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• Re: '87 fuel odor
  Historical mailing list - Joy Hecht
  Wed, 4 May 2005 21:20:32 -0400
  ...In the short run, until you fix it, don't fill the tank - then it won't smell. Joy **************************************************************** Joy Hecht and Matilda, 1989...
• Re: Hydrogen power for the Vanagon Now!
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:05:15 -0700
  ...some money for "free energy" - smells like the Myth Busters are needed for this one... David Marshall VW Adventure Driver and BMW Adventure Rider...
• Re: Fluid Filming the underbody of van
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sat, 13 Oct 2012 05:38:47 -0700
  ...More than 1/2 a can to > seams behind kitchen. > > Smell still there, but less so. Heat makes smell stronger. Stuff > sticks good. "Ug...
• Re: $12,000 VW purchased for $14.00! <truth- URL)
  Historical mailing list - Jim Ellis
  Fri, 9 Aug 2002 15:06:21 -0700
  ...seat that smells like sweat combined with old frenchfries with a hint of poopie diapers and cookie crumbs. That $14. VW is bound to...
• 72 Bus project -- lotsa questions
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Gentry
  Thu, 22 Jun 1995 12:06:44 -0700
  ...So I am considering upgrading the pair by purchasing a new tranny and engine from one of the engine builders who advertises in VW...
• Re: cooking in the van....
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Wed, 1 Dec 1999 11:52:42 -0700
  ...cooking in the van.... > Why not pick up a cheap propane or white gas stove and do your smelly cooking > outside? > > -Karl > > > i'm...
• Re: vanagon syndrome plus poor gass economy
  Historical mailing list - Jim Lieb
  Tue, 4 Aug 2009 08:29:33 -0400
  Ellen, If you can smell gas, check all your fuel lines asap. These vans are known for fuel line leakage and the resulting engine...
• Re: Don't waste your money. Fuel Line's - Filters etc to prevent leaks?
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Thu, 18 Dec 2003 16:25:53 -0500
  On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, The Bus Depot wrote: > Absolutely! Some years ago the genuine VW high pressure fuel hose in my > fuel-injected...
• Re: Fuel leaks/smell
  Historical mailing list - Pabst Michael
  Thu, 9 Mar 2000 10:24:49 +0100
  VW changed the filler pipe around 88 by adding a ball valve at the end going into the tank. That thing eliminates fuel spilling...
• Re: Trouble comes in threes
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sat, 1 Jan 2000 11:36:22 -0600
  ...John Rodgers "88GL Driver in Birmingham, AL May all your Millenium VW Motoring be without incident David Clark wrote: > All > We had our first...
• Re: Martha's Stroy about Gas Smells
  Historical mailing list - Maher, Steve (SD-MS)
  Fri, 12 Apr 1996 15:31:00 -0700 (PDT)
  In my experience, most VW fires are caused either by the feed tube popping out of the carb float bowl as /martha describes; or...
• Gas Smell When Tank Full
  Historical mailing list - Glen Buhlmann
  Tue, 12 Mar 1996 13:27:53 -0800
  OK, when Lief's tank is full and I do a hard left, I get a gas smell inside. I brought it to the...
• 86 Syncro Westie for sale - aaargh!
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Sun, 25 Apr 1999 10:04:58 -0700
  I should not have visited the VW dealer yesterday - there on the lot was a 1986 Syncro Westfalia - 270,000km, brown in colour with...
• Re: Fwd: Re: gas odor in engine compartment
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:28:13 -0600
  ...88'GL VW Bus Driver >>> Chelsea, AL >>> Http://www.moldhaus.com >>> >>> >>> On 11/13/2011 1:16 PM, Mike Riley wrote: >>>> smell gas in...
• Help! stinky exhaust
  Historical mailing list - feick
  Tue, 27 Apr 1999 15:51:44 -0400
  My 85 Vanagon is running rich--the exhause smells about usual but is much stronger than normal. While stopped at red lights, the fumes...
