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• Re: Alternators correction!
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 9 Apr 2020 18:15:38 -0400
  ...Alternator to engine, engine to transmission, transmission to chassis. Measure point to point on 2V scale. Yrs, d
• Grill fasteners
  Historical mailing list - Neil2
  Sun, 20 Sep 2015 11:16:36 -0700
  Can anyone tell me a source/part number for the clips which hold a '90 Vanagon grill to the the chassis? OR, if anyone...
• painting wheels black
  Historical mailing list - Florian Speier
  Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:06:39 -0600
  ...if thats a problem on aluminum wheels) Question, is por-15 and a topcoat of their chassisblack a durable option? other ideas? thanks Florian
• belly pan query
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 24 Sep 1996 15:12:28 -0400
  Can anyone provide enough info for me to remanufacture the panel for a 62 split that covers the area between the chassis under the...
• Re: Need diesel positive battery cable
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Wed, 13 Aug 2003 07:13:28 -0700
  ...positive cable from bat to starter, 251 971 228 E ground cable from bat to chassis, 251 971 235 A Mark Gnarlodious wrote: > > I...
• Re: Jetta swap: Check Engine Light Install Electrical Questions
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:52:50 -0400
  ...The other kind, such as automobiles have, is better referred to as a "common return" or in tech-speak a chassis ground or frame...
• Re: NVC. stealth camper project
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Fri, 1 Jan 2010 11:50:10 -0800
  ...His is based off a 4x4 Ford powerstroke diesel van chassis, which he bought new with only the cab from Ford...He sent it...
• Re: Wanted in LA area: complete Syncro front-end
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Tue, 8 Jan 2008 11:57:31 -0800
  ...The 2wd steering rack mounting member must be removed from the chassis. A substitute mount must be attached to the chassis in the proper...
• Re: Aux. Wire/Battery Install Pics/Notes
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:13:29 -0700
  ...So I suggest > running a wire with the chassis grounding end up where it can be seen. > > Mark > > Rocket J Squirrel wrote: >> Couldn't...
• Re: Temporary Winter chassis treatment
  Historical mailing list - Dan Lamb
  Sun, 10 Jan 2021 20:53:30 -0600
  ...Has anyone done any temporary chassis treatment to lessen >>>> impact of salt? Oil bath? >>>> >>>> Chris >>>> >>>> Wysłane z iPhone'a >>> >> >> >> -- >> ________________________________________________________________________ >> Mark Belanger - mbelanger@gmail.com >>
• Advice-New Ignition Switch/Cig Lighter/Fan Switch
  Historical mailing list - Michael Sullivan
  Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:25:59 -0600
  ...I am going to check the grounds from alt to chassis and from tranny to chassis. I wanted to run new battery cable to...
• FW: New pop top Honda?
  Historical mailing list - MilosKitchen
  Wed, 1 Sep 2004 08:43:25 -0400
  Actually it's the CRX chassis/drive train. I went as far as going to a dealership last fall and sitting in one...didn...
• Re: bemused by wiring
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Wed, 5 Dec 2007 11:39:22 -0800
  ...Chassis ground is chassis ground, through out the whole vehicle, after all. No big deal testing for grounds - you just temporarily add your own...
• Museum Certificate Ordering Info....
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 18 Apr 1998 14:41:17 -0400
  ...Current owner's name your address year, model and vin# or chassis# $8/car Send it to: Ric Golen 8 Pearl Street South Dartmouth...
• Re: GTRV Westy , Class B camper - $59995
  Historical mailing list - Art McGinn
  Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:54:26 -0700
  class b campers, sorta mini motor homes, are a whole class of rather upscale camper vans on the ford and chevy van chassis, led...
• Re: rear wheel bearing question
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:52:49 -0700
  ...surface protection > 540 F drop point > NLGI Automotive wheel bearing and chassis lubricant GL-LB > > OR .. > Valvoline Crimson Heavy-Duty Grease Applications ....for > trucking...
• Re: Starter One more time!!
  Historical mailing list - Michael Sullivan
  Sun, 1 May 2011 10:10:05 -0500
  What about the ground from tranny to chassis? Michael in San Antonio 91GL Weekender AT 2.1L 'Gringo' On Sun, May 1, 2011 at...
• Re: Good types of drive-on lift ramps?
  Historical mailing list - Geo
  Wed, 26 May 2010 15:06:18 -0700
  ...it is very useful even at it's lowest setting for under-chassis Westy work (or quiet contemplation as someone likes to do). Geo
• Re: Porsche 914 chassis alignment
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 2 May 1995 09:10:40 -0400
  >My brother has a '74 Porsch 914 that has been fighting rust for a while. A It seems to me, not that we need...
• Re: Mystery single cab splittie!
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 30 Apr 96 15:05:51 BST
  ...according to >the NEATO data at http://www.mindspring.com/~deasterw/chassis.html > >Tom F. > Tom F, Bullet indicators finished in '62 but 612483...
