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• Re: TD coolant circulation pump
  Historical mailing list - Robin Oomkes
  Thu, 9 Dec 1999 13:49:54 +0100
  ...Juha Koivisto88 Vanagon > (Caravelle) 1,6TD (old school bus with 9 seats)TURKU, FINLAND [text/x-vcard] begin:vcard n:Oomkes;Robin Oomkes x...
• Re: Syncro and Long Trip w/o Front Drive Shaft?
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Mon, 12 Apr 1999 20:25:17 -0700
  I have often pondered this in my head, somehow I think you may be driving with your VC locked the whole way if you...
• Re: Syncro transmission housing..missing something??
  Historical mailing list - David Bayer
  Mon, 11 May 1998 20:24:25 -0700
  ...the Middle East without a VC - something to due with a lot of sand and overworking the VC... Tim would know better as he...
• FS: Good used VC
  Historical mailing list - Tom Sinclair
  Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:21:04 -0700
  Selling a used VC from my 86 Syncro: $475. When I bought the van in 2000 it tested fine and didn't cause excess...
• Looking for a solid used car
  Historical mailing list - rdv519
  Thu, 30 Jan 2014 13:55:07 -0500
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• Re: VC fluid - take a chance on this
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sat, 3 Apr 2010 12:05:17 -0700
  sheesh, substitute "torque" for "toque" in my last massage. such a Canadian typo alistair
• Re: No VC///Fire, and Halon extinguishers
  Historical mailing list - Terry Kay
  Fri, 10 Nov 2000 12:37:32 -0600
  Yep, your right, fogot about that! Glub, Glub, Shhhhhhhhhhh, Bloop! ______________ |[ ] [ ] [ ]\ | | | | ||-(())----(())-| Terry 85 GL [message/rfc822]
• Re: Syncro Tire Diameter
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:14:35 -0800
  ...Drew was the last person I KNEW of that had new VC's, but I think > that was so long ago > that it's...
• Thoughts on Warehouse Space
  Historical mailing list - Michael Sullivan
  Sun, 13 Dec 2009 11:52:56 -0600
  ...Sorry for the limited VC, but it is pertinent to garage space and vans. Just testing the waters on this so nothing solid yet...
• Syncro VC test
  Historical mailing list - JLDilworth
  Mon, 15 Dec 1997 18:08:28 EST
  There have been several posting lately about how to tell if the vc is working. When I was test driving the van I bought...
• Re: factory front carpet and sound deadening FS Tampa FL
  Historical mailing list - Ryan Perry
  Fri, 26 Sep 2014 08:34:20 -0400
  ...googleusercontent.com/-8b1wdm2OOrk/VCR65ITf-rI/AAAAAAAAAQM/0RFtC > rehd0Q/w702-h395-no/SAM_1365.JPG > > > https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-6mca7Jq2JD0/VCR65bKfarI/AAAAAAAAAQQ/mJUgv > t871qs/w702...
• [Fwd: Wedding van]
  Historical mailing list - Jim DiGennaro
  Mon, 24 Jan 2000 20:17:29 -0500
  ...http://www.bcn.net/~limbo/ 'Transporters By The Tunnel' - A fun camping event ' held July 14th-16th ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [message/rfc822] [text/x-vcard] begin:vcard...
• Re: VW Parts Pricing
  Historical mailing list - Rob
  Fri, 9 Aug 2013 22:26:29 -0500
  ...Ah a simpler time for sure! One day, I'm going to dig >out the old VCR and make a list of all the...
• Re: VCR etc.
  Historical mailing list - Geroge A Lehman
  Wed, 3 Nov 1999 15:47:01 -0600
  ...Will cost a bit more than a tv-vcr but take up little space and allow for a computer along as well. Just need...
• Will my alternator survive a TV VCR combo?
  Historical mailing list - =David--M=
  Mon, 10 Apr 2000 13:31:25 -0400
  ...Now today, while hoofing it through our >local >wherehouse type store we happened upon a small AC/DC color TV/VCR combo >with >cigarette...
