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Re: How to simply clean out the water tank?
Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
Tue, 2 Jul 2013 23:56:42 -0500
Wash the tank with a solution of chlorine bleach (1cup bleach in 1 gallon of water), then rinse thoroughly with clean water until no...
Re: ice melting
Historical mailing list - Pensioner
Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:53:02 -0800
...Now put the quart of ice in the water and mark again how high the water is (on the bucket). You will note that...
Re: Oops, inline 4s, was invention of the WBX?
Historical mailing list - mdrillock
Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:30:44 -0800
...the waterboxer even came out. > > 1981 17,000 inline 4 watercooled > 1982 60,000 inline 4 watercooled > 1983 43,000 inline 4 watercooled > 1985...
hot water help
Historical mailing list - David Garth
Sat, 20 Aug 1994 20:58:04 -0700 (PDT)
...Does anyone where I could get either 1) a 110 degree automatic water valve (like a thermostat) or 2) a 110 degree water temperature...
Re: De-Ionized distilled water
Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
Thu, 15 Jul 2004 21:55:11 -0700
...De-Ionized distilled water > If you cannot find De-Ionized distilled water, will regular distilled water > be suitable?
Re: Rocky Mountain Motorworks sale -- need a water pump?
Historical mailing list - 80 Westy Pokey
Thu, 16 Jan 2003 16:01:28 -0500
...Quite a few parts. >Saw the water pump and thought it might be a good deal for your water-logged >folks. > >No commercial interest...
De-Ionized distilled water
Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
Thu, 15 Jul 2004 21:27:27 -0700
If you cannot find De-Ionized distilled water, will regular distilled water be suitable?
Re: filling water tank '90GLCamper
Historical mailing list - Doug Alcock
Thu, 2 May 2002 13:54:50 -0400
>Howdy - just bought my new/used camper and was filling the water tank using >the fill tube from the outside. Water overflowed along the...
Re: Onboard water supply?
Historical mailing list - Mike Saint-Amour
Sun, 29 May 2016 08:18:47 -0700
...When out of the country we purchase from water purification businesses which everyone does. If we use tap water we know at it is...
Phosphate-free antifreeze
Historical mailing list - Tony Smith
Sun, 21 Dec 1997 08:42:25 -0000
...Phosphate-free antifreeze is NOT needed! It's the water you add to it! Use distilled water only. You may note that Prestone is...
Re: Westy water-trap Antifreeze
Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
Mon, 5 Oct 1998 12:52:05 -0400
...into the water trap - my PO didn't, and I had to fix the cracked water trap due to frozen water in the trap...
Re: Cleaning the water holding tank?
Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
Tue, 15 Jul 2003 20:20:35 -0400
...Ozone is > the treatment of choice for water in Europe, whereas here in the US we > use gaseos chlorine for treatment in the water...
Re: it's Friday, she blew the microwave up
Historical mailing list - Janne Ruohom�ki
Fri, 24 Sep 2010 23:12:33 +0300
...Here water is water and lime water is lime water. Acidic water is of course something acidic in it. The "rock" is granite where...
Re: Cleaning my Water Tank
Historical mailing list - harald_nancy
Fri, 28 Aug 1998 15:06:58 -0700
Hi Craig, Something else you can do, if you want to avoid the taste of chlorine bleach in the water system, is using "3...
Re: City Water Hookup
Historical mailing list - Scott G. Terry
Tue, 23 Oct 2001 10:56:14 -0700
Stan, There is a ball-cone spring-loaded check valve in the city water hookup. The ball tends to get stuck in its seat...
Re: About coolant
Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:45:18 -0800
...Water vs water+Water Wetter vs 50/50 water/antifreeze A quick Google search yields two quick finds http://www.jcna.com/library/tech...
On demand water hook up no water?
Historical mailing list - David Klein
Thu, 15 Aug 2013 12:27:03 -0700
Hello Listers, I am having a issue with my water hoop up for on demand water at the sink. I have the hose from...
Re: Grey Water tank ideas and upstairs water storage.
Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
Tue, 23 May 2006 19:00:35 -0700
...I've used my Solar Shower bag, placed in the luggage rack, hose through the screen opening, to provide hot water at the sink...
Ideas for lifting water into the Westy water tank?
Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:25:43 -0700
...A lower-tech method method would be to tote water to Mellow Yellow in a bucket and either dump the water into a funnel...
Re: water under sink
Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:28:26 -0400
...Sometimes the check valve in the faucet itself leaks by and allows water to proceed to the city water side. If the city water...
