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• Re: acceptable way to discharge A/C at home?
  Historical mailing list - John Lauterbach
  Fri, 11 Nov 2005 19:53:03 -0500
  ...with replacing the water pump, the rear bumper, muffler, and heat shield will get removed first. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wesley Pegden" <wes@CS...
• re: '82 Diesel Smoke
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 4 Mar 96 18:16:36 EST
  ...forget to use new heat shield washers when replacing the injectors, and don't put the heat shields in upside down. Look how they...
• Re: Vanagon rear lights and the pathetic headlights
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Sat, 25 Dec 2010 21:30:13 -0600
  ...try a glass polishing kit: > > http://www.eastwood.com/professional-wind-shield-headlight-kit.html?srccode= > ga030170 > > > > Good luck, > > Jay > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Marius...
• Re: "carat" FS on ebay PROFANITY WARNING
  Historical mailing list - Doug F
  Sat, 25 Mar 2006 13:35:08 -0800
  ...Seems that e-bay kind of provides a "shield" for some who may not want to deal in a more straightforward form of a...
• Danke Schon!
  Historical mailing list
  29 Apr 1996 13:59:14 GMT
  ...I also discovered that one of the injectors had "oil" all over it and down inside (between the heat shield and the injector nozzle...
• Re: Oxygen Sensor Ground
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 25 Mar 2006 10:48:19 -0500
  ...More important that you have the deflector shield to keep airflow from cooling it off and road spray off it. Both can cause most...
• Re: electronic rust control
  Historical mailing list - Keith Adams
  Wed, 31 May 2000 08:18:22 -0600
  ...If shielding prevents current from flowing down a pipe more than 3 or 4 diameters, how far from the anodes would you estimate the...
• Re: Hall Sender question
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Ensing
  Fri, 4 May 2007 13:57:40 EDT
  ...years of heat and vibration...There's just a little plastic shield, also fried, between those wires and Certain Death by contact with the...
• Re: Big screens
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Sat, 13 Jun 2015 10:34:49 -0400
  ...best, Eric Caron 85 GL Auto Westfalia Fandtr’s Window shields and other vW products http://fanchers.com/59/VW%20Related%20Items.htm Phone...
• Re: Frydae - EMP Proofing A Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Fri, 2 Nov 2012 22:05:11 -0500
  ...After the EMP, just swap them out and you're >>good to go! > >Ignorance showing here - wouldn't you need magnetic shielding as well...
• Re: Stats and glow plugs.
  Historical mailing list - john keith hopp
  Thu, 2 Feb 1995 10:09:17 -0700 (MST)
  ...get new injector heat shields when removing/reinstalling injectors) I temporarily obviated the problem by plugging in my block heater; yet after spending $50...
• Survey-- Your Favorite Vanagon Accessories That You Have Added
  Historical mailing list - Mick Kalber
  Wed, 31 Jan 2001 17:14:13 -1000
  ...American flag awing/rain shield over poptop window > http://albums.photopoint.com/j/ViewPhoto?u=1443607&a=10863040&p=37626032 > 5. Cupholders from Marshal...
• Re: Engine (VanaJetta) won't shut off when hot.
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:17:49 -0500
  ...too close to exhaust or exhaust too exposed. > > Would a heat shield on exhaust or relay box help that much? > > > Thanks, > > Neil. > > > > -- > Neil Nicholson...
• Re: Brake pad recommendations
  Historical mailing list - Chuck Theobald
  Thu, 26 Jul 2018 19:08:15 -0700
  In a youtube video I saw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCebE7LpKNQ&t=100s), the guy talks about installing some sort of shields...
• Re: fluid film - new use - windscreen sealer?
  Historical mailing list - Matt Thyer
  Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:43:20 -0800
  ...A friend of mine in town as the same issue with his wind shield, I'll let him know about this. MT -----Original Message...
• Re: '86 Headlight replacment?
  Historical mailing list - Austin
  Sat, 8 Mar 1997 01:41:20 -0600 (CST)
  ...It's a bit >tricky to get the wire and cloth in through the bulb hole and around the >metal shield, and you have...
• Re: How wipers work / rain-X
  Historical mailing list - Terry K.
  Sat, 25 May 2002 23:30:08 -0500
  ...The water film will form perfectly and the wipers will absolutely clears the wind shield. Try it. One thing, rinse the rubber around the...
• Re: Loss of power - super hot muffler
  Historical mailing list - Andrew
  Sun, 8 Dec 2002 14:48:52 -0800
  ...Noticed that the >muffler was really hot, in fact so hot that the body coloured shield >below the rear bumper has discoloured from the...
• '82 Westy Diesel Intro + Injector / Timing Belt / General Questions
  Historical mailing list - John Mileham
  Mon, 27 Aug 2001 12:08:07 -0500
  ...but nothing running.) I seem to recall there's a heat shield between the injector and the head, and so I got to wondering...
• Re: Moroso Ceramic Engine Seal/ Ken Wilfry?
