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• Re: minor accident questions
  Historical mailing list - KEN FRY
  Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:32:56 -0700
  I agree with the quality of bumpers. I was rearended by a PSE truck in my old 85 and did quite well by the...
• Re: Sliding door hinge update
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Palmer
  Mon, 23 Jul 2018 23:03:29 -0500
  is this the rubber bumper you are referring to? Eric, sound familiar? http://www.gowesty.com/product/lock-latch/24585/slider-door-stop?v...
• Re: auxiliary battery power to cab?
  Historical mailing list - Jay Brown
  Mon, 9 May 2011 01:52:10 -0400
  ...when it wiggled loose on bumpy roads killing the radio etc. Losing the radio until my next stop is no biggie, but if the...
• Re: Audi 4WD RE: Snow, 4wd vehicles and syncros
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:22:36 -0800
  The previous owner bumped my A4 1.8T up to about 250hp.� I did donuts (more like spin the bottle!) like that on a...
• Re: Fire Extinguisher
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Thu, 5 Feb 2009 18:21:23 -0500
  ...It seems to be about the least obtrusive right there...I never bump it or snag clothes on it..Handy for a fire outside...
• Re: Science of Washboarding
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:00:32 -0400
  ...you may indeed be experiencing the bumps faster than the suspension can respond to them. My knowledge stops at this point but my intuition...
• Re: tow bar
  Historical mailing list - Mark Keller
  Mon, 27 Dec 1999 10:44:22 -0800
  ...The crash beam would be fine as a stopping or braking point, but I'd remove the metal "bumper" cover. Sincerely, Mark Keller. 91...
• Re: Update on My Shocking choice...
  Historical mailing list - Mark Dorm
  Tue, 18 Feb 2003 15:04:29 -0800
  ...So I bought some >KYB shocks to save a few bucks... > >Since then, my wife complained about the bumps... The ride was a bit...
• Re: was Epoxy for bumper molding repair
  Historical mailing list - Jay Roth
  Mon, 29 Dec 2003 16:29:42 -0600
  ...stop immediately.) There was no obvious sign of external damage to an animal "left on" the car or the road (just slight bumper moulding...
• Re: SURVEY - I need a metal fab. project
  Historical mailing list - Mike Finkbiner
  Tue, 20 Aug 2002 15:18:22 +0000
  ...Like a lot of other Vanagon owners, my rear bumper is bent, so I would like to build a replacement rear bumper that has...
• Re: Defensive driving
  Historical mailing list - wb6otg
  Tue, 20 Mar 2001 08:18:05 -0500
  ...if you are at the mark on the count of three or >shortly there after, you will have safe stopping distance from the car...
• Re: ... & Head Question. (Virtual Friday)
  Historical mailing list - tim vb-o'brien
  Sun, 19 Mar 2000 08:33:05 -0800
  ...Take 10 gauge single strand wire and run at least 10 of these wires from the front bumper mounts to the rear bumper mouns...
• Re: Santa Cruz, where all vans apparently end up
  Historical mailing list - Joseph Fortino
  Fri, 17 Sep 2004 08:35:46 -0700
  well you can be sitting at a stop and still have some knuckle dragger hit ya. happened to me but lucky this time no...
• Re: Defensive driving
  Historical mailing list - Chuck Mathis
  Tue, 20 Mar 2001 09:09:59 EST
  ...if you are at the mark on the count of three or >shortly there after, you will have safe stopping distance from the car...
• Re: Wow! how bout this guy?
  Historical mailing list - mordo
  Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:46:41 -0400
  ...I just barely got the van stopped before I smashed into his > bumper...with lots of traffic whizzing by in the oncoming lane and...
• Rusty battery trays
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 11 Jul 1995 09:29:16 -0500 (CDT)
  When I was wrestling with the bumper this weekend I found a lot of rust on the battery tray on my '71 bus. It...
• Mr. Murphy must be lurking around the V@L !!!
  Historical mailing list - Cetin Seren
  Tue, 07 May 1996 05:57:56 -0400
  ...stop sign -- the 4x4 behind me, driven by a co-worker's wife, did not. A loud crash, and my '87's rear bumper...
• 90GL oil pressure (what's that sound?)
  Historical mailing list - jay m.
  Sun, 1 Oct 2000 20:32:42 -0700
  ...A couple hundered yards later we hit a bump and the light came on, but when we hit another bump a few seconds later...
• FS various Westy parts in Eastern CDA
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:06:05 -0700
  ...tank (R&Red by Frank Condelli, no regulator, auto-stop valve type), Chrome front bumper, Kitchen cover, Drip tray, NEW (US hinged type, goes...
• Re: twanging/creaking noise in front suspension
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:12:25 -0800
  ...parking lot speed bump) I could still > hear and feel that creak, almost a twanging sound like a spring > stretching. Can the springs be...
