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  • Re: 2.1 Engine idles at 2600 rpm; 2nd computer doesn't fix
    Historical mailing list - Sam Walters
    Mon, 17 Apr 2006 03:18:54 -0400
    Attached is a zipped collection of Digifant FI system diagnosis files written by Mark Keller in past years. Also two other zipped files with...
  • Re: VW zip tie with slots?
    Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
    Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:52:16 -0700
    ...VW zip tie with slots? > >> > >> > >>> and you cant use a regular zip tie because ...??? > >>> > >>> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 6:58 AM, Joe...
  • Re: Oh fudge -- canvas zipper damaged
    Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
    Fri, 20 May 2005 19:24:27 -0700
    Mike, check my site for info on zipper replacement. My wife did it on ours, both mossy net and canvas. Alistair '82 westy, diesel...
  • Re: Zip drive??
    Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
    Fri, 19 Jan 2001 20:21:26 -0600
    Mark Ingalls wrote: > Sorry this isn't about a faster vanagon. > > I downloaded the Vanagon Protraining manuals which are 'zipped'. Pardon my > ignorance, but...
  • Re: VW zip tie with slots?
    Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
    Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:54:09 -0700
    ...VW zip tie with slots? > >>> > >>> > >>>> and you cant use a regular zip tie because ...??? > >>>> > >>>> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 6:58 AM, Joe...
  • Re: An Early Vanagon Ad
    Historical mailing list - Ben T
    Thu, 7 Mar 2013 19:02:53 -0800
    ...I'd check button phone doesn't open zip files. Go here: http://www.vwpix.org/zip/1984_08_Porsche_B32.zip If someone...
  • VW zip tie with slots?
    Historical mailing list - Joe Federici
    Sun, 23 Mar 2008 09:58:41 -0400
    I'm in the process of replace the main coolant lines and in need of help identifying a part number for these zip ties...
  • Oh fudge -- canvas zipper damaged
    Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
    Fri, 20 May 2005 12:21:14 -0700
    ...Anyhoo, I just went to close the poptop and discovered that the zipper which closes the canvas over the front opening is toasted. About...
  • Re: Front Screen on 89-91 Needed
    Historical mailing list - Paul G
    Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:30:28 -0700
    Hi Jonce, I have a screen from a '90 westy you can have.� The screen and zipper are in perfect shape.� The whole screen...
  • Gas Price Watch URL
    Historical mailing list - Jim Ellis
    Tue, 4 Mar 2003 10:53:35 -0800
    http://gaspricewatch.com/USGas_ZipSearch.asp Just type in local ZIP code or other address info. - Ellis ===== "It's all fun and games until...
  • Re: VW zip tie with slots?
    Historical mailing list - Joe Federici
    Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:16:34 -0400
    ...VW zip tie with slots? > > >> and you cant use a regular zip tie because ...??? >> >> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 6:58 AM, Joe...
  • Re: Poptop Tent Material; Breathability Means ....
    Historical mailing list - neil n
    Mon, 25 Apr 2011 10:17:20 -0700
    ...salient point on zipper use. This could explain (age/wear tear aside) why my front zipper was first failed at the upper 1/3...
  • Re: Replacing Canvas on Westy-Ron?
    Historical mailing list - J Stewart
    Thu, 23 Jun 2011 02:34:32 +0000
    ...That keeps any pressure off the zipper. The front zipper is beefy, which makes the side zippers look so obviously undersized. And you can...
  • Re: Zipper replacement
    Historical mailing list - jon
    Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:00:00 -0700
    ...Jon On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, BenT Syncro wrote: > On 7/14/06, Mike Miller <mwmiller@cwnet.com> wrote: > > > > One of the windows zippers...
  • Re: Oh fudge -- canvas zipper damaged
    Historical mailing list - BA
    Sat, 21 May 2005 12:05:58 -0700
    ...Happy wife, happy life, as they say. > >Anyhoo, I just went to close the poptop and discovered that the zipper >which closes the canvas...
