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• Re: Removing arm rest (how to)
  Historical mailing list - Mark Tuovinen
  Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:12:04 -0800
  I do not have the link on hand but have performed the repair more than once(two vans = 8 armrests). You need to pull...
• Re: Swapping late sway bar links to '82?
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:55:55 -0500
  ...From where it is mounted on the control arm, the distance is greater than with the cast iorn control arm.Because the cast iorn...
• Re: Anyone replace their a arm bushings (front) themselves?
  Historical mailing list - mike
  Sat, 6 Jul 2002 15:29:52 -0700
  ...Anyone replace theeir a arm bushings (front) themselves? > > subject says it all mine is due....I can get the a arms off, but wondering...
• Arm rest bolt caps, quick fix
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sat, 15 Feb 2020 10:55:30 -0800
  Made some Delrin replacements. https://shufti.blog/2020/02/15/vanagon-quick-fix-arm-rest-bolt-caps/ Alistair
• Re: How to fix arm rest?
  Historical mailing list - Brent Weide
  Mon, 27 Aug 2018 07:49:45 -0700
  Writeup here.... http://www.weidefamily.net/vanagon/ Go to Interior > Armrest Repair best, Brent -- Brent Weide Portland, Oregon
• OPPS! need brown armrest
  Historical mailing list - Mike Riley
  Fri, 8 Nov 2013 07:22:34 -0500
  need left side brown armrest from 1985 westy. guess the previous title did not say it all. Non adjustable! mike
• WTB; Radius Arms & Link
  Historical mailing list - jonathan waters
  Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:51:06 -0700
  I'm looking for 2 Radius Arms, and 1 steering dampener Link for an 87 GL. Any out there FS?
• Wanted - Gray arm rests - 89 Westy
  Historical mailing list - Chuck Reisinger
  Wed, 14 Jul 2004 10:55:40 -0500
  I'm looking for a set of driver and passenger side GRAY arm rests in GOOD condition....Thanks....
• Re: Best Dash Cleaner and Protector - Armorall or ???
  Historical mailing list - RICHARD KOERNER
  Sat, 16 May 2009 10:26:10 -0700
  Armorall...old school.� Too glossy, sticky, collects grime.� The BEST:� 303 Aerospace Protectant.� Expensive, and worth it (triple the price of Armorall).�� Leaves the...
• Re: How to remove upper ball joint???
  Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
  Sun, 16 Sep 2001 09:32:01 EDT
  Use a tie rod separator $12 at Autozone And a Pitman arm separator: $12 at Autozone. A few turns and the joint pops out...
• rebuilt head and rocker arm clearance
  Historical mailing list - Robert Tippey
  Thu, 28 Jun 2001 23:39:51 EDT
  ...I was reinstalling the rocker arm assembly and dicovered that there is no longer any clearance between the arms and valves. In fact, with...
• RE: Arm Rests
  Historical mailing list - Wiesner Craig
  17 Dec 1996 19:00:12 -0800
  ...If the post is there you just slide the arm rest on and secure with bolt. I can look-up the bolt number if...
• Urgency of Upper Control Arm Bushing replacement?
  Historical mailing list - Peter Krogh
  Sun, 6 Jan 2013 21:38:15 -0500
  ...The Upper Control Arm (A Arm) has loose bushings that are thunking over bumps. An examination shows pretty deteriorated bushings on the A as...
• Found clutch lever arm
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Wed, 26 May 2021 07:52:14 -0700
  Hi, Thanks to all who offered a replacement arm, but I’ve found a couple up here on Vancouver island. Dave at Dave’s...
• AFC Measurements
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:48:03 -0400
  I could measure the resistance across the range of the tracks at several points by just moving the arm and this would effectively ignore...
• Re: Vanagon Starter - windings available?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Cardo
  Mon, 5 Sep 2005 23:43:52 -0500
  ...Dewind the armature and you'll pick up mucho RPM, and draw less amps. Sounds to me like the guy that did the work...
• Re: Adjustable armrests...
  Historical mailing list - Joe Federici
  Thu, 4 Sep 2003 17:25:18 -0400
  Frank I've got one armrest that bends upwards if you pull on tip from the end where your hand would be. It's...
• Front End Work
  Historical mailing list - Steven X. Schwenk
  Sun, 12 Mar 2000 10:01:24 -0800
  ...I also decided to replace the upper control arm bushings. (i already have these parts). I now think I should replace everything if i...
• Re: Front Seat Upgrade............Cheap Alternative To Recaros?
  Historical mailing list - Tom Buese
  Mon, 8 Dec 2008 13:35:22 -0700
  I bet the arm rests on both sides were planned to be universal so that you can rotate the seats & anyone could leave the...
• Re: How to remove arm rest
  Historical mailing list - Davidson
  Sun, 30 Jan 2000 16:08:16 -0800
  ...How to remove arm rest >Hi All, > >We brought home the 87 Westy this afternoon. One of the armrests on the >driver's seat...
