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• Re: Paint for black fiberglass bumper
  Historical mailing list - Zeitgeist
  Mon, 11 Jul 2005 20:27:10 -0700
  ...I used cast iron finish engine block paint, with a 3" strip of black marine molding tape down the center hump. It's still...
• gas tank replacement
  Historical mailing list - Cedar House Inn & Yurts
  Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:02:14 -0400
  ...Seems like watercooled owners could change out the tank with a tank without the hump which causes the problem. Thanks for anyone's input.
• SA Grille & Lights
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Thu, 21 Jan 2016 19:25:00 -0600
  ...hole in the dark to drive through when going over a hump in the road or a rise. Couldn't adjust it out. Was...
• Re: Interesting Vanagon Dash
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:30:37 -0700
  ...See the big > hump in > the middle? Engine. > > Jeff wrote: >> Out poking around the internet and I ran across this interesting >> dashboard >> mod: > >> http...
• Re: Current coolant hose repairs
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Tue, 8 Nov 2022 21:02:17 -0800
  ...slide the hose over the hump and then open the clamp up and work the hose over the hump while holding the clamp open...
• Side Window Removal
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sun, 18 Apr 2010 10:38:06 -0500
  ...The rust bubble is big enough to have made a hump under the rubber and adjacent paint about the size of a quarter or...
• It really BUGS me
  Historical mailing list - Jere Hawn
  Sun, 24 Jun 2001 20:49:47 -0700
  ...This occurs when a bug hits you mirror just on the inside of the hump. The bug hits the mirror and then flies into...
• Calling all carbd 2.0s
  Historical mailing list - Flowers, Robert O Mr (CPF N69RF)
  Wed, 24 Jul 2002 10:38:02 -1000
  All- Still putting the humptyDumptyVan back together ... Need to know which fuel pump to use for a (single) carb'd 2.0 - I'm...
• Re: Knocking sound
  Historical mailing list - Clive Smith
  Wed, 24 Jul 2002 18:39:20 +0100
  Shock absorber bush? I've got an occasional knock, usually coming down the backside of a small hump or bump, but not always. Its...
• Re: Vanagon trivia
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:40:31 -0700
  ...has the hump in the floor at the gear shift boot Do you mean that raised section on the floor? IIRC it is a...
• Re: inline hybrid motor?
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sat, 28 Mar 2015 11:50:29 -0700
  ...The configuration of the older head allows it to go into the Vanagon with all Vanagon parts and no hump or raised engine lid...
• Re: Interesting Vanagon Dash
  Historical mailing list - Karl
  Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:07:41 -0400
  ...See the big hump in > the middle? Engine. > > Jeff wrote: >> Out poking around the internet and I ran across this interesting dashboard >> mod: > >> http...
• Re: AC compressor Gurus needed!!!
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Tue, 25 Feb 2003 12:49:04 EST
  ...But, the problem with this is that some poor schlemiel who is staking claim to his share of the American Dream by humping tires...
• Re: Interesting Vanagon Dash
  Historical mailing list - VW Doka
  Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:54:25 -0400
  ...they look kinda like a vanagon but you can see a hump between the seats where the engine is........ > > http://www.thesamba.com/vw...
• Re: 1990 VW Vanagon - $5500 (redwood city)
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Wed, 28 May 2008 23:53:35 -0700
  ...the panel Vanagon (can't recall what year) I saw on > Humphrey's used car lot, probably around 1986 or so since we were...
• Re: My final word - was Re: ... A Rose by Any Other Name ...
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Sun, 11 Apr 2004 13:29:55 -0400
  ...spelled Kokanok) > and Ta-Tit-Lick (spelled Tatitlik) I always found Humptulips and Tillicum, both in Washington, pretty amusing. David Brodbeck, N8SRE '82 Volkswagen...
• Re: radio
  Historical mailing list - Donna Stewart
  Mon, 29 Jan 2001 15:26:49 -0800
  ...I don't know what your "stock" 1985 radio would have been since at my dealership in Hayward, California (Humphrey Motors, became Jim Close...
• Re: inline hybrid motor?
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Sat, 28 Mar 2015 14:58:28 -0500
  ...The configuration of the older head allows it to > go into the Vanagon with all Vanagon parts and no hump or raised engine lid...
• Re: Wiper Shaft Stripped
  Historical mailing list - Tom Humphreys
  Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:52:15 -0700
  ...Tom Humphreys Secondhand Sunday www.secondhandsunday.com
• Re: Front heater valves, another junk part
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:55:26 -0700
  ...On both my '84 and '85 the valve is up above the spare tire, way up in the hump behind the radiator, and just...
• Re: windshield wiper help
  Historical mailing list - Al and Sue Brase
  Sat, 9 Oct 2004 12:02:24 -0500
  ...to build the over engineered Vanagon, and >totally blew him away. >Humpty Dumpty did fall. >Poor Joe. >I personally have never had a wiper...
