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• Re: Best quality Poptop seal?
  Historical mailing list - Warren Chapman
  Sun, 6 Jul 2003 00:56:47 -0400
  ...the slick shiny rubbery ones from the other vendor. My 2 cents. Warren C.
• Re: My weekend project.
  Historical mailing list - Ron Tipton
  Sun, 7 Jun 2009 22:25:46 -0400
  ...http://www.flatsurface.com/vanagon/curtains/index.html pretty slick. I remain, as always YrLyl&ObdntSrvnt, r
• Re: 2WD Westy sucks in mud
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Sun, 6 Dec 2009 12:06:27 -0800
  ...Great highway tire, fine in the rain on the pavement, and the same a racing slicks on wet grass. Now running Nokians and have...
• Re: Biodiesel Bandits Make Slick Getaway (was Diesels on NPR this morning) NVC
  Historical mailing list - Woodrose Dawn
  Fri, 14 May 2004 15:26:38 -0700
  > > Makes my cholesterol thicken just thinking about it. Or your heart slow down... -Dawn in Ohio ===== 1971 Westy 1975 Adventurewagen 1985 Vanagon GL Buskatiers...
• Crumbling Flue Vent Cover
  Historical mailing list - Richard A Jones
  Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:44:19 -0600
  ...Pretty slick. I've lurked around his van at night, thinking of stealing it, but he stays up later than I can, listening to...
• Re: Portable Toilets - Which chemicals do you use?
  Historical mailing list - Harold Teer
  Fri, 28 Jan 2011 19:13:28 -0500
  ...Have not heard of the stuff that puts a slick coating on the bowl so can not speak to that, but have never wished...
• Re: vanagon Digest - 20 May 2002 - Special issue (#2002-617)
  Historical mailing list - Larry Calhoun
  Mon, 20 May 2002 20:03:11 -0400
  Hi one and all, Duralube, Slick 50, Power Up, Prolong, No mystery oil for me! A few years ago their was a TV ad...
• Re: 2.1 L Wasserboxer Rebuild/ New air intake system
  Historical mailing list - Daniel Bey
  Thu, 22 Oct 1998 22:32:25 EDT
  ...10:34 PM, KENWILFY wrote: <<Oil additives are for the birds. Slick50, and the teflon treatments have no beneficial effects on your motor and...
• Re: Grease Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - mike miller
  Wed, 13 Dec 2000 18:07:34 -0800
  ...Pretty SLICK, I'd > say! > > > Scott K. >
• Re: Gender on an '86 Westy?
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Sat, 16 Jun 2001 00:25:16 -0700
  Dipstick is slick and the muffler is dry and black. Finish this post yourselves. Karl ----- Original Message ----- From: "DrCory" <drcory@IGLIDE.NET> To: <vanagon...
• DIY windshield de-icing solution?
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Sun, 9 Feb 2014 10:56:06 -0800
  When ice forms overnight on my windshield, it's sometimes as hard and slick as glass. My handy-dandy ice scraper just slides over...
• Re: Golf turbo diesel flatbed truck...variation
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Fri, 9 Nov 2007 17:35:11 -0800
  Virginia Beach VW built a slick extended cab Rabbit pickup that it used as a parts runner. I have a pic somewhere that I...
• Oh, the weather out side is delightful, the fire inside is frightful...
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:00:08 -0500
  ...The EG33 engine is DEFINITELY heavier than a waterboxer engine, and that extra weight is noticable most when the road surface is slick. The...
• Re: Need Information about Eurovan(s)/FFFFF
  Historical mailing list - john keith hopp
  Sat, 1 Apr 1995 08:22:42 -0700 (MST)
  ...Free oil slick in your driveway. > >etc... > > And people behind you just love breathing your black soot. > Herr Dr. Diesel should have been shot...
• Re: RIP Click (or was he Clack?)
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 3 Nov 2014 23:26:26 -0500
  ...VW Bus that won't climb up his driveway >due to slick ice and snow conditions. He opens up the hood in the back...
• Re: Survey says.... dropping the engine...
  Historical mailing list - Jake Beaulieu
  Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:09:50 -0400
  ...This works super slick and can be easily done with one person. The only problem is I am too cheap to buy my own...
• Re: Biodiesel Bandits Make Slick Getaway (was Diesels on NPR this
  Historical mailing list - LOREN BUSCH
  Fri, 14 May 2004 22:45:03 -0700
  Steve wrote: They stole 5000Lbs of grease worth less than $0.14 per pound...? More and more often, I find myself amazed that humans...
• Re: NVC-but some handy wheels
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Sat, 29 Jan 2005 23:45:36 +0000
  ...and has sani-flush drive, one of the "slickest" tranny's on the market. -------------- Original message -------------- > > For those of you always on the go...
• Re: more on reblt trns slipping outta 4th
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 11 Jul 1998 13:54:01 EDT
  ...In a bind I gave the Slick 50 product a shot, and it worked. I ended up putting 45k on that bus without a...
• Re: ebay Vanagon with extra headroom - poptop only - no roof.
