Adaptor Questions (PICS)
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:58:45 -0800
  On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:11 PM, pdooley <psdooley@verizon.net> wrote: > Hmmrph, > Time for the plasma cutter.. Yah! I'll go...
• Re: Rear view mirror success almost.
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 29 Mar 2024 13:00:03 +0000
  ...I took a stem and froze it to make the ball smaller.  I took a brown mirror with no stem and warmed it in...
• Re: 81 Vanagon Shift Linkage Problem...
  Historical mailing list - John P
  Thu, 4 May 2000 05:22:08 -0000
  ...I replaced the shifter part you described with a new one( this I was given with the van) as the 'balls' were worn extremely...
• Re: HELP!! CV Joints!!
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 1 Feb 2001 00:21:28 -0500
  ...The hub's only contact with the rest of the CV joint is through the balls, right? And if things are loose enough that...
• CV questions (searched archives...some ;) possible air cooled mod too!
  Historical mailing list - neil
  Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:36:46 -0400
  ...42.9 that "chamfer on inside diameter of ball hub (splines) must point to contact shoulder on axle shaft and to larger diaemter of...
• Re: Tie Rod end removal/Control arm bushings
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Tue, 9 Jun 2009 14:32:45 -0700
  ...I use the hammer method on upper ball joints. It's a larger tapered part , than the tie rod is, so you'd need...
• Re: Suggestions on new paint
  Historical mailing list - Bruce Nadig
  Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:37:55 -0500
  ...James Ballen <ballenjames@HOTMAIL.COM> >Reply-To: James Ballen <ballenjames@HOTMAIL.COM> >To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM >Subject: Suggestions on new paint >Date: Fri...
• Re: Right mirror
  Historical mailing list - Harvey Chao
  27 Jun 1995 15:04:53 -0700
  ...This nut compresses a spring that supplies tension between the socket of the "footing" and the ball of the mirror. By now there may...
• Re: Ball joint question.
  Historical mailing list - EMZ
  Thu, 15 Apr 1999 22:24:55 -0400
  ...15 Apr 1999, Per Lindgren wrote: > Listees, > > Today, I bought a balljoint to replace the worn out unit at the upper > left position on...
• Re: Front Brakes & Ball joint Q's [Syncro]
  Historical mailing list - Buettner, Peter
  Mon, 13 Mar 2000 08:29:51 -0800
  ...Front Brakes & Ball joint Q's [Syncro] Hey boys and girls - I am elbow deep into my front end refurbishment project and I have...
• Re: Great American Eclipse 8Apr2024 ~> WarmUp
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Wed, 22 Mar 2023 11:13:28 -0600
  ...Sat of the 2023 ABQ Balloon Fiesta ~ So, >> >> weather permitting, there may well be hundreds of Hot Air Balloons in the sky during >> >> the...
• Re: 1991 CARAT
  Historical mailing list - PSD
  Fri, 10 Apr 2015 13:00:22 -0400
  ...The standard procedure is list an ad on CL, wait 5-10 minutes and the uber low-ball offers start coming in. I think...
• Re: Failed Inspection- questions on rust and ball joints
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Sat, 14 May 2011 19:03:44 -0700
  ...On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Jim Arnott <jrasite@eoni.com> wrote: > Newton and it was an upper ball joint. > > And...
• Re: AC Converting/Procedure/R134A
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Tue, 13 Jun 2006 16:23:40 -0400
  ...Also, the molecule size of a 134a molecule, compared to a R-12 molicule is like a golf ball , to a basketball. The golf...
• Nothing to fear but car trouble itself
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Thu, 7 Jun 2007 22:06:54 -0700
  ...And so ordered a new upper ball joint that went bad in the first 500 miles , which will be here thanks to Carquest Friday...
• Later model fuel filler hose wanted
  Historical mailing list - B Feddish
  Fri, 18 May 2012 12:39:50 -0400
  Does anybody have one of those later model fuel filler hoses for the Vanagon that has the little floaty ball in them? I’m...
• 12v air pumps
  Historical mailing list - Laurie Loeb
  Wed, 27 Nov 1996 22:52:45 -0800 (PST)
  Interdynamics and Ames 12v air pumps have been mentioned here as being adequate for tire inflation, and Whitless has been sorta black-balled. But...
• Re: Ball joints?
  Historical mailing list - Dan Moy
  Thu, 18 Sep 1997 08:45:40 -0400
  I had a similar problem with my 84 with 193K. It turned out to be the upper control arm bushings. I did not replace...
