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• Re: AMC / German Cylinder Heads (LVC)
  Historical mailing list - John Connolly, Aircooled.Net
  Tue, 19 Oct 2004 07:53:40 -0600
  ...A city in Japan in the 60s renamed itself "USA", which they proudly displayed on boxes destined for the United States, when Japanese manufacturing...
• RE: Embarassing moment: '79 westy on fire
  Historical mailing list - Wagner Michael
  28 Jun 1995 11:07:18 -0800
  ...Keep a fresh fire extinguisher in your VW always. [making note to buy a couple jumbo boxes of baking soda and keep them next...
• Re: Custom Scoop Update - Friday Edition
  Historical mailing list - Darren
  Thu, 22 Aug 2002 10:36:46 -0500
  ...windshield, start wearing a helmet, and open up the engine cover? I bet our big boxes would make great scoops all by themselves! :o)
• Re: Doka Look Alike
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Thu, 29 Mar 2012 22:19:02 -0700
  I am familiar with gear reduction boxes in Split window VW Buses.. have worked on those since about '72. but never have heard of...
• Re: How do I put a Vanagon mtr in a late Bus?
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 1 Jun 1996 14:46:38 -0400
  Ron - The only year of Bus Heater Boxes that will mount to the Square Exhaust Port Vanagon Heads are from a '79 Bus. Since...
• Re: Roof Racks, Space Boxes and Westys
  Historical mailing list - Joy Hecht
  Tue, 29 Mar 2005 02:38:02 -0500
  ...Roof Racks, Space Boxes and Westys ::: :::Has anyone out there put a roof rack and space box on top of their Westy? ::: :::I have...
• Re: Snow Melt Pan under Vehicle?
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Sat, 14 Dec 2013 16:01:56 -0800
  ...Eastern Standard Time, >> JordanVw@AOL.COM writes: >> >> >> i usually just open a bunch of cardboard boxes and lay them on the floor. >> soaks up...
• axle removal
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 27 Jul 1995 19:52:41 EDT
  ...a '65 deluxe) Do I need to split the reduction gear boxes? I have the old unit out and want to swap the axle...
• Re: Splittie Reduction Box Trauma
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 15 May 1996 02:03:53 -0400
  my solution to stripped threads in the gear boxes is to buy a thread tap and larger bolts. take a nice bolts into your...
• Re: gun hiding?
  Historical mailing list - Bill Kasper
  Fri, 25 Jan 2002 12:16:31 -0800
  ...b On Friday, January 25, 2002, at 11:58 , Chris Stann wrote: >> ask me where i found to hide our ammo boxes! >> >> bill > > Where...
• Re: AMC / German Cylinder Heads (LVC)
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:36:10 -0600
  ...At that time is when a company there was exporting heads for bugs to the US as well, but they were in boxes reading...
• Re: Recalls
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Mon, 9 Jul 2007 17:30:39 -0700
  ...It primarily dealt with the asbestos issue of the insulation of the heater boxes and hot air hoses coming from the Heater Control Boxes...
• Bolts / Re:Dumb as a Goose <correction!>
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 12 Mar 1996 23:56:50 -0500
  ...Bolts to hold reduction gear boxes to spring plates Axles nuts, 36mm & 42mm Lug nuts up the yin yang brakes sproings etc. etc. etc.
• Re[2]: How deep can a Syncro go swimming?
  Historical mailing list - Don Gibbons
  Thu, 16 Apr 1998 14:23:53 -0400
  My 87 syncro had vents from both gear boxes hooked up to some kind of remove vent system. I never found where it vented...
• Re: Mice in the Westy
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Mon, 3 Nov 2003 23:19:15 -0500
  <snip> I'd like to know where the buggers are getting in <snip> On the models with ventilated battery boxes, I'd say that...
• Re: Subaru Engines (NVC)
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Thu, 27 May 2004 13:00:39 -0400
  ...Luxury cars and SUVs have a much higher profit margin than econo-boxes. VW, in general, has moved away from econo-boxes (especially in...
• Re: Exhaust don't fit.
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:15:10 -0500
  ...It lines up with the heater boxes fine, but trying to tighten the nuts on it, the muffler jams against the steel tubes coming...
• Re: Friday survey for Westy owners
  Historical mailing list - Tom Buese
  Fri, 11 May 2018 20:06:36 -0400
  ...How many of you camper/Weekender > >> owners have unmolested battery boxes behind the passenger seat? How many > >> intact boxes have you seen? I’m...
• FS Heater Parts Air Cooled Pictutre posted
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Fri, 6 Dec 2002 10:33:59 -0600
  ...2 Federal drivers heater boxes. 4 Federal and Cal heater boxes passenger side. 1 Cal only heater box driver side. 2 Cal only crossover...
• Re: Westy on the late news
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 3 Feb 2010 00:20:40 EST
  ...writes: > looked like a cream or yellow Westy with two Rocket boxes on the roof > heading (I hope south) down the road. Anyone matching...
