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• rear speaker wires
  Historical mailing list - Rob & Lrae Winterkorn
  Fri, 19 Nov 1999 13:27:43 -0600
  After bypassing my amps, checking both speakers I have found too much resistance on my rear speaker wire. I get continuity so I don...
• Re: Bypassed DIS
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 20 May 2010 10:19:55 -0400
  ...anything else that I should be concerned with >due to the bypass? I don't know how long it's been this way before...
• Re: Canadian Shipping Whining--- [adr]
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Sun, 9 Jun 2002 13:41:33 +1200
  If you import parts, it is possible to bypass the brokers if YOU pick up the item at its point of arrival in the...
• Re: AC Thermostat
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Thu, 16 Sep 2004 23:48:22 -0400
  ...But > my friend suggested that I just bypass the t-stat for now. > > He explained that the t-stat functions to protect the condenser...
• Re: Daytime Running Lights-91 Carat
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 25 Feb 1997 20:11:08 -0800
  ...You might want to consider adding a rely that is wired to bypass the switch when the engine is running and the alternator is...
• Running without a cat
  Historical mailing list - Christopher Gronski
  Mon, 18 Jul 2005 15:04:46 -0400
  ...What happens if you run your vehicle without a catalytic converter installed? Assuming you had a bypass tube installed would you just install your...
• Re: Fridge burner indicator light bright, then dim?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 7 Jan 2003 12:52:33 -0500
  ...The light comes on full brightness when I flip on the cooling >fan bypass switch! (this switch only bypasses the little temp sensor on...
• Re: time vs. rpm vs. wear
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 2 Feb 1996 00:05:42 -0500
  ...com (Steve Johnson) writes: >Dennis, > >Is this fan switch just a bypass to the thermo-controlled switch? > >Steven > >sjohnson@pcocd2.intel.com No, it...
• Re: what is with the plug
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Pollard
  Wed, 2 Aug 2000 09:03:52 -0700
  ...It is a mystery to me what that thing does because it seems to run great with her bypassed (in my experience). Cheers Matthew...
• Re: Thermostat with a hole?
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Fri, 23 Apr 2021 14:45:45 -0700
  ...The latest OEM thermostat, > > revision F > > > not only does not have a bypass, the top throttle plate is actually > > > gasketed to prevent any bypass...
• Re: Coolant filter
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:09:51 -0700
  ...I'd want it as large as a can size air filter myself. 'bypass' layout is not a bad idea either. might get you...
• Re: time vs. rpm vs. wear
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 2 Feb 1996 00:05:55 -0500
  ...com (Steve Johnson) writes: > >Dennis, > >Is this fan switch just a bypass to the thermo-controlled switch? > >Steven > >sjohnson@pcocd2.intel.com No it...
• Re: ETKA
  Historical mailing list - aircooled chris
  Sun, 21 Nov 2004 08:56:56 -0800
  ok, i give up, what does ETKA stand for? John Rodgers wrote: > Anyone have the ETKA Hardlock bypass files they could pass to me...
• Re: Oil cooler
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:28:32 -0500
  ...So until I see viable scientific procedures that tell me that I can eliminate the OEM oil cooler, OEM oil pressure bypass I'm...
• Re: Residual Fuel Pressure: hold for 1 hour?
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Sun, 2 Mar 2014 16:47:13 -0800
  ...When I flipped the bypass switch I could hear fuel rush into the hose, regulator, rail then pressure up. Engine started ok. On 3...
• for Ken Wilfy (delete unless you are he... or just have to read it!)
  Historical mailing list - Caston/Payne
  Wed, 5 Jan 2000 21:41:45 -0500
  (Sorry for the bandwidth folks) Hello Ken, A while back you posted that you had idle stabilizers (the one you bypass to set timing...
• Bypass switch for rad fan-installed!
  Historical mailing list - Scott Mccutcheon
  Thu, 8 Jul 2004 09:36:52 -0700
  Hi, Just wanted to thank the folks for the advice on the radiator fan-i ran a switch, it was easy to do- and...
• Re: Oil Filter performance
  Historical mailing list - Mark Keller
  Tue, 6 Nov 2007 05:32:56 -0800
  ...www.*gulf**coast**filter*s.com Also motorguard makes essentially the same media www.bypass*filter*.com. I have both The gulf coast is...
• Re: Dometic fridge on 110V?
  Historical mailing list - Joachim Preiss
  Sun, 25 May 2003 17:01:31 -0400
  Does the fridge rely on gravity or why does it have to be level? Is overheating the concern? I bypassed the thermostat and it...
• Is This Idle Stabilizer Really Necessary?
  Historical mailing list - Rusty Johnson
  Sun, 11 Mar 2001 00:21:43 EST
  In the course of rebuilding the engine in my '80 Westy, the mechanic tried reconnecting the idle stabilizer, which had been bypassed since before...
• Re: Is there a phone number for Dometic refrigerator technical help?
