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• Re-adjusting torsion bars
  Historical mailing list - Sideshow Bob
  Thu, 6 Apr 1995 03:58:19 -0400 (EDT)
  ...torsion bars please post it....my bus has been lowered and i'd like to revert to normal height. thx
• Road trip to Santa Cruz - final pictures
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:22:36 -0400
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• Re: Window rain shields?
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Fri, 27 Jun 2014 10:56:22 -0700
  ...He has the rain shields, and the combo of my height (6-2) and the westy seat height makes it such that I look...
• Westie w/ sagging rearend
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Davis
  Mon, 27 Jul 1998 15:16:54 -0700
  ...Install spacers under the springs to increase ride height (where do I buy the spacers?) 3. Install new shocks with helper springs to increse...
• Re: Purple springs from H&R
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:22:46 -0500
  ...Here's Frank's Vanagon Ride Height Survey which will give you an idea where your bus fits: http://www.frankcondelli.com/survey2.htm...
• Re: Lifting 2WD Westy
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Thu, 15 Jul 2021 09:42:52 -0600
  CG can only be changed by moving weight around,, Altering Height will not move CG ~ Instead of messing with spacers I would suggest moving...
• Re: Portable Air Conditioner
  Historical mailing list - David Bjorkman
  Fri, 22 Apr 2016 07:42:14 -0500
  ...height:1.5;font-size:small;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">&nbsp;Ryan - Asheville, NC</span><span style="line-height:1...
• Re: Vanagon Short Shift Kit
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Thu, 15 Sep 2005 16:34:29 -0400
  If you don't use the extension the knob height doesn't change. The lever point changes..... But, like you I didn't add...
• Re: questions of lifting saggy butt Vanagons,and coil spring spacers
  Historical mailing list - Terry Kay
  Fri, 23 Mar 2001 20:58:09 -0600
  ...Variable height at will, good ride, good handling, easy installation. What more could you ask for? Later, ______________ |[ ] [ ] [ ]\ | | | | ||-(())----(())-| Terry 85 GL
• more VW Busses in the movies
  Historical mailing list - Donald Baxter
  Wed, 28 Jun 2006 12:52:34 -0500
  ...Yellow Mid 70s Type II in the poster for "Little Miss Sunshine" -- --------------------------------------------- Donald Baxter 316 Ridgeview Avenue University Heights, Iowa 52246 www.onanov.com
• Re: Tire size vs. Engine RPM
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Sun, 6 Oct 2002 12:08:14 +1300
  ...For accuracy, it is best to use manufacturers' stated >revolutions per mile at X MPH for each tire and IGNORE both tire >height and...
• Re: Ebay FS, wasRe: Expensive Syncro for sale
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:03:45 -0700
  > > On 3/21/07, Greg Potts <greg@pottsfamily.ca> wrote: > > > > Hi Robert, > > > > Batman aside, if you've seen "Pacific Heights", you wouldn't want...
• Re: Westy Height
  Historical mailing list - Bradley Flubacher
  Fri, 15 Mar 2002 20:39:27 -0500
  ...Westy Height My only question is WHY WOULD YOU BUY A HOUSE WITH A GARAGE A WESTY DOESN'T FIT IN??? Bradley Flubacher Because...
• Re: Syncro height question
  Historical mailing list - Jouko Haapanen
  Fri, 3 May 2002 18:28:56 -0400
  ...Syncro height question I just measured my '85 Westy's hub to bottom of fenderwell distance. I measured from centered of each hub vertically...
• Re: Bulbs
  Historical mailing list - dbeierl
  Mon, 17 Dec 2018 03:46:25 -0500
  ...The tabs on the side of > the bulb ore at different heights. Hahaha, that's the theory. In practice it's easy to put...
• Re: Syncro shocks-group purchase
  Historical mailing list - Kevin, Michelle, & Ivy
  Thu, 30 Dec 1999 19:47:52 -0900
  I'm in for a front & rear set! How much is height affected? I can barely fit into the garage as it is now...
• Re: '84 value?
  Historical mailing list - Paul Guzyk
  Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:13:43 +0100
  ...This was the highest suspension height for 2WD Vanagons AFAIK. Nice to have if you do light off-roading and want a little extra...
• Air Shocks
  Historical mailing list - Geo
  Sat, 10 Apr 2010 18:58:39 -0700
  ...These shocks (as you may know) allow adjustment of ride height by changing the air pressure in the shock. As I understand it, the...
