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• Re: Test plug on the alternator - 88 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Mark Rokus
  Mon, 21 Jul 1997 17:24:56 -0500
  ...for? When you pear > inside > the plug, there is a male fitting with 3 small pins. I asked the VW > service advisor about it...
• Re: Gas tank fittings
  Historical mailing list - steve bergin
  Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:47:40 -0500
  Put me on the list also my 1985 has started to smell of gas when filled. Thank You Steve Bergin Tyrone & Marilyn Greene wrote...
• Re: installing a LP tank on a van for use w/ a portable stove or ...
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 6 Oct 2002 10:07:23 -0400
  ...anyone done this >before? >chris The tank service valve has a female POL fitting -- you can get from there to anything you need. Check...
• Re: Yesterday's Engine Fire in Rockefeller Center NYC
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Sat, 20 Dec 2003 00:06:58 +1300
  ...with ONE-PIECE high-pressure line (delete the fracture-prone plastic fitting in the line where it passes into the engine compartment). A Subaru...
• Re: AC refurb
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Thu, 12 May 2011 06:04:22 -0700
  ...to his Westy, including having new hoses mated to the existing fittings for just a couple of hundred bucks. Looks doable for mere mortals...
• Re: Custom Oil/Tranny Coolers for automatic vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Tue, 12 May 2009 07:09:32 -0700
  ...BAT has available metric to AN fitting/adaptors to fit German car oil drain fittings..What I did, to avoid having to deal with...
• Re: lost brake line...
  Historical mailing list - robert feller
  Mon, 24 Dec 2007 23:01:41 -0500
  ...lost brake line... > > > > > > > > Gang, > > > > Just to answer my curious mind, you guys mention a "no no" for > > compression fittings. I found this site on...
• Re: Propane fridges: '76-'79
  Historical mailing list - Morris H. Arthur
  Fri, 21 Jul 1995 10:25:32 -0400 (EDT)
  ...I intalled a T-fitting and another propane hose under the Bus and into fitting mounted on the back of the tire well (similar...
• Re: replacing brake lines
  Historical mailing list - Ken Wilford
  Mon, 3 Aug 2009 15:13:34 -0400
  ...They have all different lengths with the fittings and ends premade. Measure your lines and buy lines that are a little longer. You can...
• Them little shelf bumpies
  Historical mailing list - Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\" Elliott
  Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:04:55 -0700
  ...Get a sprinkler riser or any other bit of irrigation fitting that has a 3/4'' hose barb on it. Get some epoxy. Remove...
• Re: Need fuel expansion tank valve
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 29 Jun 2012 21:17:49 -0400
  ...This was repairing a fuel tank vent fitting on Scamp. However it still retained the bond and as the repair required very little mechanical...
• Re: Camper side windows
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:08:45 -0700
  ...Makes fitting westy bug screens "difficult". Westy windows have latch roughly about the middle of the sliding glass. Also, sliding door window size changed...
• I-4 coolant leak from block?
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
  Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:52:48 -0700
  ...find is dampness/steam on the bellhousing area - all the hoses/fittings appear dry. Yes... it's back on the road, and no, I...
• grease in lp regulator
  Historical mailing list - Alan Felder
  Sat, 4 Jul 2009 19:01:17 -0500
  ...Taking things apart I found some thin but very dark (black) grease in the bottom of the regulator and inside the 3-way fitting...
• Old / new steering boxes
  Historical mailing list - Dave Kautz
  Tue, 9 May 95 17:29:38 PDT
  ...IMHO, the later ones really are better - don't know about retro- fitting though. Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WHUZZAT? I dug a steering box out of a...
• Re: Speedo Cable Fitting
  Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
  Fri, 14 Jul 1995 14:47:45 -0700 (PDT)
  Bradley writes: > > On 14 Jul 1995, Wagner Michael wrote: > > > Ugly?! UGLY?!?! I think my loaf is *beautiful*!!! > > I meant _MY_ bus is ugly. It...
• O2 sensor splicing (was Re: Water-cooled VW parts?)
  Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
  Mon, 13 Jul 1998 08:26:29 -0700
  At 09:41 AM 7/13/98 -0700, Ray Hunnam wrote: >Just as an aside I keep reading of problems being experienced when fitting...
• Kids cots
  Historical mailing list - scott jones
  Fri, 21 May 1999 17:00:57 PDT
  ...Has anyone tried fitting one for a vanagon westy? i have an 82 diesel westy and I would like to rig up a similar...
• Re: No Subject
  Historical mailing list - Rico Sapolich
  Wed, 17 Oct 2001 03:03:38 EDT
  ...behind the counter brings me out a handful of 10mm bango fitting washers. I guess that is another reason not to buy parts from...
• Re: 84 vs. 85 sliding door panel
  Historical mailing list - DaveC
  Fri, 21 Jun 2002 14:17:26 -0700
  ...theyre not interchangeable. >chris -=-=-=- Yet, so many parts are indicated as fitting up-to-and-including-85, and then 86-and-later. Weird, unless...
