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• General EV & Vanagon Wolf quest.
  Historical mailing list - Helen E. (Edie) Menkus
  Mon, 09 Sep 1996 10:40:30 -0500
  ...I have been observing the group trying to formulate information about VWs in general. What people like, dislike, and what the dealers are currently...
• Re: paint on grill
  Historical mailing list - Carl Turner
  Sat, 31 Oct 1998 10:58:15 EST
  ...As the person mentions below, for a durable job be sure and prep the part before painting, wash with a detergent or Formula 409...
• Re: Head leaks & a GM mechanics suggestion.
  Historical mailing list - Renouard, Robert
  Wed, 29 Sep 1999 11:24:55 -0700
  ...Head leaks & a GM mechanics suggestion. > > Sounds a lot like the Bars Leak formula--they both have nut shells. I've > had > success...
• Re: Castrol Hypuron 15W-40 Synthetic Blend?
  Historical mailing list - John Meeks
  Sun, 13 May 2012 22:21:00 -0400
  ...http://www.carbibles.com/engineoil_bible.html Sounds like diesel formulated oil might be to harsh? John Meeks '91 Vanagon MV Phoenix Northern Michigan...
• Re: It works AND it's a scam Re: Water 4 Gas. com Does it work? Has Anyone Tried it? Know of It?
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:02:19 -0700
  ...Here's how: > > On the website, you'll find the "Minimal System - The Secret Formula > They Don't Want You to Know" > > This is...
• Re: Castrol Hypuron 15W-40 Synthetic Blend?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sun, 13 May 2012 19:56:04 -0700
  ...one oil I like is Joe Gibbs high zinc formulation 15W50 . For old fashioned flat tappet engines .. which all our VW engines are ... they...
• Re: Help Needed...
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Fri, 17 Jul 1998 16:06:54 -0400
  ...It will take some time and trial and error but it is all there -especially the blue-book page gives a formula for the...
• Re: Third brake lights (tack-free)
  Historical mailing list - Keith & Lynn C.
  Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:20:13 -0700
  ...The formula is > Rlimit [ohms] = (Vsrc - Vled) [volts] / I [amps]. If you use milliamps, > the answer is in kilohms. > > So for 20 ma at...
• Re: fryday: SCAM?? (NVC)
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Fri, 8 Jan 2010 19:01:55 -0600
  ...There's a big 'formula board' in Nigeria ..... Similar to the the how-to-write a country song list ......you just plug in various...
• Re: Oil Suggestions
  Historical mailing list - Robert Stewart
  Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:58:01 -0400
  ...Higher viscosity formula helps reduce oil burn-off and leakage. Meets API SL/CF Here is something from the QA section: I thought Mobil...
• Re: Jeff's 85 any updates?
  Historical mailing list - Ned Savoie
  Thu, 19 May 2022 10:37:12 -0400
  ...The 40 was because it was the 40th formula! Ned -- Ned Savoie Creative Director Harbour Light Strategic Marketing Savvy Software, Inc. 3 Congress Street...
• Re: which type of headlight upgrade would you recommend and why?
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:17:09 EST
  ...I can only hope that the formulation of the material from which it is made is tougher and highly UV resistant. 2/ In order...
• Re: where is the best buy for drums and rotors?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis
  Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:55:15 -0500
  ...As many of you already know, there are lots of different formulations for brake pads be they organic, metallic, or carbon. There are trade...
• Re: Could this be the next future Vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:52:27 -0600
  ...A market survey is really pretty simple, and the formula needs only "N" positive responses to give a statistically valid reason to proceed, where...
• Re: stainless steel coolant pipes
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Thu, 6 May 2010 12:55:58 -0700
  ...Corrosion problems seem, > from all I've read and heard, to be attributed specifically to phosphate > in the formulation. VW is certainly not the...