• Re: Help...
  Historical mailing list - Benjamin Tan
  Fri, 6 Apr 2001 18:51:56 EDT
  ...See <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/bentbtstr8/vanagoncafedmvreourcepages.html">VC dmv resource page</A> for the links. I've got the similar stripes...
• Re: Syncro Tire Diameter
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:34:20 -0800
  ...Laziness can cost $1000 > for a VC ... not my choice. Same with improperly aligned front/rear ends > which destroys tires and begs for VC...
• Many thanks (tried not to make to long!)
  Historical mailing list - Joe Pallen
  Mon, 3 Dec 2001 09:56:02 -0800
  ...A great improvement over the old VC. I want to thank Derek for his help in understanding and purchasing a VC. I still have...
• removing VC- time and ease??
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Pollard
  Wed, 14 Nov 2001 09:08:21 -0800
  ...how long does it take to remove a VC (the drive line is already out- tranny too :-). How easy is this job? The slideshow...
• Re: [Syncro] removing VC- time and ease??
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Pollard
  Thu, 15 Nov 2001 09:15:49 -0800
  ...once replacing the VC with > > another one that I had taken from a salvage vehicle > > (did not work), once with a new VC from...
• Re: Adding A/C
  Historical mailing list - Garrick Chang
  Fri, 13 Mar 1998 21:00:15 -0800
  ...Garrick Chang Davis, CA 84 Westy [text/html] [text/x-vcard] begin: vcard fn: Garrick Chang n: Chang;Garrick email;internet: gchang1@pacbell.net...
• LikeMinds merges with Andromedia!
  Historical mailing list - Ron Lussier
  Mon, 12 Oct 1998 09:23:03 -0700
  ...I've attached my vCard, for those of you who keep such things. Coyote -- /\_/\ ____ Ron 'Coyote' Lussier ( ) \ _/__ Andromedia, Inc. coyote@andromedia.com \ / \X / 818...
• Pictures from the gathering of the IG syncro 16 in Graz/Austria
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 8 Oct 2002 15:27:54 -0400
  ...The viscous couplings from some of us were tested on the test stand (the removed VC�s only, not the whole car) and we...
• Another bit of info......Clicking noise/whining noise
  Historical mailing list - Geneva Saint-Amour
  Tue, 29 Jul 2014 08:26:17 -0600
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• Re: Trip Odometer Myth(?)
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Fri, 18 Apr 2003 15:24:42 +1200
  >If any one thing on a Vanagon screams junk it has to be the speedometer. Engine? Trans? Switchgear? Locks? VC?
• Westy fiasco... check his story, plenty of VC!!!
  Historical mailing list - Jean-Pierre Le Cruguel
  Mon, 1 Mar 2004 17:26:03 -0500
  http://bopuc.levendis.com/bopuc/archives/-2004/02/21/the_california_road_trip_fiasco.php#comments
• Viscous Couplings In An Airplane!
  Historical mailing list - Derek Drew
  Wed, 11 Oct 2000 14:26:22 -0400
  ...There isn't a good way for me to allocate these VCs without getting complaints about it, so as before, I am going to...
• Re: How can you test a VC on a Syncro
  Historical mailing list - David Bayer
  Mon, 1 Jun 1998 15:23:08 -0700
  ...If you make, you VC works, if not, it doesn't ;) Like I said, it's the not-so-pretty test and you could...
• Re: [Syncro] Re: Viscous Coupling
  Historical mailing list - Brent Christensen
  Tue, 20 Apr 1999 06:56:37 -0700
  ...David Marshall <david@volkswagen.org> > > I think your VC is pooched in the wrong direction. I have taken my Syncro > at -20C and tried...
• Re: The Ideal vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Sat, 18 Oct 2003 23:05:39 +1300
  ...All Syncros (T3, Santana, Golf etc) used VCs instead of the Audi Quattro Torsen setup. In the latish 80s Nissan made a Pulsar with...
