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• Re: Lug wench, steel nuts
  Historical mailing list - Marshall Otter
  Tue, 11 Mar 2003 15:51:11 -0500
  ...The REAL macho dudes who have shiny black studs at their disposal get a 3/4" breaker bar and a 19.09 mm Impact...
• Exhaust leaks and backfiring (was Re: Timing how to.)
  Historical mailing list - Owen
  Tue, 25 Nov 2003 09:44:38 -0600
  ...Since then I have tightened up the other leaks due to stripped studs and the backfiring has disappeared. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hans Vanhethoen" <hvhus...
• Re: Exhaust cylinder studs & threadlock
  Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
  Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:36:23 -0700
  Giasson, Pascal (DNR/MRN) typed: > I got a chuckle out of the toothpaste engine cleaner idea too. My wife > thinks I'm a little...
• Re: Major exhaust woes! (Stud replacement???!!!)
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:31:51 EST
  ...Unfortunately, there is no one prescribed method to remove the studs because you cannot predict exactly what will confront you until you are well...
• Re: Syncros. Positractions, Peloquins, and One Wheel Drives
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( Scott Daniel Foss )
  Tue, 4 Feb 2014 20:04:47 -0800
  ...what happens here in Southern Oregon is some people mount studs in the fall.. and there may only be 5 days of snow the...
• Re: Headstud Horror PROGRESS
  Historical mailing list - Courtney Hook
  Mon, 3 Jan 2000 12:19:42 -0800
  Here is a trick for removing broken studs etc. that sounds amazingly like snake oil but is not. I tried this on my broken...
• Re: Diesel head gasket blown?
  Historical mailing list - Doktor Tim
  Fri, 19 Sep 2003 20:12:00 -0700
  ...At a thousand miles of use, per Bentley and the instructions with the spezial studs, I will retorque them one more time. It also...
• Re: I'm Baaaaaack!
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 14 Mar 2000 13:05:22 EST
  ...a thin spacer up front, use the audi lug bolts up front, and install elongated studs in the rear. then they'll work. chris
• Re: Broken Head Stud
  Historical mailing list - Dave Baker
  Sat, 25 May 2002 19:50:45 -0500
  ...right now. > I just managed to snap one of the head studs on my waterboxer while trying > to torque the cap nuts. Turns out...
• Nokian CS
  Historical mailing list - Robert Freeman
  Thu, 6 Nov 2003 00:07:10 -0800
  ...over half the price, about $85 ea if I recall, including studs. And no tax. That dealer is http://www.gosstire.com/ They had...
• Re: Mercedes rims ET48 - bad idea?
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Fri, 25 Feb 2005 19:57:22 -0800
  ...Once you've factored in the cost of spacers and longers studs or bolts, any savings on the wheels would have evaporated. BenT
• Re: Should I rebuild the bottom end? Questions & photos.
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 7 Sep 2010 00:01:53 -0400
  ...These are almost a torque to yield and leakage at the top of the cylinders means the studs no longer maintained enough tension to...
• Re: Center cap Audi rims
  Historical mailing list - Phil Menchions
  Tue, 20 Nov 2001 17:22:05 -0500
  ...I also assumed the rear ones worked without any spacers or coring at all just longer studs. Someone suggested using generic spacers with oval...
• Re: more choices in custom wheels.
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Thu, 2 Jun 2005 14:57:58 -0700
  ...Depending on your wheel mounting pad thickness, you can even get away w/o changing wheel studs and/or bolts. VW went this route...
• Re: Ford wheels on a Vanagon!
  Historical mailing list - Dan Stevens
  Wed, 9 Aug 2000 11:52:39 -0400
  ok time for humble pie, I tried to slip the patterns over the rear studs on a spare hub assembly. well there are a...
• Re: Friday Thoughts about Turboing a Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Westyman
  Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:19:04 -0800
  ...Jeesh, drag race and aircraft engines hold up don't they? (Type 1-based) With proper balancing, Raceware studs AND rod bolts, o-ringed...
• Re: click style torque wrench
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Wed, 3 Mar 2004 11:27:35 -0500
  ...Did I just make it up? The problem, as I understand it, is those studs are very long and they twist a bit as...
• Re: Mercedes rims...I have a question
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 1 Mar 2005 08:51:37 EST
  ...some > time...have sourced the tires, correct wheel nuts and longer > studs...BUT...where does the ET figure come from...I've looked > everywhere...
• Upgrading 1.9 to 2.1
  Historical mailing list - Bill Knight
  Tue, 23 Feb 1999 15:44:02 -0500
  ...My last engine snag was removing rotted cylinder head studs, this time it was the lower engine mounting studs as I'll explain below...
• Re: Exhausting work.... Advice solicited.
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:53:43 -0700
  ...What I meant was that it's all > hanging from the exhaust port studs; there are no other supports at play. > > On my baywindow...