• Fwd: 87 Vanagon- Antifreeze smell
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 24 Oct 1996 00:46:25 -0400
  ...for parts. --------------------- Forwarded message: >From: vwelker@ball.com (Vic Welker) Sender: vanagon@lenti.med.umn.edu Reply-to: vwelker@ball.com To: vanagon@lenti...
• Re: meaning of the word Passat; Jetta...
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 27 Jan 2001 02:08:32 EST
  ...check > > > > underwear (LOL)... > > > > Quantum = Bad smelling wind > > > The German word for "cruise" is "fahrt".� This may explain VW's apparent > obsession with wind... > > [text...
• Re: ***SPAM*** vanagon Digest - 18 Aug 2005 to 19 Aug 2005 - Special issue (#2005-673)
  Historical mailing list - Karl Mullendore
  Fri, 19 Aug 2005 19:42:46 -0700
  ...us poor VW Van Lovers in peace with our Smell the Roses rides :) about what some wacko wrote: > Some folks have smelled the roses...
• Re: running rich is making me poo
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Tue, 24 Jun 2003 18:55:13 -0400
  > Blue smelly smoke and after a slight warm up it floods itself and > dies. Blue smoke indicates oil burning. Say your prayers and check...
• dealer woes redux
  Historical mailing list - jim catterson
  Mon, 8 Dec 1997 13:05:19 -0800
  ...as both of my vw's are still under warranty (!) i have had a lot of recent contact w/ the local dealer. syncro went...
• Re: '88 Power Steering - ATF Dexron ??
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 3 Apr 1996 18:13:26 -0500
  ...Kendall and some other manufacturers still market the GL-4 oil for VWs.
• Subject: Re: Grease Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - geofflaw
  Fri, 15 Dec 2000 05:08:43 -0800
  Yes, also some guy around here has reportedly been running his diesel van (Not a VW) on used oil from a couple of fish...
• Antifreeze smell with heat
  Historical mailing list - Steve Johnson
  Thu, 19 Jan 1995 12:01:57 -0800 (PST)
  ...says: > I looked at an '87 Vanagon last night (I'm still a wannabus) and smelled that > sweet smell when I turned the heat...
• Re: Bug not starting
  Historical mailing list - Bill Collins
  Tue, 15 Apr 2003 12:57:47 -0400
  If it smells like gas, its probably gas coming out the tail pipe that didn't get burned. Either the fuel mixture is so...
• Re: Dying when warm and smells funky
  Historical mailing list - Mike Bucchino
  Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:11:45 -0400
  ...every aircooled vw i'v ever owned you just get used to the funky >> oil >> smell when your run the heat... only way out...
• Re: Horsehair in Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:32:32 -0700
  ...equipped with the black rubber flooring--- yet it still has that VW smell. did they use it in the headliner insulation maybe? How about...
• Re: Getting rid of tailgaters/ f
  Historical mailing list - EMZ
  Fri, 31 Dec 1999 12:00:29 -0500
  ...Eric 86-VW4x4 vw4x4@fyi.net 72-240z Pittsburgh, PA USA 1936-Chrysler On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Donald Baxter wrote: > I used to...
• Wire Leaked it's smoke
  Historical mailing list - Boroko
  Wed, 20 Jun 2001 01:59:46 -0700
  ...smell persisted. Within a few hundred yards, the '87 bucked a few times and died. I hooked up my Digitool (www.loam.org/vw...
• Re: tracking down gas smell tips needed
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Fri, 12 Aug 2016 18:01:52 -0400
  ...This is the second time I left my van in the hands of a VW sort of local mechanic and got it back with...
• Anyone in the Chapel Hill are? (was RE: Help! Problems on the road! Smoke! or something that smells like it, a...)
  Historical mailing list - Joy Hecht
  Mon, 22 Mar 2004 21:44:23 -0500
  ...Help! Problems on the road! Smoke! or something that smells like it, a... I agree it sounds electrical. After checking the headlight switch and...
