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• Re: Power window problem
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Mon, 29 Jun 1998 07:23:06 -0700
  ...Since I am also having problems with the central locking system from the driver's door only - my suspicion is that there are broken...
• Re: FS 87 SUNROOF SYNCRO!!!!!!!!
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 4 Mar 2003 01:34:35 EST
  ...162,000 miles > Locking diff. > Large sunroof version > Fog lights on bumper > I have the Projektzwo Foglights (Not installed yet) > Heads were done @ 88...
• How does it worK? Vanagon Sliding Door Locking Mechanism
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sat, 30 Apr 2005 06:54:46 -0500
  Can anyone explain to me the subject above? I'm having trouble with my sliding door staying shut. I will be riding down the...
• seriousvanagon secrity issues
  Historical mailing list - chris jackson
  Fri, 5 Aug 2005 15:07:06 -0700
  ...Having a locking place to sleep is a big justification for me in keeping the 82 westy diesel. Also they are in my blood...
• Re: Child seats in VW vans?
  Historical mailing list - -Chip
  Sun, 12 Jul 1998 00:11:19 -0500
  ...If you do need to put your child in the front, be sure to use the locking clip to securly fasten the seat down...
• WTB Synchro! (fwd)
  Historical mailing list - J Edward Jones
  Thu, 5 Dec 96 11:30:05 EST
  ...I would love to have a Vanagon Synchro with locking diff, but I would also consider a Toyota 4wd van or any 4wd van...
• Re: Rear hatch lock question.
  Historical mailing list - Wes Johnson
  Wed, 28 May 1997 18:11:05 -0700
  Do you have power door locks? If you do, when the key slot is left in the horizontal position, locking either front door locks...
• Where are the Archives?- Power Door locks inop
  Historical mailing list - Mark Keller
  Fri, 25 Sep 1998 10:52:02 -0600
  ...First thing was when locking the driver's door, either key or from inside, the locks would actuate and then unlock. Then the passenger...
• Re: vanagon manufacturer's upholstry types/codes
  Historical mailing list - Simon Reinhardt
  Fri, 21 Jun 2002 14:24:40 -0600
  ...realpoo. >> > > Simon, > > The problem with Scotchguarding a cleaned item is you are locking in any > leftover detergent into your fabric, eh? > > BenT Hugh Moore >
• Locating some cabinet Locks (and... is it a good idea?)
  Historical mailing list - Aaron Reams
  Wed, 7 Aug 2002 11:21:54 -0700
  ...Any suggestions? Also, I'm curious what people think about locking the cabinets. Obviously even locked cabinets could be pried open relatively easily with...
• Re: Breaking into a vanagon? How do you lock the keys in?
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Fri, 16 Apr 2004 07:21:52 -0400
  ...Eric Jack wrote: >With so many people locking keys in their cars, I'm curious. On my '85 >Weekender, it takes a key to...
• Tranny and computer
  Historical mailing list - Jere Hawn
  Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:26:20 -0700
  ...do they make or can it be made a 5 speed, locking diff, with a taller 5 gear? TIA Jere
• Re: Anyone have a Westy utility hook-up for the filler tank?
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Sun, 6 Feb 2011 08:33:52 -0500
  ...the filler hook-up for > the tank...I still have the locking cap. Be patient, we will have them back in stock very soon...
• Gas Cap Follow Up
  Historical mailing list - David Johnson
  Sun, 16 Jul 2006 15:10:54 -0600
  ...Not a locking one, but I am not too worried about that (yet). What a great community this list has created. Here's hoping...
• Re: Locking Gas Cap
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:17:40 -0400
  Depends ... My '84 and '85 gas caps use "VW GAS" keys ... not the ignition key. I'd say that most replacement caps are of...
• Re: Securing table
  Historical mailing list - Stan Shapiro
  Wed, 26 Nov 2014 08:17:59 -0800
  ...Securing table >> >> That should read "they areN'T holding" >> >> In a '90, if the inner locking pieces are still inside the brackets >> along with...
• Re: locking gas cap
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Fri, 17 Sep 2010 09:18:14 -0700
  RE: Fumble Fingered Gas Attendants in Oregon I spend a lot of time in Oregon and have never let the attendant remove the gas...
• '90 syncro power locks
  Historical mailing list - Ray Perry
  Tue, 16 Mar 1999 21:37:25 -0800
  ...I have experienced some "possesed" locking cycles at times in the recent past, but these have come and gone. Seems this creature does not...
• Thule Roof Racks (on Vanagons re content)
  Historical mailing list - Bob Allen
  Thu, 26 Dec 2002 21:17:18 -0500
  ...I would appear that as the bolt tightens and entends into the bottom of the rail thus locking it into position? I have several...
• WTB For 87 Westy Syncro
  Historical mailing list - Mark Tuovinen
  Mon, 1 Mar 2004 13:37:43 -0800
  ...A transmission, with locking differential - either a known good unit, or a good core for rebuilding. Front table with leg (gray) Passenger side power...