• Re: ## IMPORTANT!!! (was: Re: insane a/c project)
  Historical mailing list - TinkerMan
  Sun, 26 Aug 2001 04:52:49 -0700
  ...The bus > behind me stopped about an inch away from my rear > bumper, but when he had > packed for the trip, he had put...
• Re: Bumpers
  Historical mailing list - Oxroad
  Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:27:58 -0800
  Hey Scott-- From my point of view, the fiberglass bumpers look best. I even got some for my bus and started restoring them. I...
• FS: 87 Van in Rochester NY
  Historical mailing list - Joel Cort
  Thu, 29 Oct 1998 08:36:47 -0800
  ...Dings and scrapes on sliding door Rear bumper damages missing both end caps (needs new bumper) Missing one wheel cover Gas cap was inside...
• Vanagon GL Wolfsburg for Sale
  Historical mailing list - pete owsianowski
  Wed, 12 Nov 2003 20:58:21 -0500
  ...It had no apparent rust, Volkswagen Alloys and Black Euro looking Bumpers. Interior looked good thru the tinted windows. It had rearward facing middle...
• minor accident questions
  Historical mailing list - Rob Campbell
  Tue, 29 Jun 2004 19:13:46 -0700
  Hello- (I have an 88 Vanagon Westy) Today I was stopped in a long line of traffic, when I suddenly heard the sickening screech...
• Van update and spring perches
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sun, 8 Aug 2021 10:05:46 -0700
  ...But one thing unexpected was finding a separating spring perch and broken lower bump stop on drivers side. Maybe the spring shifting was causing...
• Soft shackles
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Fri, 31 Jul 2015 09:27:54 -0700
  ...Yesterday a rigger friend dropped by work and we started talking about the tow points on my rear bumper. I told him I had...
• Re: Pottery Vanagon sighted
  Historical mailing list - Joy Hecht
  Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:40:41 -0500
  ...Splintered 'glass front bumper and >> scuffed all over the outside, the interior featured egg crate foam over the >> rear bed with about three dozen...
• Re: trailer hitches and towing
  Historical mailing list - David Easterwood
  Thu, 23 Feb 1995 15:34:59 -0500
  ...I fabricated & welded together a piece that goes in the place of the front bumper on split window buses. Bolts right to the frame...
• Re: Stove grate
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:49:20 -0400
  ...hit a bump. Are there supposed to be little rubber caps or something on > the ends of the wires, to stop them from rattling...
• Re: Lowering a Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Mike Moery
  Mon, 31 Dec 2001 16:45:06 -0900
  ...You'd be riding on bump stops (you and all of the kids > with their slammed Japanese cars!). The only way to get this...
• Re: Tin top going camping... 2wd off road capability
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( Scott Daniel Foss )
  Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:53:00 -0800
  ...where you get in trouble is say ....uphill and big bumps...and you would be fine if you could to it at 4 mph...
• Re: Bumpers
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:50:34 -0800
  ...Bumpers >>>>>> >>>>>> Scott, >>>>>> I think the main reason some folks want bigger bumpers is that they >>>>>> look >>>>>> better than a flimsy bumper that bends in...
• Re: Seam rust?
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:34:19 -0700
  Krown.com anti rust oil. available in canada. Stoped my van's seam rust dead in its tracks. Wont fix it, but the seam...
• Re: Soft shackles
  Historical mailing list - Joe Fernandez
  Fri, 31 Jul 2015 11:08:00 -0700
  ...Joe On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Larry Alofs <lalofs@gmail.com> wrote: > Where do I learn to tie that stopper...
• Re: What's the shortest/lowest stock rear spring besides from the Carat?
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:20:09 -0700
  ...A donut inside the spring, over the bump stop post, to keep the spring centered on the post. I would cut rings from plastic...
• it is a puzzlement ... :)
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Wed, 04 Jun 97 12:33:10 CDT
  ...the only reasons i can come up with are: - bumpers? nah. both have wimpy bumpers. - camper stuff?? extra weight means longer stopping distances and...
• Re: Bumper Sticker
  Historical mailing list - Hector Zapata
  Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:03:39 -0400
  ...the traffic light at an intersection failed, and people took turns stopping and letting the other lanes thru, wow. Try that one over here...
• Re: Movies
  Historical mailing list - Blaine Bachman
  Fri, 10 Jul 1998 19:53:08 EDT
  ...At one point the train stops, and at the road crossing is a VW ambulance: Bay window cab, Split screen Kombi sides (three square...
• Re: Chrome bumper for '85 GL.
  Historical mailing list - David Griffin
  Mon, 21 Sep 1998 13:54:41 -0400
  ...Went to one RV stop and they couldn't do it...< My fill valve was frozen shut, and couldnt be freed. Replacements were over...
• 85 GL-- No Go
  Historical mailing list - Terry Kay
  Sun, 1 Oct 2000 22:59:19 -0500
  ...However, upon stopping at the first light that I came to, I noticed that the idle was up around 1000--1100 rpm.-Huh. Then...