• Re: [VC] Test of new content identifier
  Historical mailing list - tom ring
  Fri, 7 May 2004 21:47:13 -0600
  ...oriented content, I suggest we > > start using this new prefix on [VC] "vanagon content" messages. > That is rediculous as all gitout! This list IMPLIES...
• Re: Re : How VC's work
  Historical mailing list - Davidson
  Fri, 23 Apr 1999 08:22:07 -0700
  Well, if temperature plays any significant role in the viscous coupling locking up, it seems that we should see VCs in hot climates having...
• FW: Syncro question
  Historical mailing list - Carrington, Tom
  Wed, 8 Sep 1999 08:56:38 -0400
  ...question is, if the problem is the VC (maybe is other problem), Is the > syncro > VC performance going down through the years ? > There is...
• Re: VC: Late Friday Entry
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Sat, 18 Oct 2014 18:35:43 -0500
  ...3:08 PM, Rocket J Squirrel < camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote: > "VC: such practical vehicles! You CAN play trombone in it!" > > Thus the question...
• Re: Canadian border/was police searches
  Historical mailing list - Peter Carrie
  Tue, 17 Nov 1998 08:46:25 -0800
  ...a guy in NC who told me about [text/x-vcard] BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:Carrie;Peter;J. FN:Peter Carrie ORG...
• WTB used Viscous Coupling
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 24 Sep 1999 14:43:41 -0700
  WTB used but functional VC. I made an offer to someone a while back but they never got back to me. steve
• Re: Actual Vanagon content!!
  Historical mailing list - Chris DeLong
  Mon, 26 Apr 2004 07:35:52 +0000
  ...tmiller <tmiller@VCMAILS.COM> >Reply-To: tmiller <tmiller@VCMAILS.COM> >To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM >Subject: Actual Vanagon content!! >Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004...
• syncro, prop shaft R&Rreport
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:54:08 -0800
  ...purchased '86 syncro this last summer, prop shaft out because of vibrations, vc was assured to be ok. U joints on prop shaft looked...
• Re: Tail lights 'n gators (vent)
  Historical mailing list - Sean O'Neil
  Sat, 28 Aug 1999 02:29:01 -0300
  ...STILL > DO IT IN HEAVILY RAINY/FOGGY CONDITIONS!!! [text/x-vcard] begin:vcard n:O'Neil;Sean tel;work:(902) 425-3607 x-mozilla...
• Screeching noise (distributor)...
  Historical mailing list - Daniel Schmitz
  Mon, 27 Mar 2000 15:52:10 -0800
  ...Thanks in advance! ...Dan [text/x-vcard] begin:vcard n:Schmitz;Dan tel;work:225-6119 x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Genentech, Inc.;Automation...
• Re: Home from the woods
  Historical mailing list - SyncroHead
  Sun, 14 Dec 1997 21:18:46 EST
  ...Maybe the VC is going bad? Hmmmmm? That's odd. I don't know of anything in the VC that would indicate any differentce...
• "Living in a van" article [VC]
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Fri, 30 Nov 2012 07:34:53 -0800
  <http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/32944888191/living-in-a-van> -- Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott 1984 Westfalia, auto trans, Bend, Ore.
• Anyone live in Valencia, Spain ?(no VC)
  Historical mailing list - Frank Goodrick
  Sun, 17 Jan 1999 14:23:14 -0500
  Hi all- Anyone on the list live in Valencia? If so, please contact me. I need some info. Thanks, Frank.
• Re: Binding when turning
  Historical mailing list - Derek Drew
  Mon, 6 Oct 1997 08:59:04 -0400
  I feel certain that this is the VC going bad, which it does very slowly over time, and eventually will be full on all...
• Re: Running syncro w/o driveshaft?
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 18 Apr 1997 02:47:30 -0400 (EDT)
  ...Under normal conditions the front and back plates of the VC are rotating at the same speed. The back plates being driven by the...
