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• stolen van
  Historical mailing list - earl smith
  Tue, 13 Mar 2001 12:14:37 -0800
  ...People were constantly walking along the boulevard as a cruise ship was in harbor. The theft was immediately reported to the Municipal Police, the...
• Re: Pressure testing the Propane tank on a westy
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Tue, 21 Aug 2001 06:27:35 EDT
  ...It is in a very hostile environment under the vehicle getting constantly sandblasted by road debris. Cheers� Frank Condelli Almonte, Ontario, Canada <A HREF...
• Re: OT Hurricanes--really an accident?
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:05:27 +1200
  ...Instead there is a constant disequilibrium, always teetering one way or the other. Global warming is not scientifically PROVEN, and even if it is...
• Re: The List
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Fri, 19 Nov 1999 16:46:42 -0700
  ...I check this > site at least once a day and try to keep it constantly updated so Check it > Out! > > As for posting my...
• Re: WARNING: SOUTH AFRICAN QUAD LIGHT GRILLES INCITE ROAD RAGE...
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Wilford
  Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:03:23 -0500
  ...Always makes me wonder why so many folks think it's foggy out, when they run the lights constantly. Karl Mullendore Westy Ventures 1987...
• Re: Odometer/ tripometer broken
  Historical mailing list - All of Us
  Wed, 12 Jun 2002 22:36:51 -0500
  ...I backed it off so there would be a little play and not have constant pressure on the odo-shaft. Seems to be working...
• Re: About the Solex's VS Weber, mechanical trip report & dealer bashing!
  Historical mailing list - Harald Rust
  Sat, 29 Mar 2003 12:18:01 -0800
  ...I didn't have any breakdowns, but I was constantly interchanging jets on the progressive carb. I hit many Ford dealerships to find the...
• Re: Moving forward - with an autotranny.....
  Historical mailing list - Michael
  Thu, 22 May 2014 12:33:59 -0400
  ...The bell housing top mount keeps the cooler away from rock damage and uses the torque converter fins to provide a constant airflow through...
• Re: 91 Vanagon, oil pressure anomaly
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 8 Jun 1996 00:14:45 -0400
  ...The temp gauge is fairly constant at the midpoint so it seems to >be staying cool enough. > >Patrick > > During extended high speed driving, the...
• Re: My 86 Syncro for sale in WA
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:22:34 -0500
  ...you have to put some time constants on it. Hey, I've seen lots of people lose big money only because no one wants...
• Re: Switiching accessorys from main battery to auxilary battery?
  Historical mailing list - MC
  Fri, 16 Jul 2004 21:23:42 -0700
  You may want to consider only switching only the high current consumers and those operate constantly over to the aux side to minimize the...
• Re: Vanagon Cover
  Historical mailing list - Wesley Pegden
  Sat, 18 Aug 2007 22:37:10 -0400
  ...in continual outdoor use. > Perhaps under a car port ......but a constant cycle of moisture at night and > sunlight during the day ........will deteriorate...
• Re: Backup light puzzle anyone?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 11 Apr 2017 16:08:20 -0400
  ...The switch on the selector is brand new > (both > parts), but there is a constant 5v at the backup lights and at the switched...
• Re: Great Eastern American/Canadian Road Trip
  Historical mailing list - Roger Whittaker
  Sun, 5 Aug 2012 13:55:20 -0400
  ...established friendships that have stood > the tests of time. > Due to constantly adjusting life situations, I have some time on my > hands. Starting August...
• Splittie rust repair
  Historical mailing list - Robert King
  26 Jun 1996 16:45:41 -0800
  ...Down by the >jackpoints (or where the jackpoints are on a baywindow, I'm assuming they >remain constant) there are holes about 2-3...
• no VW sports cars?
  Historical mailing list - Michael Rule
  Fri, 28 May 2004 07:31:48 -0400
  ...trick is to listen to what the experiments tell you - and to not be fooled by the myths of authorities -- Constantine Spyropoulos (1928-1984)
• Waterboxer Power vs transplants
  Historical mailing list - Mark Keller
  Fri, 1 Jun 2001 06:31:04 -0800
  ...My feeling is that it can produce a constant 100 hp. The light aircraft conversions use the engine at 100 hp constant duty. Looking...
• Re: Road trip- December- New Mexico/Texas
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:36:24 -0600
  ...The pool is open year round (constant water temperature of 72 F), and has a large population of native fish and other interesting critters...
• Re: clamps for cv boots, ridged washers for cv bolts
  Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
  Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:57:06 -0700
  ...Never have I seen evidence of either water >>>>> or >>>>> dirt >>>>> in >>>>> an INTACT CV joint. >>>>> >>>>> The constant splitting of this new rubber product everyone...
• Re: Coolant Low Level Light Useful?
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:27:11 -0700
  ...Mine is taped over so you can't even see it inside my instruments It was a constant blinker when I got the van...
