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• Re: Advice for 85 Westy Synchro
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
  Mon, 22 Jul 1996 13:54:36 PDT
  ...Either it's not a Syncro or it's not a 1985 or someone has > assembled their own hybrid. Valid Syncro model years in...
• New engine help 1.9NA diesel
  Historical mailing list - Michael Snow
  Sat, 23 Aug 2003 18:15:27 -0700
  ...This one has the 1.9 head and injector pump, unlike some of the hybrid engines out there that use a 1.6 head...
• Re: Hybrid Engine Conversion (LVC, but it is nearly Friday!)
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Fri, 5 Oct 2007 00:47:16 -0400
  The first time *(yes, it's friday now) I saw a rotary engine in person it was on the Mazda RX8 (never saw the...
• Re: DTV Transition and AC/DC TV in Van
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:57:38 -0400
  I use the EyeTV Hybrid on my Mac. This is a USB stick which can tune analog TV, digital (US) TV, analog cable, digital...
• Re: More on TR 16x7 steelies
  Historical mailing list - Mike S
  Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:02:09 -0500
  ...There is a guy on Samba selling hybrid >nuts >needed to properly match the diameter of the smaller ball with the >larger diameter lug...
• Re: Engine conversion
  Historical mailing list - Bill Davidson
  Sat, 6 Jan 2001 09:18:39 -0800
  ...And what if you have a problem while traveling to remote places? > If a mewchanic refused to work on my hybrid because it's...
• Re: Prius question with vanagon content
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:20:14 -0500
  ...PM, <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote: > >> Maybe the information is in here: >> >> Hybrid Air Conditioning Systems Overview - OpenSIUC - Southern ... >> opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent...
• Re: Screeching Alternator Belt
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Fri, 12 May 2017 10:31:24 -0700
  The proper belt is a Continental, listed for Porsche power steering, on my 84 weird motor ABA hybrid van. Odd size, forgot where I...
• Fwd: VW Coolant
  Historical mailing list - Jason
  Mon, 13 Jan 2014 17:44:34 -0500
  ...G12+ is an organic hybrid that is compatible with both G11 & G12. This version was only sold by the aftermarket, I don't think...
• Re: Any New Battery Technology
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:20:14 -0600
  ...There's also a hybrid model that burns lamp oil when the zinc ingots give out. And for protection, these new vinegar- powered rolling...
• Re: 1977 VW van hybrid
  Historical mailing list - Paul Guzyk
  Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:10:25 -0700
  folks, a Vanagon is a crappy platform for an EV. EVs should be light and/or aerodynamic. To power a vehicle size/weight of...
• Buses on School Buses...
  Historical mailing list - Greg Schmidt
  Mon, 8 Apr 1996 11:02:25 -0500 (CDT)
  ...The bus/bus hybrid is your standard 60's vintage school bus with a Split Window welded to the top. With the partridge family...
• Re: Diesel vs. Gas
  Historical mailing list - Matthew C. Huntley
  Thu, 28 Apr 2005 13:29:45 -0700
  Perhaps one of the more interesting statements about diesel came from VolksWagen themselves; They are backing Diesel vs Hybrids -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing...
• Re: Hybrid Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Mon, 7 Jul 2008 14:43:46 -0400
  Hi William, AFAIK it takes energy to pry a water molecule apart into two hydrogen and one oxygen molecules. If (and it's a...
• Re: Opinions wanted: Overhaul or Eletric?!
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Tue, 29 Aug 2023 12:02:01 -0600
  ...when I might have My 2WD 90Westy converted to a 4WD Hybrid by adding Wheel Motors to the front wheels,,, Have not yet done...
• custom side turn signals?
  Historical mailing list - dave
  Thu, 31 Oct 2002 15:23:22 -0800
  ...lights to be turn signals only, or perhaps some form of hybrid (running light/turn signal) ? The wiring seems fairly straight forward. Just curious...
• 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: Vanagons as electric vehicles and other stuff....
  Historical mailing list - Allan Streib
  Mon, 5 May 2008 23:41:10 -0400
  ...Might do OK as a hybrid. Allan -- 1991 Vanagon GL
• Re: Casfor Clunkers
  Historical mailing list - Allan Streib
  Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:51:33 -0400
  ...No, you can't drag in some hulk out of a field, trade it on a new hybrid and get $4,500 for it...
• Re: What is it with the US? (No real van content)
  Historical mailing list - neil
  Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:50:46 -0700
  ...A DIESEL hybrid (electric motor assist)? That makes SENSE! > > Gee, what a great idea. Let's call it a Diesel/Electric. Lets make a...
• Re: Tire pressure question 2
  Historical mailing list - Otmar
  Sun, 31 Jul 2005 11:24:00 -0700
  ...In my electric and hybrid cars I run 10 psi over the sidewall rating. They roll really well. In exchange the ride is a...
