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  • Re: sliding door popping open
    Historical mailing list - Vince S
    Fri, 13 Aug 2004 08:59:08 -0700
    ...the only adjustment > i > could make that would allow it to close was by changing the position > of the > metal post (Catch?) on the...
  • Painting the exhaust - High Temp - POR??
    Historical mailing list - Jeff Lincoln
    Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:03:27 -0400
    ...I think they didn't catch what I was asking them :) Anyone ever used the aluminum stuff? Or other products? Thanks, Jeff '85 GL...
  • Re: Vanagon engine fire or mishap in Roanoke, Va
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Sat, 4 Dec 2010 22:13:39 -0500
    ...Generally speaking when an engine catches fire you're too busy either fighting it or leaving to worry much about what happened; and afterwards...
  • Re: 2.1 used heads for sale
    Historical mailing list - Bob Donalds
    Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:14:20 -0700
    I am running with scissors and stepping on cracks in the pavement as well catch me if you can or ban me like terry...
  • Re: A sad day in my life :-(
    Historical mailing list - Steve Johnson
    Thu, 9 Feb 1995 11:21:35 -0800 (PST)
    ...All cars catch fire. Maybe the Beetle/Buses are labeled because those vehicles sold the most over the years and so it goes that...
  • Re: EV oil change
    Historical mailing list
    Fri, 3 May 1996 19:03:18 -0900
    ...Fortunately, there was a list member behind me to catch >me as I went ass over teakettle, and four more to laugh. I did...
  • Re: Squeaky Clutch Pedal
    Historical mailing list
    Mon, 20 May 1996 23:59:57 -0400
    ...Use paint tray to catch all drippngs as they stain carpet bad and stink the van up. Dennis.
  • Re: Gray Water Tank Alternative
    Historical mailing list - Bill
    Fri, 14 Apr 2000 01:27:39 -0700
    ...Gray Water Tank AlternativeOfficially, here in Arizona, open buckets to catch grey water are prohibited in state parks, although nobody has ever hassled me...
  • Re: Diesel starting problem
    Historical mailing list - Tom Stone
    Sun, 25 Feb 2001 03:53:20 EST
    ...Stick the head of the bolt in the hole in the bushing and try to catch the edge of the bushing and pry it...
  • Re: vacuum lines
    Historical mailing list - Matthew Pollard
    Thu, 28 Jun 2001 19:02:38 -0700
    ...Of Chemistry So have a cup of coffee and catch your breath" University of Idaho www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356
  • Re: TiiCo: She's Alive!!!
    Historical mailing list - Mark Upton
    Mon, 28 Jan 2002 07:02:50 -0600
    ...Of Chemistry So have a cup of coffee and catch your breath" > University of Idaho > www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356
  • people that hit things.
    Historical mailing list - Joseph Fortino
    Mon, 16 Dec 2002 09:19:21 -0800
    ...near drivers head, * lucky i did't catch flame the passenger in the mini van was moving his arms, I almost gave the finger...
  • Re: battery questions & group 41: Optimas are better!!!
    Historical mailing list - Matthew
    Thu, 1 Apr 2004 14:49:38 -0800
    ...Of Chemistry So have a cup of coffee and catch your breath" University of Idaho www.ftir.chem.uidaho.edu __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo...
  • Re: Get a Complimentary Tan
    Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
    Sat, 1 May 2004 00:07:01 +1200
    ...own, to keep? Is this for real? There must be a catch... > >Ahhh.. Friday.... > >Dr. Snailchaser, > >Free BenT's are only available on Fridays...
  • Re: digital clock in stop-watch mode...???
    Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
    Sat, 29 Apr 2006 18:17:15 -0700
    ...help? insight? > thank > mp > lots of busses > > > "Racing with the wind and flirting with death > So have a cup of coffee and catch your...
  • Re: [NVC] - Computer has been down for nigh on a week
    Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
    Sat, 25 Mar 2006 21:56:43 -0600
    ...Had several projects pending so will be catching up >>personal e-mail over the next few days. >> >>Regards, >> >>John Rodgers >>88 GL Driver - x2 >> >> >> > > > >
  • Re: How to tighten up the cig lighter socket?
    Historical mailing list - TJ Hannink
    Fri, 7 Mar 2008 13:03:34 -0800
    ...If you want to try, you have to push the green plastic "catches" out from inside of the lighter (they snap into the metal...
  • high idle when hot
    Historical mailing list - jerry baldwin
    Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:21:12 -0400
    ...do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ~ Mark Twain
  • Subie Vulchers
    Historical mailing list - Chris S
    Fri, 2 May 2008 09:42:21 -0400
    ...They can not taste what they can not catch. Death shall omit me. Death SHALL omit me!
  • Re: Differences in SA Big Brake Kit
    Historical mailing list - Matthew Pollard
    Fri, 10 Jan 2003 16:33:36 -0800
    ...Of Chemistry So have a cup of coffee and catch your breath" University of Idaho www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356 On Fri, 10 Jan 2003...