Re: Water Coming Out of City Water Port
Historical mailing list - turbowesty
Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:53:24 -0400
...Water From City Water Outlet > There is a check valve between the outside water inlet and the faucet that keeps the water from the...
Re: Aircooleds and Airplanes
Historical mailing list - Martin Garramone
Tue, 18 Jul 1995 08:39:09 -0500 (CDT)
If spraying water on the outside of the engine is not a good idea for whatever reason, what about spraying it on the inside...
Re: On demand water hook up no water?
Historical mailing list - David Klein
Fri, 16 Aug 2013 12:18:48 -0700
...I have been using the city water side as the "off" so therefore still no water. I am going to check the check valve...
Re: Pumped Water Leak to City Water Hook-Up?
Historical mailing list - Steve Williams
Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:15:35 -0700
...I'm not likely to use the city water any differently from the tank water. That is, I doubt I'd want to drink...
Re: .... Porsche 6 cyl heating van
Historical mailing list - kenneth d lewis
Thu, 6 Jan 2000 19:21:16 EST
Todd; Why not add a oil to water heat exchanger like the one on the digifant system i.e. the box sandwiched between the...
Alcohol in gas
Historical mailing list
Fri, 6 Jan 95 16:41:51 CST
... I read or heard that this could somehow contribute to water accumulation in fuel filter or elsewhere. That seems counter intuitive to me because...
water pump replacement
Historical mailing list
Mon, 11 Apr 94 11:16:16 PDT
>>ALL water-cooled buses have had to have the water pump replaced... How do we determine when to replace the water pump regardless the...
Cooling
Historical mailing list - Dave Kautz
Tue, 18 Jul 95 16:16:40 PDT
...If you think about it, water cooled engines are actually air cooled, in that that's where the heat energy ends up. The water...
Re: westy kitchen operation
Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
Thu, 11 Aug 2005 07:33:48 -0700
On 11 Aug 2005 at 5:39, Mike Collum <collum@VERIZON.NET> wrote: > Katherine, > > If you have the stock water spigot ... the round knob...
Re: speaking of lowering ...
Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
Fri, 14 Mar 2003 09:51:36 -0500
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Dan Barrett wrote: > How much standing water do you reckon a bone-stock GL could ford without > flooding the...
Hot water system thoughts
Historical mailing list - Nathaniel Merrill
Fri, 8 Jan 1999 09:34:56 -0800
...Use the engine to heat the water. I originally thought of one of those extra "grey" water or other tanks mounted between the beams...
Re: Distilled Water
Historical mailing list - Jack R.
Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:53:40 -0500
The biggest advantage of Distilled water is that most city water contains chlorine at about 1 part per million, which we all know how...
Re: camper heating
Historical mailing list - Doug in Calif
Thu, 14 Oct 2004 22:27:08 -0700
Hi Daniel, I checked out your links, thanks, some good info there especially the hot water shower system. Boy it sure looks expensive for...
Re: VANAGON digest 1212
Historical mailing list
Mon, 30 Dec 1996 01:30:20 PST
...The problem turned out to be water in the fuel tank/line. Water has a higher specific gravity than fuel and is relatively immiscible...
Re: Make your own shower ideas AGAIN
Historical mailing list - J. Harvey
Wed, 4 Sep 2002 14:08:52 -0700
...A two way valve, position one sends water from the tank back into the tank (circulates the water, heats it up across the heat...
Re: Stainless Pipes Determination and Deionized Water Query
Historical mailing list - David Beierl
Sat, 16 Oct 2010 21:21:00 -0400
...This seems to be a pretty good overview of purified water of various ilken. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purified_water > I know if...
Re: source for rebuilt ATE calipers?
Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:16:07 -0700
On 6/19/2012 7:29 PM, Stuart MacMillan wrote: > one on the bottom, > where water would tend to collect that might be true...
reducing westy water faucet velocity
Historical mailing list - Edward Maglott
Sun, 23 Jun 2002 18:57:39 -0400
Hi all, Water coming from my new water pump out of the faucet splashes all over the place. I read a reference to restricting...
Stainless Pipes Determination and Deionized Water Query
Historical mailing list - Derek Drew
Sat, 16 Oct 2010 13:46:47 -0400
With all the talk of conductive water in the cooling system and stainless pipes, I ran across a bunch of articles saying that you...
Re: Onboard water supply?
Historical mailing list - David McNeely
Tue, 31 May 2016 17:07:53 -0700
...Onboard water supply? > >> > > >> > . What is a correct procedure to clean the onboard water supply to > the sink faucet which I use as drinking water...
