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  • Re: Canvas Replacement-I Regret Ever Buying This Van!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Historical mailing list - ralph meyermann
    Sun, 15 Apr 2012 11:29:04 -0600
    ...I've tried to tell her it is hard to jab an ice pick through your finger or smash your knuckles, and yell " Gosh...
  • Re: AC Part II
    Historical mailing list - Randy Bergum
    Mon, 28 Jun 1999 13:09:59 -0700
    ...I recently yanked out the screen in front of the rear evaporator coil and cleaned the coil with picks, brushes and coil blaster spray...
  • Re: tow behind trailer with lockable storage and gas tank
    Historical mailing list - 80 Westy Pokey
    Tue, 27 Nov 2001 05:30:29 -0800
    ...Any clues anyone? > > William Thanks, Chris Gronski '80 Westy "Pokey" - SLOPOKEY '87 Chevrolet Sprint - Ice Racer '91 Pontiac Firefly - Convertable
  • Trouble comes in threes
    Historical mailing list - David Clark
    Sat, 1 Jan 2000 11:24:50 -0000
    ...journey to pick up my parents for the holidays the following day. On Sunday the snow was 2" deep and had iced over seriously...
  • RE: Snow Tires??
    Historical mailing list
    Fri, 29 Sep 1995 18:58:24 PDT
    ...These tires are truely amazing on compacted snow and ice, especially on a full time four wheel drive car. Blizaks' give a weird feeling...
  • Fwd: Vanagon engine heater
    Historical mailing list - Tom Buese
    Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:16:32 -0700
    ...I > >>> picked > >>> up my brand new one just today. The part number is 605-1500. The > >>> current price, though, is $77.99 USD. They...
  • Re: E15 fuel?
    Historical mailing list - JRodgers
    Wed, 26 Dec 2012 23:06:42 -0600
    Yep! On 12/26/2012 10:34 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote: > 'xactly' .... > that's what HEET is ..an alcohol that will pick up...
  • Re: Reinstall refrigerator( or dance the Hokey Pokey)
    Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
    Sat, 26 Feb 2000 21:28:31 -0800
    ...locate screw holes with an ice pick & > > hookup 110v, gas, and 12v. 6. Install vent cover. Rawson Murdock '86 > > Westy
  • Re: safe harbor (Kingston Ontario)
    Historical mailing list - 80 Westy Pokey
    Tue, 11 Sep 2001 16:00:00 -0700
    ...If need be I can pick them up > from what ever [above] airport they may be stranded at. > > My and my families hearts go...
  • Re: Hankook RA08
    Historical mailing list - Kim Springer
    Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:01:30 -0800
    ...Hankook RA08 Last week picked up my Hankook RA08 in Northern Washington and had them installed. I got them from the Bus Depot. Interestingly...
  • Busses FS in Texas
    Historical mailing list
    Sat, 13 May 95 12:25:13 EDT
    Well my roomate just got back from Houston and to vex me he picked up an auto trader, I thought I'd list em...
  • Re: Reinstall refrigerator( or dance the Hokey Pokey)
    Historical mailing list - Davidson
    Sun, 27 Feb 2000 08:32:12 -0800
    ...locate screw holes with an ice pick & >> hookup 110v, gas, and 12v. 6. Install vent cover. Rawson Murdock '86 >> Westy >
  • Fridge upgrade installed
    Historical mailing list - Christopher Low
    Fri, 12 Sep 1997 09:35:48 EDT
    ...Just picked up my 1995 eurobago with the upgrade. What was done: -added extra vent by cutting another hole in side of van -new...
  • Re: 1.9 WBX VS 2.0 AC
    Historical mailing list - (Donna Cassano)
    Fri, 23 Jun 2000 10:16:49 -0400
    ...Just another system to have to maintain and worry about, but it is nice not to have to scrape ice off of the inside...
  • Re: A/C shop in CA?
    Historical mailing list - Jeff Oxroad
    Sat, 1 Jul 2006 18:35:51 EDT
    ...And that son of a gun blew COLD as ice for about three years. It was still blowing cold when the A/C clutch...
  • There are few bargains on eBay (Was: Can't Believe the Van Prices on eBay)
    Historical mailing list - Pokey
    Sun, 4 Mar 2001 08:14:59 -0800
    ...Apart from rare exceptions (I picked up a 1950's vintage stove worth $650 US for $30 US - but I think this had more...
  • Re: window gasket
    Historical mailing list - Max/Joyce Wellhouse
    Sun, 31 Oct 1999 02:36:40 -0800
    ...You must remove them with the toothbrush. >3) Prepare the "lubricating oil(CRC-556)" ,"Ice pick", "Big - Screwdriver".. > I attached beading to westy with...
  • 86+ cluster oil warning system
    Historical mailing list - mark drillock
    Mon, 9 Jan 2006 16:21:09 -0800
    ...with the dynamic warning system? The dynamic system > was working fine with the previous motor. > Any ideas? Ice pick to the cluster? > Al Brase
  • Re: fix the rust, or find a new body?
    Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
    Mon, 9 Apr 2007 14:00:22 -0700
    ...Heck, you could buy Tim's OEM ice cube trays and I bet he'd throw in a van for free! Just my opinion...
  • Re: Full Westy vs Weekender
    Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
    Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:26:08 -0500
    ...Sooooo, last trip to the junk yard I picked up an ice box/sink cabinet from an early bay. It wasn't in very...
  • Re: Full Westy vs Weekender
    Historical mailing list - Art Ames
    Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:04:10 -0500
    ...Sooooo, last trip to the junk yard I picked up an ice box/sink cabinet from an early bay. It wasn't in very...
  • EveryBus 2002 Thanks
    Historical mailing list - ncbus
    Sun, 21 Apr 2002 19:38:11 -0400
    ...Mad Uncle Dave for Taking care of the Chili contest The nice lady with crew cab for picking up my slack and winning the...
  • Re: Bear Attacks Camper NVC
    Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
    Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:43:11 -0600
    ...One bears says to the other as he picks his teeth - "I really like these - crunchy on the outside and soft, pink, and chewy...
  • Weakly Stats ...
    Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
    Fri, 21 Jul 95 00:07:48 CDT
    ...or if you are a Wanabus (don't have a bus right now, but plan on getting one before the next ice age), this...
  • Re: Traction? Not very much
    Historical mailing list - miguel pacheco
    Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:20:35 -0700
    Tom, that's funny, I have those Hakkas on my 2wd and you just say the words 'snow and ice' and it starts spinning...
  • Van has to go - FREE!
    Historical mailing list - Aristotle Sagan
    Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:46:59 +0100
    ...So for FREE (a four letter word) I offer a project van to anyone who will come pick it up. You will need a...
  • Re: Friday: Best Stupid Automotive Product
    Historical mailing list - Gary Bawden
    Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:52:23 -0800
    ...yet! Gotta be careful! First time I used it, I'd picked up a bottle and hadn't used it yet - - ran into freezing...
  • Re: Van was egged, how to remove?
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Fri, 4 May 2012 19:48:22 -0400
    ...Oooh...with a banana slug? May I watch? >Somehow I picked up the impression that raw eggs hardened into a >tenacious, epoxy-like substance...
  • Re: Subject: Re: SNOW CALL
    Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
    Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:51:42 -0800
    ...For one thing .........how dry or wet the snow/packed snow/ice is matters a lot. Dry very cold packed snow has great traction...
  • Re: Near Death Experience in the Vanagon
    Historical mailing list - Mike Williams
    Thu, 18 Oct 2001 14:00:08 -0700
    ...I > went ice skating in mine at 40 mph and banged into > the guard rail twice > with minimal damage (had to pick up the...
  • Re: Automatic vs Manual trans. ( Friday )
    Historical mailing list - Raymond Markett
    Fri, 11 Sep 2015 08:59:52 -0700
    ...The 5 speed auto in our 2004 Volvo seeks the highest gear without bogging down and does a good job picking the right gear...
  • Re: WIN a wolfsburg vanagon for just 10 dollars!! RAFFLE!
    Historical mailing list - mortimer peaberry
    Tue, 23 Sep 2003 16:42:29 -0700
    ...There are a lot of problems with our society, I would have liked to let my imagination go to SE PA to pick up...
  • Re: WIN a wolfsburg vanagon for just 10 dollars!! RAFFLE!
    Historical mailing list - Ben T
    Tue, 23 Sep 2003 19:49:30 EDT
    ...There are a lot of problems with our society, I would have liked to let my imagination go to SE PA to pick up...
  • Re: Vanagon ABS
    Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
    Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:13:48 -0800
    ...a vanagon is going to do WAY better than any Ford Explorer or chevy pick-up truck. remember the Ford Explorer flap a few...
  • Re: AC Troubleshooting - No Blower
    Historical mailing list - Robert Cardo
    Sun, 11 Sep 2005 17:01:00 -0500
    ...of power at all the connection's, but I prefer an "Ice Pick" type 12 volt power indicator tester. It's faster, and it...
  • Re: [WetWesties] Made by hand
    Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
    Fri, 2 Jul 2010 16:38:24 -0700
    ...Ursula has towed many vanagons many, many miles, up to 900 miles at a shot, including on ice going through Bend OR in the...
  • Re: Locking differential
    Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
    Tue, 2 Jan 2018 16:20:50 -0800
    ...They were really good > on > > hard ice and moderately deep snow (4" or so). However in deeper wet snow > (> > > 6") I encountered some problems...
  • Re: east coast caravan
    Historical mailing list - Alan Pickersgill
    Fri, 3 Jan 2003 23:47:50 -0500
    ...The trip wsa supposed to take two days but took 3 because we were surrounded by ice from an hour or so after departurre...
  • Re: Fridge upgrade installed
    Historical mailing list - Justin B. Jensen
    Fri, 12 Sep 1997 08:31:48 -0700
    Christopher Low wrote: > > HIGH ALTITUDE FRIDGE UPGRADE INSTALLED.... > > Just picked up my 1995 eurobago with the upgrade. > > What was done: > -added extra vent by...