  • Re: Seats - 1991 Carat
    Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
    Thu, 21 Sep 2023 10:30:42 -0500
    ...But you’ll get used to that in no time. > Remember you have to tip up a little hinged catch at the front to...
  • Re: Electric window switch, broken tabs
    Historical mailing list - thewestyman
    Thu, 12 Nov 2015 18:41:46 -0800
    ...The heads catch on the inside of the door panel. They never gave me any trouble. Jim On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 9...
  • NVC: Me
    Historical mailing list - Jeff Palmer
    Fri, 2 May 2014 23:45:06 -0500
    ...I've finally had a chance over the last week to catch up on many emails. That's because on April 23 at the...
  • SMOG
    Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
    Tue, 17 May 1994 15:22:14 -0700 (PDT)
    ...If the said boys in blue catch you speeding or whatnot, you can look forward to a 170% "Penalty Assesment" which translates thus: a...
  • Re: more heating ideas
    Historical mailing list
    Fri, 29 Sep 1995 14:50:40 -0500
    ...I stay warm until the bus heater can catch up - otherwise it never does during my 45 minute commute. Dean Aukes '68 crew cab...
  • My Blue Ridge Route..
    Historical mailing list - David Raistrick
    Wed, 27 May 1998 18:58:58 -0400
    ...If anyone wishes, or whatnot, to catch or wait, or be along at the same time, and caravan, here's my route.. Highway 221...
  • Re: Annoying posts.
    Historical mailing list - Ari Ollikainen
    Wed, 19 Aug 1998 18:12:32 -0700
    ...to post this on some regular basis so that I >can catch folks who come in and out of the group. May I post...
  • Re: Wart injection. was: www.natoint.com
    Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
    Fri, 19 Mar 1999 15:27:47 -0600
    ...but if they run fast, he can't catch 'em. :) Herb I. Vor is one of the messiest house/yard-keepers i think i...
  • AC, sliding door
    Historical mailing list - Mack Paschall
    Tue, 2 May 2000 09:18:24 -0400
    ...rear catch on my sliding door occasionally unlatches. No real safety problem (yet), but it adds a fair amount of wind noise and it...
  • Re: Bus Depot service
    Historical mailing list - Matthew Pollard
    Sun, 19 Aug 2001 16:12:20 -0700
    ...Of Chemistry So have a cup of coffee and catch your breath" University of Idaho www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356 On Fri, 17 Aug 2001...
  • Re: Schr�dinger's Feline
    Historical mailing list - Matthew Pollard
    Fri, 2 Nov 2001 14:08:31 -0800
    ...Of Chemistry So have a cup of coffee and catch your breath" University of Idaho www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356 On Fri, 2 Nov 2001...
  • Re: Help with a trig function or how to bleed engine cooling system
    Historical mailing list - Matthew Pollard
    Sun, 25 Nov 2001 17:53:04 -0800
    ...Of Chemistry So have a cup of coffee and catch your breath" University of Idaho www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356 On Sun, 25 Nov 2001...
  • I 70 Winter Camping, Indianna & Ohio?
    Historical mailing list - Robert Dalton
    Mon, 11 Feb 2002 22:07:34 -0800
    ...Probably all I'm really going to need is a hot shower, and a safe place to catch some sleep. Except for the shower...
  • Re: Is your Vanagon as unlucky as mine.....windshield has taken hitsseveral times, even here on So CAL freeways
    Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
    Tue, 19 Feb 2002 22:22:05 -0600
    "Smola, Tony" wrote: > > The van has such a vertical rake that it is just a huge stone > catcher.......I got to get a bra...
  • Re: gas Cap Key
    Historical mailing list - Philip and Buffy Simmons
    Tue, 12 Nov 2002 18:36:24 -0800
    ...Of Chemistry So have a cup of coffee and catch your breath" University of Idaho www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356
  • heater core repair - anyone try this?
    Historical mailing list - Paul Mayfield
    Fri, 15 Nov 2002 21:26:18 -0800
    ...The catch: It has 'climate control' therefore to access the core is about 16 HOURS of labor. I have been quoted $800-$1200 !!! I...
  • Re: FS 15" wheels, was FYI Audi wheels are a direct fit........
    Historical mailing list - Matthew Pollard
    Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:48:28 -0700
    ...Of Chemistry So have a cup of coffee and catch your breath" University of Idaho www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356 On Fri, 18 Jul 2003...
  • Re: Rear table
    Historical mailing list - jimt
    Fri, 7 Jan 2005 16:50:40 -0700
    ...stuck to it and a couple of small kids trying to catch up with the little thing. ���������������������������������������� jimt Planned insanity is best. Remember that...
  • Re: Happy Thanksgiving Day Canada !!! :o)
    Historical mailing list - John Carpenter
    Mon, 10 Oct 2005 19:05:37 EDT
    ...Having a decent day catching up on my guitar repair work, then a new customer brought three guitars that need considerable attention to make...
  • Re: omni engine...
    Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
    Thu, 9 Feb 2006 11:18:16 -0600
    ...and flirting with death >So have a cup of coffee and catch your breath" > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the...