• re. Removing Oxygen Sensor
  Historical mailing list - Gary Lee
  Tue, 13 Jul 2004 20:01:51 -0600
  ...It only takes ten minutes to weld a new fitting in, so it wasn't worth it to spend much time trying to get...
• Who does work on Eberspachers?
  Historical mailing list - Courtney Hook
  Sun, 9 Dec 2007 16:16:52 -0800
  ...going to get them seperated from the inner chamber threaded male fitting. If anyone knows who can service and hopefully repair my little learning...
• Re: propane leak question
  Historical mailing list - Joseph Liasse
  Sat, 13 Feb 1999 08:27:48 -0500
  ...These come in two flavors one with, one without a fitting that screws onto the end of the regulator. The regulators themselves are identical...
• Re: I lost my cool!!
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 9 Jul 2012 00:20:21 -0400
  ...The > > > fittings for R134a and R12 are different of course. If your > > > vehicle has not been converted, it is R12. > > Good catch. R134a systems...
• Re: I guess if I'm putting on a tencentlife oil cooler . . .
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Fri, 8 Apr 2011 18:09:31 -0500
  ...in a syncro .. > a little pipe set up > that has a fitting to scew into the block between the pusrod tubes where the > stock...
• Re: Friday - Disaster averted
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:37:40 -0500
  ...The same is true of the fittings in the cooling system as well as the hoses. The fittings get brittle with age. After all...
• Re: lugs and studs for alloy LONG- Project & quasi TRIP REPORT
  Historical mailing list - Ben T
  Sat, 3 Aug 2002 13:00:16 EDT
  ...Of course no fitting problems on 2wd. I not only have of these big brake kits on hand, I also own a real 16...
• Re: Aluminum to brass thread galling
  Historical mailing list - John Anderson
  Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:22:15 -0800
  ...It did seal well and reduced galling in ss fittings. alistair On 2012-01-27, at 7:38 PM, John Anderson wrote: > John, > > I...
• Carver P4 installation notes
  Historical mailing list - shilohz
  Tue, 18 Aug 1998 21:15:13 -0700
  ...Be careful with the fitting on the Carver. I believe it is a metric fitting and I would think that it would be nearly...
• Power Steering: leak and pressure switch ?
  Historical mailing list - Dave L
  Tue, 2 May 2000 16:16:24 -0400
  ...Now, looking it over, I see the pump and the send/return lines fittings are definitely coated all around with oil. I want to...
• Re: Coolant hoses fun
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Sat, 29 Jun 2024 11:10:56 -0600
  Typo fix > Good Quality Spring Clamps are all the better choice for hose to fitting connections when there is Heating & Cooling happening repeatedly on...
• Re: experience using Mocal Thermostatic Sandwich Adapter (Oil Thermostat), Type 4 Engines (-8AN Tight Clearance Fittings), MOC-SP1TM18
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 6 Jun 2017 22:36:57 +0000
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• 1982 Vanagon L Diesel Fueltank
  Historical mailing list - Daniel Certa
  Sat, 3 Sep 2016 19:41:19 -0400
  ...I've decided to replace the tank and all associated fittings, hoses, et al Has anyone done this already? And if so is there...
• Re: CO Adjusting Screw, Throttle Valve Switch Test Light Video etc.
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Thu, 28 Jun 2012 05:17:38 -0700
  ...a guy made a smoker out of lidded paint can, some fitting and hose, and some old rags. Smouldering rags in can, hose up...
• Re: Need westy camper drain plug/basket
  Historical mailing list - Steven Johnson
  Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:42:37 -0800
  I just had funny visual of mini-garbage disposal fitting that opening.... Sorry... I must be dilirious.... Steven 91 Westy On Mon, Dec 12...
• Re: A Good Cigar Lighter?
  Historical mailing list - John Meeks
  Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:36:06 -0400
  > > > > What's a good, tight-fitting cigar lighter type receptacle that mounts > > well to thin metal like the dash? > > > > -- > > Rocky J Squirrel > I like...
• Re: cold start skipping
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Wed, 2 Dec 2009 09:29:31 -0800
  > > The gasoline leak is caused by broken plastic fitting on the "crossover" > vent pipe that equalizes air space on the left and right halves...
• Re: kombi on fire
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 5 Oct 1995 08:29:08 -0700 (PDT)
  ...Well To avert this potential disaster, I installed a bulkhead fitting in my bus - the fuel line comes thru the "firewall" on the left...
• Re: Bleeding Cooling system per Bentley
  Historical mailing list - Jim Thompson
  Fri, 15 Jan 1999 12:33:20 -0800
  ...open bleeder valve at front of engine compartment (on black plastic >> >fitting with 4 large radiator hoses connecting to it.) > >
• Re: T3 syncro production
  Historical mailing list - Larry Hamm
  Thu, 11 Jan 2001 22:42:02 -0700
  Simon Glen wrote: > > As for finding a wrecked T3 Syncro and removing its Syncro components and fitting > them to a two-wheel-drive T3...