• Wire gauge for the shielded wire for the O2 signal?
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Fri, 19 Sep 2014 12:06:33 -0700
  ...replace my whole wiring harness...especially since I am running a hybrid inline power VW motor in my 84 Vanagon... I was planning on...
• Re: Hypermilers...
  Historical mailing list - chris Moyles
  Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:11:43 -0400
  ...solution I can see is to promote the new plug-in hybrids > that get 100 mpg, and take these old beasts out only for...
• Re: HID light upgrades - anyone try them?
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:42:58 +1300
  ...bulb for high and low or the HID-Low / Hallogen Hi hybrid? > >Thanks in advance! > >David Marshall > >http://www.hasenwerk.ca >http://www.fastforward...
• Re: Formalize hybrid name?
  Historical mailing list - Sudhir Desai
  Tue, 5 Sep 2000 05:59:11 -0700
  what about Vanagon 2.2RS even if you don't have the r-spec engine --- Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ> wrote...
• Re: Bubble/ Poptop and Raise Assists
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Sun, 4 Feb 2007 07:57:45 -0800
  ...I want a bubble > top/poptop hybrid so I can have a little more headroom even with the top > down. Adding a bubble to...
• Re: They said it couldn't be done....
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Sun, 24 Aug 2014 09:50:47 -0500
  Heat would have to be resistance, AC would have to be driven by separate electric motor (latter would be like most hybrids and EVs...
• Re: Is this new gas saver for real?
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:37:14 -0800
  ...The new Saturn hybrid uses Cobasys NiMH batteries < http://tinyurl.com/2e8852>. Toyota could do the same. What Toyota tried to do was first...
• Re: Was: Steenkin TDI/engine conversion/global warming..Now, off topic..
  Historical mailing list - Geza Polony
  Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:28:39 -0400
  ...Which consumes more petroleum, one 8 mpg RV or 10,000 hybrids? As far as birth rate goes, in most industrialized countries it's...
• On cars (NVC)
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Fri, 31 Dec 2004 21:36:23 -0500
  ...Speaking of electric motors...My friend was gathering info (for his wife) on the Hybrid vehicles. Ford Escape hybrid was on a pedestal and...
• Re: VW camper van article
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Fri, 18 Sep 2015 12:26:59 -0500
  ...I'll be happy to buy an electric vehicle (not a hybrid, I've got one of those and think it is hunky dory...
• Re: Friday: One Bolt Led To Another.....
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Fri, 7 Oct 2016 18:57:21 -0700
  ...place so I didn't even have to re-time my hybrid... On Oct 7, 2016 10:35 AM, "Neil N" <musomuso@gmail.com...
• Bosch #s for a deisel starter? Maybe..
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Fri, 1 Sep 2017 11:19:19 -0700
  I'm puzzled by what starter I have ( on my workbench) just removed from my 84 with an inljne (ABA hybrid gas) VW motor...
• Re: Hybrid vanagon? How about propane?
  Historical mailing list - Wali
  Thu, 20 Jan 2000 20:10:17 -0800
  Miles (as in 321,000) my 86 westy is in line for a new mill. I saw someone address this issue a while back...
• Re: Cylinder index - meh.
  Historical mailing list - John Dagastino
  Fri, 2 Aug 2002 03:53:27 -0700
  ...http://arstechnica.com/reviews/02q3/civic-hybrid/2003-civic-hy-1.html that's only the start. still has the feeble old gas engine...
• fuel/oil sender hybrid?
  Historical mailing list - Damon Campbell
  Sun, 25 May 2003 19:48:40 -0700
  I read a tip on the list a little bit ago to make double use of an oil pressure guage mounted on the dash...
• Re: Question on Biodiesel
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Tue, 17 May 2005 13:49:11 -0500
  ...Hybrids are still the elect/other fuel in > combination. > > In the elect/hybrid area a couple French companies are working on charging > stations with...
• Re: Alert for Oregonians-new tax for miles driven?
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Sat, 4 Jan 2003 14:01:08 -0500
  ...They already decided that hybrid car owners should pay double the normal registration fee, because they aren't "paying their fair share" of gas...
• Chevy Small Block Swap
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Thu, 15 Apr 1999 18:52:50 -0500
  ...Can you find anyone to work on it, the van with the new engine being a hybrid. How does fuel consumption compare with original...
• Re: hybrid Vanagons. Was:RE: Hydrogen cars. Was: Re: waterboxer pinging
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Palmer
  Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:23:41 -0500
  That's hilarious - the guy takes not one, but two Vanagons, joins them together for who knows what reason, and it was his Honda...
