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• cross country trip rom Norcal to Eastern TN & I hope Back
  Historical mailing list - Sam Williams
  Sat, 20 Sep 2003 18:46:33 EDT
  ...Then we go to Circle yer Wagons at Sevierville, near Dollywood! As you see I am a hybrid splittie, Baywindow vanagon nut, so would...
• Re: Don't waste your money. Fuel Line's - Filters etc to prevent leaks?
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Thu, 18 Dec 2003 14:51:17 -0700
  ...Bob Stevens http://groups.msn.com/BobsPhotoShare http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tiico "Has anyone ever seen a split or leaking "hose"?" ERic _________________________________________________________________ Make...
• Central Locking Trace-down - Boy am I confused.
  Historical mailing list - Matthew C. Huntley
  Sat, 19 Mar 2005 20:22:12 -0800
  ...Bently(there are two different ones for 1986, it is a split year...). I have found that they all diverge a bit. Pulling my...
• Skylight Direction Opinions Sought
  Historical mailing list - Christopher Gronski
  Sat, 8 Jul 2006 11:28:27 -0400
  ...the only direction NOT currently available in our vans (the only VW vans with this ability were the old Safari window splits Chris P...
• Re: Auxillary propane tank
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:39:11 -0700
  ...NET> wrote: > They offered a solution which > requires a valve and splitter be installed in between the shut-off valve and > the OPD valve...
• Re: small front table
  Historical mailing list - Tom Buese
  Thu, 7 Feb 2008 11:39:35 -0700
  ...They were also available in, I believe, Sundial splitty campers. Mr. BZ > > chris > > > ************** > Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all time on AOL Music. > > > (http...
• 2.1 distributor drive gear installation question
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:19:52 -0500
  ...be dropped in place with the slot parallel to the case split? Small segment faces water pump. Huh? Does this mean that the smaller...
• Buses in HMN
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 12 Jun 95 23:21:12 EDT
  ...is interested in those BTW are splits really going for this in the real world?? well U split owners, I am really pissed as...
• Re: VWs in Hollywood [was VW sighting (Field of Dreams)]
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 16 Dec 1995 02:29:27
  ...Ridgemont High" -one of the high school Surf dudes drives >a splittie... > >...Uh...."Herbie".... or is that too obvious > >There was some movie about...
• Re: Freeze Plugs was Oops - I let the engine freeze
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Fri, 4 Feb 2011 15:09:29 -0600
  ...the plastic ones for sure ...I can see those splitting easily.. they just fail from age and heat anyway sometimes. Scott turbovans ----- Original Message...
• Re: Distributor Shaft Pin
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Thu, 8 Jun 2017 16:31:19 -0700
  ...Has anyone replaced the pin holding the distributor shaft to drive gear with an SAE equal size roll pin (split sleeve type)? If so...
• Re: more free rims, near San Diego - Irked by "rims"
  Historical mailing list - J Stewart
  Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:01:28 +0000
  ...I know so many guys (myself included) who started out in their teens or early 20's driving Splitties, then graduated to Bay window...
• Re: Modern Japanese Vans with Retro Faux Split / Bay Window Looking Front Facades
  Historical mailing list - Roger Whittaker
  Tue, 2 Nov 2010 23:10:41 -0700
  ...here. > >> > >> I recall seeing some modern Japanese vans with retro faux split / bay > window > >> looking front facades. I'm assuming these are kits, does...
• Re: [T2] A very special VW Van!
  Historical mailing list - 80 Westy Pokey
  Fri, 16 Aug 2002 06:45:33 -0400
  ...image, it looks to me like a photo taken of a splittie >with one of those 15mm fisheye super wideangle lenses, and then somehow...
• Re: still not starting..
  Historical mailing list - Open Wheel Racing
  Wed, 19 Mar 2003 22:50:43 -0600
  ...Mark your pulley at the split of the case. This is "O" degrees! Don't turn the engine again, until you follow instructions below...
• Re: VW camping season started?
  Historical mailing list - Roy Nicholl
  Sun, 3 Mar 2019 21:08:33 -0400
  ...Today there were a 9 VW vans > camped, all spread around in different spaces, seemingly all unrelated. > > 6 Vanagons > 1 Bay window > 1 Split...
• Re: And so it begins - 88GL
  Historical mailing list - Roy Nicholl
  Fri, 6 Oct 2017 00:15:38 -0300
  ...If > its to much, and it requires the case be split, the whole thing goes to the > scrap heap in favor of a Subaru...
• mini-adventure: Westy propane at U-Haul
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Tue, 29 Jun 2010 06:13:09 -0700
  ...a diesel Rabbit pickup, and he just sold a 23 window split for "too much money to turn down."� You meet the nicest people...
• Re: Many newbie questions.
  Historical mailing list
  20 Oct 94 24:28
  ...Anyway, there's this guy in england that makes fibre-glass bumbers for Splits and Early Bay-windows (like yours). The front bumper comes...