• Re: Running syncro w/o driveshaft?
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 18 Apr 1997 03:00:17 -0400 (EDT)
  OTOH, maybe the VC fluid heats up, locking in the front plates and as there is nothing (no DS) to prevent the plates from...
• Re: expected lifetime for transmission?
  Historical mailing list - Johnson, David R FOR:EX
  Thu, 10 Jun 1999 15:06:16 -0700
  ...Dan Resler[SMTP:resler@LIBERTY.MAS.VCU.EDU] > Reply To: Dan Resler > Sent: Thursday, June 10, 1999 12:03 PM > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON...
• Re: Inverter or AC/DC
  Historical mailing list - Don Record
  Wed, 2 Jun 1999 16:32:36 EDT
  ...I securely attached a plate of 3/4" pine (painted black) to the TV/VCR and then just screwed the metal mounting plate for...
• Re: My New Bentley
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Sun, 7 Apr 2013 13:01:26 -0700
  ...I was speaking of the new viscous coupling for my Bentley's pictured here beside my fantastic Westy that does not have a VC...
• FS: $1500 Syncro
  Historical mailing list - Benjamin Tan
  Thu, 10 May 2001 06:25:25 EDT
  ...Check it out if you get a minute: <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/bentbtstr8/myhomepage/sale.html">VC classifieds page 1</A> <A...
• Re: Bus sighting 10/23/00
  Historical mailing list - Robin Oomkes
  Wed, 25 Oct 2000 09:35:20 +0200
  ...Especially if gas prices > continue to rise. > > Tim Ness > 87 Westy "Chunky Girl" [text/x-vcard] begin:vcard n:Oomkes;Robin Oomkes x-mozilla...
• Mike Collum-Lots 'O VC
  Historical mailing list - Michael Sullivan
  Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:30:27 -0500
  Haven't heard from you in awhile and just hope you are doing well. Michael in San Antonio 91GL Weekender AT 2.1L 'Gringo'
• Vanagon Newsletter
  Historical mailing list - Stuart Redford
  Wed, 6 Jul 94 16:47:27 PDT
  ...scr@hpvcpnpi.vcd.hp.com
• Re: test message
  Historical mailing list - Stuart Redford
  Fri, 23 Sep 94 19:52:02 PDT
  ...scr@vcd.hp.com
• Re: I are mades it [no real VC]
  Historical mailing list - Mike Elliott
  Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:10:38 -0700
  On 8/14/2008 1:58 PM BenT Syncro wrote: > Man, good old Penisoner ... "Penis-oner"? -- Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
• Re: Westy-Vision
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Mon, 20 Oct 1997 19:57:45 CDT
  >>Although we do not yet have kids, I would love to know how and where they >>mount a TV/VCR unit in a Eurobago...
• 84 Westy ECU woes & JC Whitney
  Historical mailing list - Sean O'Neil
  Wed, 23 Jun 1999 15:24:21 -0300
  ...Put my old one back in and it didn't run period.) All insight and advice appreciated. [text/x-vcard] begin:vcard n:O...
• Re: VC. Friday. When I Die, Bury Me In My Vanagon Or.....
  Historical mailing list - MICHAEL H
  Fri, 15 Nov 2013 19:13:55 -0800
  ...VANAGON.COM Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 9:36 PM Subject: VC. Friday. When I Die, Bury Me In My Vanagon Or..... ..... at least...
• Re: Syncro drove! For the first time in 13 years!
  Historical mailing list - craig cowan
  Sat, 14 May 2011 21:19:29 -0400
  ...On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 9:16 PM, mark drillock <mdrillock@cox.net> wrote: > The VC can't bind with only front axles...
• Re: Need Viscous Coupling Refresher Course - '91 Syncro
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Mon, 16 May 2005 06:05:47 -0700
  ...If the front wheels spin, VC grabed, if not, bummer $$$$$. M --- George Goff <THX0001@AOL.COM> wrote: > A quick check to see if the...