• [NVC] Peeve: cars that honk
  Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
  Mon, 15 Aug 2005 10:42:51 -0700
  ...Would have been even sweeter if the folks that own those behemoth pickup trucks, SUVs, and late-model cars DIDN'T INSIST ON LOCKING...
• Re: Large price spread on The Samba?
  Historical mailing list - Bob Donalds
  Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:38:54 -0700
  ...for a reasonable price, or just the > locking diff? A "parts-van"? > Don Hanson
• Re: Westy Stove Leveling Ideas Sought
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:46:21 -0400
  ...little hardwood wedges? If you're worried about things not staying put, remove the two locking legs and substitute strongish tension springs. Yours, David
• Re: Syncro diff problem/part number research/shocks/wheelwell
  Historical mailing list - Michael Modl
  Fri, 12 Jun 1998 02:51:48 EDT
  ...I just finished looking at your web site on the front locking diff, and was wondering if that front lockable diff is available, for...
• Re: '88 syncro at wreckers
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 18 Sep 1999 03:25:14 EDT
  ...I'm unfamiliar with the syncros but I think it had the locking diff front and back(a drawing of the four corners of...
• Flywheel Resurfacing
  Historical mailing list - Randy Huyck
  Tue, 17 Aug 1999 22:34:00 -0700
  ...thing? Is it common to be able to rent the flywheel locking tool they show in the Bentley? It's 10:30PM right now...
• I'm locked in and can't get out
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Fri, 14 Nov 2003 19:55:58 -0500
  ...I depressed the locking plunger to see if that would keep the door closed until I got it home. Well, it did. Now pulling...
• Re: Stainless vs Copper exhaust nuts
  Historical mailing list - Zoltan
  Sat, 23 Jul 2005 12:03:03 -0700
  ...Stainless vs Copper exhaust nuts Other than the fact that the copper nuts are self-locking and stainless aren't, is there any reason...
• Re: adding central locking -- SWAP DOORS and HATCH?
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 14 Sep 2006 01:51:44 EDT
  In a message dated 9/14/06 1:17:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time, bret@STONEFLYTECH.COM writes: > What I want to know is...
• Re: Tranny musings (or, getting stuck on my lawn)
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott )
  Thu, 28 Aug 2014 21:06:36 -1000
  ...never did get, so far, to play with auto-locking rear diffs, torque biasing etc. a locking rear diff sounds ideal to me, for...
• Re: Has anybody put in a sunroof into a Vanagon that did not come with one?
  Historical mailing list - Mark Tuovinen
  Thu, 9 Mar 2006 11:20:15 -0900
  ...Are you looking to add a locking diff. to your van or just need parts to repair it with? Mark in AK - waiting for...
• Fuse Box Misery
  Historical mailing list - Brent Weide
  Tue, 1 Aug 2017 17:52:12 -0700
  ...My fusebox developed a burnt fuse holder on the 20 amp fuse that powers the door lock actuators for the central locking system. I...
• reverse coast lock-up!!
  Historical mailing list - madsen
  Thu, 3 Dec 1998 00:29:48 -0500
  ...At first I thought it may be the rear brakes locking up, but I doubt it very much. I find the gear shifter a...
• Re: central locks?
  Historical mailing list - Zeitgeist
  Wed, 6 Feb 2008 21:06:10 -0800
  ...wrote: > I'm interested in whether I could install a central locking system in > my Vanagon. Was that ever an option? Are there any...
• Re: Eurovan seat transplant pix
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:24:55 -0500
  ...sloppy manufacturing assembly It seems to me that VWAG made a systematic choice to avoid lockwashers and head-locking devices of all kinds (are...
• Re: Power Door Locks
  Historical mailing list - Zoran Mladen
  Fri, 19 Sep 2003 14:10:00 -0700
  ...You should see juice to one post for locking and the other for unlocking. If this is not the case, you have a broken...
• Re: General engine bolt/nut sizes
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:23:38 -0500
  ...On those nuts that hold the crankcase halves etc together....do you guys typically use self locking nuts or do regular nuts with blue...
• Re: Sliding door comes open...
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Mon, 4 Jan 2010 07:56:56 -0600
  ...was, I finally determined that simple wear eventually gets to the locking mechanism. A loose fit develops and then if you do anything with...
• Re: 90 Westfalia power locks problem
  Historical mailing list - Greg Sorkilmo
  Thu, 1 Dec 2011 13:17:03 -0500
  ...Even a local VW > mechanic can't get it open. > Passenger door and sliding door are locking and unlocking quite > normally, though certainly not...
• <syncro/all> setting up R+P gears
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 9 Apr 1997 15:48:57 -0300 (ADT)
  ...the situation... (have almost) swapped over locking diff components, including bearing races/adjusters from scrapped Syncro trans into my front diff. I did not...