  Historical mailing list - Mark Dorm
  Sat, 4 May 2002 20:05:01 -0700
  ...You see I'm rather paranoid of whether I should or shouldn't mess with the drain plug behind the shield. I was going...
• Continuing to diagnose rich rough running Digifant ....from yesterday
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Thu, 24 Jul 2014 06:59:03 -0700
  ...Where the signal and ground wire enters that shielded casing, there was some frayed wires that could have been contacting the metalic shielding...I...
• Re: Other Vanagon items I hope someone can create
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Tue, 4 Feb 2020 13:38:51 -0800
  ...and then I just need a screen and no more sun shield fabric falling down, and no more cracked skylight. > > Only improvement would be...
• Re: Transmission Oil Seal replacement questions (followup)
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Pollard
  Thu, 18 Apr 2002 16:36:04 -0700
  ...So then you remove the plastic dirt-shield and you have access to the next seal. Pry her out and slip the new one...
• Re: running problems, 2.1
  Historical mailing list - Jonathan Farrugia
  Sun, 5 Feb 2006 00:06:58 -0500
  ...1)the plastic connector breaks 2)the wire cooks and the shielding becomes brittle 3)the terminals corrode were the wire is crimped into...
• Re: Engine (VanaJetta) won't shut off when hot.
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:53:04 -0400
  ...Maybe relay box is too close to exhaust or exhaust too exposed. > > Would a heat shield on exhaust or relay box help that much? > >
• Re: spark plugs
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Wed, 8 Apr 2009 10:05:10 -0700
  ...85's need the W_D_ _ plugs that have a less shielded spark thats also a > > little further into the cylinder? the threads arent...
• Re: KEP URABUS Exhaust System Questions
  Historical mailing list - Ron Bloomquist
  Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:37:12 -0800
  ...plastic timing belt cover by attaching it to the existing heat shield. Any piece of tin would do but Kennedy's was cut to...
• Re: future is looking bleak..
  Historical mailing list - Robert Steven Fish
  Fri, 19 Jul 2002 13:27:15 +0200
  ...or so, and the insulation from the wires above the heat shield bagan to smoke... stank like hell. The idea is that fuel can...
• Re: Aux battery access woes
  Historical mailing list - Ellen in Oregon
  Tue, 3 Apr 2007 16:21:13 -0700
  ...I literally ripped the cover out of there (and I don't plan on putting it back either) the starting battery has plastic shields...
• Re: fuel line protective sleeve
  Historical mailing list - Chris Lisica
  Wed, 5 Dec 2007 08:48:39 -0800
  I called my local Napa and they recommended that corrugated plastic wire shielding. I don't like the sounds of that for some unknown...
• Re: 87 Heat not truning off!!
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Sun, 7 Oct 2007 22:30:03 -0700
  ...be a small machine screw that tightens a clamp onto cable shield, thus holding enitre cable in place. Neil. On 10/7/07, Mike...
• Re: Odd bits of list wisdom and/was: RE: 91 Carat has the highway hick ups
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Wed, 12 May 2010 16:59:44 -0700
  ...Note that the O2 sensors originally had a heat shield or > > insulation on them. > > > > Dennis > --snip-- > > I was driving back to SoCal from AZ...
• Re: 2.1 WBX Warm Start Troubles
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Sat, 19 Nov 2016 17:19:53 -0800
  ...at the inner wire casing can allow strands of the coax shield to touch the centre lead. This fault could be intermittent. A little...
• Re: etka on line with registration
  Historical mailing list - Arkady Mirvis
  Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:09:07 -0000
  ...well as listings for specialty parts > such as the black out shields for military vehicles and although NLA these > are real parts with numbers...
• Re: Welding Project For Vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:10:29 -0700
  ...Something different. >> >> -juan >> >> ===== >> >> From a mishap with my westy I always have my underside shield on now. It hit some scrap metal on the...
• Re: Dometic insulation
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:27:44 -0400
  ...out the van.An additional,layer wrapped around the circular heat shield, too. I would like to know of a product that replaces teh...
• Re: Carver P4 - My Install
  Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
  Sat, 1 Aug 1998 04:56:42 EDT
  ...I then fabricated an aluminum heat shield which covers the whole heater assembly and which is fastened with a set of quick release bolts...
• Re: Gas heaters...was Re: Heater
  Historical mailing list - Roy Nicholl
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:40:30 -0400
  ...However the heater itself appears to contained under the drivers side of the van above/in a large metal shield/encasement which looks like...
• Re: Windshield Sunshade Smackdown!
  Historical mailing list - Gnarlodious
  Wed, 11 Jun 2014 21:40:06 -0600
  ...They also double as picnic table covers, rain-sleet head covers and brain shields for when the agency is scanning your thoughts. Just saying...
• Re: Electronic Rust Protection?
  Historical mailing list - Paul Cavanaugh
  Wed, 8 Aug 2001 21:13:38 -0400
  ...They buy the $99 jcwhitney Electro-Shield unit. They hook it to a shiny new Campbell's Soup can outdoors in their back yard...