• Re: Reenforced Deluxe splitties
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Henricks
  Wed, 26 Jul 1995 09:30:32 -0700 (PDT)
  On Wed, 26 Jul 1995, Mike White wrote: > Question: Do all buses have the pan that fits over the master > cylinder area. My '67...
• Re: Ramona Rests (fwd)
  Historical mailing list - Gerald Skerbitz
  Mon, 17 Apr 1995 10:49:03 -0500 (CDT)
  ...If you had a split window van it would be even easier...you just unbolt the engine, prop it up on a milk crate...
• Re: splitting californians
  Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
  Tue, 15 Nov 1994 09:57:47 -0800 (PST)
  >ok. so the left coast is getting tooooo many. if all you dudes and dudettes >from the shake-and-bake state will tell me...
• Re: rec.autos.vw call for votes
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 22 Jun 1995 11:26:25 -0300
  ...questions were a small minority. Wasserboxer questions were almost non-existant. Splitting rec.autos.vw means little to me, I'd still browse both...
• Re: sunroof like in Jurassic Park
  Historical mailing list - Maher, Steve (SD-MS)
  Fri, 15 Dec 1995 12:21:00 -0800 (PST)
  ...Here in Pacific Beach (a Sandy Eggo suburb), there is a splittie cruising around with no roof or windows. Zero, zip, nada, none. I...
• Re: PopTop Seals - NEW INFO & prices!
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 24 Jan 1997 00:18:16 +0000
  ...I could also offer a smaller size for > splittie poptops, at a lower price, but I'm not too familiar with those > poptops. Do...
• Re: two questions
  Historical mailing list
  20 Dec 96 06:52:46 PST
  ...I need both lists to get answers to my betwixt beast questions, not a split or loaf and not a waterboxer. - Jeff '80 Westi
• Re: 5 speed? they do exist (in Europe...)
  Historical mailing list - Meier Michael
  Mon, 13 Jul 1998 17:08:01 +0200
  ...Best wishes Michael Meier Germany 58 split 77 westy 90 caravelle auto
• Re: trailer hitch
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Fri, 7 May 1999 10:52:49 -0700
  ...I have towed log splitters, concrete mixers, small boats, a motorcycle trailer and a car dolly with a dead MGB on it. The MGB...
• Re: VW Trends and Eurospec
  Historical mailing list - Captain Ray Nemo
  Sat, 22 Jan 2000 19:59:34 -0800
  ...Although there is some good splittie stuff, don't waste your time if you are looking for vanagon or eurovan info. I think I...
• Re: Expansion Tank
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Wed, 12 Apr 2000 23:31:47 -0400
  ...tales of how to glue or >otherwise repair the seam that splits at the bottom? It's some variety of polyethylene -- pretty much nothing...
• (F) TV Ad Bus Sightings(NVC)
  Historical mailing list - Melissa Mourkas
  Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:09:16 -0800
  ...There's a third ad featuring a splittie at a red light in the desert next to some unrecognizable-cause-they-all look-the...
• Re: Improvement or desecration?
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Fri, 5 Apr 2002 13:22:15 -0600
  ...do you think when you see a bay-window or a split-window bus > with a cut > dash to fit that new CD player...
• 2.1L( 2wd) crankshaft shims, help
  Historical mailing list - Ken Lewis
  Fri, 26 Jul 2002 18:55:31 -0400
  ...The three C shims must go on the outside of the main bearing so you can adjust endplay without splitting the case. But what...
• Re: OLDER RIMS FITTING NEWER WESTY
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 12 Nov 2002 15:20:25 EST
  ...by the way why was it in there? rusty? its a shame that another splitty gets junked.. chris
• Classic VW Car Show, today
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sun, 27 Apr 2003 13:49:10 -0700
  ...I counted over 30 split window busses of most every type and year. Many looked restored better than new and others were styled and...
• Re: Vanagons are too cool?
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:39:00 -0700
  ...So these young people see the VW Bus as the icon of that time and the Vanagon the same as a Splittie in their...
• BUGOUT Report
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 28 May 1996 18:36:14 -0500
  ...Quite a few buses though not many nice splits as a rule a bunch of bays, cool for me a bay lover. One or...
• Re: Dometic 182B wiring
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Sat, 24 Aug 2013 21:43:04 -0700
  ...I'm likely hair splitting. With clean contacts, the OEM Euro fuse should be just fine. Neil. On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 3...
• Re: Modern Japanese Vans with Retro Faux Split / Bay Window Looking Front Facades
  Historical mailing list - Roger Whittaker
  Tue, 2 Nov 2010 23:56:35 -0700
  dear 51 my absolute last word on this non friday non van bit ... david frum is on colbert tonight as the republican election icon...
• Re: St. Muir Solenoid Trick
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 14 Apr 1995 13:34:59 +0600
  ...It sucks, but thats what ya gotta do to get a tunnel case >trans in a splitcase bus. > >Thom My humblest apologies. I would...