• Re: Yakima Rack on a Westy: Directions Online
  Historical mailing list - Tom Humphreys
  Wed, 22 Jun 2005 16:59:31 -0700
  Thanks Brian! Helpful info for a similar plan I have simmering! Tom Humphreys >From: Brian Wasson <briwasson@VERIZON.NET> >Reply-To: briwasson@VERIZON.NET...
• Re: Good deal on a TDi (ALH) Westy
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Sun, 7 Jun 2015 09:14:17 -0700
  ...I'd think the 4" + hump at engine lid and surrounding area could be a deterrent to some buyers. I'd also be curious...
• Mine Syncro ist Krank! (Coolant leak)
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 7 Dec 1997 19:43:08 -0900
  ...hardly been used ever - only has 18,000 miles on it. Humph!!!! Oh, List please hear and consider my query good. I'll be...
• Re: Oh no, not tires again
  Historical mailing list - Mark Dorm
  Tue, 29 Aug 2000 19:24:23 PDT
  The hump and hollow was on the side of the tire? Not the tread? I sideswiped a curb/island while turning and a bump...
• Single Cab in Junkyard
  Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
  Mon, 24 Apr 1995 14:11:33 -0700 (PDT)
  ...I paid $8 for the tire and got the rest of the goodies free! Thom -- > Humpty dumpty was pushed. ............................................................................ : Thom Fitzpatrick Transamerica Info Mgmnt...
• Re: Haltech
  Historical mailing list - Craig Spaeth
  Wed, 4 Jul 2001 08:33:40 -0700
  ...You will get over the hump. It will be difficult and I am not sure it is worth it either. On my conversion I...
• Custom 15" wheels? Why not go to the Source?
  Historical mailing list - Raul Cisneros
  Fri, 11 May 2001 10:58:46 EDT
  ...15 = is the wheel diameter H = I thought was a designation for “hump” eg. “H2” is a two hump designation for the area of...
• Re: It really BUGS me
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Mon, 25 Jun 2001 21:00:11 +1200
  ...This occurs when a bug hits you mirror just on >the inside of the hump. The bug hits the mirror and then flies into...
• Re: If stuck in snow pull tab to open (gotta see this)
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:44:33 -0600
  ...There were, what, 5 guys standing around and they couldn't get that little POS off of that little hump of snow? ---------------------- Clip ----------------------------- Five...
• Clunk, clunk, found it... now what?
  Historical mailing list - Felder
  Sun, 24 Aug 2003 11:33:22 -0700
  ...Another half foot-pound and it's "over the hump." This is the inner joint, bolted to the transmission. How hard/easy is this...
• Re: Carrier Bars?
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Sun, 4 Dec 2011 20:41:06 -0800
  ...And it's an A'wagen so the hump has NO effect on the bed! Thanks all. Jim On Dec 4, 2011, at 6...
• Re: Vanagon trivia
  Historical mailing list - mdrillock
  Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:37:18 -0700
  The hump in the front floor has nothing to do with Syncro, AFAIK. VW modified that floor area on some turbo diesels for better...
• RE: LSD, the geat hippies, lineage..
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 12 Aug 1994 23:45:10 PDT
  ...Gorge at George (Washington that is) and blow off busting our hump to get home in the dark. This summer, we'll see ya...
• Oil Pressure Buzzer? After Tach Wiring.
  Historical mailing list - Michael Knight
  Mon, 16 May 2005 11:17:59 -0500
  So I finally got off my hump this weekend and ran a wire from the front of my 85 Vanny to the rear. Connectiona...
• Friday engine conversions
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:06:17 -0400
  ...You'd have to give up the back seat, but you could put a permanent bed on top of the engine hump. The exhaust...
• limited slip rear end
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Thu, 11 Apr 1996 22:15:40 (EST)
  ...Go around a slow bend that has a bad hump in it and you loose tracion. VW new this thats why we have the...
• Re: Carrier Bars?
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Sun, 4 Dec 2011 21:13:50 -0800
  ...And it's an A'wagen so the hump has NO effect on the bed! > > Thanks all. > > Jim > > > > > On Dec 4, 2011, at 6...
• Re: Moderator Comment Re: Disc Brake Setup Photos
  Historical mailing list - Mike S
  Thu, 9 Apr 2009 06:31:03 -0400
  ...Perhaps you, like Humpty Dumpty, believe that "glory" means "there's a nice knock-down argument for you!" Many people interject "F*" in conversation...
• Re: Lighthearted Vanagon content - Boy or Girl?
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Mon, 6 Jun 2005 21:38:46 -0500
  ...1968 double-cab pickup was QuasiMotor, the Humpback of Noted Fame. definitely male. 1980 vanagon was der Bus. definitely male. 1986 vanagon was White...
