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• Re: Removing internal window rubber
  Historical mailing list - Christopher Gronski
  Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:01:14 -0500
  HI All, While I appreciate the responses thus far, I maust bot have been clear of which rubber I'm talking about. I'm...
• Spark plugs caps
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Thu, 10 Jun 2021 08:22:07 -0700
  ...so the questions.. - why do some spark plugs wires/caps have the rubber ring and some don't? - I guess the spark plugs rubber...
• Re: Removal of 1980 Westy front bumper rubber
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Sun, 16 May 2010 17:29:59 -0700
  On May 16, 2010, at 11:28 AM, zzyzx <zzyzx9@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > How does one remove the ornamental black rubber strips covering the...
• Re:Sliding door, (use WD-40 for rubber?)
  Historical mailing list - mdstockr
  Fri, 25 Apr 97 13:38:33
  ...Some silicone sprays have petroleum components that will break down rubber. Read the label. It should state whether it can be used on rubber...
• Re: Honey I shrunk the coolant pipes (LVC)
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Sun, 20 Nov 2005 10:52:21 -0600
  ...Hook a few rubber bands together in a chain. Attach one end to a support and hang enough weight on it so that it...
• rubber shims available for leveling the lefty sway
  Historical mailing list - developtrust
  Fri, 11 Jan 2002 14:27:51 -0800
  Today I went to a rubber dealer and aquired some rubber discs which I plan to place under the 3/8 inch thick shims...
• Re: Painting tip--leave your window rubber in place and still get a perfect job
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Schwaia
  Sun, 21 Apr 2013 20:28:52 -0700
  ...Now you can wrap the entire edge of the rubber with tape, and you have enough room under the taped rubber edge to shoot...
• Need jalousie rubber '65-'67
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 29 Jul 1996 10:30:25 -0700
  If anyone has any nice (non dried to the bone and shrunken) grey rubber body to window seals for a set of '65-'67...
• Re: Removing rubber cement from old poptop seal ??
  Historical mailing list - Rico Sapolich
  Sun, 2 Sep 2001 08:04:17 EDT
  ...makes a solvent for their Best-Test rubber cement which I have used. The only problem is, I do not know what else it...
• Re: Frozen slave cylinder
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Sat, 18 Mar 2006 11:40:04 -0500
  Hi Roger, Since when is brake fluid not compatible with rubber? Last time I looked they were still using rubber in master cylinders and...
• Re:Sliding door, (use WD-40 for rubber?)
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 25 Apr 1997 13:25:30 -0400 (EDT)
  ...Any oil based lubricant will deteriorate rubber. Silicone is good for rubber. Russ Gilbert me '87 Wolfsburg. 132 k going on trip just bought...
• Re: Rubber...Our best friend...Our worst enemy
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:13:51 -0500
  ...What is the main cause of Vanagon >> catastrophic >> failures? Rubber. >> >> Your alternator/water pump belt is rubber...it snaps, you may be >> toast. >> Your...
• Perserving rubber gaskets-weatherstrip
  Historical mailing list - Christopher Low
  Sat, 12 Apr 97 14:11:29 EDT
  ...Is there anything that will help preserve the rubber gaskets around the doors and pot-top seal? OR is it better to just to...
• Rubber Tramps - Featured DVD Documentary
  Historical mailing list - Larry Chase
  Sun, 14 Aug 2005 08:48:12 -0700
  Volks, Featured DVD Documentary Rubber Tramps is a documentary film about people who live on the road traveling as they please in converted buses...
• Post chrome strip rubber cleaning Q
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Mon, 16 May 2005 08:14:58 -0700
  ...But the tips of my fingers turn black as soon as I touch the rubber. I'd like to clean up the rubbers so...
• Re: FS: Front Rubber Floor Mat
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:12:08 -0800
  try meguires rubber/vinyl cleaner conditioner. Worked really well on my rubber mat (same as Jeff's) http://shufti.wordpress.com/2009/11/28...
• Re: Dometic woes
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sat, 11 Aug 2007 10:08:57 -0700
  ...Brittle, crystalline "silicon," which chips easily, is another thing altogether and if used on rubber probably wouldn't do the rubber any good. -- Mike...
• Rubber Blubber
  Historical mailing list - Palkovsky, Nicole
  Wed, 21 May 1997 10:41:25 -0700
  ...I will be replacing the rubber trim on my roof this week and was wondering if anyone could tell me any tricks? I have...
• Re: Rubber...Our best friend...Our worst enemy
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:03:27 -0800
  well, rubber does have a lifespan. I also much say the hoses used on vanagons are just excellent. I know of MANY original main...
• Re: Rubber meets the metal
  Historical mailing list - Michael A. Radtke
  Tue, 30 Sep 1997 07:28:44 -0700
  ...Rubber meets the metal In my seemingly never-ending quest for a way to quiet the rubber parts of my bus where they meet...
