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• Re: rear hatch STRUTS on '90 Westy stopped working
  Historical mailing list - Ken W.
  Fri, 11 Aug 2000 09:10:02 -0700
  John Reynolds <kayakjr@juno.com> wrote: To be fair, I complained to Ron, and he offered to take them back. He stated that I...
• Re: LVC: Wheel Bearing Press Requirements
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Fri, 28 Feb 2003 07:11:06 -0500
  ...Eric SyncroWesty wrote: > Hi all, > > I am going to buy a press so that I can change my wheel bearings, upper > strut bearings, ball...
• Swapping out bad spindle/s
  Historical mailing list - ralph meyermann
  Sat, 5 May 2012 16:16:12 -0600
  ...to replace upper lower and inner outer balljoints and bushings including strut arm bushings for less to worry about/knowing its all good!! Any...
• LiMBO Web Site Back in Service/rear hatch lock extension
  Historical mailing list - Dale Ward
  Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:20:40 EDT
  ...Seems like GoDaddy took control for awhile? Link below. " Rear hatch struts available from LiMBO. The sun catchers are really cool too! " http://www...
• Re: front end reassembly: strut bar
  Historical mailing list - Bill MacLachlan
  Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:10:20 -0700
  ...They can wear badly >> > enough to start wearing out the strut rod shaft too. >> > Fortunately I had a good used one of those too...
• hatch struts from Teutonix
  Historical mailing list - Frank E. Terhaar-Yonkers
  Tue, 2 Apr 1996 13:41:49 -0500
  ...vanagon rear hatch struts > >Thank you for your interest in purchasing our quality replacement parts from >Teutonix Automotive. You asked about price and availability...
• Re: It's the annoying little things...
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Thu, 23 Jul 2015 08:57:44 -0700
  ...On 7/23/15, Steven Johnson <sjohnso2000@gmail.com> wrote: > On my 90/91 Westy I was replacing the shocks/struts for the rear...
• Fw: Friday - More Canadian Tire Mythology
  Historical mailing list - Roy O.
  Fri, 3 Mar 2000 21:31:06 -0600
  ...it around here - no offence to Ukes!) to look for hatch | struts for my van. Offence taken. If you feel you might offend someone...
• Re: ROOF RACK IDEAS-go Yakima
  Historical mailing list - Paul Mayfield
  Thu, 7 Mar 2002 14:57:00 -0800
  ...Has anyone rigged up gas struts to the poptop??? What about backing the sideloader brackets with some reinforcement- steel or fiberglas ? I need to...
• Stuck Strut Bar Bolts
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:19:39 -0800
  Hi all. This is for an '81 Westy. A nut/bolt end snapped off on passenger side. On driver side, one bolt turned slightly...
• Re: Problem with using gas shocks--or any other alternative--on Westy rear seat
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Fri, 5 May 2017 12:14:43 -0700
  ...The cubby lids were an obvious place but need to make a little bracket to secure one end of strut to cubby lip. The...
• Re: Lift Pop Top With No Spring Assist?
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Wed, 4 Aug 2010 17:56:24 -0700
  ...lifting bar, from that I am assuming t has been done. struts forward of jack bombay's set up, more like the early eurovan...
• Re: electrical/convenience stuff (solar)
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 17 May 1995 11:29:26 -0500 (CDT)
  ...Maybe some gas struts would help. I'm also very nervous about drilling holes into the pop-top. Maybe a couple of beers would...
• Re: Ball Joints
  Historical mailing list - wb6otg
  Mon, 23 Dec 2002 13:56:00 -0500
  ...Unless the strut rod bushings are split just leave them.
• Re: Radius Rod (strut) Newbs: Clean First!
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Sun, 9 Sep 2012 17:04:03 -0700
  Well, not entirely true, I was just using a new tool: http://www.amazon.com/Lisle-29200-Hand-Impact-Tool/dp/B0002NYDRG to remove...
• Re: Size spec for pop-top bolt?
  Historical mailing list - Jim Thompson
  Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:09:14 -0700
  ...bolt that goes > through the westfalia pop-top to secure the struts that lift and hold > the pop-top in position when open? These...
• More windshield stuff
  Historical mailing list - Gary Stearns
  Sun, 4 Feb 2001 11:46:45 -0500
  ...Do the rubber windshield gaskets used in the Vanagon allow the same kind of strutural support, or do they just prevent leaks? Anyone know...
• Re: [Syncro] Medium length travelogue, and misc.
  Historical mailing list - John Wessels
  Thu, 30 May 2002 12:43:59 EDT
  ...Westy with 234,000 miles I would check and replace the strut rod bushings and all other bushings and ball joints. It is incredible...
• Re: Ball Joint Replacement Time
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Mon, 21 Nov 2005 18:33:50 -0500
  ...Squeekeee squeekeee squeek.Get new strut bar bushings(cheap) Origional bushings can loosen up and wobbel and enlarge the hole(formerly 1 inch in...
• Re: while changing UCA bushings, what else should I do?
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Fri, 19 Aug 2005 01:24:31 -0500
  ...Lower, Strut arms, The whole MC gilla,,,,,,,,,,,, Think how nice it would be not need the list. Stan Wilder Engine Ceramics 214-352-4931...