• Re: Vanagon trivia
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:29:03 -0700
  you have 6 forward gears in your fine vanagon Roger ??? on 'floor hump'...........are you refering to the plastic ducting, which forms a raised...
• Re: 130mph V'gon
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Mon, 6 Dec 2004 15:43:40 -0800
  ...The > thing I get a real yuck out of is that no one has > figured out that our odometers DON'T SHOW TENTHS!!! > > Humph...
• Re: VC fluid - take a chance on this
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sat, 3 Apr 2010 11:57:48 -0700
  ...the burrs might be involved at the hump stage (STA), but it has not been explained alistair On 3-Apr-10, at 11:19...
• Re: fs: syncro for 1100 on th samba.....
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Oxroad
  Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:59:56 EST
  ...And while I know selling a car can be a drag with tire-kickers and the like, I'm not sure being a hump...
• Re: VANAGON digest 685; Jetta Heater Core
  Historical mailing list - hal roth
  Thu, 09 Nov 95 13:38:59 EST
  ...third row (bench)seat, and it always comes up in a hump in the middle that all of us are constantly tripping over. Any...
• Re: Strange Vanagon problem in Belize
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:03:14 -0600
  ---- JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote: > kenwilfy@COMCAST.NET writes: > > Here there are these huge speed humps in the road. > that reminds me of mexico... in...
• Re: Where'd dey all come from today? Bazillion vanagons around Mt Hood..
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sat, 8 Aug 2009 14:15:12 -0700
  ...I saw between 15-20 (didn't keep an accurate count) >> > > Humph! I just took a 1500-mile trip from RI through CT, NY...
• Re: If stuck in snow pull tab to open (gotta see this)
  Historical mailing list - Al and Sue Brase
  Thu, 23 Dec 2004 03:07:06 -0600
  ...There were, what, 5 guys standing around and they couldn't get >that little POS off of that little hump of snow? >---------------------- Clip ----------------------------- >Five...
• Re: Spring Compressor
  Historical mailing list - Miguel Pacheco
  Fri, 27 Mar 2015 09:31:56 -0600
  ...No > stupid lashups needed; I might have had to pry a bit with a > screwdriver to get it over the hump but I'm...
• Re: So who sails? I keep forgetting a bunch of the vanagon people also have
  Historical mailing list - Donna Skarloken
  Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:11:46 -0800
  Humphrey VW in Hayward had a Hobie Cat edition for sale - I thought it was really cool and wanted to buy it, but it...
• Re: SA Grille & Lights
  Historical mailing list - Chris Szpejankowski
  Fri, 22 Jan 2016 11:55:15 -0500
  ...hole in the dark to drive through > when going over a hump in the road or a rise. Couldn't adjust it out. Was...
• Re: FW: vanagon ac upgrade *in dash unit info*
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:14:21 -0700
  ...The aircooled vans with Behr's have this big oval hole for intake at the center hump. BenT
• Subaru Swap
  Historical mailing list - Jim Huskins
  Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:29:49 -0500
  ...cheap in the final tally, and I don't want a hump in the bed of my Westfalia. Anyone who has an opinion--especially...
• Re: Front heater valves, another junk part
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:59:03 -0500
  ...On both my '84 and '85 > the > valve is up above the spare tire, way up in the hump behind the radiator, > and just...
• Re: GoWesty 2wd Lift Spring Installation
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:02:07 -0700
  ...I can hit big ol' speed humps at 40mph and the van just BOUNDS over them gracefully like a deer. The stock spring would...
• Air Cooled Cylinder Head Questions
  Historical mailing list - Flowers, Robert O Mr (CPF N69RF)
  Tue, 17 Sep 2002 11:31:12 -1000
  ...I 'bought' an 82 humpty dumpty van. I got it back together enough to see if I could get it to fire and yes...
• Re: Friday engine conversions
  Historical mailing list - Sudhir Desai
  Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:15:12 -0400
  ...You'd have to give up the back seat, but you could put > a permanent bed on top of the engine hump. The exhaust...
• Re: Interesting Vanagon Dash
  Historical mailing list - Mike S
  Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:14:34 -0400
  ...they look kinda like a vanagon but you can see a > hump > >>> between the seats where the engine is........ > >>> > >>> http://www.thesamba.com/vw...
• Re: NVC: Friday....VERMONT!!!
  Historical mailing list - Mervyn Readman
  Sat, 3 Nov 2007 21:01:00 -0400
  ...Camels Hump is a little further north and is also worth the grunt to the top. If you go down south you must stop...
• Take it easy on the new dad, was: Bus Depot Replies
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 15 Jun 1998 13:17:35 EDT
  ...Ron has busted his hump for me and has a loyal following in the folks on the list (as do some other great vendors...