• Re: Brakes completely died.
  Historical mailing list - Allan Streib
  Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:02:19 -0400
  ...Luckily I was > traveling up hill and stopped inches from bumper in front of me. Luckily > I > just had to do a U turn...
• Re: Front Door Hinge Modification?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:46:35 -0700
  the idea is to provide an intermediate 'bump' on the limit strap thingey, so it can stop opening at about 55 to 60 % open...
• Re: Vanagonginity lost...
  Historical mailing list - Peter DiFalco
  Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:16:40 -0700
  ...I also needed to mount a license plate to my front bumper. Now you didn't mention what year of vehicle you purchased, but...
• Re: venting about irresponsible drivers
  Historical mailing list - Roger Whittaker
  Mon, 29 Aug 2016 16:17:50 -0700
  ...Just after I stopped the second > time, a vehicle hit the camper's rear bumper, thwack!. The damage was > minor, a broken bumper on...
• Re: roadkill treasures..was: Re: wanted: 14" wheel covers
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:25:57 -0800
  ...but i remembered the > mile marker.. > > on my way home, i stopped.. and sure enough.. > it was half of a vanagon rear fiberglass > bumper...
• <syncro> spring pre-loads
  Historical mailing list - Tim Smith
  Mon, 22 Jun 1998 13:16:19 -0300
  ...BUT a good bump and that 5" travel may get eaten up, along with a bit more travel and the shock's bump stops...
• Re: Rear Bumper removal
  Historical mailing list - Ed Wiebe
  Tue, 2 May 2006 18:21:32 -0700
  ...First stop Sol Duc Hot Springs, then explore the Olympic National Park, cross to Whidbey Island and back to Vancouver, BC and then home...
• Re: carrying canoe on camper top
  Historical mailing list - Mark Howser
  Thu, 26 Dec 96 12:25:55 -0500
  ...Just be sure to securely tie the front and back of the canoe to the bumpers of your van. Stop and retighten the rope...
• Re: Drafting for better MPG
  Historical mailing list - Jack R.
  Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:42:53 -0400
  ...Mike B. > 3.) If you are paying attention, you will not end up as a rear bumper > ornament on a semi. Stopping distance for...
• Intermittently Sticks In 4th Gear 3/4 Slider Hub?
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Tue, 6 May 2014 17:09:38 -0700
  ...stop quickly. No time to shift out of 4th. Just jumped on the brakes and clutch. Transmission got stuck in 4th. I gently "bumped...
• syncro sighting..White Salmon, Wa.
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:33:16 -0800
  ...Big tube front bumper, custom looking rear hatch rack, driving lights, alloy wheels and big brakes, looked lifted up, awning. and a 3.3...
• Re: Seam rust?
  Historical mailing list - developtrust
  Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:49:53 -0700
  The product called por 15 is known to stop rust after you wire brush away any loose rust. But you need to do both...
• Re: Soft shackles
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Fri, 31 Jul 2015 14:16:56 -0700
  ...Alistair > On Jul 31, 2015, at 10:46 AM, Larry Alofs <lalofs@gmail.com> wrote: > > Where do I learn to tie that stopper knot...
• Re: FS: Pop-top Assembly
  Historical mailing list - Aristotle Sagan
  Tue, 4 Apr 2006 11:38:17 -0700
  If this freaking rain doesn't stop soon. I have water in the back yard up to the bumpers of the 81 Westy (make...
• Re: Digijet rough/wandering idle and bucking at slower speeds
  Historical mailing list - John Meeks
  Thu, 26 Sep 2013 19:34:39 -0400
  ...interruption (from > the bumps) or the ECU gets "confused" when jostled over bumps or the AFM > gets whacky from the bumps. The ride smoothed...
• Re: Ques: squeak under passenger seat.
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Drahzal
  Wed, 29 Jan 97 13:33:04 PST
  ...Does the squeak occur when the van >> is stopped or moving? When going over bumps? Is it constant or >> intermittent? >> >> >>______________________________ Reply Separator >>Hell oall...
• Re: Lowering a Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - joseph Trussell
  Mon, 31 Dec 2001 13:22:53 -0700
  ...You'd be riding on bump stops (you and all of the kids > with their slammed Japanese cars!). The only way to get this...
• Re: for syncros ... check it out!
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Tue, 12 Oct 1999 11:15:27 +0200
  ...corner a standard > feature? In both of my manuals, the rear bump stop mount is described as mount for additional spring. Maybe that's...
• Re: Painting Fiberglass bumpers
  Historical mailing list - Syncronicity1
  Sun, 24 Jun 2007 09:44:05 -0700
  Well, I just painted them a couple of weeks ago. (usual clean/degrease with Simple Green and sand everything) Used: - Dupli-Color Bumper Coating...