• Re: Hydrogen power for the Vanagon Now!
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:18:12 -0500
  ...some money > for "free energy" - smells like the Myth Busters are needed for this > one... > > David Marshall > VW Adventure Driver and BMW Adventure Rider...
• Re: Help! Problems on the road! Smoke! or something that smells like it, anyhow...
  Historical mailing list - Tim Demarest
  Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:28:27 -0500
  ...The last 15 miles or so my >van started to get a nasty smell that reminds me of pipe smoke, acrid pipe >smoke. (My...
• Re: User friendly fuels (was you fixed it..)
  Historical mailing list - Donald Baxter / Iowa City, Iowa
  Wed, 17 Mar 2004 13:31:11 -0600
  ...The fuel is ubiquitous and although i think VW has done an admirable job isolating the cabin from the smell in the newer cars...
• Re: I'll change my oil tomorrow
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Tue, 26 Apr 2011 21:28:47 -0500
  ...there is some smelly, greasy old dinosaur lard mixed in there too! :-) John John Rodgers Clayartist and Moldmaker 88'GL VW Bus Driver Chelsea...
• Gasoline smell
  Historical mailing list - David M
  Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:15:01 -0700
  ...the parts so they don't have to get them from VW. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Shape Yahoo! in your own image. Join our Network Research Panel today...
• Re: Wood burning bus
  Historical mailing list - Bulley
  Sun, 28 Mar 1999 14:51:23 -0500
  You wrote: <snip> I smelled wood smoke. <snip> we came up behind a vanagon, <snip> There was a pipe exhausting from the driver's...
• Re: vanagon Digest - 27 Feb 2004 - Special issue (#2004-163)
  Historical mailing list - Steven Dodson
  Fri, 27 Feb 2004 14:17:59 -0800
  Loren, Are we talking about the NOS one-piece rubber mats from VW? I bought a NOS OP mat from Bus Depot last spring...
• VW Transporter poem.
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 28 Oct 1994 17:02:50 -0700
  ...glimmering in the hard white lights, air conditioned show room air, smell of glue and vinyl inside, seats firm, I sit high, as it...
• Re: bus stuff
  Historical mailing list - William A. McKinley
  16 Apr 96 19:34:22 EDT
  ...Nordhoff, 1948, rebuilding the VW after the war. >When I have a full tank of gas, I can smell the gas inside the car.
• Re: Bug not starting
  Historical mailing list - shawn luft
  Tue, 15 Apr 2003 06:56:34 -0400
  ...Which one is it? I'm thinking if it smells like gas it's probably this. Try clicking in some gas by hand via...
• Re: CIP1 springs
  Historical mailing list - Roger Van Till
  Mon, 23 Apr 2007 05:38:11 -0400
  ...knology.net/~vw/Beetle.jpg > > 1-888-VW-PARTS <- Recommended Expert Vanagon Part Source > > --------------------------------- > Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? > Check outnew cars...
• a Memorial Day e-brake memory problem
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Lubin
  Mon, 25 May 2009 17:08:36 -0400
  ...a) I started to smell that horrible burning plastic/rubber smell and b) The brake pedal went almost all the way to the floor...
• Re: Mice/Ferrets (WARNING!)
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 13 Sep 1995 15:49:52 -0700
  ...even traces of ferret smell. > >I bet Bill Killian doesn't have mice or rats in any of his VW's >(since he uses...
• Re: Vanagon Christmas Ornament
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Fri, 1 Jan 2010 13:19:47 -0800
  ...Was one leaking coolant? Neil. -- Neil Nicholson '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco" http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/ http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw...
• Re: FS 85 vw camper 6-cyl diesel 5-spee
  Historical mailing list - Ari Ollikainen
  Wed, 09 Jul 1997 08:49:05 -0700
  ...the '82 Volvo DIESEL I owned had a 6cyl VW/Audi diesel... they were totally gutless, noisy and smelly (~78 HP) but very fuel...