• Vanagon Syndrome Variant - update needed
  Historical mailing list - sam.cooks
  Mon, 13 Oct 2003 23:49:23 -0400
  ...sent to the burrs and that it might not be full formula gas they send deep into the city. The BP/Amoco gas from...
• Re: Mutilated woodruff key at crankshaft
  Historical mailing list - Paul
  Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:14:42 -0700
  How does one go about torquing the bolt to 258 ft lbs? There is a formula on page 13.35 of the Bentley but...
• RE: CDIs
  Historical mailing list - Michael A. Radtke
  Fri, 1 Mar 1996 11:52:37 -0700
  ...The first peak has a rapid rise determined by your formula where the capacitance is the point capacitor in a Kettering ignition, and just...
• Re: Things that make you go "Hmmmm"
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 11 Apr 95 15:21:05 EDT
  ...been from a special batch and VW should have kept its formulation, after 15 years it was as brand new as was the frame...
• Re: Window Tint Recommendations
  Historical mailing list - Christopher Gronski
  Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:41:22 -0400
  ...That too varies state to state, in terms of > > how much glass can be covered. > > > > Formula One films and Llumar films both carry national...
• Re: Sound deadening and door speakers
  Historical mailing list - Bill Glenn
  Sun, 16 Jan 2011 13:32:16 -0500
  ...While it may look like some of the sticky-backed sound attenuation products, and utilize some ingredients from the same chemical families, the formulations...
• Re: 1.9L exhaust system comments
  Historical mailing list - Greg Stelz
  Sun, 28 Apr 2002 14:08:46 -0700
  ...I have own 17 motorcycles (mostly air cooled), 1 years of racing in formula ford 1600 and I have 978 hours log as a...
• Re: Auto tranny with hard downshift into 1
  Historical mailing list - Evan Mac Donald
  Wed, 3 Jan 2007 15:14:36 -0800
  ...Ford formulations are generally less "slippery", and give more positive shifts. A trick that is used in GM-based street/strip racing trannies is...
• Re: CV joints/Axle options
  Historical mailing list - kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
  Tue, 12 Mar 2019 09:36:10 -0400
  ...Ken On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 9:05 AM William Monk <billmonk@gmail.com> wrote: > Redline grease changed its formula and is no...
• Re: it's Friday, she blew the microwave up
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:01:54 -0700
  ...Chemically, water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, having the > formula > H2O. It is chemically active, reacting with certain metals and metal > oxides...
• Dr. Diesel meets Mr. Harley
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Earl
  Fri, 29 Aug 2003 11:32:27 -0700
  ...ten little piggies conferring amongst themselves to interprete my gesture and formulate a response. Finally, frustrated at having run out of clever visual retorts...
• Sunday Washington Post Classifieds
  Historical mailing list - Sean Bartnik
  Sun, 4 May 97 14:18:01 EDT
  ...miles, runs great, inspected, $1500, 703-548-9168. '72 Super Beetle, Formula VEE options, a/c, needs TLC, $850 obo, 301-863-4582. Sean...
• Re: Compression Question
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Sun, 18 Aug 2002 09:18:28 -0500
  ...this guy never changed his oil, or only used the old > formula > > "Quaker State" (the Pennsylvania type that was heavy with natural > > paraffin). > > > > G...
• Re: NOW, REMOVE SKIN DISCOLORATIONS, SPOTS, MARKS AND SCARS PERMANENTLY!
  Historical mailing list - Kevin Davis
  Fri, 23 Mar 2001 11:00:48 -0500
  ...and for all. > "SKINCURE" IS MADE FOR YOUR SKIN. > It's formula has been found by The U. S. Food and Drug > Administration to...
• Re: <no subject>
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Sat, 28 Oct 2006 09:33:18 -0700
  ...iffy at best. > > Maybe you should ask Boston Bob about his formula on how to rebuild > these > engines to last, better than factory. > > I...
