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• And Westy water and electric hookup, source for Doors??
  Historical mailing list - Michael Avrea
  Tue, 8 Dec 1998 00:45:43 EST
  ...Does anybody know if it's posable to get a replacement door for the electrical hookup. Thanks, Michael Avrea 82 Diesel Westy
• Fuel injector electrical terminal rubber grommet replacement
  Historical mailing list - Giasson, Pascal (DNR/MRN)
  Wed, 12 May 2004 22:14:46 -0300
  Does anyone have any idea how to replace the rubber grommet that seals the fuel injector electrical terminal? I looked in my Bentley and...
• Re: Hydrogen cars ... a lot of hot gas!! ;)
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:19:35 -0400
  Well, we know how to make electric cars now. And 70 miles on a charge is more than enough to serve the needs of...
• Re: Electric Power Steering
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Thu, 23 Jul 2015 21:55:56 -0500
  ---- James <jk_eaton@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote: > I too am intrigued by the idea of running the AC with an electrically driven compressor. Dennis's...
• Re: electrical boots
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Fri, 23 Aug 2002 10:26:24 -0400
  When I installed my new engine, I cleaned up all the electrical connections and re-assembled with di-electric grease. No problems so far...
• Electric instantaneous water heater question
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Tue, 25 Jan 2005 08:40:00 -0600
  George, I'd like to know more about the electric water heater you mention below. Jim On Jan 25, 2005, at 7:07 AM...
• Re: Electric VW Camper
  Historical mailing list - Steve Williams
  Sat, 18 Apr 2015 08:08:31 -0700
  ...Likewise an electric camper: http://urlzr.mp/Dfb (Redirects to autocar.co.uk)
• Parts needed: right electric window switch and motor
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 9 Sep 1996 21:38:53 PST
  Does anybody have a switch and motor for the electric windows? I need the right side(passenger side in the USA). Any help would...
• Re: Seeking warmth in my Westy
  Historical mailing list - Rachel Cogent
  Fri, 21 Sep 2001 10:41:10 -0600
  ...Of > course you would need an electrical hookup. Has anyone else used electric > blankets in their Westy? How long would it take to run...
• Re: 500 miles per gallon
  Historical mailing list - Ron Tipton
  Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:12:12 -0400
  On Jun 16, 2008, at 6:36 PM, Jake de Villiers wrote: > And what do you think the price of electricity is going to...
• Re: serial hybrid conversion?
  Historical mailing list - Sudhir Desai
  Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:13:32 -0500
  on a related note, if you have a high torque low rpm electric motor, you could always hook the motor to the transaxle and...
• Re: Electric Power Steering
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 23 Jul 2015 22:30:28 -0400
  ...Electric Power Steering I too am intrigued by the idea of running the AC with an electrically driven compressor. Dennis's note about the...
• Electric door locks out of control!
  Historical mailing list - PB
  Sat, 17 Jul 2010 10:25:04 -0700
  Last December, I had a remote installed for my electric door locks at Fry's in Burbank, CA. It worked perfectly until yesterday morning...
• Re: Electric Vanagon FS at zapworld.com
  Historical mailing list - turbodieseltrooper
  Thu, 1 Sep 2005 21:59:42 -0700
  ...Until there is a breakthru in batteries, electric cars are just dead. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Geiser" <cfgmail@DIRECWAY.COM> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON...
• Re: What is it with the US? (No real van content)
  Historical mailing list - BJ Feddish
  Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:40:42 -0400
  >> I watched "An Inconvenient Truth" AND "Who killed The Electric Car" all in one night. Pretty f'n scary. If you haven't already...
• AFM upgrade, grounding and cleaning with electrical contact cleaner
  Historical mailing list - developtrust
  Sun, 20 Jan 2002 13:46:16 -0800
  ...Today I grounded the AFM and cleaned the resistive surface with electrical contact cleaner. I think I have covered allt he bases for a...
• Re: serial hybrid conversion?
  Historical mailing list - Wil Haslup
  Sat, 19 Nov 2005 09:26:04 -0500
  Sudhir Desai wrote: > on a related note, if you have a high torque low rpm electric motor, > you could always hook the motor to...
• Re: Electric vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:19:46 -0500
  ...They probably could have gotten about another dozen batteries into the engine compartment (above the electric motor).
• Re: f/ parks-stupidity
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 5 Jun 95 18:25:48 PDT
  >>> >> >>At Hoover Dam, there was this question: >> >>" Is the water still good after they take out the electricity?" >> >>;) >> >>Steven >> >>sjohnson@pcocd2.intel.com >> Probably...
• Re: Electrical pollution?
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Fri, 7 Jan 2005 20:08:37 -0600
  ...Look North to Kentucky where they make electricity with coal fired turbines and thank your lucky stars that the wind seldom blows on Tennessee...
• Re: Electric Power Steering
  Historical mailing list - KIM BRENNAN
  Fri, 24 Jul 2015 22:24:44 -0400
  ...The need for p0wer steering assist is intermittent so going to an > electric system makes a lot of sense. Electric water pumps are not...