• Re: 87 Westfalia automatic transmission problem
  Historical mailing list - Jeff klender
  Thu, 14 Sep 2000 01:45:27 -0400
  ...You can be checking the fluid level in the automatic half and it could look and smell OK. But the final drive half could...
• Gas tank replace question
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Fri, 2 Feb 2024 22:04:43 -0500
  Hi folks, So, my 84 smells like gas. I had the plan of doing a fuel tank reseal this winter. So here are the...
• Re: Maple Syrup?
  Historical mailing list - Tony Demille
  Tue, 10 Oct 2000 11:06:32 -0600
  ...t Tony DeMille Creative Director/VW lover Candesa Interactive 251 River Park Dr. Provo, Utah 84604 > ---------- > From: Todd Last > Reply To: Todd Last > Sent...
• Re: It's not moving...UGH!!!
  Historical mailing list - Boroko
  Wed, 20 Jun 2001 02:11:25 -0700
  ...I'm not a auto(tranny) expert, but smell the dipstick and try and determine if it smells burnt. If so, have a COMPETANT...
• Re: How hard can you push a Westy?/Smells Like Dead Fish on the Beach
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Fri, 11 Apr 2003 03:12:14 EDT
  In a message dated 4/10/03 6:07:22 PM, fish@salzburg.co.at writes: << You all really think that the German VW...
• (non-VW) Smoky Diesels
  Historical mailing list - Michael A. Radtke
  Mon, 7 Jul 1997 14:33:59 -0700
  ...Sometimes the smell of diesel exhaust and 2 cycle oil from the mopeds and Vespas became nauseating in Spain. In Portugal, it was mostly...
• Re: Vanagon on Steroids
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Fri, 7 Dec 2007 18:27:15 -0800
  Looks like it's a truck, smells like a Truck, must be a Truck. -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon...
• <No subject>
  Historical mailing list - paula
  Thu, 16 Nov 95 13:33:09 PST
  ...The back heater works better than the front but it fogs up the windows and smells bad. The front heater will smell some times...
• Re: Gas in oil
  Historical mailing list - Bob McMain
  Fri, 25 May 2001 08:40:09 -0700
  ...Pull the dipstick oil level is overfull. >Smell dipstick smells like gas! Limp to Jiffy lube. Replace 5 quarts of new >Mobil one with...
• Re: Your GoWesty Engine...how do you like it?
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:30:58 -0400
  You know, that applies for ANY VW camper purchase and ongoing maintenance and repair costs. It ain't cheap. Dave Mc On Tue, Oct...
• Re: Antifreeze smell when you turn on Heater?
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Fri, 2 May 2008 06:40:55 EDT
  ...I'm having the same issue (antifreeze smell) in my 1991 GL. I'm also experiencing the dreaded "flashing red coolant light" because Air...
• Back home with new tranny
  Historical mailing list - Karl F. Bloss
  Mon, 23 Aug 1999 09:28:05 -0400
  ...smell out of Bev... -Karl Karl and Kristina Bloss, Trexlertown, PA '87 GL Weekender "Beverley" Mechanic list: http://www.enter.net/~bloss/vw/vwshops...
• Re: All right, which of you Roberts . . .
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Fri, 2 Apr 2010 16:58:04 -0700
  ...smell better at ALL. Neil. -- Neil Nicholson '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco" http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/ http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw...
• Re: How hard can you push a Westy?/Smells Like Dead Fish on the B each
  Historical mailing list - Morrison, Peter
  Fri, 11 Apr 2003 08:56:38 +0100
  ...How hard can you push a Westy?/Smells Like Dead Fish on the Beach In a message dated 4/10/03 6:07:22...
• Re: antifreeze leak?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:13:58 -0700
  ...smell the exhaust ...see if it smells like coolant. I hope you have changed that blue VW coolant about 5 times .. well, if it...