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• Starting problem
  Historical mailing list - Dan Eggert
  Thu, 10 May 2001 21:40:45 -0500
  ...All the hoses, flap boxes, and cables were all junk. The heat booster looks like it is alright, but I never had it running...
• Air cooled exhuast gaskets
  Historical mailing list - -------------------------
  Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:50:35 -0500
  Can anyone use the exhaust gaskets between the heater boxes and the manifold on an air cooled vanagon. I have a few left over...
• Re: Porta-potti boxes
  Historical mailing list - Ed Wiebe
  Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:55:12 -0700
  All this chatter about porti potties and boxes for same, spurred me on to go outside and take pictures and measurements of a unit...
• Re: Friday topic: what is your favorite low (or no) dollar modification?
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Fri, 12 Aug 2005 09:35:28 -0700
  ...I bought some low plastic storage boxes (for under beds) from CDN Tire and cut them to fit under the pop-top, I stored...
• Re: Aux Battery Suggestions for under Drivers seat
  Historical mailing list - Karl
  Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:31:10 -0400
  ...The boxes were much simpler to do in this van because it didn't have factory seat swivels, but I did bolt in a...
• Glove Boxes
  Historical mailing list - John Brush
  Sat, 6 Apr 2002 20:49:44 -0700
  ...a real door like a real vehicle :) I see several glove boxes on ebay at the moment and a quick look at my van...
• Need Vanagon aircooled heater flapper boxes.
  Historical mailing list - Vanagon Man
  Fri, 19 Mar 2004 05:50:21 -0500
  ...of these...........they are slightly different from earlier baywindow and bug boxes in that the arm that attaches them to the heat cable is...
• Re: Vanagain Rant/New Intake Boot
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:18:07 -0400
  ...Not completely gone, but much reduced, are the days of receiving Bus Depot orders in well-used boxes that were recycled from other vendors...
• Re: Help identifying part (image provided)
  Historical mailing list - neil
  Sun, 6 May 2007 21:51:47 -0700
  ...For some > strange reason, using more electronic boxes didn't seem to help :-) > -- Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia. http://web.mac.com/tubaneil
• Don't do this at home
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Sat, 18 Dec 2004 18:06:34 -0500
  ...Not having brought straps, that meant I could only neatly accomodate 47 boxes (1500 pounds, more or less). 53 boxes went into the westy...
• Re: Custom Scoop Update - Friday Edition
  Historical mailing list - anthony kimmons
  Fri, 23 Aug 2002 10:00:14 -0500
  Hey! Why not just pop out the front windshield, start wearing a helmet, and open up the engine cover? I bet our big boxes...
• Gerbils and Heater Boxes and Mufflers, Oh My!
  Historical mailing list - Dieter Dworkin Muller
  Mon, 01 Jan 1996 10:30:38 -0700
  As most of you probably recall, I've been replacing the heater boxes and muffler on the Gerbil ('66 camper). The job's been...
• Re: Snow Melt Pan under Vehicle?
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 14 Dec 2013 15:08:16 -0500
  ...i usually just open a bunch of cardboard boxes and lay them on the floor. soaks up water/salt. when they get really nasty...
• Re: Cargo Hauls
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 16 Oct 95 09:19:19 PDT
  ...An 18 cubic foot refrigerator and plenty of boxes. 480 copies of the Sunday L.A.Times newspaper. Jack '73 Westfalia (orange) Costa Mesa...
• Re: Aux Battery Suggestions for under Drivers seat
  Historical mailing list - Varotto Hugo
  Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:23:33 -0700
  ...The boxes were much simpler to do in this van because it didn't have factory seat swivels, but I did bolt in a...
• Re: heater boxes
  Historical mailing list - Sam Scholten
  Wed, 15 Apr 1998 06:06:35 -0700
  ...The Vanagon heater boxes will only fit '80-'83 > Vanagons and Bus heat exchangers will only fit Buses up to '78. The > differences are...
• Re: Heater question
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 28 Aug 2012 19:01:46 -0400
  ...The > original fresh only side air boxes have round connections for the > large hose on each side and these connect very near the front...
• Re: Asbestos in VWs -- VWOA Denies it's a Covert Recall
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 23 Jul 1997 19:55:37 +0000
  ...Removing and replacing the actual asbestos laden parts (seals on '73-'79, heater boxes on '80-'83) is really of no consequence and like...
• Re: More tidbits on my bus
  Historical mailing list - John_K_Hopp
  Tue, 2 May 1995 12:26:13 -0600 (MDT)
  ...I was thinking **about **trying to fit the small air boxes off a stock muffler onto the extractor. **What is the lists opinion? ** Chris...
• Re: Vanagon carrying capacity impresses
  Historical mailing list - Marc Perdue
  Thu, 6 Mar 2003 09:38:26 -0500
  ...It's amazing how well those professional moving boxes fit into a Westy. I made several trips where there was barely room for me...
• Re: Anyone have any old Capacitive Discharge Ignition boxes?