• WTB pop top lift linkage to raise 87 westy top - passenger side spring strut
  Historical mailing list - Mike Kozak
  Fri, 26 May 2006 12:56:55 -0400
  Greetings, The linkage to raise my 87 westy pop top is damaged on the passenger side. The two bars that connect the pop top...
• Re: Moving a suspension-less vehicle(lvc)
  Historical mailing list - Rob
  Fri, 18 May 2007 05:33:17 -0700
  ...87 Audi 4kq up on jackstands and missing its control arms, >strut towers etc. and have a gentlemen interested in purchasing this >vehicle as...
• Re: fiberglass repair on poptop
  Historical mailing list - Doug Alcock
  Mon, 8 Sep 2008 11:46:46 -0400
  ...I have installed a few of these pop > top > >> >strut kits and have had absolutely no problems....geeze it's not rocket > >> science !!!!.... > >> > >> Frank...
• Re: Electrolysis and prevention of corrosion:
  Historical mailing list - Gregg Howald
  Thu, 17 Feb 2000 15:15:45 PST
  ...I had the struts deterioriate on an drive leg of an inboard/outboard even though the zinc was present - turned out the zinc wasn...
• Re: Tow Loops [back to thread subject]
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:56:29 -0400
  ...Bentley calls the A-arm an upper control arm, and the track rod a strut bar. The two control arms (upper and lower) mount...
• Re: rear hatch lock extension
  Historical mailing list - John Reynolds
  Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:54:28 +0000
  ...Regards, John Rodgers 88 GL Driver John Reynolds wrote: > Rear hatch struts available from LiMBO. > The sun catchers are really cool too! > > > See www...
• Re: rear hatch struts
  Historical mailing list - Marshall Ruskin
  Wed, 27 Jun 2001 19:56:29 -0500
  <snip>You > haven't experienced pain until you have walked into the edge of the > hatch that you didn't notice had dropped down...
• Re: 12 clutch pedals
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 24 Jan 2002 14:25:14 EST
  ...I have though about selling things there many times as people have bought hatch struts, and speakers for more that I sell them for...
• Re: trans main shaft removal ??
  Historical mailing list - GEORGE J GREEN
  Mon, 11 Oct 2004 01:09:45 -0400
  ...it means beat it out with a hammer. "carefully pry the strut from the ball bearing" screw that, that thing was rusted on IMABUS...
• Re: noise reduction sound deadening quiet
  Historical mailing list - Chris Stann
  Tue, 15 Jan 2002 08:38:54 -0600
  ...you will need heavy duty rear hatch struts as the added weight >will cause regular struts to compress. Why spend a million dollars >for...
• Re: [WetWesties] Great Vendor Response was Weird Hatch Struts?
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:53:59 -0700
  On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Ryan Zastrow <zastrow_qr@hotmail.com>wrote: > I am going to take a few steps...
• Re: EV misc topics
  Historical mailing list - Rick Gordon
  Thu, 23 Jan 1997 23:27:00 -0800
  ...Like are there special modifications made to standard parts - or do they just stick different struts on it or what - I'm not familiar...
• Cleaning around the damn grate on the stove top
  Historical mailing list - michael schiesser
  Mon, 21 Aug 2000 07:04:09 -0400
  If anyone has been lamenting the passing of the rear hatch struts dialogue, perhaps this will satisfy your need for onlineVanagon obscurity. I was...
• Re: Fw: Re: Safari type window?
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Sat, 21 Aug 1999 13:10:33 -0700
  ...open as no one > could open the door or remove the strut. Give him a call, he was a nice > fellow. > Ken Wyatt > 82...
• Re: Re-useable oil filter
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:02:37 -0500
  ...one of the two >>pneumatic rear hatch struts can cause it to fail prematurely? One >>strut doesn't know what the other is doing...
• Re: It's the annoying little things...
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Thu, 23 Jul 2015 21:34:39 -0400
  ...new ones came with my struts from GW. Eric Caron 85 GL Auto westfalia > On Jul 23, 2015, at 1:30 PM, Steven Johnson...
• Re: Pop top issue
  Historical mailing list - Thomas Buese
  Sat, 28 May 2011 17:59:23 -0600
  ...buese shelf, as I think this is causing the pop > top > struts to tweak a bit in the wrong direction. Huh? Coincidently, recently I...
• Re: fiberglass repair on poptop
  Historical mailing list - Joy Hecht
  Sun, 7 Sep 2008 23:08:43 -0230
  ...I'd also agree that installing the struts isn't rocket science. In fact, it's not even eighth grade earth science. It would...
• Re: Rear spring question
  Historical mailing list - Bill Monk
  Sat, 18 May 2013 10:57:21 -0400
  ...http://www.harborfreight.com/macpherson-strut-spring-compressor-set-3980.html The GoWesty lift spring I bought off another Vanagon owner are a great...
• Re: Place to mount shackles?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 26 May 2011 12:59:40 -0400
  ...The strut bar positions it to slightly trail the position of the upper arm. This is the caster adjustment, and it is what makes...