• Electrical Systems Videos
  Historical mailing list - Steven Shelton
  Fri, 1 Feb 2013 08:43:42 -0500
  I'm sure I know less about wiring and electrical systems than most on this list, but these videos from Jamestown Distributors explained some...
• Re: Electrical glitch
  Historical mailing list - dooley
  Sun, 1 Oct 2006 20:51:41 -0400
  ...Electrical glitch Hi all, When braking or turning on extra electrical items ( wipers, indicators etc) There is the sound at the relays as though...
• Re: [vanagon] Re: electric or hybrid conversion?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Mon, 28 Apr 2003 03:16:29 -0700
  I think that a more practical solution would be to put power rails in the road that the electric cars can connect to. Would...
• Electrical Turbo
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Thu, 18 Nov 1999 11:49:44 +0100
  ...It's an electrical turbocharger, powered by an electrical motor instead of the exhaust pressure. It is said to be applicable for both normally...
• Re: vanagon Digest - 15 Sep 2012 - Special issue (#2012-161)
  Historical mailing list - fel paj
  Sat, 15 Sep 2012 08:11:50 -0700
  ...Electric conversions (Chevy Volt) > > Electricity for electric vehicles comes from natural gas or coal burned at > the local power plant, unless you live near...
• Re: FI Weirdness -- please help
  Historical mailing list - Otmar Ebenhoech
  Thu, 2 Jul 1998 10:38:29 -0700
  ...bus 82 A3 GTI Westfalia turning into a hybrid electric Stretch Several EVs (Electric Vehicles) Have owned way too many VWs to list. :-) http...
• Re: Electrical connections to injectors
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Schwaia
  Mon, 15 Sep 2003 22:21:17 -0700
  ...Electrical connections to injectors I need a temporary fix to keep the electrical connections to the fuel injectors from bouncing off. In the long...
• Taking electric mirror's off the door
  Historical mailing list - A PETER MARSH
  Mon, 11 Apr 2011 21:27:53 -0400
  Team, The kind body man tells me he can't seem to ge the electric mirror "plug through the door". (Removing them to paint...
• Westie Conversion (Electric)
  Historical mailing list - Eric Clarke
  Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:45:31 -0700
  ...Anyone ever convert a westie to electric? I would love to hear about this if anyone has any experience or potential contacts. Thanks all...
• Re: Electric Power Steering Pumps
  Historical mailing list - EMZ
  Sun, 12 Oct 2003 13:02:36 -0400
  ...BenT, among others, have mentioned the > possibility of an electric power steering pump. Ben thought that maybe at > some point Subaru had used an...
• Re: Hydrogen cars. Was: Re: waterboxer pinging
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:44:39 -0400
  ...is strictly electric, that is, the compressor is driven by its own electric motor (unlike the Honda hybrids, where the A.C. is engine...
• Re: Spitfres and Joe Lucas
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Sat, 29 Oct 2011 08:37:02 -0700
  I sometimes think that it's a matter of opinion on this subject of Lucas electrics, at least from the past. About a year...
• Re: Hydrogen cars ... a lot of hot gas!! ;)
  Historical mailing list - joel walker
  Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:57:34 -0500
  > The reason we will not have hydrogen cars is that it is too > difficult to > create hydrogen from electricity, and then move hydrogen from...
• RE: A.S.A.P. ( battery)
  Historical mailing list - Bo Kersey
  Mon, 11 Aug 1997 12:53:57 -0500
  a Toyota Corona not a Vanagon but I'd think the current drain from the coil and other vital electricals are similar. Don't...
• Re: Electric motors in each wheel, was Re: Hybrid technologies
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Thu, 3 Jul 2008 16:46:25 -0400
  Herr Ferdinand Porsche built a 4-wheel drive in-hub-electric vehicle before he ever got involved in the KdF Wagen project. Look up...
• Re: Electric Power Steering
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Thu, 23 Jul 2015 18:42:22 -0500
  Toyota Prius has been using electric power steering since the car's inception, some 20 years ago now (they were on Japanese roads several...
• Re: And Westy water and electric hookup, source for Doors??
  Historical mailing list - Davidson
  Mon, 7 Dec 1998 23:18:22 -0800
  ...And Westy water and electric hookup, source for Doors?? > Date: Monday, December 07, 1998 9:45 PM > > Which reminds me... Does anybody know if...
• Re: Strange electrical problem
  Historical mailing list - Calle Fallberg
  Fri, 15 Oct 2004 10:45:27 +0200
  ...Strange electrical problem >I have a strange electrical problem. When I accelerate from a stop at night > my dome lights come on and flicker...
• Re: questions about electric locks
  Historical mailing list - Rodney Woten
  Tue, 9 Jul 2002 07:55:59 -0500
  ...questions about electric locks >There are a few things that generally go bonkers with the electro-locks. In >your situation, my first guess is...