  Historical mailing list - Daniel L. Katz
  Mon, 25 Apr 2005 03:21:52 -0400
  ...Does anyone have >any CDI boxes lying around they'd let go for cheap? I >know there's always MSD but those are priced...
• Re: Air cooled heater idea/questions
  Historical mailing list - Rob
  Sun, 4 Feb 2007 19:14:21 -0800
  ...An idea that's been on my mind. > >How crazy is this: > >Open up heater boxes, > >wind 3/8" or 1/2" soft copper...
• Erouvan Lloyd Mats FS Vanagon Too!
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 27 Aug 1997 17:20:05 -0700
  ...I'm listing them by what the boxes tell me they are but I'll have to double check too. Eurovan mats Grey Cargo...
• LVC - parts for Everybus
  Historical mailing list - John Runberg
  Mon, 11 Apr 2005 00:32:16 -0400
  Does anyone need / have interest in RV code intake and exhaust manifolds? I'll be bringing a couple boxes of stuff I can no...
• Re: '82 Heater Boxes
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Mon, 24 Jun 2002 21:29:21 -0500
  ...Question one, when looking at the fins inside the boxes I > see what > looks to me melted metal pooling on the bottom of the...
• Re: 12volt electric heaters
  Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
  Thu, 9 Feb 1995 13:22:13 -0800 (PST)
  >What did you seal your heater boxes with, if I may ask. I found an old >pair of boxes at a junkyard for a...
• Xmas morning feeling
  Historical mailing list - ralph meyermann
  Fri, 25 May 2012 13:50:57 -0600
  I just stopped at the post office after work and 3 wonderful boxes of parts were waiting 1 from bus depot,1 from scott...
• Re: Air cooled heater idea/questions
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Sun, 4 Feb 2007 23:19:57 -0800
  ...McGyver-ing up your > > heater boxes with copper plumbing, that is. > > > > Of course I can't help but say this, as I have > > seen...
• Re: Friday survey for Westy owners
  Historical mailing list - David McNeely
  Mon, 14 May 2018 13:57:08 -0700
  ...How many of you > camper/Weekender owners have unmolested battery boxes behind the passenger > seat? How many intact boxes have you seen? I’m...
• Re: Looking for members in southern Wyoming - Update
  Historical mailing list - Mladen, Zoran
  Wed, 21 Feb 2001 11:51:31 -0700
  ...It will be two boxes the overall size of bicycles, but fairly thin, as the bicycles will be disassemplbed inside the boxes. Z -----Original...
• Re: cargo boxes on top of westies
  Historical mailing list - Joy Hecht
  Wed, 15 Mar 2006 22:47:19 +0200
  ...cargo boxes on top of westies ::: :::So I put a Yakima cargo box on my pop top to see if I can lift up...
• Re: Are There Junk Ball Joints? - What Bullshit.
  Historical mailing list - westydriver
  Fri, 27 Sep 2002 07:43:46 -0600
  ...when i was doing importing on stuff i would get boxes with the outside box clearly marked and the individual boxes inside unmarked. now...
• Re: Air cooled heater idea/questions
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Wed, 7 Feb 2007 10:37:25 -0500
  ...An idea that's been on my mind. > > How crazy is this: > > Open up heater boxes, > > wind 3/8" or 1/2" soft copper...
• Re: Original vw muffler lifetime warranty?
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Tue, 6 May 2014 20:13:43 -0700
  Heater boxes, not mufflers. Jim On May 6, 2014, at 4:24 PM, Jeff Stewart <fonman4277@COMCAST.NET> wrote: > What you may remember hearing...
• Re: Bus models
  Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
  Wed, 2 Nov 94 8:24:26 PST
  BSNICH01@ulkyvm.louisville.edu writes: > > How many were there in a set again? They come in boxes of 12, if I can find any...
• RE: Heat exchangers
  Historical mailing list - William R. Kennedy, NJIT CIAT, 201-596-5648
  Thu, 20 Oct 1994 17:04:28 EST
  ...The higher-priced heater boxes in JCWitless are for the Type 4 engines, commencing with 8/71 manufacture for the 1972 model year. B.
• for sale: '80-'83 vanagon 4speed trans, and 2.0L aircooled engine
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 27 Jun 1999 16:55:39 EDT
  ...lifters, Fuel inj, all components, heater boxes, and ECU $600 obo chris allentown, pa
• camping with bears
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Mon, 2 Jul 2012 12:38:50 -0500
  ...Anyone know anything about these boxes? The material with the boxes showed pictures of bears puzzling over the box, knocking it around, but being...
• cleaning out the garage - free heater boxes!
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sun, 2 Jul 1995 15:24:50 -0700 (PDT)
  ...In that junk were a pair of heater boxes left by the previous occupant. They seem to be in pretty good shape, quite heavy...
• Re: Porta-potti boxes
  Historical mailing list - Richard A Jones
  Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:59:33 -0600
  > I would think that with 2x4 brace, it would handle most peoples weight > if used as step stool. err, the potty itself handles most...