  • Re: Replacing coolant pipes - Drop gas tank?
    Historical mailing list - Mark Belanger
    Fri, 7 Mar 2003 13:56:39 -0800
    ...wrote: > Are there any other parts I should have for this job besides the 2 pipes, > hose clamps, zip ties and slicker? I might...
  • AW: What's a "carat"?
    Historical mailing list - Christoph Boltze
    Sat, 8 Sep 2007 18:46:16 +0200
    ...http://boltze.dyndns.org/zip/1986_00_The_Volkswagen_Caravelle_Carat.zip Regards Christoph Boltze 1985 Caravelle GL syncro Germany
  • Re: Poptop window/screen replacements?
    Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
    Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:49:53 -0600
    That might work, but I would prefer a nice-working zipper to velcro. Because it's velcro. Jim On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at...
  • Re: VW zip tie with slots?
    Historical mailing list - Roger Whittaker
    Sun, 23 Mar 2008 09:57:51 -0700
    and you cant use a regular zip tie because ...??? On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 6:58 AM, Joe Federici <joefederici@earthlink.net> wrote...
  • Windshield is in
    Historical mailing list - B Feddish
    Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:12:14 -0400
    ...3/4 up the side, where I was able to pull the rubber lip buy hand, it zipped on like a zipper. Thanks, Bryan
  • Re: Oh fudge -- canvas zipper damaged
    Historical mailing list - dusty edwards
    Fri, 20 May 2005 13:28:21 -0600
    ...Happy wife, happy life, as they say. > > Anyhoo, I just went to close the poptop and discovered that the zipper > which closes the canvas...
  • Re: wimpy zip ties
    Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
    Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:03:05 -0700
    those narrow zip ties are 20 years old, and they just, like all plastic, deterorate with age. sounds like you are looking at factory...
  • Re: WTB Knarly Spark Plug Wire Set
    Historical mailing list
    Mon, 20 Oct 1997 07:34:03 -0700
    Mark, On the Zip Tye deal, I use one Bigger tye then "Between" the wires I run a small zip tye around the zip...
  • Vw seal tool 681 addendum
    Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
    Tue, 8 Jun 2021 19:28:44 -0700
    ...The step file has number engraved on it Link at bottom of post, it’s a zip file, wordpress won’t let me post...
  • Re: Speedo fix (I think..maybe.)
    Historical mailing list - Mike South
    Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:47:36 -0600
    ...If it works, let's call it "Don's Secret", and maybe you could sell a line of lacy zip ties for special occasions...
  • Virus
    Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Schwaia
    Fri, 30 Jan 2004 14:56:23 -0800
    I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm sure getting tired of deleting emails with ".zip" extensions. At least 20...
  • Re: Poptop window/screen replacements?
    Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
    Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:40:09 -0800
    ...I find the zipper on mine to be a royal (as opposed to a commoner's) pain. If there is something I am not...
  • Re: Zip drive??
    Historical mailing list - james peters
    Fri, 19 Jan 2001 12:54:03 -0800
    ...zipped'. <DIV></DIV>&gt;Pardon my <DIV></DIV>&gt;ignorance, but what do I do to open up this file? Buy a zip drive...
  • AW: Converting '88 Vanagon into a mobile office
    Historical mailing list - Christoph Boltze
    Wed, 2 May 2007 22:38:51 +0200
    ...http://boltze.dyndns.org/zip/1986_00_The_Volkswagen_Caravelle_Carat.zip http://boltze.dyndns.org/zip/1987_00_Dehler.zip Regards Christoph Boltze...
  • Re: Advice, questions, help request
    Historical mailing list - Michael
    Thu, 2 Dec 2010 10:10:09 -0800
    ...After a friend had a stroke, a license suspending event, he eased back into car ownership and driving with Zipcars. He liked the service...