• looking for late model year 4 speed transmission
  Historical mailing list - dylan friedman
  Fri, 7 Aug 2009 09:49:43 -0700
  ...Not interested in boxes needing rebuild. East Coast preferred. Please pmail with price, pictures and location. Cash in hand for the right trans. dylan
• RE: Heater boxes, overalls, gasoline politics
  Historical mailing list - William R. Kennedy, NJIT CIAT, 201-596-5648
  Tue, 14 Nov 95 15:57:15 EST
  JCW sells Tyvec (funny papery stuff heavy-duty envelopes are made of) coveralls for $6 or so, I think. I threw one in each...
• Re: More power
  Historical mailing list - chris
  Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:00:47 -0800
  ...rip it off now > and get the muffler that bolts straight to the heater boxes ie. German > Supply part no. 071 251 053 E
• Re: camping with bears
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Mon, 2 Jul 2012 14:01:25 -0400
  ...I will look it up, but haven't yet. > > Anyone know anything about these boxes? The material with the boxes showed pictures of bears...
• IRS Conversions?
  Historical mailing list - No Quarter
  Sun, 2 Jun 1996 19:55:17 -0500 (CDT)
  ...I remember though, that by looking underneath, it had the reduction boxes on it. Now I hear about these IRS conversions that in effect...
• fixing old heat exchangers
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 13 Nov 1995 11:56:22 -0600 (CST)
  While the engine was out, I shopped around for a pair of used, but good, heater boxes. The 2 pairs I saw were in...
• Bolt on valve cover gaskets
  Historical mailing list - Greg Marshall
  Fri, 29 Nov 2002 10:32:11 -0500
  ...I'm getting tired of smoke filling the cab from oil leaking on the heater boxes. Greg. 82 westfalia
• Re: Friday survey for Westy owners
  Historical mailing list - Richard Koerner
  Sat, 12 May 2018 00:34:37 +0000
  ...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: Holy Auction site, Batman
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Fri, 8 Dec 2006 19:53:37 -0500
  ...shhhiiipppppinnnngng iss sdrrraaamamamticallly cuttt ttoooo !!!11!!!!!!! 17 screws for the utility boxes and firg vent FREEEEEEEEEEEEE !!!!!!!!!!!! These 12 utility box screws have been imported...
• Re: Clean Carpets
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 16 Feb 1999 12:59:23 EST
  ...it down??? they never were glued down.....no carpet in the vanagon is glued, except for the ones on the front seat boxes...... chris
• Re: Luggage rack and poptop
  Historical mailing list - Harmon Seaver
  Tue, 30 Jul 2002 18:29:02 -0500
  Speaking of the luggage rack, does anyone have a source for the "perfect" waterproof box or maybe bag for up there? All the boxes...
• Re: whats the most stuff youve ever fit in your vanagon??
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Sun, 13 Feb 2005 10:45:12 -0500
  50 boxes (at 39 pounds each) of ceiling planks went into my Westy not long ago. Another 46 were on the trailer I was...
• Re: New German 2.1l Heads!!!!
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot, Inc.
  Tue, 13 Mar 2001 16:27:28 -0500
  ...And I was told, by extremely reliable if not infallable sources, that these are the same old AMC/Marnal heads, repackaged in KS boxes...
• PHX - LA - Santa Rosa?
  Historical mailing list - Jim Ellis
  Tue, 18 Feb 2003 20:22:36 -0800
  Need to get a couple of boxes from Phoenix, AZ to Santa Rosa, CA. Is there anyone going to LA or even Nor Cal...
• Re: Translation needed
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Sat, 10 Dec 2005 16:29:00 -0800
  ...If you do a google images search for "foutmelding" you get a lot of screenshots of computer error message boxes. -- John Bange '90 Vanagon...
• Re: Volkswagen - Audi - Porsche' training tapes
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:28:54 -0500
  ...THEY ARE FROM VOLKSWAGEN, AUDI AND PORSCHE'. > > ALL TAPES ARE USED, BUT IN ALMOST PERFECT CONDITION, AND ARE IN THE > FACTORY > BOXES. THE BOXES...
• Good Bye - Traded Westy for Kia
  Historical mailing list - Richard Golen
  Sat, 1 Apr 2000 06:36:08 -0500
  ...The dealership is stuck with an 87 Westy that doesn't have a working gas fridge, bad heater boxes and missing axle reduction boxes...
• Vanagon Westy Accessory Boxes..
  Historical mailing list - Harry Yates
  Tue, 12 Mar 1996 14:48:44 +0000
  ...I was doing some checking while I was at the dealer today about the costs of these black accessory boxes. I couldn't believe...
• Re: Selling on the list
  Historical mailing list - Bill N
  Sun, 8 Sep 2002 00:29:02 -0700
  ...Some people are willing to pay more because a few bucks means little to them, and Mail Boxes Etc. is on the way home...