• Re: Engine to auto-tranny match and the Indy 500
  Historical mailing list - Marc Perdue
  Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:18:21 -0400
  ...HP remains > constant through a transmission (neglecting frictional loss). More gears in > a transmission allows one to keep the engine running closer to it...
• Re: cv-joints: Constant Velocity Rip Off
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Wed, 13 Jul 94 23:04:53 CDT
  On Wed, 13 Jul 94 19:11:16 CDT Charles E. Vaughan said: >>On Fri, 8 Jul 94 09:35:02 CDT Jerry Huff...
• Re: 1991 Vanagon sputters and blows black smoke on highway.
  Historical mailing list - Laurence Smith
  Wed, 2 Jul 2003 08:45:49 -0400
  ...most noticeable up hills and on flats when there is a > constant rpm. It is not nearly as noticeable in the city. > When I...
• Fuel Octane, Additives
  Historical mailing list - Russell Patten
  Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:00:54 -0500
  ...My girlfriend and I are in a constant argumentative-type discussion about whether it is worth the extra 10-20 cents per gallon to...
• Re: Brake Pedal Pulse Questions
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Wed, 22 Aug 2012 23:24:09 -0400
  ...If your driveway has a constant slope you can easily make up two tables: for a given load, how many pounds of force are...
• Re: I have a van with doors that won't unlock... how do I fix?
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Sun, 5 Mar 2006 08:40:28 -0800
  ...how do I fix? Another possibility is that the wiring to the doors is either broken or shorted causing the locks to energized constantly...
• Re: 50 worst cars, and the vanagon isn't one of them
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:43:51 +1200
  ...All we can say is that by looking over the geological record we can see that global temperatures have risen and fallen almost constantly...
• Re: Rear Shocks, Syncro vs. 2wd
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:26:12 -0500
  ...Using a longer shock now makes the drive shaft and constant velocity joints the stop. Some travel on a road like the Brooklyn queens...
• Re: A great Tool to Clean the Westy Interior
  Historical mailing list - Racer X
  Sun, 6 Dec 1998 22:49:47 -0600
  ...I use mine constantly. --------------------------- Blue Eyes wrote: > > Marshall Ruskin wrote ~ > "I just bought this Black and Decker "Dirt-Buster." It has a powered > rotating...
• Computerized Gauge Setup
  Historical mailing list - David M
  Thu, 4 Nov 1999 09:36:39 -0500
  ...The program would be contained in volatle memory and so would require a constant power source. You would have to somehow match the output...
• Re: Battery Drain
  Historical mailing list - Bob Donalds
  Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:18:05 -0500
  ...Little did I > >know > >that these gauges constantly draw on an open electrical circuit and my > >battery would run down in about 7 days...
• Re: Lifter adjustment VOODOO
  Historical mailing list - Zoltan Kuthy
  Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:15:28 -0700
  ...Wait some hours or days and the >>constant pressure from the valve spring will force some oil to escape >>from the lifter and eventually...
• Re: "Brake Warning Light" grounding question. (searched)
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Thu, 7 Aug 2008 20:56:13 -0700
  ...A ground goes to one side from the oil > pressure light (when pressure switch closed), the other side has a > constant ground from the...
• Interstates
  Historical mailing list - Lance Lovell
  Sat, 13 Nov 1999 21:45:36 -0000
  ...truck,you tend to weave along the road on that lane,constantly" falling into"and "climbing out" of the tracks. While everyone bitches about...
• Re: aging problems
  Historical mailing list - T.P. Stephens
  Mon, 15 Nov 1999 08:05:09 -0800
  ...Lube for the load points can make all the difference. > >3- Temperature light blinks constantly, but temperature does not go up. >This, even after...
• Re: flashing temp light
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Mon, 4 Sep 2000 20:51:11 -0500
  ...in the water temp gauge of my 83.5 is flashing > constantly, though the gauge does not indicate overheating and the coolant > level is...
• HELP: problem with temperature gauge (or something)
  Historical mailing list - Katherine J. Maas
  Mon, 15 Sep 2003 17:03:27 -0700
  ...It still reads constantly at the top of the scale (hot, that is). So for the time being he has disconnected the gauge. He...
• Re: Air Conditioning Work?...Salt Lake
  Historical mailing list - Calle Fallberg
  Fri, 2 Jul 2004 20:38:22 +0200
  ...trick is to listen to what the experiments tell you - > and to not be fooled by the myths of authorities -- > Constantine Spyropoulos (1928-1984)
• Any way to trick the Digijet ECU into generating injection pulses without the RPM/ignition signal, for test bench purposes?
  Historical mailing list - tinker man
  Sat, 2 Jun 2012 12:08:59 +0300
  ...is not running), the ECU activates the fuel pump and injectors constantly and the engine quickly goes into hydro-lock - the cylinders fill up...
• Re: '93 Eurovan auto to manual
  Historical mailing list - Theodore Hoekman
  Fri, 7 Mar 2014 14:42:27 -0330
  ...It constantly shifts in city traffic and the valves eventually pound out the valve body. Go Westy admits they are problematic even after rebuilding...