• Re: Rubber...Our best friend...Our worst enemy
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:16:01 -0600
  ...But, I've been thinking.� What is the main cause of Vanagon catastrophic failures?� Rubber. Your alternator/water pump belt is rubber...it snaps...
• Re: AFM issues
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Mon, 3 Oct 2005 18:01:09 -0400
  Check the rubber elbow. There may be a crack in the rubber about in the middle on the bottom(where you cant see). The...
• "A" head gasket needed
  Historical mailing list - Craig Cowan
  Thu, 10 Oct 2013 23:13:50 -0400
  I am in need of a single rubber head gasket, without buying the full kit again. I just replaced the heads on an engine...
• Re: Rubber
  Historical mailing list - Jon VonOhlsen
  Mon, 22 Sep 2014 21:59:48 -0600
  ...Griot's has some very nice rubber cleaners and prep agents that do work well. I have used them on my '90 rubber gaskets...
• Window rubber FS etc....
  Historical mailing list - Thomas Boyd
  Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:01:16 -0800
  I am replacing all the rubber in my 87 and the rubber from the middle side windows I just removed is in excellent condition...
• Jalousie window rubber redeux
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 16 Apr 1996 13:36:57 -0700
  >From my observation, most Splittie and Bay campers tend to have dried out rubber body to window seal gaskets. I stopped into the glass...
• Re: Perishing rubber on window channels
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 29 Oct 1998 07:33:52 EST
  I sell some rubber treatment stuff called Zymol that is supposed to prolong the life of rubber gaskets and seals. It is a German...
• Re: Creepy white/tan powder inside windshield rubber
  Historical mailing list - Raimund Feussner
  Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:42:53 +0200
  ...A powder that is used in combination with rubber, like in camping mattresses. It is used to keep things dry, to keep rubber soft...
• Re: [OT-NVC] Need a chunk or rubber
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Fri, 6 Jun 2003 18:43:38 -0700
  Also, when I do procure said piece of rubber, ----------------- Clip ----------------------- I just bought four pieces of 1" thick x 3" x 4" neatly cut...
• '87 syncro: what are those donut-like rubber bushings?
  Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
  Thu, 16 May 1996 07:55:37 -0700
  I was checking out the underside of my '87 syncro yesterday and noticed two large rubber bushings located either side of the driveshaft by...
• New Question - Idle Stabilizer
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sun, 10 Sep 2006 15:21:34 -0500
  Right under the idle stabilizer valve there is a little rubber piece that come up and fits to a port on the Idle Stabilizer...
• Failing clutch master or slave?
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Sat, 8 May 2021 20:55:48 -0400
  > All, > Clutch pedal action feels “rubbery” like its grabbing rubber when I press it slowly. It also makes a noise like it’s grabbing...
• Rubber Glovebox Cords
  Historical mailing list - Richard Kunkel
  Sun, 31 Mar 2002 11:54:06 -0800
  My 84 westy has lost both rubber cords that prevent the glovebox from dumping all over the floor if you open it and let...
• Re: anyone ever had any experience w/ painting vinyl/rubber??
  Historical mailing list - Ron Rogers
  Thu, 4 Mar 2004 22:42:54 -0500
  ...anyone ever had any experience w/ painting vinyl/rubber?? > > i have a molded rubber spoiler i want to paint the color of the car...
• painting rubber...any ideas or reccomendations?
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 3 Apr 2004 12:03:18 EST
  ...i have a rubber rear spoiler for another vw i'd like to paint.. this is basically foam rubber, with a "leatherette" surface texture...
• Re: Window rubber FS etc....
  Historical mailing list - Jason Willenbrock
  Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:30:24 -0500
  I don't know about the dealer prices, but the rubbers they sell fit much better then some on line vendors' rubbers do (its...
• Re: When & why replace heads?
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Wed, 12 Apr 2023 00:13:08 -0600
  On 11 Apr , 2023, at 3:42 PM, Dan N <dn92610@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > > they become hard rubber. No product > can get them swell...
• Re: replacing window glass seals
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Thu, 21 Nov 2013 07:10:52 -0500
  In chemical work glycerin is the traditional lubricant when putting glass tubing thru rubber stoppers. Of course there is rubber and there is rubber...
• Re: Squeaking Bushings
  Historical mailing list - tonyd
  Thu, 24 Sep 1998 12:45:55 +0000
  ...All petroleum based oils and fuels will attack rubber and > particularly suspension bushing rubber which is often natural rubber and is > very susceptible to...
• Rubber conditioners & lubricants
  Historical mailing list - mordo
  Wed, 7 Feb 2007 11:55:34 -0500
  ...The Stoddard solvent will attack nitrile rubbers and eventually dry them out. Not good to use around anything that has a rubber seal - most...
• Re: <Syncro/all> fender lip rubber ?
