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• re: '90 distributor cap
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright, SMUS Network Analyst
  Mon, 11 Mar 1996 13:01:52 PDT
  ...my Dad's 16V Jetta has the shielded cap with ground strap - the dealer sold him a plain Bosch cap & said to swap the...
• Re: Loss of power - super hot muffler
  Historical mailing list - Eric Unrau
  Wed, 11 Dec 2002 09:00:23 -0800
  ...My O2 sensor has 3 wires (two white, one black) covered by a black shield, so I can�t figure out where the bright...
• Solved! Re: Rich Running....Vanagon Syndrome? HELP!
  Historical mailing list - Richard Golen
  Wed, 6 Jan 2016 23:11:14 +0000
  ...It was a ground fault on the shielding on the O2 wire. It was a self inflicted problem. The new O2 sensor had a...
• Re: O2 Wire splicing
  Historical mailing list - Steve Sandlin
  Thu, 29 Nov 2001 18:32:42 -0600
  ...is a coaxial cable.  Radio shack has some single conductor shielded microphone cable that works just fine.  Disconnect your battery ground, and...
• Rain shields
  Historical mailing list - PB
  Sat, 7 Feb 2009 19:02:14 -0800
  My Westy came with rain shields. (not sure what they're called, but they're plastic inserts you fit into the driver and passenger...
• Re: Towing and Rock Damage
  Historical mailing list - KIM BRENNAN
  Tue, 20 Feb 2018 21:07:10 -0500
  ...Seven hours of friction from undetected flapping cloth can do a > lot of damage. > > I am also uncomfortable with building a shielding structure. First...
• Re: How to remove pushrod tube shield??
  Historical mailing list - Bill Davidson
  Mon, 28 Aug 2000 07:47:05 -0700
  , it appears that one must > remove the pushrod tube shield. However, upon inspection, it appears that > two of the four bolts involved in removing...
• Re: brake and clutch fluid reservoirs
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Sun, 16 Nov 2014 11:16:20 -0600
  ---- mark drillock <mdrillock@COX.NET> wrote: > When the vans came from the factory they had a clear plastic shield over > the dash cluster. The...
• Re: Stock 2.1 in NC
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sun, 14 Apr 2013 12:18:00 -0700
  Hi Steve, no heat shield associated with cat. It just hangs out in the breeze, though some aftermarket cats have a heat shield built...
• Re: Wire gauge for the shielded wire for the O2 signal?
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott )
  Fri, 19 Sep 2014 11:03:17 -1000
  ...I have read that a coax shield should only be grounded at one end, fwiw. On 9/19/2014 10:26 AM, Neil N...
• Re: Here we don't go Again!!!
  Historical mailing list - drc11
  Mon, 31 May 1999 12:16:18 -0700
  ...Our mechanic finally installed a wiring shield ($60) in the computer somewhere and it stopped the problem. AT that time (couple of years ago...
• Re: Towing and Rock Damage
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Tue, 20 Feb 2018 14:48:26 -0700
  ...Seven hours of friction from undetected flapping cloth can do a > lot of damage. > > I am also uncomfortable with building a shielding structure. First...
• Re: Arduino and Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Brett Ne
  Tue, 3 Dec 2013 19:03:30 -0800
  > ; you'd think they'd need a shielded wire, especially being so close to > the high tension ignition wires. > > Brett > > > Sometimes, even as slow...
• Re: Wire gauge for the shielded wire for the O2 signal?
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sat, 20 Sep 2014 07:45:30 -0700
  ...Wire gauge for the shielded wire for the O2 signal? > > Mobile CB coaxial wire? Image: > > http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73...
• Re: Spade terminal on Distributor?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:39:37 -0700
  ...a metal shield that fits down over the distributor cap .. it's about suppressing radio interference I believe. those were grounded to that small...
• Re: Stuck heat shields - summary of potential solutions
  Historical mailing list - Gnarlodious
  Thu, 11 Oct 2001 15:36:18 -0600
  Entity Milo spoke thus: > So, you're heat shields are fried in there and you can't get them out. > I strongly advise against...
• Re: 2.1 WBX Warm Start Troubles
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sat, 19 Nov 2016 20:39:46 -0500
  ...Yes, the place it shorts is under the connector boot where the shield is cut back to expose the inner wire. The sudden change...
• Window rain shields?
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Fri, 27 Jun 2014 08:46:55 -0700
  Does anyone make those plastic rain shields for the door windows for Vanagons? They're attached to the top of the windows and allow...
• Re: noob already in trouble
  Historical mailing list - Tabe Johnson
  Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:30:04 -0500
  ...the wire to the ECU is shielded and the shielding can poke through the signal wire and short it. Plug a digital voltmeter into...
• Re: O2/ECU coaxial cable
  Historical mailing list - Steve Sandlin
  Thu, 8 Mar 2001 09:22:00 -0600
  ...I have replaced several of them, and used shielded microphone cable successfully. At the end where you strip the shield away, be sure to...