• Re: sealing compound, need help
  Historical mailing list - Tom Brunson
  Tue, 14 Oct 1997 01:26:24 UT
  ...This seems to hold until the corrosion & gasket crushing cause leaks, but.... "MOS base 2" sounds like chemical formula abbreviation for Molybdenum DiSulfide - which...
• Re: Calif. Smog Fail and Catalytic Converter
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 17 Mar 2013 20:12:38 -0400
  ...Coolant? Some of the newer Diesel formulations or using "Water Wetter" may help. Of course use premium fuel. Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing...
• Re: [WetWesties] The Vanagon cooling system.. it's counterintuitive.. (long post)
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott )
  Tue, 8 Sep 2015 17:25:19 -1000
  ...there have been a few exotics with rear radiators and I believe Formula 1 cars use that arrangement. OK...triva quiz .. name a German...
• Re: What coolants are ok?
  Historical mailing list - Ivan Boyd
  Fri, 18 Jul 1997 08:59:27 -0700
  ...No hint at the > >formulation of their "proprietary" stuff. > > > >I have been running on h2o alone for a month or two, since I burst...
• Re: In Passing
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Tue, 2 Sep 2008 10:28:51 -0700
  ...Gurney is also the only American to have won a Formula One race in an American-made car, his own Eagle. The first American...
• Re: Flexing cranks and Yielding Bolts one last time
  Historical mailing list - John Pronk
  Tue, 20 Feb 2001 01:14:47 -0000
  ...when I was building > formula vee engines that would spin up to 6k on the track flexing could > be a > problem. After all the...
• Re: insurance coverage?
  Historical mailing list - Gary Stearns
  Wed, 24 Oct 2001 05:26:56 -0400
  ...Thing is, there is no formula to calculate "how much coverage do I need?" It is completely determined by your comfort level with risk...
• Re: Speedo Accuracy Discussion
  Historical mailing list - Bulley
  Wed, 10 May 2000 15:44:19 -0400
  ...If you have a palm top computer, you could prolly write a wee spreadsheet program to do the calculation (like an Excel formula) and...
• Re: Insurance Questions For my Westi
  Historical mailing list - sam mccarthy
  Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:37:09 -0800
  ...Look, people are going to come up with the offer they give to you, not GOD, so refuse to accept formulaic offers. These vehicles...
• Re: Porterfield R4-S Rear Brake Shoes
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Wed, 8 Oct 2014 14:56:07 -0700
  ...When the part$ came back they had, relined the our $hoe core$ > with their formula riveted "$lintered Iron" lining$, and fitted them to > our...
• Re: Bleeding Cooling system per Bentley
  Historical mailing list - Robert Rountree
  Fri, 15 Jan 1999 09:20:45 -0500
  ...I've heard it said that tap water is better than distilled due to >coolant being formulated to work with the chemistry of the...
• Re: distilled water & wbx reliabilty
  Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
  Tue, 19 Feb 2002 00:56:31 EST
  ...All antifreeze formulations take this into account and have a number of chemicals in the primary solution so that pH and the dissolution chemistry...
• Re: Compression Question
  Historical mailing list - Vanagon man
  Sat, 17 Aug 2002 19:02:07 -0400
  ...I > think this guy never changed his oil, or only used the old formula > "Quaker State" (the Pennsylvania type that was heavy with natural...
• Re: Now It's Down To 3K-Steal It Now!
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:10:37 -0500
  ...everything they had. > You could tell they were laying down a formula invented by and in most > cases approved by the so-called management...
• Re: Heat in an air-cooled Syncro (long, boring, self-involved)
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Wed, 17 May 2000 12:27:23 -0400
  ...Heat input as above: ~3,600 BTU/hr Amps @12v to do this electrically, not counting heat going back into the oil: ~75 Formula...
• Re: Gasoline War ! !
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sat, 13 Mar 2004 13:31:17 -0600
  ...It also means that > wholesale gas prices are set on a regional or even national level, > depending on the gas formulation where you live...