  • bed problems
    Historical mailing list - Tim Leek
    Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:38:38 -0400
    ...I have to pull up very hard on the handle and often give it a hard whack on one side to get the catches...
  • Hard thunk at startup
    Historical mailing list - Barrett Willet
    Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:25:13 -0700
    ...The thunk only happens the second the engine catches. No thunking while the starter is doing it's thing. After that, it purrs along...
  • Re: vans
    Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
    Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:48:46 -0500
    ...I even thought about changing it to Horst as the grandson wouldn't catch the difference. Mike Thomas Butler wrote: <snip> > Also � it seems...
  • Re: Speedometer clicking - any recommendations?
    Historical mailing list - Tyrone Greene
    Mon, 4 Jan 1999 19:39:56 -0500
    ...This usually > accuurs down near the wheels where things on the road could > catch the cable. > > Run away from this dealer! Little or no...
  • Re: Coolant Drain - 2.1 L
    Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
    Tue, 15 Sep 2015 19:11:40 -0400
    ...wrapped in a shop towel to blow the coolant into a catch pan. Could have been messier than it was. > > Stephen > > mobile > >> On Sep...
  • Fuel vs Ignition - WBX 2.1 L
    Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
    Sat, 16 May 2015 08:20:23 -0500
    ...out, but with that tiny goose of the throttle, the cylinder catches and away it goes like there is no tomorrow. I have not...
  • Re: Camping at Disney World
    Historical mailing list - Ted Zateslo
    Wed, 19 Jul 95 17:28:03 -0400
    ...a little ferry to the Magic Kingdom (tm), or you can catch a shuttle bus to Epcot or MGM. The park itself is wooded...
  • Re: Are Vanagons more fire oriented than any other old car?
    Historical mailing list - YauMan Chan
    Thu, 14 Jan 1999 17:19:33 -0800
    ...So, in time, the leak gets worst and worst till it drips into the hot exhaust and catches fire. Yau-Man
  • Exhaust banging on startup:'87 westy
    Historical mailing list - John W. Parkins
    Mon, 18 Sep 2000 12:48:43 -0400
    ...When the engine "catches" the torque causes the engine to rotate in the engine compartment. The exhaust pipe, from the left back cylinder, hits...
  • Re: speeding tickets?
    Historical mailing list - Matthew Pollard
    Wed, 17 Oct 2001 15:26:48 -0700
    ...Of Chemistry So have a cup of coffee and catch your breath" University of Idaho www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356 On Wed, 17 Oct 2001...
  • Re: Neat vanagon expedition accessory
    Historical mailing list - Matthew Pollard
    Mon, 17 Dec 2001 12:33:44 -0800
    ...Of Chemistry So have a cup of coffee and catch your breath" University of Idaho www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356 On Mon, 17 Dec 2001...
  • Re: how to tighten starter wire nut??? Syncro
    Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
    Tue, 4 Dec 2001 12:51:32 -0700
    ...Of Chemistry So have a cup of coffee and catch your breath" > University of Idaho > www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356
  • Re: Accessing the archives through email
    Historical mailing list - Matthew Pollard
    Fri, 15 Feb 2002 09:11:54 -0800
    ...Of Chemistry So have a cup of coffee and catch your breath" University of Idaho www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356 On Fri, 15 Feb 2002...
  • Re: diesel vs gas vanagons
    Historical mailing list - Gnarlodious
    Sat, 13 Mar 2004 14:42:13 -0700
    ...a diesel than on a wasserboxer, for example.) > - Less likely to catch fire if you have a fuel leak. More fun to drive Less...
  • Re: 10 year anniversary
    Historical mailing list - Joseph Fortino
    Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:10:36 -0700
    ...look out * LOL * I'm catching up :) Joe -----Original Message----- From: mark drillock <drillock@EARTHLINK.NET> Sent: Jun 29, 2004 9:03 AM To...
  • Fwd: [tiico] Selling Tiico Westy full camper
    Historical mailing list - Matthew
    Thu, 6 Apr 2006 14:34:03 -0700
    ...Email me for more information. > nosnhojbob@yahoo.com > > > > > "Racing with the wind and flirting with death So have a cup of coffee and catch...
  • Re: help....84 starting problems
    Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
    Fri, 5 May 2006 15:17:43 -0500
    ...It turns over just fine >but just doesnt catch. The only way to get it >started is to roll start it. If I do...
  • Rocket J. Squirrel said
    Historical mailing list - pete
    Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:11:20 -0700
    "Up 14? We come up the 15 from San Diego through Riverside/San Bernardino, up to Victorville and catch the 395 there. It's...
  • Re: Cant accelerate
    Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
    Mon, 8 Oct 2007 07:01:06 -0700
    ...air intake. > > What should I be checking to fix this? > > Ed > > > --------------------------------- > Catch up on fall's hot new shows on Yahoo! TV. Watch previews...
  • Re: More counter-intuition re traction (some token VW content)
    Historical mailing list - chris smith
    Sun, 26 Dec 1999 21:51:43 -0600
    ...But even talented race drivers, who know what to >expect, often don't catch it. And if they do it probably isn't over...