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Tue, 13 Sep 2005 19:04:06 -0400
  I have researched the thermistat on the 182b a bit and see that there is a bypass screw.This screw allows the gas pressure...
• Re: [WetWesties] Help!!! Won't start
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Sun, 19 Apr 2015 10:44:19 -0700
  It prevents starting in gear, and you don't want to bypass that! I've replaced them on both the vans I work on...
• Re: Engine running COLD
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:48:01 -0500
  ...When you get the replacement check that it does not have any bleeder or bypass opening in the top disc and there should actually...
• Re: Inline Heaters
  Historical mailing list - Steve Walker
  Fri, 13 Jan 95 08:00:34 EST
  ...Maybe have a electric bypass so you could turn it off. Steve ************************************************************************* \ Steve Walker '64' Micro "Amelia" / / E-Mail: Walker4@ccfsun.nrl.navy.mil...
• Re: Synthetic oils and bypass filtration
  Historical mailing list - Sharpe, Steven (Facilities Planning)
  Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:02:32 -0400
  ...I then started researching bypass filtration. The two systems that I finally narrowed my choices down to were the Gulf Coast filter unit and...
• Generic setting for Throttle Body
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Fri, 27 Jul 2001 14:29:45 -0500
  If I have a throttle body that has had the idle stop screw messed with and the air bypass screw changed from it's...
• Re: Sagging Wolfsburg/Carat Table
  Historical mailing list - James V
  Fri, 20 Feb 2004 01:11:33 -0800
  ...hard disk! Take it Yep, apparently the correct solution is to bypass the latch all together. I'm told that Velcro also works well...
• Re: overheating issues
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Wed, 7 Sep 2005 11:54:39 -0700
  ...Heater loop is fed off the coolant manifold coming off the right side head, returns to the small nipple on the bypass pipe that...
• Re: Definitive test for Hall > ECU?
  Historical mailing list - Geza Polony
  Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:30:40 -0400
  ...Start by setting the timing, with the idle stabilizer bypassed, to 10* ATDC, hoses attached, 950 rpm. You should be able to get it...
• Re: I'm Freezing
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Thu, 29 Mar 2001 09:19:28 -0800
  ...Most heat will come out of the rear heater since it is closest to the engine, and if it has been bypassed instead of...
• Re: Coolant filter
  Historical mailing list - Michael Snow
  Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:30:52 -0400
  ...The only way that I would even consider installing one is in a bypass circuit where a plugged filter cannot restrict the flow of...
• Re: Oil pressure gauge
  Historical mailing list - Steve Walker
  Thu, 12 Jan 95 16:46:26 EST
  ...I have a burg bypass plate onthe pump cover to dump >125psi on cold starts. Oil is the blood of the bus! you must...
• Re: Antifreeze Sauna
  Historical mailing list - - Lauren Pelzer
  Wed, 29 Mar 2000 18:29:51 EST
  ...get me for $625 for the job....which included $231 for the part!! I ended up just having them bypass it like you did.
• Re: FOLLOW UP MINOR? COOLANT CATASTROPHE HELP NEEDED
  Historical mailing list - Loren A. Busch
  Thu, 31 Jul 2003 08:25:57 -0700
  To plug or bypass with rear heater out: I pulled the rear heater in my '90 Westy several months ago and plugged the hoses...
• Re: $100 Reward Results
  Historical mailing list - jennifer rabbitt
  Tue, 15 Jul 2014 19:04:05 -0700
  ...TURBOVANS.COM> wrote: > > there is ALWAYS RISK with just adding a bypass wire like that. > perhaps you have already .. > but until enough of the...
• more questions for '80 vanagon not running right....hep me..hep me! ;-)
  Historical mailing list - Paul Archibald
  Thu, 3 Oct 2002 13:03:39 -0700
  ...It started up and ran great! so...what is this box and what does it do? can I run the van with bypassing it...
• Re: No Clutch....
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Tue, 2 Feb 2010 08:01:33 -0600
  differential contraction of parts can allow fluid bypass more readily, I think. Though I have heard it suggested that if bypass is a sometime...
• Re: Removing rear heater in Westy?
  Historical mailing list - TJ Hannink
  Wed, 24 Aug 2005 07:52:18 -0700
  ...When you couple them you provide another way for coolant to bypass the radiator without being able to control it like the valve on...
• Re: Fridge on DC power
  Historical mailing list - george jannini
  Wed, 11 Jul 2012 15:12:57 -0400
  ...The 12 Volt setting bypasses the thermostat and the heater is operating 100% of the time while consuming 7 Amps of current. Geo/ATL
• White exhaust pipes
  Historical mailing list - Chris Winesette
  Thu, 9 May 2002 17:20:20 EDT
  ...Whats wrong? I con't afford a new catalic (sp) converter so I put the bypass pipe on. My engine also idles just about...