• Re: Windscreen removal & replacement
  Historical mailing list - Benjamin Tan
  Tue, 11 Jan 2000 07:16:14 EST
  ...I've seen a guy the size of (pre-fad diet) Oprah do this windshield ballet. BenT San Francisco
• Fuel spillage
  Historical mailing list - Pabst Michael
  Wed, 10 May 2000 16:12:35 +0200
  Hi Steve and all, VW changed the filler tube around 88 by adding a ball valve which eliminates the spills. Costs around 100 bucks...
• new design VW van
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Fri, 9 May 2003 10:59:45 -0700
  ...very easy to park, and a ball to drive http://www.girl4.com/vw/ Alistair -- '82 Westy -> diesel converted to gas in '94 albell...
• Control arm bushings (front end madness)
  Historical mailing list - Steve Delanty
  Thu, 10 Apr 2003 20:33:35 -0700
  Well, It looks like the upper ball joints on the westy are kind of in need, and also the upper control arm bushings aren...
• Re: need to replace boot on steering rack
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Mon, 26 Aug 2024 14:56:25 -0500
  ...No need to unscrew ball joint > > You can get old and then new boot over the ball joint > > You’ll see rubber grommet at...
• Re: removing ball joint nut?
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Thu, 3 Sep 2009 12:20:36 -0400
  ...been so helpful for > my Vanagon. > > I need to remove the ball joint, problem is the nut is right under > under the CV joint...
• Re: Igntion coil failure
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Wed, 19 Jul 2000 08:29:30 -0700
  ...These coils don't appear to have an internal ballast resistor, so if the ECU is not doing its job the coil will get...
• happy with the new 1.9 diesel
  Historical mailing list - Dave Cromwell
  Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:36:50 -0700
  ...Just back from the shakedown 4.5k miles trip with "la ballena azul" and her new 1.9 overland diesel. She did quit well...
• Re: Got Shifter Bushings?
  Historical mailing list - miguel pacheco
  Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:49:07 -0600
  ...What blows me away is that what is really at hand here are balls.....and these balls are proposed to you unprotected. Yup, as...
• Re: Rebuilding suspension - suggestions
  Historical mailing list - brett rueff
  Tue, 28 Aug 2012 04:56:15 +0000
  ...Is there a way to check them other than the wheel 'wiggle/twist' test? Would bad balljoints/rod ends cause a rough ride? Brett...
• I have first gear back and new clutch finally in...
  Historical mailing list - B Feddish
  Wed, 11 May 2011 08:24:12 -0400
  ...I noticed that the boots were missing around the shifter ball ( http://www.van-cafe.com/home/van/page_1348_332/shift_lever.html...
• Fw: Re: VW better get on the ball.
  Historical mailing list - Jason Yasment
  Tue, 12 Jan 1999 10:46:47 -0500
  ...VW better get on the ball. >How does that work? Does the Insurance company(or whoever), charge you a >percentage of the car's...
• Re: Syncro ball joints-- Moug?
  Historical mailing list - EMZ
  Fri, 9 Jul 1999 07:56:44 -0400
  ...and for alignment. > > The mechanic strongly recommended replacing the left upper ball joint, and > I agreed to let him install a Moug brand part...
• Re: Busted Shifter? Tis the Season!
  Historical mailing list - Andrew G. Martin
  Tue, 8 Jan 2002 14:42:41 -0800
  ...Metal ball housing (usually not bad) 1- Shifter guide in box below shifter 1- Lever on the side of tranny with plastic ball on...
• Re: Subject: German quality?
  Historical mailing list - Ed
  Sat, 24 Aug 2013 23:12:34 -0400
  The last time I rebuilt the front suspension I used Lemforder and added grease fittings to ball joints and tie rod ends. In a...
• Re: Ball Joints/SOLD
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 3 Apr 1995 15:28:16 -0300
  > >makes for great reading tim s., but do we all need to see >this? ;) > > Your suitably humbled servant apologizes to all for this personal...
• Re: Upper ball-joint replacement how-to online
  Historical mailing list - Nathaniel Merrill
  Wed, 20 Jan 1999 12:13:38 -0800
  As far as FAQ's are concerned, what Tom does on his site is awesome. If Bentley could only have been so good to...
• Trailing arm bushings
  Historical mailing list - ralph meyermann
  Thu, 7 Jun 2012 13:49:58 -0600
  Hi gang is there any trick to ease the installation of trailing arm bushings? After the frozen bolt difficulties a balljoint press removed them...
• Re: Undoing the big nut on the upper ball joint - who knows how?
  Historical mailing list - Dan Andrews
  Sat, 27 Apr 2013 22:03:32 +1000
  ...Undoing the big nut on the upper ball joint - who knows how? There is absolutely no reason to disconnect the upper ball joint to...