• Re: mouse profing
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Mon, 6 Aug 2012 19:52:24 -0700
  ...I have always kept some of those yellow boxes of mouse poison around .. and put those little boxes in nooks ..say behind a rear...
• Re: camping with bears
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Mon, 2 Jul 2012 13:29:15 -0500
  ...I will look it up, but haven't yet. > > > > Anyone know anything about these boxes? The material with the boxes showed pictures of bears...
• Inline Heaters
  Historical mailing list - Chris Chubb
  Thu, 12 Jan 1995 08:36:39 -0500
  ...I am wary of getting a *total* seal at the heater boxes, as they have to move around a little bit at the exaust...
• Stock carpet kits?
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Vickers
  Fri, 23 Sep 2005 12:53:07 -0700
  ...don't mean mats--I'm talking all the carpet that wraps around the seat boxes, etc. Am I dreaming? Jeff / 87 Syncro Westy
• heater cable snap
  Historical mailing list - Morris H. Arthur
  Mon, 25 Mar 1996 08:17:33 -0500
  ...Find the heater control box and wire the boxes permanently open. (Have someone play with the controls to help you find'em...) Obviously, you...
• Re: Shipping a transmission cross country - looking for ideas
  Historical mailing list - Jonathan Farrugia
  Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:36:53 -0400
  if your looking for an inexpensive option go to the local appliance store and scavenge for heavy walled boxes and pieces of packing foam...
• Re: Air cooled heater idea/questions
  Historical mailing list - neil
  Sun, 4 Feb 2007 19:34:26 -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...
• Re: Shipping 300Lbs vanagon parts?
  Historical mailing list - Ed Carroll
  Thu, 14 Feb 2002 07:57:09 -0500
  ...Anything that can be fit into boxes which suit the specifications can be sent by parcel post, third class U.S. Mail, for as...
• chuckboxes
  Historical mailing list - Karl F. Bloss
  Fri, 7 Aug 1998 16:54:58 -0500
  I know you Westy owners will say "get a Westy," but I'm thinking of getting one of those "chuck boxes" that holds your...
• air- cooled engine
  Historical mailing list - chris jackson
  Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:15:26 -0700
  ...No rust, boxes look to be good shape. & it's complete. Thank you, Chris 82 westy sf bay
• Re: Header exhaust system for 82 van
  Historical mailing list - Eric & Karen
  Thu, 2 Aug 2001 19:25:12 -0400
  ...Does anyone make a system that bolts on after the > heater boxes? Is this something I would need a custom exhaust guy to > do...
• Re: Comments wanted on this portable fridge
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Sun, 5 Aug 2007 06:23:41 EDT
  ...Stand alone 'fridge/freezer boxes Indeed these various stand alone 12v/110v refrigerator boxes look tempting, a little easier to install than something like...
• Re: OT & NVC & Pre-Friday: Palcohol?--now boxed wine discussion
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Fri, 25 Apr 2014 09:43:10 -0700
  ...They are running a rebate now of $4 a box up to four boxes, or $1.50/bottle . Can't beat that. The reds...
• Re: Frydaye - New achievement
  Historical mailing list - Richard A Jones
  Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:00:48 -0700
  ...I know folks who buy 5-6 boxes of cookies, but you.... Is this to be a lifetime supply? :-) Richard
• Gas heater question.
  Historical mailing list - GAK
  Sun, 7 Apr 1996 22:23:03 -0400 (EDT)
  I was wondering if it was possible to use a gas heater without the stock heater boxes in place. The van I looked at...
• Re: [WetWesties] RE: Porta-potti boxes
  Historical mailing list - Mike
  Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:10:20 -0400
  ...Porta-potti boxes > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Matthew Snook <matt@greenbeard.us> wrote: > > >> Gary down in La Pine showed...
• Re: Swing Axle Bug to bus questions.
  Historical mailing list - JOHNSON THOMAS H
  Wed, 13 Dec 1995 12:17:53 -0900 (AKST)
  ...The reductions boxes are UP SIDE DOWN, to make it go foward not 4 > speeds backwards (which would be kewl anyway). So how do...
• Re: Optima deep cycle batt. as starting battery?
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Fri, 16 Nov 2001 12:43:25 -0500
  ...They ALL have 7" deep battery boxes on both sides. Measuring was done in the wheel wells where the front outer section of the...
• Exhaust Extractors??
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 15 Nov 1994 16:17:06 -0500
  ...What I want is the extractor type of headers, preferably with heater boxes, but all I see pictured in the ads in magazines are...
• Re: in bear country - food in the van or not?
  Historical mailing list - W Peabody
  Fri, 3 Aug 2007 20:24:34 -0700
  It's strongly recommended by the park rangers to put everything in the bear boxes. Everything. Toothpaste, deodorant, lip balm... I slept outside while...
• Re: Gas cap
  Historical mailing list - Chris S.
  Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:20:03 -0400
  ...preserve thread integrity in the archives as well as our email boxes. Vielen Dank! Chris. Wysłane z iPhone'a Dnia Mar 13, 2012 o...