• Hydrogen cars. Was: Re: waterboxer pinging
  Historical mailing list - chris and/or ruth
  Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:00:41 -0700
  In the rush to make electric cars now, please keep in mind that the Wisconsin motoring public needs heat--and lots of it for...
• Re: Electric vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:47:28 -0800
  ...They probably could have gotten about another dozen batteries into >the engine compartment (above the electric motor).
• Re: Electric burner starter
  Historical mailing list - Tom Miller
  Mon, 19 Jul 2004 14:25:23 -0400
  ...Electric burner starter > Has anybody attempted to install an automatic electric starter for the stove burners? > the same kind of starter you would find...
• Re: electrical inlet
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:34:55 -0500
  At 08:31 PM 2/20/2009, pickle vanagon wrote: >Basically, when I go to remove the electrical inlet from the side of >the...
• Looking for a part
  Historical mailing list - Gilles H Turmel
  Wed, 2 Jul 2014 19:04:12 -0400
  Hi, I have an 89 Westy Syncro with electric windows. I’m looking for the electric motor VW part 251959801 Bosch part 0130831010 for...
• Re: Waving Vanagon drivers (again)
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 15 Sep 1995 13:49:51 -0700
  If you think /showers are cool, you oughta check out Steve "Ratboy" Johnson's electric porta-potti. I think he has some electric pliers...
• Cruse control, electric door locks
  Historical mailing list - Greg
  Fri, 28 Jan 2000 14:54:13 -0800
  ...Has anyone added on cruse control &/or electric door locks to their Vanagon? Is it already wired for these options? TIA Greg 86 Westy...
• Re: Interesting discovery, electric Power steering
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Tue, 28 Sep 2021 06:30:00 -0700
  ...Interestingly, it was fully electric. No hoses or pumps . He had put in a manual rack then added the electric assist. He loves it...
• Re: They said it couldn't be done....
  Historical mailing list - James
  Sun, 24 Aug 2014 21:12:30 -0400
  I don't know about the Prius, but I do know that Toyota has used a heat pump system, electrically driven, in vehicles, because...
• Re: Taking electric mirror's off the door
  Historical mailing list - Werner Schink
  Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:56:53 -0700
  ...Taking electric mirror's off the door Team, The kind body man tells me he can't seem to ge the electric mirror "plug...
• Curious location change of water, electric vents 85 to 86
  Historical mailing list - TC
  Sun, 30 Apr 2006 17:10:46 -0700
  ...but I have not decided where to cut in the electric, & water inlet s I am thinking I might cut them in like the...
• Re: Electric conversions (Chevy Volt)
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 14 Sep 2012 21:36:01 -0700
  ...Electric conversions (Chevy Volt) > > I recently replaced my main commuter car with a (leased) 2013 Chevy Volt. > I'm addicted to electric only (300...
• Re: '90 electric windows
  Historical mailing list - Raimund Feussner
  Thu, 15 Oct 2015 18:44:28 +0200
  ...Am 15.10.2015 um 05:31 schrieb PSD: > Haha, Audi 5000 and simple electrical, good one... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto...
• Re: Liquid electrical tape????
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Mon, 5 Sep 2005 14:42:05 -0700
  "Liquid Tape" by a company called "Plasti Dip", or 3M's 14853 "Electrical Coating". I haven't used Liquid Tape, personally, but we used...
• Electric window switch - gone!!
  Historical mailing list - Pete Cassidy
  Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:38:50 -0700
  Hi all, The electric window switch has just been snapped up. Regards, Pete C -- Peter Cassidy, pcassidy@apple.com Sr. Test Dev. Engineer (916...
• Re: VW Bus/Vanagon Dinnerware Set - Every Vanagon Owner should have this!
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Mon, 26 Apr 2004 17:36:29 -0400
  Hey, Ron, Are those dishwasher safe? All too often these unbreakable items can't go into electric dishwashers (not that I have an electric...
• Prius question with vanagon content
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:30:25 -0500
  ...I noticed when flipping through the manual that the 2004-on Prius have electrical AC compressors. Can anyone comment on what kind of current...
• 1.9 loss of 1/3 power- Boggy Please HELP!!!
  Historical mailing list - Danny
  Wed, 8 Apr 2009 12:38:51 -0700
  So I decided to pull all the electrical connectors, spray them with electric cleaner and then�apply some dielectric silicone and put�them back...
• Re: Learning Electricity Part Two
  Historical mailing list - Mike S
  Sun, 5 Apr 2009 07:28:02 -0400
  ...The >fundamental unit of electricity is the coulomb, The SI base unit of electricity is the ampere, which is that constant current which, if...
• Re: "Don't leave home without it" items
  Historical mailing list - Otmar Ebenhoech
  Mon, 22 Jun 1998 13:30:20 -0700
  ...bus 82 A3 GTI Westfalia turning into a hybrid electric Stretch Several EVs (Electric Vehicles) Have owned way too many VWs to list. :-) http...