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  • Re: Air Conditioner
    Historical mailing list - 80 Westy Pokey
    Sat, 30 Mar 2002 22:31:01 -0500
    ...30-40 >minutes for maximim cooling. > >http://www.swampy.net/icemystr.html >http://www.swampy.net/im30.html > >Snake Oil or?? > >Phil84' Westy Tiico...
  • Brazilian Bus: The Plan
    Historical mailing list
    Thu, 19 Jan 1995 09:15:07 EST
    ...am told that only a land rover can cross the border swamps) and drive through mexico to the us. At the border they check...
  • Re: AC hoses
    Historical mailing list
    Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:40:28 EDT
    ...When the system is open for any length of time the dessicant in the dryer gets swamped with water and the filter could be...
  • Re: Air Conditioner
    Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
    Sat, 30 Mar 2002 23:05:25 -0600
    ...30-40 > > > > > > minutes for maximim cooling. > > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.swampy.net/icemystr.html > > > > > > http://www.swampy.net/im30.html > > > > > > > > > > > > Snake Oil or?? > > > > > > > > > > > > Phil84' Westy Tiico...
  • Re: "Wesfakia" logo?
    Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
    Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:54:11 -0700
    ...terrible at getting > things packaged and posted and I am already swamped with other projects... > > Greg > > Quoting Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM...
  • Ventilation system questions - Aircooled Vanagon
    Historical mailing list - Rusty Johnson
    Tue, 25 Apr 2000 20:24:26 EDT
    ...As a separate question, has anyone successfully installed an evaporative cooler ("swamp cooler") in their Vanagon? It's hot and dry in the summer...
  • Re: Swampy cooler thread
    Historical mailing list - Mike Rouby
    Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:22:33 -0700
    To get around the "ice cube" problem, just fill a couple of two liter bottles with water and ice those. They're reuseable and...
  • Silcone Coolants lines ???Re: 85 Gl Auto Tranny 5/8" Coolant Hoses to Tranny Cooler Busted-
    Historical mailing list - TC
    Thu, 31 May 2007 15:03:05 -0700
    Guys no thoughts on Silcone any one use em at all 2ply 4ply 6plys ?? > alligators in the swamp I was out at shop who...
  • Re: Vortex Valve(tm)
    Historical mailing list - Chris Mills
    Mon, 16 Sep 2002 16:22:24 -0500
    ...and asked them (below.) Next week we'll be discussing prime swamp land >for sale. > >Jere >90 GL >88 GL >MB-220D > >======== > >Greetings from...
  • Re: '86 engine into '84 van questions
    Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
    Thu, 9 Apr 1998 10:40:21 -0700
    ...If I had the time, I would reconfigure it for HTML and post it on my website, but I have been swamped as of...
  • Re: Vanagon Logo keys
    Historical mailing list - Steve Sandlin
    Wed, 13 Sep 2000 18:06:56 -0500
    ...I've been swamped for requests for the logo keys. I do have more on order, and I'll honor the $13 price for...
  • Re: General/Sorta dirt-road worthiness of 2WD Vanagons?
    Historical mailing list - Alan Sinclair
    Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:52:05 -0700
    ...No swamps. Regular > street tires, stock size. > > Generally-speaking. Anecdotal is good. The more colorful the better. > > As in, "Vanagons get stuck more easily...
  • Re: Front Heater Motor: Lube Dries Out?
    Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
    Sat, 2 Jan 2016 19:01:03 -0600
    ...4:03 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM> wrote: >>>> >>>> A swamp cooler is an evaporative cooler with a fan. Way different from a...
  • Re: Aftermarket Rooftop Cooling Experiences?
    Historical mailing list - Michael Rasmussen
    Fri, 13 May 2011 05:40:31 -0700
    ...am wondering if anyone here has installed a roof-mount RV swamp cooler (12V, my first choice) or low-profile AC unit on their...