• FREE vanagon back seat w/ armrests
  Historical mailing list - JordanVw
  Thu, 21 May 1998 22:53:04 EDT
  FREE: blue velour vanagon back seat with armrests. nice shape. fits all vans. come get it. chris allentown, pa
• WANTED control arm link for 84 vanagon
  Historical mailing list - ROBERT A COPICH
  Tue, 4 May 1999 06:51:36 -0400
  Just wondering if anyone has a spare control arm link lying around before I sink $80.00 Thanks
• Re: Bargains !
  Historical mailing list - mike miller
  Sun, 13 Aug 2000 08:14:02 -0700
  Front and rear tables/arms, grey, $50. Does anyone know how to tell the difference between the front and rear tables/arms? Mike
• Upper Control Arm Bushings
  Historical mailing list - David Paterson
  Wed, 2 May 2001 15:36:03 -0400
  Hey Listees, Can anyone tell me the size Hex wrench I need to take the Upper Control Arms off? TIA Dave
• Armrests
  Historical mailing list - Chuck Reisinger
  Mon, 27 Sep 2004 13:08:16 -0500
  I'm STILL looking for 2 pair of gray armrests for an 89 Westy....(L + R for the driver and passenger seats). Thanks Chuck....
• Rocker arm question
  Historical mailing list - roger sisler
  Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:24:21 -0700
  Will rocker arms from a 1.9 fit the 2.1 ? --------------------------------- Get your email and more, right on the new Yahoo.com
• Re: front seat armrest fix- ?
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 15 Oct 1995 16:55:17 -0400
  In a message dated 95-10-14 09:34:17 EDT, FoxhntrPat@aol.com writes: >help, please... > >My driver seat armrest has collapsed. It...
• captain's chair arms
  Historical mailing list - William R. Kennedy, NJIT CIAT, 201-596-5648
  Tue, 25 Feb 1997 20:08:10 EST
  Subject arms that are anywhere from a little woggly to downright falling off can be tighted. You need two allen wrenches, one about 6mm...
• Front End Work (Corrected)
  Historical mailing list - Steven X. Schwenk
  Sun, 12 Mar 2000 10:15:12 -0800
  ...I also decided to replace the upper control arm bushings. (i already have these parts). I now think I should replace everything if i...
• Re: BROKEN ARM REST
  Historical mailing list - pedro dos santos
  Mon, 27 Aug 2001 21:22:29 -0700
  this just happened to me this spring with my vanagon 91 with adjustable arm rest. There is a pin located on the shaft, between...
• Re: westfalia table storage
  Historical mailing list - JonR
  Mon, 9 Feb 2004 16:59:23 -0500
  A buddy of mine modified his front table arm so it could be pulled out, rotated 90� and stored with the top still attached...
• Re: drooping wiper blade
  Historical mailing list - Steven X. Schwenk
  Sat, 3 Jul 1999 10:47:25 -0700
  Fit a shim of alumnium foil or even some teflon tape between the arm and the stud...it may work for a while. Frank...
• installing rocker arms
  Historical mailing list - Jake Beaulieu
  Sun, 5 Feb 2006 01:10:26 -0500
  ...I replaced the pushrod tube seals, installed the tubes, inserted the rods, and bolted the rocker arms in place. The rocker arms on the...
• Re: Need help w/armrest adjusters
  Historical mailing list - Doran Nugent
  Thu, 23 Dec 1999 09:57:03 -0800
  Benjamin, I did the same thing and after hours of prodding and head scratching, I resigned myself to de-upolsterizing the arm rest to...
• Re: Armrest Fell Off
  Historical mailing list - Aaron Pearson
  Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:23:39 -0600
  ...http://www.weidefamily.net/vanagon/ -> Interior -> armrest repair aaron '87 syncro westy ej22 > Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:02:18 -0800 > From: jeffmichal...
• Re: Late lower control arms
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sun, 12 Apr 2009 06:54:51 -0700
  ...Quote: "Beginning in Nov 1984, the sheet metal lower control arm has been replaced by a cast arm". I would not bother to replace...
• Re: more on the Wiper Motor
  Historical mailing list - Jack Newton
  Sat, 19 Sep 1998 00:08:46 +1000
  Mark The symptoms you describe suggest that, at the side where the wiper arm turns 180 deg with no resistance: a) the wiper arm...
• Re: Floppy Wiper arm, is there a fix?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel
  Thu, 17 Oct 2013 23:43:34 -0700
  with the wiper arm removed from the shaft.. how does the shaft feel ..loose ? what happens when you run the wipers with the wiper...
• Re: Discovered my clutch failure reason.
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Mon, 24 May 2021 14:37:31 -0700
  ...And I had to pull the lever arm off, again…why? > > Yeah, I cut the old arm off. But I had a spare one...
• Re: how many of you DONT have the armrest thingys on your front doorpanels?
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Overmyer
  Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:24:28 +1100
  ...with no armrests, of course. but it did NOT have the armrest thingys on the front doorpanels. i have seen other dokas that DID...
• I look for table & swing arm !!
  Historical mailing list - Noriyoshi Yuzurihara
  Wed, 3 Dec 1997 17:09:47 +0900
  ...There is no arm in Westy, either. I can't have a meal with Westy. ;-) Don't you have left table & arm ? I looked...