• Re: warning regarding GoWesty alternator bracket kit
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Thu, 14 Jun 2012 06:57:44 -0700
  ...As for the bracket studs, >> the nuts should match the grade of the stud. >> >> Dennis
• Re: alternator / battery light on question
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:47:02 -0500
  ...I've made the same mistake on >> FLAPS alternators that came with no terminals on the back, just studs >> and nuts. >> >
• Re: Porshe Alloy Wheels on a Vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - Ken Hunter
  Sun, 27 Feb 2000 21:54:45 EST
  ...2" plate to them so he could add the Porsche pattern studs and avoid the adapters. The 61 was a lightweight compared to my...
• Re: FS: SA 15" Alloys w/ Michelins UPDATE
  Historical mailing list - Benjamin Tan
  Sat, 2 Dec 2000 16:42:42 EST
  ...These will need longer studs to install in the rear (and in front for Syncros). He notched the inside of the wheels to clear...
• Re: Wheel Spacers
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Thu, 13 Sep 2001 22:39:15 +1200
  ...Most Mercedes will have smaller-diameter (14mm) studs. You'd need spacers from larger (16mm) Mercedes. Say S-Class. Andrew Grebneff 165 Evans St...
• Re: tool source
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 4 Jan 2002 13:02:41 -0500
  ...This tool is also great foe wheel studs. KD Tools makes one for a reasonable price. Go to http://www.mytoolstore.com/kd/kdspec08...
• Re: Head gasket job getting out of hand (
  Historical mailing list - Robert Donalds
  Mon, 13 May 2002 20:22:06 -0400
  I have seen the WBX broken stud problem once or twice the studs become corroded etched mostly at the base of the stud near...
• alternator bracket mount
  Historical mailing list - Owen
  Mon, 28 Apr 2003 20:56:25 -0500
  ...My question - Should I expect to be able to tap out the broken studs where the bracket attaches to the block? Is this in...
• Re: steel/alloy wheels
  Historical mailing list - Zoran Mladen
  Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:19:37 -0700
  ...I called my local VW dealer this AM, parts guy said he couldn't see where I needed to change the rear studs (same...
• Re: Will the wheel fall off?
  Historical mailing list - bueses
  Mon, 1 May 2006 10:27:08 -0600
  ...turns. > > > BenT In any event, better be safe than sorry, longer studs/lugnuts for the alloys are available at most of the list vendors...
• Need a gasket
  Historical mailing list - Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\" Elliott
  Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:00:17 -0700
  ...The two water pipe gaskets they send are just a couple millimeters too small to slip over the studs on the head. Someone got...
• Re: subject 15" VS. 16' WHEELS
  Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
  Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:17:07 -0800
  ...I think that with some 16" > wheel/tire configurations there may be interference problems that can't be > solved with different spacers/lugs/studs...
• Re: quick and dirty head swap
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 22 May 2013 21:16:58 -0400
  ...The exhaust studs/bolts are really rotten on my engine, I serious doubt I could get new pipes on with engine in car with...
• Re: 16x7" MB CLK Alloys W/ No Drilling from Tire Rack $88/each!!
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Sat, 1 Aug 2009 11:41:37 -0500
  ...Using the wheels with incorrect ball seat can be disastrous! >The rear studs may also be a problem if in fact the wheels are...
• Re: wheels
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Tue, 16 Nov 2010 22:58:07 -0800
  and besides, that will save you having to fit spacers, or longer bolts/studs or boring out the centers of these wheels. many more...
• Lugs Or Nuts (Cont'd)
  Historical mailing list - Stuart Redford
  Wed, 28 Sep 94 17:50:59 PDT
  > > Drums have bolts in em, Disks have studs for Nuts. (the vans also have > > seats for nuts :) ) > > Are you trying to tell me I...
• Re: Drain Plug? What's a Drain Plug?
  Historical mailing list - Michael A. White
  Tue, 2 Jan 1996 09:05:51 MST
  ...I just undo the 6 studs and watch the hot oil run down my arm and splatter all over the place! - Mike White [Mail...
• Re: broken spark plug removal?
  Historical mailing list - Patrick Foltz
  Tue, 21 Jul 1998 13:27:09 EDT
  ...wrench' wouldn't work and used heat carefully to remove broken studs and bolts from heads, blocks, etc. (Again NOT aluminum Read my lips...
• Re: Bar's Leak (Was: My 2 cents on head leaks and rubber studs)
  Historical mailing list - jon
  Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:29:01 -0800
  > The problem with head leaks, according to my own current Vanagon Religious > Belief System (LOL), is prevented by: That would be VR BS. ;) We...
• Re: Wanted: Alloy Wheel Nuts
  Historical mailing list - Wes Neuenschwander
  Sat, 23 May 1998 08:18:11 8
  ...Took about 5 seconds to bust the studs off the drum. -Wes Wes Neuenschwander Seattle, WA wesn@eskimo.com
• Foggitaboutit, was: HEADSTUD HORROR!