WATERFEST VW/AUDI SHOW THIS SUNDAY IN NJ
Historical mailing list
Thu, 18 Jul 2002 13:49:28 EDT
this sunday july 21, 8am-5pm 2002 Waterfest - huge VW/Audi show and swap meet Raceway Park, Old bridge township, Englishtown, NJ watercooled vw...
Re: Coolant
Historical mailing list - jimt
Sat, 12 Feb 2005 21:15:00 -0700
...Special attachments needed for softening (substituting salts) water. Here the water is very mineral heavy (hard) my african cichlids loved it when I was...
Re: AW: Water deliberately added to gasoline?
Historical mailing list - H R
Tue, 10 Dec 2002 16:08:10 -0800
Before the days of slick 50 and tuneup in a bottle, they used to sell water injection kits. You would hook it up to...
tell me about water at fuse panel 85 westy
Historical mailing list - Spencer Allen
Wed, 8 Aug 2018 13:41:00 -0500
Just washed my 85 Westy and see water dripping from around the fuse panel. I've washed this bus for 20 years and have...
Re: water pump
Historical mailing list
Wed, 24 Aug 94 12:51:24 ADT
Gerry, try removing the 'fan' belt and rocking the water pump pulley. It shouldn't! Any slop, and any roughness when rotated, is a...
Re: Stainless Pipes Determination and Deionized Water Query
Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
Sat, 16 Oct 2010 18:06:59 -0700
...Presumably, that argument would apply > to deionized water as well. > > The difference between distilled water and deionized water is subtle, > but it seems that...
Re: for the record water is not corrosive
Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
Sat, 1 May 2004 15:50:06 +1200
...OK, they will contain water vapor, but the actual open space must be produced by acceleration of the leading water exceeding the water's...
Re: Water tank
Historical mailing list - Ellen in Oregon
Mon, 16 May 2011 18:08:47 -0700
EEEWWW you guys actually drink the water from the tank? I use it for washing dishes. Drinking water comes in plastic jugs, and is...
Re: distilled water & wbx reliabilty
Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
Wed, 27 Feb 2002 00:21:39 -0700
Bob, While AZ does have hard water, it is not really that corrosive. if the innards were eaten away that badly, it most likely...
Re: Water tank
Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
Wed, 18 May 2011 23:20:21 -0700
I usually fill my tank with the tasty water I find at many campgrounds (especially in the PacNW) and bring it home for drinking...
Re: distilled water & wbx reliabilty
Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
Sun, 17 Feb 2002 18:23:50 -0600
...Although I would think that > distilled water is also deionized, I slept through too many analytical > chemistry classes to have any meaningful knowledge of...
Water (sink) pump & City Water Hook-up
Historical mailing list - Derek Krueger
Fri, 17 May 2002 12:59:35 -0400
In going over everything on my new Vanagon, I have discovered a problem with using the tank water and faucet. When I turn on...
Filling Water Tank: Hard Water
Historical mailing list - Tony Peet
Thu, 15 Jul 1999 14:05:52 PDT
The municipal water in my town is VERY hard...with a heavy mineral and chlorine taste (but which does become drinkable after filtering with...
FW: Water tank level indicator
Historical mailing list - John W. Parkins
Mon, 12 Jun 2000 13:59:17 -0400
...There is no water level detector in the tank (drinking water tank), but there are LEDs below the range that are supposed to indicate...
Water drain cap
Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
Wed, 9 Feb 2005 10:55:36 -0800
Volks, Anyone know if the water tank cap and the sink drain cap are the same on an '89. They aren't on my...
Re: distilled water for coolant - was New Car Dealers And Parts Prices-a service advisors
Historical mailing list - B
Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:01:32 -0800
...It will dissolve anything water soluble. Neither steel nor aluminum is water soluble. This notion that distilled water will corrode your system is a...
Re: Water tank
Historical mailing list - Daryl Christensen
Mon, 16 May 2011 18:55:28 -0700
My tank of water is flushed with bleach every spring and the water tastes just fine...esp whilst mixed with Crown Royal... I try...
Re: Head (gasket) fix
Historical mailing list - EMZ
Thu, 2 Apr 1998 12:13:55 -0500
...It makes sense > that 'pure' water would be less corrosive than water with a low pH, or > water with minerals, for instance. So if...
water system question
Historical mailing list - Martin Haggblom-Payne
Wed, 3 Sep 2003 21:37:26 -0700
...Quickly drained remainder of water, opened all cabinets and windows to facilitate drying/venting, and discarded all thoughts of using water system during the...
Re: Onboard water supply?
Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
Tue, 31 May 2016 19:08:38 -0700
...Onboard water supply? Update , I now have cleaned the water tank , new supply hose, new sanitized hose to the sink. I filled the water...