• Re: front seat arm rest removal?
  Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
  Tue, 24 Mar 1998 09:30:59 -0800
  There's a roll pin holding the arm rests on. You have to pry between the seat and the arm rest to see this...
• Re: Control Arm Bushings
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Tue, 10 Aug 2021 10:37:19 -0500
  ...Control Arm Bushings > > I'm replacing the control arm bushings and wonder if tack welding the new > ones as in the original factory units...
• Front end looseness
  Historical mailing list - Ed Duntz
  Sun, 8 Sep 2013 22:47:12 -0400
  I've narrowed down the play in my left front wheel to the upper control arm. When I shake the wheel left to right...
• Re: Removing Captain's Arms
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 20 May 1999 14:53:49 EDT
  ...I pried off the little black plastic cover, beneath that is what looks like a hex-nut which the arm seems to rotate on...
• skylight flex arm repair
  Historical mailing list - James Creech
  Mon, 9 Oct 2000 22:05:40 -0400
  Has anyone been able to successfully re-tread or otherwise repair the small wheels on the flex arm assembly for the skylight (the flex...
• Re: wanted to buy: westy front table mount, arm, top ..any or all..
  Historical mailing list - Marshall
  Thu, 4 Apr 2002 16:53:58 -0600
  ...Table arms are $99.95. rear combo (with table) is $229.95 front combo (with table) is $225.95 Marshall Ruskin 84 Westy ----- Original...
• Arm rest
  Historical mailing list - C. Chris Snyder
  Thu, 4 Apr 2002 10:30:11 -0500
  ...I have noticed lately that the swivel arm rest on the passenger side (closest to the door) is some what lose. Would some knowledgeable...
• [WTB] armrest dial
  Historical mailing list - Harry Hoffman
  Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:45:29 -0500
  Hiya, I'm looking for a armrest dial adjuster for my '89 GL. Anyone have one they'd like to sell? Cheers, Harry
• wanted: right tan armrest
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 9 Aug 2002 13:08:56 EDT
  wanted: right tan front capt chair armrest. non-adjustable variety ('83-86) please p-mail me if you have one thanks chris
• Re: Floppy Wiper arm, is there a fix?
  Historical mailing list - TonyCollin
  Thu, 17 Oct 2013 16:07:06 -0400
  ...They sit along the fixed/rigid arm. Any pressure/bending this spring puts on the arm is relieved by the tilt up pivot. > > Have...
• Re: Price of front A-arm bushings
  Historical mailing list - Gary McEachern
  Wed, 26 Sep 2001 19:53:31 -0400
  ...Upper Control Arm Bushing, German (Vanagon) two per side $23.95 251 407 077 Gary Gary McEachern, Reading Ma. '90 Westy '87GL Wolfy Weekender...
• T4 PR retaining wire
  Historical mailing list - Craig Jones
  Sat, 16 Feb 2002 16:45:40 -0800
  ...I see evidence of the wire being positioned in between the rocker arm assembly and the pedastal mounting base on the head on some...
• Re: Urgency of Upper Control Arm Bushing replacement?
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Sun, 6 Jan 2013 19:48:11 -0800
  ...The Upper Control Arm (A Arm) has loose bushings that are thunking over bumps. An examination shows pretty deteriorated bushings on the A as...
• Re: Haynes Manual
  Historical mailing list - gerry rafferty
  Thu, 2 Jul 1998 20:57:13 -0700
  ...Barry Armitage <Armitage@ASNT.ORG> To: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM <Vanagon@VANAGON.COM> Date: Thursday, July 02, 1998 7:32 AM Subject: Haynes Manual >Could...
• Re: skylight flex arm repair
  Historical mailing list - mike miller
  Tue, 10 Oct 2000 08:22:20 -0700
  Seem to slide just fine and do the job of keeping the arms aligned correctly. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Creech" <jacreech@visuallink.com...
• Re: skylight flex arm repair
  Historical mailing list - mike miller
  Tue, 10 Oct 2000 08:20:58 -0700
  ...skylight flex arm repair > >Epoxyed regular button on the arms in place of the little worn out wheels > per a list suggestion.< > > you mean...
• Re: Repair Arm Rest Stop?
  Historical mailing list - Ed Duntz
  Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:05:53 -0400
  ...Repair Arm Rest Stop? > My '84 Westy has the stock seats. I leaned a little too hard on one > of the armrests. I heard...
• Re: Re[2] Steven's wiper arms
  Historical mailing list - Steve Johnson
  Fri, 13 Jan 95 7:08:02 PST
  ...I'm not saying that the arm(s) will fit > interchangeably on the shaft, but if they do, it might be worth a shot...
• RE: Piece of metal rod stuck in rubber bushing, how remove?
  Historical mailing list - William R. Kennedy, NJIT CIAT, 201-596-5648
  Thu, 18 Jul 1996 10:53:12 EST
  On Vanagon sway bar links, what looks like a rubber bushing on the control arm is actually two rubber bushings, one above, one below...