• Determining Chassis #
  Historical mailing list - Jason Yasment
  Sun, 7 Feb 1999 18:55:27 EST
  Hello, I'm in the process of getting parts for the spring. My predictament is that for the '84 models there are 2 different...
• Re: Hung in the middle - Bumper drawings
  Historical mailing list - Simon Reinhardt
  Fri, 24 May 2002 18:38:56 -0600
  So did all of the A1 chassis cars- Bunnies, Sciroccos, Jettas, Cabbies... and '74 and up bugs. Broadens the junkyard search a bit, eh...
• Re: Vanagon Tire & Yokohama 35 D's
  Historical mailing list - Robert Cardo
  Sun, 24 Oct 2004 09:52:47 -0500
  ...And is possibly the most, chassis pounding, bone jarring tire available. Other than all this, if your looking for a cheap, short winded, hard...
• Re: Help troubleshoot my instrument cluster
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Lewis
  Sun, 22 Feb 2009 08:08:19 -0500
  ...I crimped eyelets on these and secured to chassis for less loss. -- Ken Lewis http://neksiwel.20m.com/
• Friday topic - Re: WBX turbo Beetle!
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:24:35 -0800
  And since the WBX isn't in a T25 chassis, I believe that it would definitely be a Friday topic, not a Wednesday topic...
• Re: Hunting and radiator fan
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Lewis
  Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:19:54 -0400
  ...While we are throwing theories around, how about a bad chassis to engine ground strap? The extra current of the fan could be dropping...
• Need GTI Parts--No Vanagon Content
  Historical mailing list - Jim Huskins
  Fri, 10 Sep 1999 13:52:48 +0000
  ...I need a driver's side door (two door, of course) and the main chassis wiring harness. I'd buy a parts car if...
• Re: syncro fuel gauge issue fixed
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:33:31 -0400
  ...syncro fuel gauge issue fixed > > last week I posted a question about where the syncro fuel level sender > ground to chassis - friend's '91...
• Re: Number Detective Work (was RE: Splitty Chassis/dating)
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 18 Apr 1996 12:12:08 -0400
  and deasterw@st6000.sct.edu wrote: You have a 1964. Your VIN number is 1 308 189. The 1964 model year started with VIN...
• squeeks
  Historical mailing list - hugo lerner
  Wed, 8 Mar 2000 18:44:16 -0700
  i ventured under the chassis and started looking at my upper control arm bushings on my passenger side, and i noticed gobs of grease...
• Re: '99 SA Vanagon pics
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Sun, 23 Feb 2003 00:07:16 -0700
  I suppose, it just seems that the Vanagon is more of a "truck", being built on a small/light truck chassis. The Euro is...
• Re: microbus is dead NVC
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 19 May 2004 11:50:56 EDT
  ...thing? the concept Microbus is (or i guess was) DEFINATELY not based on the eurovan T5 chassis.. its much smaller than the T5. chris
• Re: So done with side cladding
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Mon, 23 May 2011 11:05:44 -0700
  ...it (in a trailer) to my race chassis guy, a fella who makes > cages and chassis in Portland, Or.. We 'design' and weld in...
• Sliding Windows Left & Right Side Complete needed for my 1982 Westy
  Historical mailing list - Scott Greiner
  Tue, 2 Sep 2014 20:22:26 -0700
  ...I had them removed due to getting chassis restored. If anyone has them fully complete ready to install, I am interested. Thank you, Scott...
• Journeys under difficult conditions
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Fri, 23 May 1997 15:56:09 -0700
  I recently received plans for under chassis protection for transporters (splits, loafs and bricks.) I would like to hear from anyone interested in adding...
• Shift linkage
  Historical mailing list - Keith & Lynn C.
  Tue, 11 Apr 2000 11:51:44 -0700
  ...Where do I find the "Chassis number" , as this is what is used to determine which dimension to use for the linkage set up...
• converting a 2.1 to 1.9
  Historical mailing list - Evan Mac Donald
  Sat, 20 Aug 2005 14:52:41 -0700
  ...The Bentley says the cases are the same, and the heads are the same also, so with the "correct for chassis year" accessories bolted...
• Re: Road trip-2200cc Go Westy KIt
  Historical mailing list - Robert Stevens
  Wed, 27 Jun 2012 22:20:32 -0600
  ...Tiico, Porsche, or Small block Vanagon and run it on a chassis dyno? Post the figures.. Yes, did it at a shop in Ogden...
• Re: Jetta swap: Check Engine Light Install Electrical Questions
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:05:00 -0400
  ...but not exclusively* if they lead to different places on the chassis -- there may very well be an electrical reason for it, and if...
• Ben Pon: Bus Inventor?
  Historical mailing list - Joseph F. Fournier II
  Fri, 2 Feb 1996 14:54:45 -0600 (CST)
  ...Pon started to think about a van based on the bugs chassis, with the driver upfront. On April 24 1947 he made a drawing...