• WTB: Cooling Tin/Heat Shield 82 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Strickrott
  Sun, 25 Aug 2002 23:50:28 -0400
  ...Also on the lookout for a good condition heat shield, part number 070-119-227A. Anyone have some lying around or know where I...
• Re: Oil Pressure Switch R&R
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:36:29 -0400
  ...The heat shields are different so some modification of >that ' 84's heat shield will be necessary. > >Cheers, > >Frank Condelli >Almonte, Ontario, Canada >'87...
• Re: Wire gauge for the shielded wire for the O2 signal?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 20 Sep 2014 09:23:32 -0400
  ...Wire gauge for the shielded wire for the O2 signal? Mobile CB coaxial wire? Image: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73...
• Re: Multi Conductor Shielded Automotive Wire Temperature Rating
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Wed, 10 Jan 2018 14:37:36 -0800
  ...It >> shows the type of shielding foil and what might've been corrosion? >> > > Ugh. That's nasty. > > I hate foil shields in general. > > Yrs...
• Re: Towing and Rock Damage U-Haul 5 X 9 with golf cart
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 20 Feb 2018 15:45:27 -0500
  > > I am also uncomfortable with building a shielding structure. First, I > am out of time. I leave on Friday. Second, unless carefully > designed, the...
• Re: Oil Pressure Switch R&R
  Historical mailing list - Jerry Baker
  Fri, 20 Apr 2007 22:59:01 -0500
  ...The heat shields are different so some modification of > that ' 84's heat shield will be necessary. > > Cheers, > > Frank Condelli > Almonte, Ontario, Canada > '87...
• Re: Syncronicity Achieved! (LONG)
  Historical mailing list - Trace Choulat
  Mon, 9 Oct 1995 19:42:46 -0400
  ...One of the brackets holding the shield in > place is broken. Non-Syncros do NOT have this shield. > Yes, the '86 GL I had...
• Re: Oxygen sensor
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 23 Mar 2005 21:10:58 -0500
  The shield simply clips on. Remove it carefully as it is like a $30 part. Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon...
• Re: O2 sensor in gutted cat question
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:46:59 -0400
  ...My favorite part of this stupid shield design is that shield is stainless but the clip and rivet is not. Dennis -----Original Message----- From...
• Re: oxygen sensor input wire
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:15:09 -0400
  ...The ordinary place for it to short is at the end, where a bit of the shielding might accidentally touch the center lead especially...
• Protect PTFE AN8 hose from heat
  Historical mailing list - Christophe Guilbert
  Mon, 5 Jun 2017 22:54:30 -0700
  ...I am using a PTFE braid AN8 hose line and was wondering about a way to better shield the hose from the hight exhaust...
• Re: Loss of power - super hot muffler & Missing Conductor.
  Historical mailing list - Mike Finkbiner
  Thu, 12 Dec 2002 15:50:19 +0000
  ...The green shielded cable comes from the ECU to that point. So, on mine it's shielded from the ECU to the connector, but...
• Re: Oxygen Sensor Ground
  Historical mailing list - Geza Polony
  Sun, 26 Mar 2006 16:18:57 -0500
  What are these shields that they cost upwards of $110? Anybody have a pic so we could see how to make one? Stands to...
• Re: Electrical/starter problem??
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 20 Aug 1998 11:49:51 EDT
  ...Sometimes they corrode inside the shielding. I guess the only way to check on this is to cut some of the shielding back and...
• Re: Towing and Rock Damage
  Historical mailing list - Roy Nicholl
  Tue, 20 Feb 2018 13:14:39 -0400
  ...Seven hours of friction from undetected flapping cloth can do a > lot of damage. > > I am also uncomfortable with building a shielding structure. First...
• Re: Ignition wiring plug shield Removal
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:31:41 -0500
  ...They are sticky! > >On 9/27/06, John Rodgers <inua@charter.net> wrote: >> >>Anyone know of any tricks to get the metal shields off...
• Re: Coolant bottle is out of whack!
  Historical mailing list - TJ Hemrick
  Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:36:08 -0400
  ...I hoped securing the heat shield would position it better but >> I >> had to fight (and lost) to get the coolant bottle intalled. I...
• Re: Towing and Rock Damage U-Haul 5 X 9 with golf cart
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 20 Feb 2018 19:01:26 +0000
  ...I don't know about what a "big rock guard" is, but I have seen various cloth shields used by RV drivers to shield...
• Re: Get Your Sad Faces Ready: 50 Studebakers Destroyed In Fire - Vanagon Content
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Fri, 8 Feb 2013 12:11:01 -0800
  ...AFAIK, the WBX cat doesn't have a shield. Is a cat shield mainly there to help protect the cat from igniting things like...