  • Re: Poptop window/screen replacements?
    Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
    Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:12:09 -0600
    ...Of course, unless one has arms six feet long, the window would have to be closed from inside (as it is with the zipper...
  • Re: Memory Foam for Rear Mattress
    Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
    Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:25:07 -0600
    ...BZ-bags that zip together are nice With a prostate as old as mine, one has to get up a few times some nights...
  • Re: Wanted, Zip or floppy bezel for Mac 6100-6116 pizzabox
    Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
    Mon, 4 Oct 2004 14:02:29 +1300
    ...Wanted, Zip or floppy bezel for Mac 6100-6116 pizzabox</title></head><body> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#0000FF">Does this fit on...
  • Re: Oh fudge -- canvas zipper damaged
    Historical mailing list - Tim Demarest
    Sat, 21 May 2005 16:02:56 -0400
    ...Happy wife, happy life, as they say. > > > >Anyhoo, I just went to close the poptop and discovered that the zipper > >which closes the canvas...
  • Re: pop top velcro?
    Historical mailing list - Jonce Fancher
    Thu, 2 Apr 2009 07:21:48 -0400
    ...How bad is the zipper? sometimes you can use your finger nail and straighten the teeth of the zipper and Then gently move the...
  • Re: Ideas for Replacing POP UP Screen
    Historical mailing list - harald_nancy
    Sun, 26 Aug 2001 20:40:34 -0700
    Greg, On my '90 westy, on the original poptop mosquito net, there is a zipper on the top and the bottom. (Often overlooked.) The...
  • Westy pop top canvas
    Historical mailing list - John Schaper
    Mon, 21 Jul 2003 11:20:39 -0700
    On my canvas top of my 84 Westy, the screen is cracking and the zipper on the canvas flap is broken. So, I need...
  • Pictures of Turbo WBXs
    Historical mailing list - tabe johnson
    Wed, 17 Aug 2005 17:29:07 -0400
    Here are a bunch of pictures in a zipped file I made up for Sudhir last night. The blue vanagon, I don't remember...
  • Re: Ring Compressor Ideas
    Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
    Mon, 18 May 2009 18:31:06 -0400
    Wide zip tie around the 2nd and oil ring. Work the top ring in. Cut off the zip tie after the oil ring is...
  • Re: Engine Bay Zip Ties
    Historical mailing list - KI4TLF
    Wed, 4 Jan 2017 22:07:26 -0600
    ...Engine Bay Zip Ties Hey everybody, Happy New year! If you remember a while back I had posted about my engine biting the dust...
  • Re: wimpy zip ties
    Historical mailing list - Mike
    Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:58:11 -0400
    ...wimpy zip ties > After I got my fuel tank out from under the car, I took a look around > the area above the fuel...
  • Re: Rad cardboard deflectors
    Historical mailing list - Pascal Giasson
    Wed, 8 Sep 2004 07:33:39 -0400
    ...What I did was drill small holes in the cardboard and used small black zip ties to fasten the cardboard to the vertical bars...
  • Mail System (vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com)
    Historical mailing list - Jean-Pierre Le Cruguel
    Wed, 31 Mar 2004 09:51:07 -0500
    ...N Translated message has been attached. ------------------ Virus Warning Message (on the network) msg6574.zip is removed from here because it is of type zip ---------------------------------------------------------
  • Re: Replace/repair front heater blower.
    Historical mailing list - Sam Walters
    Mon, 3 Jan 2005 08:03:33 -0500
    Attached is a zip file with a substantial amount of material I extracted from the archives and posts. It should give you most of...
  • Re: Windshield is in
    Historical mailing list - J Stewart
    Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:47:24 +0000
    ...3/4 up the side, where I was able to pull the rubber lip buy hand, it zipped on like a zipper. Thanks, Bryan
  • Re: Poptop window/screen replacements?
    Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
    Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:47:32 -0600
    When replacing these, why not just go with very good quality velcro for the whole thing, and dispense with the zipper altogether. I find...