• Vanagon A/C Parts Available
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:46:52 EDT
  ...45 (includes Ester Oil, O-rings- enough for three conversions- and fittings). Thanks, Ken Wilford John 3:16 www.vanagain.com Phone: (856)-765...
• Caravelle Rear Seat Backrest fitting
  Historical mailing list - hunnam
  Fri, 19 Aug 2005 15:28:28 +1000
  Greetings all I have just acquired a Caravelle interior including the full seating. My question concerns the rear seat backrest. Where does it attach...
• Shopping list or kit for Molotov fuel lines?
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Tue, 2 Dec 2014 16:21:42 -0800
  ...So -- do any of our venerable vendors vend complete upgrade kits including the firewall fitting? So I don't have to spend hours piecing...
• Heater valve
  Historical mailing list - Brian Honan
  Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:07:16 -0400
  ...Has anyone tried this ? are there convertion conectors for the size hose and end fittings. Brian 87 Vanagon "Nietzsche"
• Re: At the pump ...
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:37:40 +0000
  ...for a few seconds of pump time (usually with a broken fitting on the hose.) Also criminal how the major oil companies are pushing...
• Re: major fuel leak
  Historical mailing list - Allan Streib
  Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:58:39 -0500
  ...And it is costly to fix, the repar kit is $100 for what? A few grommets, tee fittings, a couple of feet of tubing...
• Re: Future propane changes planned. Prepare in advance?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Chapman
  Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:15:58 -0400
  ...I tried it on my new tank with new regulator in the parking lot for a fitting test. It made everything too long, even...
• NEED HELP Olympian Catalytic heater installation
  Historical mailing list - Mark Howser
  Sat, 11 Jan 97 20:34:15 -0500
  ...B/c of the swivel the connection dropped from a 3/8 to 1/4 for that particular fitting. From the T, I ran...
• Re: 11mm brake line wrench
  Historical mailing list - Mike B
  Wed, 10 Jul 2013 10:23:56 -0400
  It's not a great idea to apply the heat from a torch to brake line fittings to get them loose. If you heat...
• Re: Bluestar project progress
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Wed, 1 May 2013 05:51:55 -0400
  ...There is a barbed fitting that fits the hose and the boot. I = > am missing this barbed fitting. Does anyone know the part number...
• Re: Replacing Gas Tank Cross-Over Pipe on 84
  Historical mailing list - Ryan Heidcamp
  Fri, 26 Jul 2002 12:14:29 -0500
  ...Bending will work for a while, but eventually = results in a fitting breaking at the tank. 14. Press the fittings into the tank. 15...
• Re: fuel tank replacement
  Historical mailing list - Benny boy
  Tue, 7 Aug 2007 21:52:49 -0400
  ...Or you can bite the bullet and drop the tank to have a better look >at everything (hose, fittings, fill and vent grommets, sender...
• Re: Metric fittings
  Historical mailing list - Michael aka ECHO
  Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:57:02 -0700
  ...houses have only the 3/16" lines with 10mmx1.0 > threaded fittings > used on the brake systems. The clutch is a 1/4" line...
• Re: Favorite Mods
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Sat, 13 Aug 2005 17:11:49 -0700
  ...8's heater hose to the > rear heater is the T fittings are 5/8's, 1/2 to the heater. > > The 5/8...
• Floor boards
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Thu, 10 Nov 2016 23:49:37 -0600
  ...floors board material to level out the floor for a smooth fitting carpet. The flooring material in my van is not there, just the...
• Re: Radio DIN for 1982 camper
  Historical mailing list - Frank Lee
  Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:07:47 -0400
  ...close, but has rounded corners, which will prevent > some units from fitting. A file can fix that pretty easily/quickly. The > other concern is...
• '87 Vacuum plumbing question
  Historical mailing list - Bill Collins
  Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:52:16 -0500
  On my '87, the short hose between the idle stabilizer valve and the air chamber below it has a molded fitting that looks like...
• Re: Emissions, engine swaps, full-flow filters, 76 balls
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 13 Mar 1996 00:23:33 -0500
  Bob writes about poorly fitting full-flow-filter adaptors. How come nobody imports the spin-on-filter adaptor I saw on a stock beetle...
• Propane tank leak
  Historical mailing list - Ssittservl
  Tue, 5 May 1998 05:20:08 EDT
  ...Soap bubble test confirms that it's not the valve, fittings, lines, etc. - it's the tank itself. At about the bottom center of...
• Door Speakers, Cleaning Inst. Panel
  Historical mailing list - Hans Roos
  Fri, 5 Jun 1998 08:29:44 -0700
  ...1) Has anyone tried fitting larger speakers in place of the 4 inch ones in the door? It looks like 5.25's or...