• Re: Air Deflectors
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Mon, 17 Jul 2000 21:58:06 +1300
  Down Under they're called monsoon shields. Andrew
• Request description of Westy drain-pan attachement method, maybe parts
  Historical mailing list - Marshall
  Mon, 8 Apr 2002 00:23:23 -0500
  ...shield is somehow different - and provides a place for the hinge. (The drain-pan cannot be installed with the Canadian Spec (CS) heat-shield...
• O2 sensor-testing the wires
  Historical mailing list - Steve Sandlin
  Tue, 3 Apr 2007 22:13:11 -0500
  ...The wire does not ground at both ends, as it is an unbalanced shielded cable. If it were to ground at both ends, ground...
• Re: O2 Sensor Shield
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Martin
  Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:01:04 -0700
  ...O2 Sensor Shield Thanks for all the feedback 'n suggestions. Found out BD has them.I took Denis' suggestion and built one from a...
• Re: 1.9 L engine 10mpg
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:40:45 EST
  ...If the shielding contacts the inner conductor, it will drop the OXS voltage to ground and the engine will run richer than hell. George
• Re: WTB Heat shield for stove lid
  Historical mailing list - Christopher Gronski
  Sun, 24 Apr 2005 12:32:31 -0400
  ...collum@verizon.net> wrote: > Someone in the past thought my heat shield/dish drainer was a fold down > grill and cooked on it. It...
• another exhaust manifold question
  Historical mailing list - Matt Goike
  Wed, 19 Jul 1995 09:53:47 -0400
  ...the question i have now is about the heat shield (i don't know if that's what it's actually called, but its...
• Re: Another question about O2 sensors..
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Wed, 30 Jul 2014 14:07:17 -0700
  ...That is because the grounding of the shield is only to let the shield absorb stray electronic noise that otherwise could be picked up...
• Re: Wire gauge for the shielded wire for the O2 signal?
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Fri, 19 Sep 2014 13:26:47 -0700
  ...http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/RG-59.jpg/400px-RG-59.jpg Does the shield on your current O2 wire...
• Re: WTB Heat shield for stove lid
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Sun, 24 Apr 2005 15:48:35 -0400
  ...cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=7969046049&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT >> > > canadian westys didnt even have these heat shields... > > chris >
• Re: O2/ECU coaxial cable
  Historical mailing list - Joe Romas
  Fri, 9 Mar 2001 15:59:45 -0500
  ...I have replaced several of them, and > used shielded microphone cable successfully. At the end where you strip the > shield away, be sure to...
• Re: cylinder head drain plug
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Tue, 13 Dec 2005 12:33:33 -0500
  ...after you remove the shield beneath the tubes. Some have cut a hole in the shield, once it's removed, so that removal isn...
• Re: Oxygen Sensor Ground
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 25 Mar 2006 21:39:00 -0500
  The correct shield is part 035-906-274. It clips onto a Bosch sensor. Yes, you can fab something for less that may even...
• Re: Headlight improvements IMHO
  Historical mailing list - Bill Davidson
  Wed, 1 Nov 2000 17:35:09 -0800
  > There is also a shield inside the low/high beam light. It partialy > blocks the light from the bulb hitting the reflector. I carefully...
• Re: westy help please
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Sat, 22 Mar 2003 23:53:30 -0500
  ...When I got my '85, someone had tried to use the heat shield/dish drainer as a grill (usually the other side of the...
• Re: Loss of power - super hot muffler
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Wed, 11 Dec 2002 13:01:53 EST
  ...As I said before, the SHIELDING on this signal level conductor can wear through the insulation of the inner conductor at the terminus of...
• Re: another spade terminal question - syncro temp gauge sender
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sun, 10 Feb 2013 10:59:15 -0800
  ...Kopr-Shield is wonderful stuff, but it's very friendly, loves to get on other things. The smallest amount you can get will be...
• Re: Metal can around distributor cap...do you need it?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 5 Apr 2012 21:21:36 -0400
  ...The shield is a conductive plastic. The shield can also be removed and reused at cap replacement time. This cap uses male posts instead...
• Re: WTB Heat shield for stove lid
  Historical mailing list - Robert Cardo
  Sun, 24 Apr 2005 15:17:41 -0500
  ...Up it is a shield down it is a griddle. I can check tomorrow. I may actually still have a cooktop cover in the...
• Re: Oxygen Sensor Ground
  Historical mailing list - Evan Mac Donald
  Sun, 26 Mar 2006 19:14:11 -0800
  ...The new sensor has a round shield that was made from a piece of 2 1/4" diameter mild steel tube left over from...
• Re: Carver P4 - Tech. support notes
  Historical mailing list - Gary Meyer
  Wed, 22 Jul 1998 17:28:55 -0700
  ...In the case of the exhaust shield, that's to > keep the shield from melting anything (assuming the material > it's passing through might...