• Re: Idle control unit
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sun, 13 May 2012 12:33:23 -0700
  ...I constantly see stuff left on engine conversion vans that have no purpose at all in the new installation. How people can do work...
• Re: A Labor Day thanks to all the professionals who contribute to the group
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Fri, 4 Sep 2009 12:31:12 -0700
  ...Your experience and expertise is so very useful to the rest of us. > I see constant advice to us poor Vanagon junkies, we love...
• Re: Use for the key left in buzzer
  Historical mailing list - Allan Levenberg
  Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:50:26 -0400
  I am constantly amazed by the intelligence, ingenuity, and erudition expressed on this list. Here I find David quoting one of my favorite poems...
• Re: Street camping
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 19 Oct 94 15:11:33 EDT
  ...A helping hand can make sunshine on a very cloudy day. * * * * * * * * * * Pete Sellers "Constant And Never-ending Improvement"
• Re: Shearing CV Axles constantly... What to do next?
  Historical mailing list - Kurt Camealy
  Sun, 25 Jun 2006 18:13:30 -0400
  I have gotten some responses on the info below but I still don't know whether the new EMPI axles have the same shaft...
• Re: Now that the mileage survey is done . . .
  Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
  Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:37:31 -0800
  ...mystery >> problem (bad injector, i think) that makes it run rich, constantly make >> jackrabbit starts, and nearly always have the AC running full blast...
• Re: Lifter adjustment VOODOO
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:23:45 -0700
  ...Wait some hours or days and the > constant pressure from the valve spring will force some oil to escape > from the lifter and eventually...
• Re: Trip Logs and Tehachapi Runs
  Historical mailing list - Kristopher B.
  Sun, 10 Mar 1996 14:48:49 -0500
  ...Indeed, the impolite posters are a > constant. No matter what the content of the post, they take the time to find > something negative to...
• Great idea, WRONG motor. was: turbo? supercharched?
  Historical mailing list - GMBulley
  Wed, 11 Mar 1998 09:11:01 EST
  In a message dated 98-03-11 03:49:26 EST, NACHTAIN7@AOL.COM writes: << i constantly see postings for increased power via engine...
• Survivalist motor for your van, was: the vw waterboxer...and why it sucks..
  Historical mailing list - GMBulley
  Tue, 24 Mar 1998 16:37:33 EST
  ...the wires, switches, sensors, relays, fuses and all the junk that folks are constantly having to fiddle with. Gasoline engines, and more so, fuel...
• Type RV, With Digifant 2 Engine Conversion
  Historical mailing list - Dana Morphew
  Thu, 29 Nov 2001 11:40:37 -0800
  ...souns like...a constant, loud knocking. metal on metal, > > internal. no smoke. no stalling, or performance change, but this loud noise. > > mysteriously, the noise...
• Re: B. Bobs day at the dyno and the importance of fuel air ratio update
  Historical mailing list - Angus Gordon
  Wed, 2 Jan 2002 08:58:07 -0500
  ...I don't know how you could accomplish that with the constantly changing power on the road. As to burning valves, many piston aircraft...
• Re: Ultimate Oil Cooler
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Wed, 14 Aug 2002 15:22:29 -0400
  ...Not only that, but the engine coolant is better able to hold the oil at a constant temperature. The third reason is the tidy...
• Re: FS: 2 person westy or vanagon middle seats w/ floor tracks &seatbelts
  Historical mailing list - Doug F
  Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:57:16 -0800
  ...Its constantly getting me westy chicks who come by and want to see and talk to me while I am working under my vanagon...
• Re: 12V fridge necessary?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 14 Mar 2006 20:03:42 -0500
  ...Using a constant-voltage regulated charging system such as a vehicle alternator, you will rarely get the battery over 85% state of charge. If...
• Re: Vanagon Syndrome??
  Historical mailing list - Hans Achter
  Fri, 13 Jan 2006 08:31:10 -0500
  ...Vanagon intermittent syndrome happens typically after driving a long time at a constant speed on the highway. The main symptom is heavy bucking. The...
• Re: clamps for cv boots, ridged washers for cv bolts
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:41:37 -0700
  ...The constant splitting of this new rubber product everyone has gone to is what has me concerned. Jim
• more about PVC grey water tanks...
  Historical mailing list - Bulley
  Fri, 1 Oct 1999 10:40:10 -0400
  ...wold also need a "trap" of some > sort ( with a clean-out) or you would constantly have that "grey water > smell" inside you van.
• Re: Aircooled upgrade
  Historical mailing list - Vanagon man
  Tue, 28 May 2002 07:57:25 -0400
  ...i have replaced most of my hoses and other cooling system components, so that is not an issue on my van.....I constantly inspect...
• Re: oil coolers, engine and trans
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Mon, 12 Jul 2004 22:35:32 -0600
  ...The oil is constantly running up through the cooler and oil lines. My thermostat went out recently so I've bypassed it and my...