• Return or an old problem
  Historical mailing list - David Chasteen
  Sun, 10 Aug 1997 22:38:24 -0500
  ...Just before this all started, I put a set of splitfire sparkplugs in it. Wrong? or what. 2. Is there any way to check...
• Re: shrinking parts
  Historical mailing list - edward m bennett
  Sat, 30 Aug 1997 17:41:50 -0700
  Alexander Vitakis wrote: > > My westy table edging (grey) shrunk so bad it split and fell off the table. > > Anybody else have this happen? > > Where...
• part catalouges are on their way to canada
  Historical mailing list - Meier Michael
  Mon, 18 May 1998 16:34:50 +0200
  ...Best wishes from germany Michael Meier expecting the annual german Bulli-Kartei split bus event wednesday to sunday
• Re: Projektzwo foglight spares.....what if you break your $300 foglites?
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 29 Aug 2002 13:13:52 EDT
  ...If they are not available, > does anyone out there want to split a set to obtain needed spares? I need > one lens assembly and...
• Re: Just wondering
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 27 Jul 2002 20:09:49 -0400
  The old splittie busses had the air intake on over the windshield and the rear windows popped to make a vacuum effect. The 1998...
• Vanagon carrying capacity impresses
  Historical mailing list - Gregory Smith
  Wed, 5 Mar 2003 13:02:59 -0800
  ...For the trips with plywood I split the load into 2 700lb loads. The Vanagon is great for this since the entire load of...
• Re: tool identification request
  Historical mailing list - Steve Cotsford
  Mon, 17 Feb 2003 14:31:34 -0500
  ...The curve on it suggests that it may be also useable for scraping split plain bronze bearings, also for machine tools etc. One scrapes...
• Re: bus name?
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:29:08 -0600
  ...anybody care to comment as to WHY we do that? all i can come up with is that the bus (vanagon, eurovan, splittie, or...
• Re: Mud flaps
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:21:41 -0800
  I could if I could just find a replacement for my 24 year old front left flap that decided to split in half a...
• Headlight relays, was: 758227.jpg
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:13:06 -0700
  ...From there the 2 wires go to the fuse panel where each splits into 2 more with an individual fuse for each of the...
• Re: Stretch Westy Google "Street View" voyeurism
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Sat, 2 Jun 2007 21:02:30 -0400
  Hi Jake, It i most assuredly an early baywindow, not a splitty. Have a look here: http://www.busesofthecorn.com/googlestreets/Picture1.jpg This...
• Re: Few maintenance questions
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Sat, 24 Nov 2007 09:53:25 -0800
  ...When split, > allows un metered air into the engine making it run like crap and can > allow oil laden blow by to get all...
• Yet Another BBTA Report
  Historical mailing list - Tom Forhan
  Tue, 03 Sep 1996 14:10:29 -0400
  ...Best splittie was an original '66 SO42 Westfalia, velvet green with all the original paperwork: window sticker, receipts ($2995), salesmans business card, etc. Best...
• Re: Jokes...?
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Sun, 28 Jun 2015 12:32:04 +0000
  So, a Vanagon, a Bay and a Splittie roll into a bar.  Bartender says, "What'll it be?" Vanagon says, Water for me." Stephen...
• Re: Anybody seen a chopped and shortened Vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - Aristotle Sagan
  Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:34:47 -0700
  ...more hassle to pass smog. > > not as cute as a shortened splitty for promotional vehicle though... > > see http://www.loaflovetour.com/ > -- Where ever you...
• Re: Laguna Beach 'Falia Rental Info (finally)
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 22 Nov 94 09:34:46 EST
  ...I have an old split-window, and those new-fangled engines are a bit much. Anyway, I got their flyer yesterday, and will discuss...
• Re: Typographical error in Statistics.
  Historical mailing list - Steve Johnson
  Wed, 14 Sep 94 9:23:13 PDT
  ...Ric does post more than Gerry and me, it's just that it gets split between the vintage and vanagon and internet groups. Plus...
• RE: Late Split VDO Clocks...
  Historical mailing list - Maher, Steve (SD-MS)
  Thu, 01 Feb 1996 08:37:00 -0800 (PST)
  >Impressive German ingenuity... > >The VDO (Kenzle) clock. I took this puppy apart last night. Some sand grains >were found in the casing. I got...
• Gas Smell: Flange to Filler Tube
  Historical mailing list - Patrick Flynn
  Mon, 17 Jun 1996 11:36:50 -0400
  ...to the filler tube and have noticed it is cracked and split. This connects with four screws to the body of the bus at...
• RE: speedo resto..
  Historical mailing list - Wagner Michael
  22 Jun 1995 11:37:56 -0800
  ...re talking about the 3 colored indicators on the bottom of splitty speedos. I have replaced these a couple of times with colored acetate...