  • Sheesh! Wildflowers? No real vanagon content
    Historical mailing list
    Sun, 9 Mar 2008 14:21:45 -0700
    ...This weekend, our little desert town is SWAMPED with Lookie-Lous, driving around in their fancy city SUVs and motorhomes and standing out(breifly...
  • Re: Mercedes Sprinter sighting
    Historical mailing list - Zoltan
    Wed, 5 Sep 2001 23:33:07 -0700
    ...Well, the whole world is already swamped by these vans, being so practical and awesome in many ways, but I thought it is too...
  • Re: Screens and Wiper Fluid Pump (again!)
    Historical mailing list - Frank E. Terhaar-Yonkers
    Mon, 10 Oct 1994 08:01:17 -0400
    ...Hot fluid does a great job of dissolving all those swamp bug guts in the south too .. - Frank >From vanagon@lenti.med.umn.edu...
  • Re: General/Sorta dirt-road worthiness of 2WD Vanagons?
    Historical mailing list - mark drillock
    Mon, 27 Jun 2005 17:28:38 -0700
    ...No swamps. Regular > street tires, stock size. > > Generally-speaking. Anecdotal is good. The more colorful the better. > > As in, "Vanagons get stuck more easily...
  • Fwd: An AC idea for driving and camping
    Historical mailing list - Bill Gibson
    Sun, 8 Jul 2007 19:19:25 -0700
    ...Edward Maglott <emaglott@buncombe.main.nc.us> I use a swampy in southern arizona; works great in our <dry> air for blowing cooler air...
  • Re: ETKA
    Historical mailing list - Chris DeLong
    Sun, 23 Nov 2003 18:23:52 +0000
    ...5503 >>www.finetuningperformance.com >>Seattle, WA USA > _________________________________________________________________ Share holiday photos without swamping your Inbox. Get MSN Extra Storage now! http://join.msn.com/?PAGE...
  • Re: BEHR aftermarket air conditioning system.
    Historical mailing list - Chris Smith
    Thu, 4 Jan 2001 12:09:00 -0600
    ...If your traveling into drier climes try a swamp cooler, they do really work. If your traveling around Ontario, lower the windows, open the...
  • Re: Apologies from Van-Again
    Historical mailing list - Kevin and Heather
    Wed, 1 Nov 2000 09:37:17 -0700
    ...little over a week now and I am >really much more swamped than I could ever imagine would be possible. I had >some mechanical...
  • Re: FS, some stuff :) (cams)
    Historical mailing list - Chris DeLong
    Fri, 21 Nov 2003 05:33:04 +0000
    ...Marshall >>'85 GL Tiico "Pandora" >>Aurora, IL > >_________________________________________________________________ >Share holiday photos without swamping your Inbox. Get MSN Extra Storage >now! http://join.msn.com/?PAGE...
  • Re: "Wesfakia" logo?
    Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
    Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:17:35 -0400
    ...terrible at >> getting >> things packaged and posted and I am already swamped with other >> projects... >> >> Greg >> >> Quoting Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM...
  • Re: Photo ticket at stop lights
    Historical mailing list - Isaac Taylor
    Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:29:32 -0500
    ...The traffic courts here are so swamped that basically anyone who bothers to show up in court has their case perfunctorily dismissed, not because...
  • Re: Dometic question. (yes did search archives.... ;^)
    Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
    Tue, 27 Jun 2006 06:57:52 -0700
    ...Here (SoCal desert) you have the variation of using a swamp cooler to push outside air in, and upducts in the ceiling to vent...
  • Re: A/C was re: What is camping anyway?
    Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
    Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:31:31 -0500
    ...On a much simpler (and only marginally effective) note, back in the day, there were swamp coolers to hang on cars. A metal cylinder...
  • Re: "Swamp Cooler" questions
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Fri, 21 Jan 2000 17:39:39 -0500
    At 03:23 PM 1/21/00 -0700, CARY CHIANG wrote: >Westy's roof in place of the vent hatch. It was so heavy...