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:05:56 -0800
  ...good! > If you don't use your top bunks, that looks slick! > BUT it is missing all the sheet metal part of the top...
• Re: 85 Westfalia Weekender fails Evap test.
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Wed, 17 Jun 2015 16:33:00 -0700
  ...I showed him the slicker on the trap door.. "OBD EXEMPTED"... he asked me why... I walked away... true is they are robots dictated...
• Re: Warning against engine additives! was: Strange Noise Fixed, I think
  Historical mailing list - Pollard, Matthew
  Wed, 18 Nov 1998 07:48:25 -0800
  FYI Slick-50 is the butt end of a class action law suit. Something about not actually having any real data to back up...
• Re: Re : synthetic motor oil
  Historical mailing list - John Brush
  Sat, 27 Apr 2002 20:26:33 -0400
  ...I cannot conceive of anyone thinking synthetic oil is too slick to break in a motor....... Good grief. John
• Re: For the Vanagon Newbies - Oil Filler Neck Secret
  Historical mailing list - Allan Streib
  Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:43:06 -0500
  ...and it slides right out, The rest is self evident. > Pretty slick. That is nice, but to me it just makes it easier to...
• What is that Google quick search tip for archives?
  Historical mailing list - Richard Koerner
  Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:50:52 -0800
  Months (or years) ago, somebody posted a slick method of searching Vanagon archives via Google....way faster than the "archive" search engine. When I...
• Crazy Winnebago/Eurovan Motorhome.
  Historical mailing list - Mike White
  Wed, 21 Jun 1995 09:43:43 MST
  ...It looks like Winnebago has created a really slick motorhome with the Eurovan's front end on it. Has anyone seen or heard about...
• Oil Additive - OK?
  Historical mailing list - wsilva
  Fri, 29 Nov 1996 10:24:41 -0800
  ...what are your feelings about using an oil additive such as Slick 50 or something simular? My mechanic says "It probably woun't do...
• Re: Grease Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Mike Harrnacker
  Thu, 14 Dec 2000 12:29:28 -0800
  ...Pretty SLICK, I'd > say! > > > Scott K. > > > ===== Mike Harrnacker Get your free VW Bus screen savers at: http://www.transporter.org __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo...
• Re: New beetle. New Bus? Nah.
  Historical mailing list - Ed DeBolt
  Sun, 31 Dec 2000 19:07:41 -0800
  ...I wonder what slick beetle like van they might produce down the road. ed 87 caravelle > ><< I'm holding out for VW to build...
• Re: Westfalia Search Terms
  Historical mailing list - Richard A Jones
  Fri, 2 Nov 2012 16:32:16 -0600
  > So for any newbs > searching to buy a "new" Westy Maybe this passed by while I was travelling, but this is a pretty slick...
• Re: Karl's Norcold Fridge
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Wed, 15 Sep 2004 17:36:48 -0700
  Looks like a slick setup. I would have tried to mount the new fridge at the top of the Westy cabinet though. Much more...
• General/Sorta dirt-road worthiness of 2WD
  Historical mailing list - Barry Muller
  Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:42:55 -0700
  ...Between the slickness of the grass and the soft ground that lets the front tires dig in, you won't be going anywhere without...
• Re: RIP Click (or was he Clack?)
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Tue, 4 Nov 2014 08:29:06 -0600
  ...at least according to > >>> the wording of the puzzle, due to slick ice and snow, not because the > >>> engine wasn't running. > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Jack "Rocket...
• VW tent
  Historical mailing list - Richard A Jones
  Fri, 2 Nov 2012 21:05:04 -0600
  ...http://jones.colorado.edu/VW/VWtent Pretty slick and well designed and made. My plan is to take it to BBB this year, in...
• Re: TriStar
  Historical mailing list - Raul Cisneros
  Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:18:57 EDT
  ...is used only by VoA for errands and occasional light hauling. Slick little buggy to be going out for coffee and donuts. Ra�l...
• Re: Slick 50 for Manual transmissions
  Historical mailing list - Terry Kay
  Sat, 29 Jul 2000 09:55:07 -0500
  Bulley, I have seen the damage that these types of products do to the internals of transmissions, and engines and it's ugly. I...
• cup holders in my vanagon needed
  Historical mailing list - Jonce Fancher
  Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:24:47 -0400
  ...i picked up at a vw swap meet a slick item that if you take out your ash tray/ change holder and slip in...
• Re: "wobble" pump
  Historical mailing list - Chris
  Mon, 16 May 94 13:30:37 CDT
  ...I found that it was a slick idea, and good selling point, but useless. I took the whole unit out and now have a...
• Re: Add your van pic to a google map of listmembers
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:30:25 -0400
  ...Mike Doug Alcock wrote: > http://www.frappr.com/vanagonlist > This is pretty slick --- click on the link to add your van's picture (or...
• Re: Replace H2O Boxer with E Boxer {:~))
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 9 Oct 2019 13:20:35 +0000
  Thanks for that one.  Being a retired machinist, I can appreciate that slick CNC setup that person has.  Very cool.  Future electric engines  for...
• Re: More HP Stories?
  Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
  Thu, 25 Aug 1994 09:50:19 -0700 (PDT)
  ...the consensus was: "save your money" Another snake oil product (like slick 50, etc) Thom -- ............................................................................ : Thom Fitzpatrick Transamerica Info Mgmnt : : Systems Administrator 1860 Howe...
• Redline MTL
  Historical mailing list - Davidson
  Wed, 24 Mar 1999 11:14:45 -0800
  ...Can anyone tell me if this product is similar to the Slick 50 >> products. Does the Slick 50 transmission treatment give you the same...
• Wanted Grey Water Tank
  Historical mailing list - Larry Chase
  Sun, 29 Sep 2002 12:59:01 -0600
  ...Pretty slick and mostly a bolt up solution. Hitting the Trail Soon, Larry Chase What: The Great North American Tour When: 01.02.03...
• Re: Cylinder sleeve - removing
  Historical mailing list - Mike Blotz
  Thu, 10 Jul 2003 08:09:46 -0600
  ...worked slicker than snot. obviously--careful not to mar the head. combination wrenchs has quite a nice progressive lobe to em--almost exactly what...
• Re: Portable Toilets - Which chemicals do you use?
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:45:12 -0600
  ...the two. �Have not heard of the stuff that puts a slick > coating on the bowl so can not speak to that, but have...
• Looking for a clever adhesive/fastener solution
  Historical mailing list - Tabe Johnson
  Thu, 27 Jan 2011 05:35:21 +0000
  ...inside of the car gets warm enough that the glue gets slick and the velcro might slide. I have thought of using shoe goo...
• Re: Additives...
  Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
  Thu, 09 May 1996 17:11:19 -0700
  ...of the different brands/types? I have had >positive experiences with Slick 50, Engine Armor, Motor Honey, etc....any of These are some of...
• the Vixen
  Historical mailing list - Rick Gordon
  Mon, 1 Dec 1997 23:39:53 -0800
  ...a 21' vehicle either! Very unusual looking though, and with a slick poptop too. -rick Rick Gordon Bainbridge Island, WA, USA ------------------------------------- rickgo@halcyon.com...
• Re: Biodiesel Bandits Make Slick Getaway (was Diesels on NPR this morning) NVC
  Historical mailing list - Steve Delanty
  Fri, 14 May 2004 13:53:45 -0700
  At 12:22 PM 5/14/2004, Jeff wrote: >So much for socio/politico/enviro ethics ... > >http://news.excite.com/odd/article/id/403374...
• Re: 12v relay help
  Historical mailing list - Dug Smith
  Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:56:46 -0800
  > What brand central locking setup did you purchase? I went with a Commando system - alarm, keyless entry and central locking from http://www.slickcar...
• Re: Dash Cluster Substitute + Reproduce It ?
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:39:03 -0800
  ...What makes for difficulties and for fragile constructs is the premise that it has to be "slick" if it's made for a production...
• Re: Syncros. Positractions, Peloquins, and One Wheel Drives
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Thu, 30 Jan 2014 06:36:33 -0800
  ...normally have little trouble maintaining momentum in mixed conditions, but getting moving, especially after being stopped on slick hills, my van won't go
• Re: Rostra cruise control
  Historical mailing list - Richard A Jones
  Mon, 14 Jan 2013 06:49:41 -0700
  ...The GoWesty setup seems slick to me--no running wires from back to front. The only thing I don't understand is how they...
• Re: Tires in Canada
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 13 May 2010 11:40:09 -0400
  ...They replaced Continentals that came with the van >when i bought it, which were like >slicks in the snow. Specified pressure for 185R14C is...
• Re: Old busses and snow-a good mixture?
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 7 Dec 1994 06:52:47 +0300
  ...Most of the time wet freezing, slick, stuff. The kind of snow that is much tougher on cars and drivers then the dry fluff...
• Re: My weekend project.
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Sun, 7 Jun 2009 21:34:19 -0500
  ...http://www.flatsurface.com/vanagon/curtains/index.html > > pretty slick. > > I remain, as always > YrLyl&ObdntSrvnt, > > r >
• Re: X Files Sighting
  Historical mailing list - Ari Ollikainen
  Mon, 23 Nov 1998 09:55:14 -0800
  ...Not at all amazing...the concrete sealant on the floors of some parking structures is slick on purpose to allow washing off accumulated oil...
• Re: Any Fiat Spider owners out there?
  Historical mailing list - Ben T
  Fri, 5 Oct 2001 19:34:36 EDT
  ...I've been loking since i saw one with huge dra slicks and a Yamaha super bike motor. There is a kit car manifacturer...
• Aux batt. wiring ?
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 16 Jun 2002 20:33:52 -0500
  ...Quite slick. Anyone see a reason to not run this way? Joe Kletch '83 Westy
• Synthetic oil or DINO
  Historical mailing list - Leo Lee
  Wed, 1 Jun 2005 16:15:49 -0700
  ...Some said changing to 15/50 significantly reduced oil consumption, some reported that synthetic oil is slippery, slick through tiny gap and consume more...