• Re: The DEEP, DARK secret of fiberglass exhaust wrap discovered
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:27:32 -0400
  ...I >> needed to shield some not-so-hot parts from the hotter-than-H parts. I've >> read reports of exhaust headers rusting very...
• Re: Dometic
  Historical mailing list - Robin Oomkes
  Thu, 25 May 2006 20:56:56 +0200
  ...The > waste heat is only exited the van by the flue,and not all if it gets out. > > Seems that a heat shield between...
• Re: 86 Camper Engine Elect Problem..Help
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 8 Feb 1996 23:31:25 -0500
  ...distributor cap, rotor > *installed std plugs in place of resistor plugs > *shielded plug wires with hose to reduce shorting potential > >Above fix(s) cleared...
• Subaru install prob/warning
  Historical mailing list - Tim Smith
  Mon, 4 Jan 1999 12:57:05 -0400
  ...figure given the Subaru's timing belt and plastic covers that shield entire rear of engine. 4) Oilpan required cutting of Syncro skid plates...
• Re: Radio noise from engine ?
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Sun, 27 Jan 2002 07:06:32 -0600
  ...The distributor also has shielding that may have failed. Try to decide if the zizz is the speed of your alternator or engine. Stan...
• Re: striking caution by dennis
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 8 May 2016 10:49:35 -0400
  ...in a industrial setting with safety glasses, gogeles, and a face shield on. The best way is no impact at all. Take the cotter...
• Re: Inconsistent stumbling on resume throttle. Was "vanagon syndrome?"
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Thu, 26 Jun 2014 09:51:15 -0700
  ...the same way) My '88 2.1 has a type of shield that clips onto the O2 body. Could that block a hole in...
• Re: Pop top insulation
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Sun, 23 Jan 2011 08:24:49 -0800
  ...First, you can add a 'heat shield' like in this picture <http://picasaweb.google.com/starwagen/TableMountain2009#5363627421038372466> That's my rig when set...
• RE: I'm sorry, not enough coffee...
  Historical mailing list - William R. Kennedy, NJIT CIAT, 201-596-5648
  Wed, 02 Nov 1994 11:21:05 EST
  ...I'm especially interested in items like cutting off the rain gutters at the edge of the wind- shield, adding the $79 spoiler that...
• Screech, said the front wheel
  Historical mailing list - Vincent Dow
  Mon, 3 Apr 2017 22:54:22 -0400
  ...Could it be that crushed bushing? Maybe suddenly got worse and moved things around so that something like the metal shield between wheel and...
• Re: Goopy stuff on dish drainer
  Historical mailing list - Joy Hecht
  Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:12:32 -0230
  ...J Squirrel < > camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The dish drainer / heat shield dingus mounted over the stove burners > > appears to press into three blobs...
• Re: What kind of metal is this? (Jetta exhaust part for my conversion)
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Tue, 1 Apr 2008 22:37:44 -0500
  ...You should also check whether you need to use a different shielding gas. I ended up welding mine with oxy-acetylene and had a...
• Re: Inexpensive O2 Sensors - archives
  Historical mailing list - Jason Willenbrock
  Fri, 16 Feb 2001 10:20:56 -0500
  ...The catalytic ceramic sensing element could have a variety of >different protective shields (including no shield) in place depending on >part >number and OEM...
• RE: Help With Instrument Lighting Please
  Historical mailing list - Morrell, Edward
  Fri, 21 Mar 1997 10:35:37 -0700
  ...Next, unplug brake fluid reservoir wire and remove clear plastic shield. Then, you will need to remove the gauge cluster. This is held by...
• Re: "OUR LIST"-Civil War
  Historical mailing list - The Gunnings
  Mon, 7 Aug 2000 09:26:57 -0400
  ...We' ve got all the major entry roads covered by Muppet scouts, wearing mooncap helmets (holding airscoop shields), wielding lever action high-powered potato...
• : Heads back on, runs OK and dies
  Historical mailing list - Don Spence
  Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:15:00 -0600
  ...a suitable piece of wire to short the relay preferably with shielded alligator clips, a collection container of 1 liter size. Remove the feed...
• Re: Travel Weirdness (warning; tires. ;)
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Wed, 10 Sep 2014 15:20:31 -0700
  ...Especially since there's a series of metal tangs that connect from this frame, to the metal shield inside the ECU. I'd assumed...
• Re: Headlight protectors
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Tue, 4 Dec 2012 20:02:09 -0800
  ...I used some of those industrial strength stick-on velcro 'dots' to hold the lexan lens shield onto the outside of the headlamp...Removable...
• REPAIR SAFETY - COOLANT LEVEL SENSOR (LONG)
  Historical mailing list - jhlauterbach
  Mon, 16 Nov 1998 19:39:57 -0500
  ...don't think anything but a pair of goggles and face shield would have helped much. I have worked in chemical labs for over...
• Re: Your early Morning/digifant/digitool brain teaser
  Historical mailing list - Marshall
  Fri, 14 Jun 2002 09:20:25 -0500
  ...Yesterday got the 88 running (turned out to be shielding on O2 sensor green wire touching connector, thus giving ecu constant lean signal) adjusted...