• Re: Where do you get your coolant?
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Sat, 17 May 2014 05:14:38 -0400
  ...Dex-Cool=C2=AE Premixed LongLife=C2=AE Antifreeze/ Cool= > ant formula=E2=80=99s are phosphate, silicate, and borate free. These coola= > nts...
• Re: D15 connector revealed
  Historical mailing list - Phil Zimmerman
  Thu, 3 Nov 2011 19:44:54 -0700
  ...time, temperature, inductance or reactance into the theory or formula. That is my point in arguing this issue. Pz ------- On 2011-11-03, at...
• Re: bubbles in coolant
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Thu, 21 Mar 2002 12:25:16 -0600
  ...Part of the Prestone formulae is water pump lubricant. Our mix was always 50/50% which calculated on volume was -30 degreesF. Stan Wilder...
• Re: Vanagon Experiences vs. GTI Experiences Thus Far (no worthwhile content)
  Historical mailing list - joey makabenta
  Fri, 9 Mar 2007 09:45:00 -0800
  ...me to deeply > explore the Bentley and the car itself to formulate > my own ideas. > > I think I've been spoiled by the Vanagon...
• Re: Vanagon Brake Pads - Bendix TitaniuMetallic ii
  Historical mailing list - Jack R.
  Sun, 3 Jun 2007 10:51:51 -0400
  ...Features: > > * Available for all domestic applications > > * Bendix premium semi-metallic friction formulation > > * Noise-reducing shims to mirror Original Equipment > specifications > > > Advantages: > > * Greater stopping power...
• Re: Hot Weather Effects... and some information.
  Historical mailing list - kelian
  Thu, 12 Jul 2001 17:48:13 +1000
  ...Birkholz, my mechanic, and he said that with today's > gasoline formulations, combined with hot weather and fuel pump pressures, > the cars suffer from...
• Re: Cool modified DOKA and BRM
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Wed, 2 Sep 2009 07:06:06 -0700
  ...the first time I ever saw it used was a BRM Formula One racing engine , in the UK, .........it was two horrizonatally oppossed flat...
• Re: Motor oil - Re: [VANAGON] Spooked!
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 5 Jun 2011 09:49:13 -0400
  ...For applications in oils for gasoline engines, zinc and phosphorus emissions could damage catalytic converters and have had their quantity reduced in standard formulations...
• Re: distilled water & wbx reliabilty
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Wed, 27 Feb 2002 00:21:39 -0700
  ...I imagine > that deionized H2O allows the additive components of the antifreeze to > function as was intended by the chemists' formulation. > > Also, deionized H2O...
• Re: Engine Performance vs Tire Size/Comments Redux
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Mon, 16 Dec 2002 21:24:54 -0800
  ...usually you are the guy who can throw some formulas at this! :) Perhaps you can do this in the future? The tire size / engine...
• Re: Fuel tank leaks -Reply
  Historical mailing list - Bob Bellanca
  Tue, 2 Sep 1997 15:34:04 -0700
  ...I have heard that (in short) the new *reformulated* fuels are causing fuel > lines designed for the *original* ;) fuel formula to break down. > > Also...
• Re: vanagon Digest - 8 Nov 2010 - Special issue (#2010-1031)
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Mon, 8 Nov 2010 19:01:55 -0800
  ...Propane is a three-carbon alkane � its molecular formula is C3H8. Propane is an odourless gas to which an odourant has been added to...
• Re: Question about adding lights
  Historical mailing list - JRodgers
  Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:09:09 -0500
  ...of these is lights, and some of you have helped me formulate my ideas > earlier. By now, I've had time to decide what...
• Re: Relocating syncro fuel filter
  Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
  Tue, 28 Dec 1999 17:52:22 PST
  ...I've heard that the oxygenated gas formulations they switch to part of the year on the west coast wreaks havoc on fuel lines...