  • Re: help me understand US emissions control strategy.(NVC)
    Historical mailing list - Roger Whittaker
    Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:35:30 -0700
    ...pickup is more "green" or less polluting than a diesel >>> Fiesta getting 65-frikken miles per gallon? How come our automakers can >>> sell pickup...
  • re: My Volkswagens-an EPA Danger
    Historical mailing list
    Mon, 15 Jul 1996 09:27:59 -0700
    ...With due respect to previous posters, its neither true that people need to be forced to save the ice caps, nor is it true...
  • Re: Traction? Not very much
    Historical mailing list - Tom Buese
    Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:39:33 -0700
    ...Now I can handle 10% grades covered >> w/ snow/ice almost as good as a real car! LOL >> >> I have never had to put...
  • Re: Trouble comes in threes
    Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
    Sat, 1 Jan 2000 11:36:22 -0600
    ...journey to pick up > my parents for the holidays the following day. > On Sunday the snow was 2" deep and had iced over seriously...
  • Re: help me understand US emissions control strategy.(NVC)
    Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
    Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:48:06 -0700
    ...the entire right side glacier was gone ............a few hundred feet thick of ice gone. Just bare dirt, ugly bare dirt, remained. You can...
  • Re: intro.
    Historical mailing list
    Tue, 12 Dec 1995 21:47:56 -0600
    ...Jason, As for the FAQ, I'd suggest rahter you picking up the idiot manual, it has all the Faq's you can imagine...
  • Hitch-hikers and karma
    Historical mailing list - Jonathan Poole
    Sat, 12 Feb 2005 20:24:17 -0700
    ...Maybe I found the keys and cap because I finally scraped enough ice off of the inside of my windshield, but I think that...
  • FW: snow in hawaii?
    Historical mailing list - mike miller
    Mon, 17 Dec 2001 14:49:59 -0800
    ...up their pickup trucks, pile snow in the backs and drive them back to sea level to build snowmen, make shave ice and have...
  • Re: Rust Repairs
    Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
    Wed, 17 Dec 2003 06:13:31 EST
    ...The rusting you see on the outside is just the tip of the ice berg. Always a bigger problem on the other side. This...
  • Marvelous! Mysterious! But what's wrong with my e...
    Historical mailing list - W. Silva
    Thu, 21 Oct 1999 07:55:03 -0400
    ...WE thought the first time about 2 months ago that we had picked it up at the gas station from bad gas but now...
  • Re: help me understand US emissions control strategy.(NVC)
    Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
    Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:25:36 -0500
    ...Sadly, the Ice Worm is now a threatened species with the demise of the glaciers. Of course no one talks of him. Being so...
  • Re: Full Westy vs Weekender
    Historical mailing list - J Stewart
    Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:13:06 +0000
    ...Sooooo, last trip to the junk yard I picked up an > > ice box/sink cabinet from an early bay. It wasn't in very...
  • Re: road trip to georgia..
    Historical mailing list - John Carpenter
    Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:45:01 +0000
    ...especially pickup trucks.. > > anyway i spent time w/. family and relatives in atlanta and savannah..nice > and warm there.. it was nice to be...
  • Re: EveryBus 2002 Thanks
    Historical mailing list - phil stanhope
    Sun, 21 Apr 2002 16:45:55 -0700
    ...of the Chili contest > The nice lady with crew cab for picking up my slack > and winning the > Chili cook off. > The Full Moon...
  • Traction? Not very much-I want a LSD and Go Claws (long)
    Historical mailing list - David Clarkson
    Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:58:28 EST
    ...Under the snow is a thick layer of ice because we started out the week with an ice storm. I have a 2WD Vanagon...
  • Re: Brake Booster - 1991 Carat
    Historical mailing list - SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott )
    Thu, 18 Sep 2014 14:35:43 -1000
    ...pump ( diesel vanagon ) like someone had heated the tip of an ice pick and melted a small hole in the underside of that line...
  • Re: vanagon Digest - 9 Nov 2005 - Special issue (#2005-930)
    Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Vickers
    Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:30:49 -0800
    ...like the "ice guard" stuff we have discussed on the list. One BIG > difference, it stinks to high heaven! I picked the stuff up...
  • Re: [WetWesties] How do Vanagons do in the snow?
    Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
    Sat, 29 Jan 2005 08:43:08 -0800
    ...I Just have 2 for the rear, but they are studded and make the van usable on snow and ice. If you can, get...
  • Re: mini-adventure: Westy propane at U-Haul
    Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
    Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:01:32 -0700
    ...saw in the Ice House and toss it back to you..or roll it off the dock into the pickup or the trunk of...
  • Re: If stuck in snow pull tab to open (gotta see this)
    Historical mailing list - mark drillock
    Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:33:36 -0800
    ...of 4x4 pickups blocking the road trying to get one of their trucks unstuck. They were also leaving due to the ice storm but...
  • Re: Preliminary...Headlight weirdness? (long) Solved!
    Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
    Sat, 9 Jun 2012 14:10:07 -0700
    ...with an alligator clip and a wire with a bulb and ice-pick arrangement on the other end? Or if I use my digital...