  Historical mailing list - Bulley
  Tue, 21 Dec 1999 08:45:11 -0500
  Jim- Don't even THINK about "going without" one of your head studs. Not unless you are a glutton for punishment. You would never...
• Re: Pressure cap problem?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 26 May 2012 11:10:28 -0400
  ...The reality is that if the heads are leaking at the cylinder to head seals it is due to the studs failing. The heads...
• Re: Question about mounting the Westy single mudflap
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Sat, 22 Feb 2014 15:42:39 -0800
  ...I got a really nice one, but > one thing has me puzzled. > > It's obvious that the two studs that hold the upper part...
• Re: Heat Exchangers replaced by VWoA
  Historical mailing list - Gary Mceachern
  Tue, 26 Aug 1997 09:38:40 -0400
  I suspect the guy that is replacing these boxes is applying too much torque > to these small studs that are embedded in aluminum. He...
• Re: exhaust studs
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Wed, 4 Jul 2012 09:19:13 -0700
  Thanks Mike, I have been going slow, with breaks and cutting oil. The cobalt drill is keeping it's edge, I'm resolved to...
• Re: Will the wheel fall off?
  Historical mailing list - Dave Vickery
  Mon, 1 May 2006 15:01:10 +0000
  ...Mon, 1 May 2006 09:59:48 -0400 > > On a bus with OEM alloys; are the rear studs longer than a bus that had...
• How to not install Toureg alloy wheels on a Vanagon and why I am not driving a Syncro Doka to SdM
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Sat, 6 May 2006 01:15:36 -0700
  ...I gave the adapter's to Bruce's machinist Lorenzo after we pop all the studs. It would not fit in his lathe otherwise...
• Re: Stripped thread, oh no
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Wed, 8 Dec 1999 15:53:04 -0800
  ...It is easy to strip those studs, happens all the time when you don't use a torque wrench. I have to give you...
• Need good exhaust manifold, '82 Vanagon Diesel
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Sat, 5 Oct 2002 13:06:06 -0400
  ...It's all been hacked up pretty bad, someone welded on the pipe and reused the old manifold-to-pipe studs and bolts. It...
• Re: My 2 cents on head leaks and rubber studs
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Thu, 15 Feb 2007 06:54:40 EST
  In a message dated 14/02/2007 3:07:14 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM writes: Among mechanics, it's...
• Lower Engine Stud Needed
  Historical mailing list - Paul
  Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:58:35 -0700
  Hi All, I'm ready to install my rebuilt transmission, thanks to Daryl, but I'm missing one of the lower engine studs. I...
• Re: Tin Trivia
  Historical mailing list - Chuck Mathis
  Sun, 6 Jul 2008 09:08:11 -0500
  ...Tin Trivia > > Who has a spare set? Mine are in good condition except for the ears > that > attach them to the exhaust studs on...
• Re: New exhaust install
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Tue, 8 Apr 2003 05:57:01 EDT
  ...You do need to make sure the bolts and studs on the motor holding header pipes to the heads are in good to excellent...
• Re: Syncro question... vibration!-Fuel gauge sensor leaking.
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 14 May 2005 09:03:04 -0400
  ...The studs are attached to two half moon plates. Push the remaining stud into the tank, reach in and grab the plate. Then you...
• Re: Best method for remove seized exhaust nuts?
  Historical mailing list - craig cowan
  Mon, 8 Feb 2010 22:23:28 -0500
  ...It it held on > to the manifold with three 13mm nuts, these nuts go on to studs which go > into the manifold. I really...
• Re: What lugs do Carat Alloys need?
  Historical mailing list - Harold Teer
  Sun, 6 Jan 2013 14:38:20 -0500
  ...http://www.t3technique.com/lug-nuts-studs-and-bolts/carat-lug-kit.html Harold -- Harold Teer 1991 Westy Harrisonburg, VA
• Re: Putting on tires: three hands
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:24:59 -0500
  ...Other vehicles I've owned used studs and nuts, though. > > > > Why? I don't think the engineers were just dumb, but I don't...
• Re: Forget the Drums, How do you get the Lug nuts OFF!
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 17 Dec 1996 18:00:21 +0000
  ...The bolts came the studs did not shear. I was trying to get at the front calipers and wheels, both of which ended up...
• Re: Lugnut worries continue
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Tue, 25 Jan 2000 07:46:45 -0600
  ...lly won't get it off with out grinding it off. Studs are easily replaceble. John Rodgers "88GL Driver Chris Gkikas wrote: > Well, I...
• Re: Rough Cost of Engine Rebuild??
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Wed, 10 Jan 2001 08:14:09 -0800
  ...bearings, and all parts that need machining machined and all rusty studs replaced. Somewhat less if you use rebuilt heads, but that doesn't...