  Historical mailing list - Chris Turner
  Fri, 22 Aug 1997 01:12:33 -0400
  --------------------- Forwarded message: Subj: Re: <Syncro/all> fender lip rubber ?
• Re: Plastic coolant hoses
  Historical mailing list - Rico Sapolich
  Sun, 8 Oct 2000 14:58:00 EDT
  In a message dated 10/8/00 12:33:15 PM, mjcatlin@POSTOFFICE.PACBELL.NET writes: << My rubber hoses have about 61,000 miles...
• Re: Putting windows back in
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Mon, 1 Oct 2007 11:10:06 -0400
  ...does the rope or twine, by being crossed, just pull the rubber "Outward" (without the twine actually being pulled out) or does the twine...
• Re: 87 Westy front bumper rubber strip AND MORE
  Historical mailing list - Karl Ploessl
  Tue, 20 Mar 2018 20:04:03 -0400
  where do these threshold rubbers attach? LOL. I am sarcastic as the metal at that location is all rusted out in my van. Karl...
• Re: Window and Door seal treatment
  Historical mailing list - John Runberg
  Thu, 29 May 2003 05:43:50 -0700
  ...rubber) hull of a folding kayak and the rubber and dash on the van. Keep in mind that rubber seems to get really, really...
• tips on assembling wing windows for a splittie
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 17 Nov 95 18:33 CST
  ...also, how do you go about trimming the excess rubber >of behind the water catch. any ideas would be greatly >apreciated. >thanks and God...
• Bus Door Rubber Install, Part I
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 14 Oct 1995 21:32:39 -0700 (PDT)
  Last night, I got the rubber around the door installed. A lot harder than it looks, if you do it the way I did...
• rubber loom
  Historical mailing list - Tim & Kim Dayton
  Sun, 31 Mar 2002 17:20:35 -0500
  ...The rubber wire loom for the rear window defroster in the upper left corner (facing the rear of the van) was shot (very brittle...
• Re: Rubber...Our best friend...Our worst enemy
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:58:21 -0800
  ...What is the main cause of Vanagon catastrophic >>> failures? Rubber. >>> >>> Your alternator/water pump belt is rubber...it snaps, you may be toast. >>> Your...
• Re: window gasket
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 30 Oct 1999 19:38:33 EDT
  This stuff just pulls out of the rubber (you don't have to remove the rubber). If the rubber is still good then I...
• Re: Jalousie window rubber redeux
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 17 Apr 1996 11:25:20 -0700
  >Claralw@aol.com if you live in the land of the endless sun and the rust free buses you pay in cracked rubber you...
• Re: Creepy white/tan powder inside windshield rubber
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:50:17 -0700
  ...Tastes kinda salty, too, with a soup�on of rubber. Yum. So - how the heck did the lower rim of the windshield inside rubber...
• Re: Fuel Lines...my turn! And a replacement question.
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Wed, 25 May 2005 16:40:18 -0400
  I noticed that some vanagon origional equipment hoses were made in France.Who knows rubber better than the french (indochina and all)?I trust...
• Re: Spark plugs caps
  Historical mailing list - Bruce Todd
  Thu, 10 Jun 2021 09:25:04 -0700
  ...so the > questions.. > > - why do some spark plugs wires/caps have the rubber ring and some don't? > > - I guess the spark plugs rubber...
• fuel line Qs?
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey R
  Sun, 13 May 2001 17:45:28 EDT
  ...It looks like there is plastic line from the fuel pump to a rubber hose to a fitting that passes through the firewall and...
• Removing internal window rubber
  Historical mailing list - Christopher Gronski
  Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:00:28 -0500
  ...Please note I'm NOT talking about the rubber that holds the window frames on the vehicle but rather the rubber WITHIN the window...
• Re: Putting windows back in
  Historical mailing list - Tom Buese
  Mon, 1 Oct 2007 09:30:26 -0600
  I use thick weed whacker string-fairly stiff, but very strong, easy to put in the rubber seal. Don't need no stinkin lubricants...
• Glue for Rubber?
  Historical mailing list - Mark Belanger
  Thu, 30 Aug 2018 20:43:35 -0700
  Greetings all, I'm looking to reattach the rubber corner protector <https://postimg.cc/image/rpg5f8vh7/> that goes around the driver's seat and...
• Re: 87 Westy front bumper rubber strip AND MORE
  Historical mailing list - vw_van_fan_Mark
  Tue, 20 Mar 2018 10:50:32 -0700
  ...http://www.van-cafe.com/threshold-rubbers Mark Edward V Barger wrote: > m > > Can not find in the Bentley the rubber pads in the...
• Radiator rubber mounts - cardboard air deflectors
  Historical mailing list - John Reynolds
  Sun, 30 May 2010 11:20:30 -0700
  Mine rubber "mounts" are shot and don't seem available any where. �Are people just using rubber washers? Also, my right (drivers) side cardboard...