• 87 Syncro GL Vanagon For Sale
  Historical mailing list - Michael J Vickey
  Fri, 8 May 1998 20:02:54 -0400
  ...New tires, new plug wires, new O2 sensor, new locking rear differential. Working a/c, pwr mirrors, pwr steering. Seats 7, Weekender package with...
• Re: Milestone reached and Traction question
  Historical mailing list - Benjamin Tan
  Fri, 1 Jun 2001 13:22:00 EDT
  ...this suggested modification below? I've always thought that with the locking differential, some aggressive tread, and the weight of the engine over the...
• Re: Need some parts - used or new if fine (89 Carat) Pop Up table Clasp, Body Molding behind sliding door
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 3 Sep 2003 22:42:29 -0400
  ...The > locking mechanism is just gone. I got the van from Florida like this and it > needs to be held down, it flaps open...
• Re: brake pad replacement
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:20:54 -0800
  ...material and it pushes the plunger back before I remove the > locking pins. > > Stan Wilder > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry...
• Re: sliding door lock
  Historical mailing list - David Klein
  Thu, 8 Oct 2009 14:11:10 -0600
  ...Going from only >> locking by itself every third time you close the door to locking >> every time you close the door. >> Is the lock...
• Re: Table leg hole?
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Thu, 29 Apr 2021 11:17:39 -0400
  ...me to raise the table high. > > But, is that hole for locking the table in place so it doesn’t swing out? > > If so...
• Gasoline aroma
  Historical mailing list - =?UTF-8?B?RGF2aWQgT0tDIPCfh7rwn4e4?=
  Tue, 20 Aug 2019 10:40:00 -0500
  ...The gas cap is an original, locking gas cap, which seems to fit tightly. I’m baffled. Thanks in advance for any wisdom and...
• update vw vandals
  Historical mailing list - Brad J Winemiller
  Mon, 4 Sep 1995 19:08:21 -0400 (EDT)
  ...off to see if there is some way to disconnect the locking device to the igniton and I have found a donor for the...
• Re: sliding door handle broken?
  Historical mailing list - alistair bell
  Tue, 26 Aug 1997 18:09:16 -0800
  ...A quick fix (which has lasted a3 years on my van) is to unscrew the black locking knob and slip some rubber tubing over...
• Re: Bus Depot Trailer Hitch
  Historical mailing list - Michael Sullivan
  Sun, 16 May 1999 08:43:12 -0400
  ...Cheers, MJS At 09:34 PM 5/15/99 -0400, David Beierl wrote: >Michael, mine came with six self-locking hex nuts that fit...
• Re: Re : How VC's work
  Historical mailing list - Tom L. Neal
  Fri, 23 Apr 1999 12:41:34 -0700
  ...Cheers, Tom Neal On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Davidson wrote: > Well, > if temperature plays any significant role in the viscous coupling locking > up, it...
• Re: WTB: Westy front table attachment bracket
  Historical mailing list - Karl F. Bloss
  Fri, 16 Apr 1999 10:35:40 -0400
  ...an 84 Westy and is silver in color with a brown locking > knob. I got a loaf table arm from Chris Turner and installed...
• Re: Syncro Wiring Question
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 15 Apr 2005 06:02:44 -0400
  The extra plug is for the center locking indicator on the dash. If you install a de-coupler, the wiring is there for the...
• Towing a Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Denmiester
  Thu, 18 Aug 2005 06:11:40 -0400
  ...We've tried loading another vehicle we brought back from the dead a couple years ago with back wheels on the dolley, and locking...
• Re: So many toys so little money :)
  Historical mailing list - Tom Buese
  Thu, 5 May 2011 14:36:52 -0600
  ...Central Locking -- questions > > Yup, though I recommend pulling the trigger on the full monty while yer at > it: > > http://www.a1electric.com/Merchant2/merchant...
• Re: Gas Cap
  Historical mailing list - Geo & Kathleen Hahn
  Sun, 16 Jul 2006 07:14:26 -0700
  ...letting the cap hang there, but I gave up on the locking version. Our local FLAPS (Checker) has the caps, both generic VW in...
• Re: Defiant power door locks
  Historical mailing list - Max/Joyce Wellhouse
  Mon, 16 Aug 1999 17:01:16 -0700
  ...either locking via pushing the lock knob or the key from the passenger >side works as expected. >4. the sliding door and the rear...
• Re: Syncro Diff Is Weird One Without Viscous Coupling!
  Historical mailing list - Derek Drew
  Thu, 15 Oct 1998 12:02:06 -0400
  ...One is that there is no front to rear locking mechanism in the front diff; this front diff is meant to be used with...
• Re: front door lock stuck
  Historical mailing list - Dake Collins
  Wed, 8 Jul 2015 14:38:29 -0400
  ...able to reach into the door cavity and easily push the locking pin up from the back of the door lock. I could see...
• sliding window spacers
  Historical mailing list - Gary Shea
  Fri, 30 Oct 1998 15:51:43 -0700
  ...many conversations in the archives about problems with sliding windows not locking, but they've all seemed to be about the furry little strip...