  • Re: An Early Vanagon Ad
    Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
    Thu, 7 Mar 2013 19:14:34 -0800
    ...I'd check button phone doesn't open zip files. Go here: > > http://www.vwpix.org/zip/1984_08_Porsche_B32.zip > > > If someone...
  • dealer ripoffs
    Historical mailing list - Ron Bloomquist
    Wed, 2 Feb 2000 18:06:45 -0800
    ...They took out a die grinder with a cut off blade and went, zip, zip, zip zip and cut out the lock to open...
  • Re: Sears Tools
    Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
    Tue, 13 Jun 2006 21:12:54 -0500
    My post mentions the zip ties. How can you be a vanagon mechanic without them? Jim On Jun 13, 2006, at 12:27 PM...
  • Engine Bay Zip Ties
    Historical mailing list - Ryan Perry
    Thu, 5 Jan 2017 03:18:36 +0000
    ...With the old engine out I am cleaning the bay and noticed the zip ties that hold the main harness around the edge of...
  • Re: My Poptop Front Screen DIY Replacement (pics)
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Fri, 6 May 2011 23:17:40 -0400
    ...Still held the zipper in, but it draped a bit oddly with a corner every inch or so. d
  • Zip Tie Tricks anyone?
    Historical mailing list - Racer X
    Wed, 18 Nov 1998 20:22:28 +0000
    ...Does anyone have any tricks to keeping these guys on? Tried those Zip Ties? ie...wire ties? Do they hold on tight enough? Should...
  • Failed (vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com)
    Historical mailing list - Jonathan Tromp
    Wed, 31 Mar 2004 09:51:17 -0500
    ...hy Received message has been attached. ------------------ Virus Warning Message (on the network) data9370.zip is removed from here because it is of type zip ---------------------------------------------------------
  • Re: Replacing Canvas on Westy
    Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
    Mon, 20 Jun 2011 07:36:55 -0400
    ...the zipper setup > on the front window is nothing at all like the OEM window > flap with it's perimeter zipper - it has a...
  • Mail Delivery System (vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com)
    Historical mailing list - Green Westy
    Wed, 31 Mar 2004 09:51:08 -0500
    ...been sent as an encoded attachment. ------------------ Virus Warning Message (on the network) mail23481.zip is removed from here because it is of type zip ---------------------------------------------------------
  • Re: Pop Up window screen replacement
    Historical mailing list - jimt
    Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:52:38 -0700
    On 2/2/05 9:02 AM, "John Schaper" <JSchaper@SCHSA.ORG> wrote: > The pop-up window screen and zippered flap over the screen...
  • Still More Syncronauts lost?
    Historical mailing list - SyncroHead
    Tue, 16 Dec 1997 10:03:04 EST
    ...Russ Bleakley, RCB@PIC.NET Sherwin Kaufman, SHERWIN@GNN.COM Kevin Disse, KDISSE@DETROITLAKES.CFA.ORG Carl Zipperle, ZIPPEC@GSCO.COM Thanks, Jim Davis
  • FTP address correction
    Historical mailing list - Sean Bartnik
    Thu, 20 Mar 97 21:00:29 EST
    ...ftp://ftp.conservatory.com/pub/vw/manual.zip Sorry for the bandwidth. Sean -- ***************************************************************** Sean Bartnik "Life is tough, sbart7kb@www.mwc.edu but it...
  • seats - hogrings
    Historical mailing list - Alex Towner
    Fri, 15 Aug 2003 02:56:23 -0400
    ...skip the hogrings entirely and use zip ties instead. So long as you use quality zip ties you shouldn't have a problem. Get...
  • Front Screen on 89-91 Needed
    Historical mailing list - Jonce Fancher
    Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:28:13 -0400
    ...I Do not presently Make them but could if I could get some one to mail me a screen with the zippers and Velcro...