• Re: radio help
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Mon, 11 Nov 2002 18:04:06 -0500
  ...Is there another way? Does anyone know if this security "chip" > can be bypassed? If it is anything like the Vanagon OEM radios, wait...
• bypass plastic fuel Tee? good/bad idea?
  Historical mailing list - Myers, Thomas A
  Tue, 3 Aug 2004 10:56:32 -0400
  I have been reading all these notes regarding fuel lines and some fingerpointing at the plastic fuel tee at the firewall. Are the fuel...
• Removing rear heater in Westy?
  Historical mailing list - Brian Wasson
  Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:13:54 -0500
  ...It looks to be as simple as connecting the in and out hoses together with a coupler, bypassing the heater core. Anyone done this...
• High Idle Speed Problem
  Historical mailing list - James E. Piper
  06 Dec 95 08:32:50 EST
  ...Looking through the Bently manual, it seemed to suggest that the idel stabilizer could be allowing air to bypass the throttle valve, so I...
• Re: Subaru wiring harness
  Historical mailing list - David Bayer
  Mon, 23 Mar 1998 18:18:14 -0800
  ...The amount of heat that is delivered is adjusted by passing part of the air stream through the heater and the rest bypasses the...
• Re: REAR HEATER VALVE - 'Not' Understood (Sorry Zoltan)
  Historical mailing list - Larry Hamm
  Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:06:05 -0700
  ...This serves to keep the engine in a very narrow temp range, but it relies on a bypass loop to tell the thermostat when...
• Re: power steering
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Wed, 11 Jul 2012 23:54:01 -0400
  ...I presume that even while pulling against the hard-over wheels there's a certain amount of bypass through the rack hydraulics. Yrs, d
• NVC- 71 Bus wiring
  Historical mailing list - Jim Cochran
  Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:22:22 -0800
  ...I had already bypassed the starter part of the switch years ago when the switch failed- installed a starter button. Now I need to...
• Emergency kit spares/Re: Bypassing rear heater core?
  Historical mailing list - Karen Olson
  Mon, 3 Apr 2000 08:36:01 -0500
  I want to carry some replacement parts for emergency repairs to the cooling system. What size straight and T couplers do I need to...
• Erratic idle
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Schiebel
  Tue, 3 Apr 2001 16:52:46 EDT
  ...I ended up screwing in the idle bypass screw about .5 turns it smoothed it right out. Hope this might help, Jeff s
• Flickering Oil Light on 83.5 Westy
  Historical mailing list - Bill Thomas
  Mon, 1 Apr 2002 16:55:05 EST
  ...I have 176,000 miles and I have replaced the oil pressure bypass plunger and spring and also replaced the sender unit. I did...
• Re: low compression\rough cold idle-1.9L
  Historical mailing list - joe brown
  Sun, 17 Nov 2002 18:23:14 -0800
  Does opening the idle bypass screw on the throttle body make it idle fast enough to stay running when cold? Also I imagine you...
• P/S into air cooled Van?
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 11 Mar 1997 22:27:37 +0000
  ...use the waterboxer vacuum valve solution plumbed into the same bypass as the bypass air valve. Any conjecture on a better/cheaper pump while...
• Re: Anything like this for 1.9L?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 27 May 2011 17:14:25 -0400
  ...stock with rad bypass through ATF cooler, GW external ATF cooler with direct rad bypass, and manual has no bypass at all. That's...
• Re: Golf GTI oil coolers available?
  Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
  Fri, 28 Sep 2001 18:12:25 EDT
  ...I also left the thermal bypass valve on the RX-7 oil cooler. Until the oil warms up to 210F (I think), the oil...
• Re: Back-up lights
  Historical mailing list - Gene P
  Wed, 30 Oct 2013 17:53:52 -0700
  ...Power directly to the feed to the lights, bypassing everything except wiring from the wiring box to the lights - lights stay on! (Eliminating bulbs...
• RE: Batteries/Dual Installation
  Historical mailing list - Clark M. Carr
  01 Dec 95 14:12:22 EST
  ...The dealer and Bently both say there is supposed to be a bypass relay installed. Does anyone know where this relay used to live...
• Re: AFM adjustment; clockwise or anticlockwise?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 16 Jun 2012 13:58:11 -0400
  ...Are you taking the idle mixture bypass screw or did you remove the cover and plan to adjust (tamper) with the main spring. After...
• Re: Anything like this for 1.9L?
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Sat, 28 May 2011 15:56:52 -0700
  ...It would only be during summer climbing up long, hot grades that I'd start to question the wisdom of leaving that bypass open...
• Re: Cat Bypass Pipe "pros & cons"
  Historical mailing list - Chris Szpejankowski
  Fri, 17 Apr 2015 10:19:10 -0400
  ...18:58 Jack Reynaert <jack007@COMCAST.NET> napisał(a): > Has anyone ran a 2.1L WBX with the CAT Bypass Pipe? > http://www.busdepot...