• Re: AWD
  Historical mailing list - jon
  Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:30:38 -0800
  ...Car > > had a busted strut, the usual number of recently replaced parts and a > > kick ass Apline stereo. Well, after replacing the strut with...
• Fw: VW Audi "Fix It" Projects? HUGE Pre-Labor Day Sale!
  Historical mailing list - Michael Magnani
  Thu, 27 Aug 2015 08:02:22 +0000
  ...Kits | | | | | | BLAU® Shock / Strut Sets & Kits Enter Coupon Code LABOR2015 Hurry, offer ends 9/3/2015! | | • SHOP Shocks and Struts | | | | | | Official O.E.™ BLAU...
• Lifting the Poptop with a Thule box
  Historical mailing list - pedro dos santos
  Fri, 5 Sep 2003 11:34:06 -0700
  ...There is a pop-top with some struts, like the rear hatch struts. I just don't know where to get those... I heard...
• Re: G.W. 1.5" lift springs
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Mon, 10 Mar 2014 18:14:56 -0700
  ...http://www.harborfreight.com/macpherson-strut-spring-compressor-set-61654.ht ml#.Ux5ilflr6M4 Stuart -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon...
• Tom Buese shelf for sale
  Historical mailing list - Troy
  Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:06:58 -0900
  ...I fought with the mechanism/struts for quite a while, but never got it to work correctly and gave up. This is by no...
• Re: more steering with a kit
  Historical mailing list - Joshua Van Tol
  Mon, 26 Apr 1999 18:59:07 -0500
  ...Replace struts Shocks you mean. No. >2. Replace seals in rack Probably. >3. Replace whole rack Definitely. BTW, you really should set the clock...
• Re: front brake hints needed
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:34:07 +1200
  >By chance, my neighbor was installing new struts on >his early '90s Nissan Maxima and I found the nice 15X7 >alloy wheel bolts right...
• Re: Pop top issue
  Historical mailing list - Buese Thomas
  Sun, 29 May 2011 17:24:13 -0600
  ...When I attach my shelf it > seemed to flatten out the center bar, which consequently made the > distance between the struts greater. This in...
• Re: rear hatch lock extension
  Historical mailing list - Greg S
  Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:27:47 -0400
  ...Nothing Vanagon or related. > > Regards, > > John Rodgers > 88 GL Driver > > > John Reynolds wrote: > >> Rear hatch struts available from LiMBO. >> The sun catchers are really...
• Re: Front end advice
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 4 Mar 2006 10:37:37 -0500
  ...Plan to replace the bushings at the front of those strut bars. Even if they look good, they are distorted and stretched. Dennis -----Original...
• Donor vans
  Historical mailing list - Anna Quinn-Smith
  Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:46:14 +0000
  ...The engine will be transplanted, as will the rear hatch struts, maybe the rack/pinion for power steering; and other misc VW parts, doo...
• re New Westfalia Brochure
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 29 Mar 1996 22:13:01 -0700
  ...manuals, some of the differences include: - locking struts on the poptop, as opposed to gas struts; - curtains instead of pulldown pleated blinds; - hinged tables...
• Re: Hatchback struts
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 31 Mar 2017 09:19:41 -0400
  PS -- these vehicles have the same wheelbase as a same-era Toyota Corolla, that's why they're so nimble. But that doesn't...
• Re: Urathane bushings?
  Historical mailing list - pickle vanagon
  Sun, 6 May 2012 11:13:12 -0400
  ...available for our rigs? I plan on replacing upper,lower and >> strut >> rod bushings as well as balljoints! And maybe a vendor to give...
• Re: sirius antenna location
  Historical mailing list - John Runberg
  Sat, 3 Apr 2004 17:18:50 -0500
  ...simply placed it just forward of the passenger-side pop-top strut mount. Cable moves backward then dips behind the trim, hides behind the...
• Re: Thanks to BD
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:31:56 -0500
  ...Last week I ordered hatch struts and got them within > a day. They now use FedEx inside of Pennsylvania. Hooray! > Thanks Ron! Thank you...
• Replacing Upper Ball Joints - What else?
  Historical mailing list - dusty edwards
  Sun, 9 Apr 2006 23:25:25 -0600
  ...i believe that i've heard somebody say that while you're in there you should replace the struts, etc... (???) thanks for the help...
• Re: Vanagon total drag and mechanical losses
  Historical mailing list - Joshua Van Tol
  Tue, 1 Dec 1998 22:05:21 -0600
  ...first, make a frame that >attaches to the car, then a fork with a pivot and a bicycle wheel, a hatch >strut >to give...
• Re: Another Q: Caster arm rubber.
  Historical mailing list - mike miller
  Sat, 17 Nov 2001 17:18:56 -0800
  ...mechanic failed my vanagon due to old rubber in the caster > strut bar (front) bushings. > > Yes, the rubber is obviously old (1982), but still...
• Re: AC, power door and power window problems
  Historical mailing list - bueses
  Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:58:04 -0600
  ...replaced the water pump, starter(at same time), muffler,rear hatch struts, plug wires, oil, & coolant. It was a low mileage, very nice westy...