  • FS: White (80-86?) Westy, $2995
    Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Earl
    Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:57:34 -0800
    ...bus at the time, on my way to a local Bayou & Swamp Tour guided by a garrulous and shady Cajun who called himself Capt...
  • Re: Need to be removed from list
    Historical mailing list - Allen Hill
    Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:25:42 -0500
    ...removed from this list--I enjoy the emails but am getting swamped with messages so need to get off the list. Can someone PLEASE...
  • Re: "Wesfakia" logo?
    Historical mailing list - Tom Buese
    Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:05:32 -0600
    ...terrible at >> getting >> things packaged and posted and I am already swamped with other >> projects... >> >> Greg >> >> Quoting Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM...
  • Re: 1.9l TD swap, Was: Re: VW I-4 Engine Blowout
    Historical mailing list - Martin Jagersand
    Fri, 15 Jan 1999 14:34:07 -0500
    ...I tried to organize such a group buy on the list last year, but while I was swamped with email and questions it was...
  • Re: "Wesfakia" logo?
    Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
    Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:28:34 -0400
    ...terrible at >> getting things packaged and posted and I am already swamped with >> other projects... >> >> Greg >> >> Quoting Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM...
  • Re: great "personal cooling"device
    Historical mailing list - Jeff Kennedy
    Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:54:17 -0700
    ...Maybe you could put the outdoor fan mister - http://tinyurl.com/6b4ox7 - inside the ducting? Theres some pretty nice looking units at swampy.net...
  • Re: Air Conditioner
    Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
    Sat, 30 Mar 2002 22:50:41 -0600
    ...30-40 > > > > minutes for maximim cooling. > > > > > > > > http://www.swampy.net/icemystr.html > > > > http://www.swampy.net/im30.html > > > > > > > > Snake Oil or?? > > > > > > > > Phil84' Westy Tiico...
  • Re: Help!! Swamped by Virus laden mail from ACSALASKA.NET
    Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
    Thu, 17 Apr 2003 23:28:07 -0500
    Tell you what you do John. Send me an E mail direct and not through the server. If it is infected, I'll come...
  • Re: Why Americans Are the Jerks of the World!
    Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
    Fri, 22 Jul 2005 22:26:26 +1200
    ...The market is also swamped with decent clothing from China too. These are most certainly not being kept for the Chinese market! Of COURSE...
  • Aftermarket Rooftop Cooling Experiences?
    Historical mailing list - Cunegonde
    Thu, 12 May 2011 19:53:15 -0700
    ...I am wondering if anyone here has installed a roof-mount RV swamp cooler (12V, my first choice) or low-profile AC unit on...
  • Re: FS: clearance : many assorted Vanagon parts
    Historical mailing list - Dave L
    Sun, 18 Jul 2004 12:48:01 -0400
    ...I've gotten swamped with requests, and I'll get back to each of you, but I figured I would modify the page so...
  • Re: [NVC] Create electricity-free cooler
    Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
    Sat, 30 Jul 2011 07:20:57 -0700
    ...Evap coolers, whether in the form of a couple-a terra cotta pots or in the form of swamp coolers, are a good choice...
  • Re: Troubleshooting Blinking LED
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Fri, 2 May 2014 21:04:42 -0400
    ...If that pin is shunted to ground or any constant level by less than about 180 kilohms it will swamp the square wave; and...
  • low compression problem
    Historical mailing list - Mark Schrope
    Wed, 3 Mar 1999 01:05:50 -0800
    ...when I moved here to California for school and got too swamped with work to read any email. I've got a problem now...
  • Re: General/Sorta dirt-road worthiness of 2WD Vanagons?
    Historical mailing list - Rob Campbell
    Mon, 27 Jun 2005 16:02:10 -0500
    ...No swamps. Regular > street tires, stock size.
  • Re: Eye candy for type I lovers
    Historical mailing list - raceingcajun
    Sun, 3 Mar 2013 18:57:43 -0600
    ...One bad day the ship docked, and one of the hole covers had leaked and swamped the hole. It flooded about 25 cars, a...