• Re: Cutoff not working at the pump!
  Historical mailing list - Bob Norman
  Tue, 10 Nov 1998 21:25:18 -0330
  ...The tank then leaked from the both sides up front, in by the chassis rails. Inspection revealed more cloth wrapped hoses, in on top...
• Re: early or late 81? (looking for starter)
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:24:21 -0700
  ...Another problem area is the Transmission Ground Strap, located at the Front Nosecone to the Chassis. Be sure it's good shape, not rusting...
• Re: '91 Starting Issues
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Tue, 12 Dec 2023 18:28:50 -0800
  ...You may check the ground wires from engine to chassis and from battery >> to chassis. Probably there is sufficient current missing to pull in...
• Re: Front wheel bearing differences
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:55:56 -0700
  ...different chassis numbers >> that correspond with the mid-year change of wheel bearings- they list the >> same month and year, but different chassis numbers...
• Prelim ecu plug test... interestin
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sun, 29 Mar 2020 12:25:04 -0700
  ...I understand that 19 is ground path to stud on block Tested continuity to chassis on that pin 19, nothing Checked as well as...
• Re: Found my Syncro project.
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Lewis
  Mon, 8 Jun 2009 15:58:05 -0400
  ...Crimp on a ring terminal and attach them to the chassis. I used the big Phillip screws that holds the fuse box. Other possibility...
• Re[2]: Mystery single cab splittie!
  Historical mailing list
  30 Apr 96 20:48
  ...according to the NEATO data at > http://www.mindspring.com/~deasterw/chassis.html > > He also cited a source for the change over date from...
• Battery Under Back Seat
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Mon, 3 Apr 2000 13:07:47 -0400
  ...connect it to the existing battery) and grounding to engine or chassis. Would I need fusible link/fuse on this wire? What gauge wire...
• Re: '84 anti-sway bar down-link nut success
  Historical mailing list - Skip
  Mon, 5 Mar 2012 03:10:41 +0000
  "Other Dennis", you are correct that there was a bolt missing from the chassis bracket, except it's orange, not red (the sway bar...
• Re: Are Vanagons pretty?
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Mon, 1 Mar 2010 12:45:09 +1300
  ...Both have chassis rails welded to the body and are "semimonocoque". The Bay suspension merely added semitrailing arms to the Split's trailing arms...
• Re: replacing elec. hookup
  Historical mailing list - William A. McKinley
  18 Sep 96 12:14:26 EDT
  ...Some older equipment (TV's, etc) had the chassis grounded to the neutral wire. If the "polarized" plug (one blade wider than the other...
• Re: VW writeup in Newsweek...and about the next vw van for the US
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:24:40 -0400
  ...Basically a >> chassis >> rolling down one line will get a chrysler top side and down the other >> line >> will get a VW topside. >> jimt...
• Re: Transaxle mount, possible source A1 chassis?
  Historical mailing list - Jonathan Farrugia
  Fri, 4 Jun 2004 01:49:27 -0400
  ...It looks to me like the right > side motor mount from an A1 chassis VW will fit; they both are 75mm in > dia, not...
• Re: Trailer Hitches
  Historical mailing list - Angus Gordon
  Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:32:51 -0800
  ...trailer hitch with a 2" reciever that bolts > on tho the chassis of an 89 Westy?. Located in Florida, Kississimee area. > Thanks in advance...
• Re: NVC. stealth camper project
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Fri, 1 Jan 2010 09:39:22 -0800
  ...But on a 4 wd chassis. And the usual box on top, forward at the cab, that usually holds an AC setup, has a...
• Vanagon VIN 0001 FS
  Historical mailing list - Meier Michael
  Thu, 28 Aug 1997 11:06:43 +0200
  Hey Volks, I have just received our german vintage-magazine and could see, that the Vanagon with chassis-no. 0001 is for sale here...
• Re: [Fwd: Euro-Chassis: UPDATE 90 Volkswagen vanagon , drive train?]
  Historical mailing list - Kurt Thomas
  Sun, 23 Aug 1998 12:53:12 EDT
  Hi, Is this the front or rear final drive with the problem? The Bentley manual only shows the front final drive, not unless I...
• Re: Audi 5 cyl engine swap experiences?
  Historical mailing list - YauMan Chan
  Tue, 13 Oct 1998 12:42:19 -0700
  ...24 PM >>> Does that 5-speed transmission fit the US Vanagon chassis? If so, are these transmissions available in South Africa junkyards? Might be...
• Re: Wow
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Sun, 5 Aug 2007 22:42:13 +1200
  >Has this been posted? I haven't seen it until today. > >Basically a Vanagon chassis with splitty sheet metal and a turbo Porsche >motor...
• Re: Can I put an aircooled engine in a water cooled 91?
  Historical mailing list - Kent Christensen
  Sun, 4 Jul 1999 11:37:47 -0600
  ...Hey, all the pickup boys would be running '67 mice or rats in their new chassis if the law was otherwise.