• Re: 1970s heater boxes (Erratum)
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 5 Sep 1994 10:52:02 -0500 (CDT)
  It was pointed out to me that the gopher path I gave yesterday is misspelled (upper and lower case). Here is the correct one...
• Re: Rust on hookup panel on Westy
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:49:02 -0400
  If it's the utility boxes ,and where the screws go through the paint,and the edges of the 3 box cutouts, POR15 is...
• Re: Doka Look Alike (friday reply)
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:35:14 -0700
  ...so if you do need to put a Bug Transalxe ( without gear reduction boxes ) into a Bus .. where you have them.. you can split...
• RE: 6 cyl. Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - William R. Kennedy, NJIT CIAT, 201-596-5648
  Wed, 23 Nov 1994 13:57:19 EST
  ...It is true that the Porsche heater boxes are only a little better than the VW heater boxes, so a gas heater is needed...
• RE: Want A List Coffee Mug???
  Historical mailing list - Richard Golen
  Fri, 08 Nov 1996 11:38:22 -0500
  ...I have a small collection of boxes with those annoying plastic = p-nuts in them. I'm sure others have them too...howabout if...
• Re: Parts source recommendations?
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Sun, 23 Mar 2003 19:06:14 -0500
  ...the cost of 1st run boxes, and makes use of perfectly good boxes that would otherwise be discarded as "defective.") We've also made...
• EV Storage Containers
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 09 Aug 1996 15:41:47 -0500 (EST)
  ...I went back and got another set of boxes which will fit under the rear seat...which has 8" clearance... All the boxes have...
• Re: shipping interior answer!
  Historical mailing list - Tony Moore
  Wed, 04 Dec 1996 22:24:45 -0500
  ...I even tried packing everything in seperate boxes. That left Greyhound and the commercial trucker of your choice. Both were fairly comparable, which came...
• Re: Friday survey for Westy owners
  Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
  Fri, 11 May 2018 18:36:42 -0700
  Both my battery boxes are unmolested. I have the aux battery in the lower cabinet next to the water tank. 87 Westy. -Mark On...
• Re: westy speaker location.
  Historical mailing list - Jay & Kim Schmidt
  Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:35:58 -0500
  ...I bought a couple of those felt-covered boxes and dropped the speakers in, installed an amp under the rear seat sitting right on...
• Re: Brown Window Crank
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Schwaia
  Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:22:12 -0700
  Sold for $85??? Perhaps I should rummage through some more boxes. Cheers, Jeff From: JordanVw@aol.com [mailto:JordanVw@aol.com] Sent: Tuesday, April...
• Re: Series resistance unti question
  Historical mailing list - george jannini
  Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:36:23 -0500
  >> Are there really vans out there that have not had the heater boxes opened yet? << Yep. We''ve gotten by just fine for the...
• /f Re: Bestway to break into a Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - John-Reed Maffeo
  Fri, 30 Oct 1998 10:15:21 -0700
  --- snip > Hide a key boxes, $150-2.50 at your local key > shop?????????????????? I tried that, but I never found my self close enough...
• Popular Westy Xmas Presents
  Historical mailing list - dusty edwards
  Sat, 3 Dec 2005 23:00:43 -0700
  ...i'm definitely gonna look into one of those portable jump starting boxes. thanks! dusty. |___|_|_|__\ |___|__-|-__| "(o)-----(o)--"
• Will 73-74 bug parts fit a '74 van?
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 26 Dec 95 07:59:46 EST
  ...the bugs look to be in reasonable shape...what i want to know is will the heater boxes of a early 70's bug...
• Re: Original vw muffler lifetime warranty?
  Historical mailing list - Jason
  Wed, 7 May 2014 19:12:07 -0400
  ...Jason On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 11:13 PM, Jim Arnott <jrasite@eoni.com> wrote: > Heater boxes, not mufflers. > > Jim > >
• Re: IRS Conversions?
  Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
  Sun, 02 Jun 1996 17:19:46 -0700
  ...I remember though, that by >looking underneath, it had the reduction boxes on it. Now I hear about >these IRS conversions that in effect...
• Re: Stainless exhaust and heater boxes for 82 aircooled
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Tue, 19 Feb 2002 14:38:59 -0600
  ...Does anyone know of a > vendor > selling stainless exhaust/heater boxes for an 82 aircooled 2.0? I > will > need to replace the existing...
• Re: Frydaye - New achievement
  Historical mailing list - Joe T.
  Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:21:51 -0700
  ...I know folks who buy 5-6 boxes of cookies, > but you.... Is this to be a lifetime supply? > > :-) > Richard > -- Joe T. '85 Wolfsburg...
• Re: Belly Pan Saga(was re: Kelly Park...)
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 11 Apr 1995 16:54:34 -0300
  ...Had the foot pedal cover which spans the main longitudinal boxes on a '71 Westy, '72 Westy, and I believe on a '75 Kombi...