• A new addition to our family
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 30 Mar 96 18:27:50
  ...to breed in my driveway...and god knows what sort of hybrid might result if they got to close to the van! PS Thanks...
• Re: And now for something Completely Different
  Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
  Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:15:19 -0700
  ...I drive a 86 GL myself. >I was wondering how hard it would be to hybridize a vanagon. Add a little >helper motor/generator...
• AC/DC and I'm not talking sex...
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Mon, 1 Jan 2007 00:28:22 -0500
  ...Called it a hybrid generator. :) Okay, I'm likely dreaming that this small generator would be portable and self starting (with appropriate signal capability...
• Re: A/C too loud
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 18 May 1996 00:31:58 -0400
  ...I managed to resist the temptation, but a few of my friends didn't, so the world ended up with a few hybrids like...
• Re: FOR SALE: '82 Vanagon w/'98 Jetta TDI Engine
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:08:27 -0700
  ...They'll build a highly idiosyncratic hybrid engine out of parts from three different designs instead of just using the dang electronic TDI pump...
• Re: Metric this, metric that
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Schwaia
  Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:49:01 -0800
  ...is akin to conservative v. liberal, subaru v. vw, diesel v. hybrid, yin v. yang, etc. How long will this thread last? Personally, I...
• Re: Was Ford Galaxy Friday, now Technology Comparison
  Historical mailing list - Steven Johnson
  Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:59:55 -0800
  ...There is just too much misinformation about the Prius Hybrid versus regular gas cars as there is about vanagons and reliability. Remember the blast...
• Re: How long will Vanagons be made in RSA?
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Thu, 26 Apr 2001 12:03:31 +1200
  ...At least the 80s T1/T2 hybrids sold here were! Andrew
• Other westie layouts
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Sat, 26 Jan 2008 06:20:22 -0800
  Here is a link to German Ebay where one of the hybrid Westy interiors can be seen for sale. It has a full kitchen...
• Re: Could compressed natural gas work or be an upgrade for the fridge and stove
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Mon, 4 Jul 2011 12:58:21 -0700
  ...With a hybrid electric .. you can ad energy two ways....fuel in the tank, and regen braking. with a Plug-In Hybrid Electric car...
• Re: Nexen SV820
  Historical mailing list - ralph meyermann
  Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:51:55 -0600
  ...PM, <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote: > > > > > Maybe the information is in here: > > > > > > Hybrid Air Conditioning Systems Overview - OpenSIUC - Southern ... > > > opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent...
• Re: Worst thing you ever did to your Vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - Otmar
  Sat, 13 Aug 2005 10:49:49 -0700
  ...http://www.evcl.com/vw 1 914 EV, 1 Insight Hybrid
• Re: RPM's
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Mon, 15 Oct 2018 09:12:08 -0700
  I use 5000 as my redline with my ABA/8 valve hybrid. I use 4000 as my top sustained RPM, like when climbing a...
• Re: HHO Kits
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:05:57 -0500
  ...But, we WILL have electric or at least hybrid trucks ........ maybe? mcneely
• Re: westfalia conversion van idea (MVC)
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:48:38 EDT
  ...The result would hopefully be a hybrid that has shares the > excellent layout of the Westfalia with the durability, and practicality of > a late...
• Re: Friday: One Bolt Led To Another.....
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Fri, 7 Oct 2016 22:42:48 -0700
  ...place so I didn't even have to > re-time my hybrid... -- Neil n Blog: Vanagons, Westfalia, general <http://tubaneil.blogspot.ca> 1988 Westy...
• Re: Parts Sources for the TDI Conversion
  Historical mailing list - Bj�rn
  Tue, 24 Feb 1998 09:41:42 -0800
  ...Otherwise the >following parts are needed: > "anfasser" I don't know what this is. > This word would be a hybrid word in German meaning...
• Re: TiiCo - CA emissions + Questions
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Tue, 13 Jan 2004 10:17:18 -0500
  ...The TiiCo is a hybrid, unlike any vehicle VW sold from the factory, and some mechanics are going to be reluctant to touch it...
• Re: slightVC: TDI vs hybrid (was: Re: TDI conversion thoughts)
  Historical mailing list - Harold Teer
  Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:12:17 -0400
  ...about the > > Prius battery, go to: > > > "http://www.toyota.com/html/hybridsynergyview/2006/fall/battery.html" > > > > If you want to learn anything else about...
• Re: 90 Westy... Blown 2.1...What's It Worth?
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Fri, 2 Aug 2002 15:58:14 -0400
  ...You'll have a hard time getting a mechanic to work on a hybrid like that. _ _ __ _ _ _| | | | David M. Brodbeck (N8SRE) Ypsilanti, MI / _` | | | | | | +----------------------------------------------------- | (_| | |_| | | | @ cyberspace.org...