  • Re: Air Conditioner
    Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
    Sat, 30 Mar 2002 22:02:11 -0600
    ...30-40 > > minutes for maximim cooling. > > > > http://www.swampy.net/icemystr.html > > http://www.swampy.net/im30.html > > > > Snake Oil or?? > > > > Phil84' Westy Tiico...
  • Re: Update on AFM testing procedure
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Sat, 5 Jul 2014 15:15:01 -0400
    ...I think maybe they kept the wire hot enough that differences in intake air temperature were swamped - just short of glowing tickles the back...
  • Re: VW ETKA cd
    Historical mailing list - k1cajun
    Thu, 18 May 2000 07:34:11 -0500
    ...parts you may have like a right taillight lens ? Don't swamp me yet - I still need to figure out the burn. For those...
  • Re: great "personal cooling"device
    Historical mailing list - John C...
    Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:00:54 +0000
    ...Maybe you could put the outdoor fan mister - > http://tinyurl.com/6b4ox7 > - inside the ducting? Theres some pretty nice looking units at > swampy.net...
  • Re: Fridge ?
    Historical mailing list - Blue Eyes
    Wed, 28 Oct 1998 15:08:02 -0600
    ...This is causing air to flow through a small hidden swamp cooler cast into normally wasted space. A little electric fan silently blows air...
  • Someplace *to* take your VW in southeast MI.
    Historical mailing list - ian Butler
    Thu, 27 Mar 2003 10:21:08 -0500
    ...was sold despite them being a little pokey since they were swamped. They welcomed the use of used parts to save me money, actually...
  • Re: Tires & Rims in (Western) Canada - Calgary
    Historical mailing list - ANTONY MARSH
    Sat, 18 Apr 2015 15:17:53 -0400
    ...know what 16's I will put on for swamp jaunts down here in swamp land. Keep smiling Peter Marsh Naples FL Sent from...
  • 4 speed shift problems
    Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
    Sun, 25 Sep 2005 18:11:05 -0700
    ...I would do it myself, but am simply swamped trying to get ready for a trip in 3 days, so gave them the name...
  • Re: Portable air conditioning.
    Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
    Sun, 19 Jan 2014 22:26:04 -0500
    ...So, I am thinking of a "swamp cooler". I saw one online, a "GoCool 12V Portable Semi Truck Cab Air Conditioner For Camping Tent...
  • Re: Open Letter to Bus Depot = Ron
    Historical mailing list - Sam Scholten
    Tue, 25 Aug 1998 11:12:58 -0700
    ...I don't think they enjoy being swamped like they are. Best regards, Sam == "I knew I couldn't fly, but I didn't...
  • Code Red Air? (NVC)
    Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
    Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:25:06 -0700
    ...Completely kills the swamp coolers. Some people just drive their cars around so they can have some A/C- or at least they did...
  • Re: I rather drive the Vanagon (snow tires)
    Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
    Sun, 15 Jun 2014 15:09:59 -0700
    ...Mind you, my commute is 15 miles over a state highway with no shoulder to speak of (10� drop off to swamp) and frequent...
  • Heater not stopping problem #
    Historical mailing list - d t
    Thu, 3 Aug 2000 16:37:06 MDT
    ...appologies if this response came rather late, as I'm practically swamped with incoming mail...) ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http...
  • Re: [Having difficulty with the archives...but..my westy won't start...]
    Historical mailing list - d t
    Fri, 15 Sep 2000 14:36:22 MDT
    ...appologies if this response came rather late, as I'm practically swamped with incoming mail...) ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http...
  • Re: Fresh Water Sources
    Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
    Mon, 1 Dec 2003 13:35:30 -0700
    ...West headin East _________________________________________________________________ Share holiday photos without swamping your Inbox. Get MSN Extra Storage now! http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es
  • Re: O2-sensor voltage problems '84 1.9L -- Help needed
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:09:14 -0400
    ...The ECU applies a bias voltage to the line so it can tell when the sensor heats up and comes on line (and swamps...