• Pics - Trip to Burning Man Part 3
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Wed, 8 Sep 2004 21:44:21 -0400
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• Custom Syncro Springs
  Historical mailing list - Steven X. Schwenk
  Tue, 25 May 1999 13:17:07 -0700
  ...The ride height will be very near stock, perhaps a 1/2" taller than stockers. These springs are not intended to increase ride height...
• Dimensionally challenged - How big is that Westy in the window?
  Historical mailing list - Roy Nicholl
  Fri, 31 Jul 2015 23:51:55 -0300
  ...The internal height of a high cube container is 2700mm (~106"). I'm guessing the height of a Westfalia hightop is 100 - 102" (provided...
• Overlands Diesel Conversion
  Historical mailing list - Robert Berkemer
  Mon, 27 Jan 2003 19:24:25 -0600
  ...yellow one) and manage to keep the deck height stock? And finally...regardless of deck height.....am I essentially just dreaming of ever having...
• vanagon spring rate color coding for different models...READ!!
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 14 Oct 2006 09:39:27 EDT
  ...stock springs are painted black but they have colored markings put on them at the factory to differentiate their application and ride height. 1...
• Re: Increase ride height on 2wd front
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Sat, 4 Aug 2007 18:38:14 -0700
  ...I'd like to raise it by about 5 cm > to about the same height as a Syncro. I'm o.k. with > some...
• Rear Coils Spring Removal
  Historical mailing list - J Stewart
  Sun, 25 Mar 2012 17:48:17 +0000
  ...Trying to install the spacers to boost rear height just a bit. Checked Bentley and found nothing. TIA, Jeff Jeff Stewart
• Re: Windshield wiper modification
  Historical mailing list - John Andersen
  Mon, 27 Mar 2000 16:23:26 -0800
  I believe the nozzles from a Volvo will fit, the station wagon has a little more height on the back nozzle. they appear to...
• Re: Mike and Shari wheel sizes.
  Historical mailing list - pensioner
  Sat, 11 Aug 2001 15:09:40 -0700
  ...The tire height appears by my measurement to be 27.4 inches loaded. cheers, pensioner
• Re: HELP...any engine builders out there???
  Historical mailing list - Robert Donalds
  Thu, 17 Oct 2002 20:13:44 -0400
  The wrist pin heights are different on the 2.1 and the 1.9 pistons and they can not be interchanged I have a...
• 80 westie height
  Historical mailing list - Eric and Marica
  Tue, 12 Aug 2003 19:04:08 -0600
  good afternoon all, anyone know how tall a westie camper is? we are about to take a b.c. ferry and if it is...
• Re: Car Talk advice: Sell Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Donald Baxter
  Sun, 8 Aug 2004 17:43:41 -0500
  ...from the webstream--you can hear it on my website. -- --------------------------------------------- Donald Baxter 316 Ridgeview Avenue University Heights, Iowa 52246 http://www.mindspring.com/~onanov
• Re: Wheels & Tires '87 GL 2WD
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:42:54 -0700
  On 9/20/06, JordanVw@aol.com <JordanVw@aol.com> wrote: > > > > <SNIP> but then again '85 yr is highest stock ride height for all...
• Height to remove rad?
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
  Sun, 27 Aug 2006 13:44:51 -0700
  Anyone know off hand how high I need to raise the front end to remove the rad on an '88? Shawn Wright http://members...
• Caerfull, was: 81 steering wheel height
  Historical mailing list - Bulley
  Wed, 12 Jan 2000 06:45:55 -0500
  ...While I appreciate you have some access problems, the steering wheel height/ angle is carefully designed to minimize thoracic trauma in an accident. It...
• Re: height of a '90 GL
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:42:38 -0600
  ...craig cowan <phishman068@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Does anyone know a rough height of a '90 (or similar model) regular GL > > passanger van? Not a...
• Seat replacement
  Historical mailing list - J. Andersen
  Mon, 21 Sep 1998 17:40:23 -0700
  ...from the later model sedans? the seat should be the right height but I'm curious about mounting the adjuster. DrRufo SOCal-81 vanagon
• Re: Tires! 15" or 14"?
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Sun, 1 May 2016 10:01:31 -0400
  ...If you increase tire height (and therefore vehicle height) that will compensate for this downside, but bear in mind that you will still need...
• Re: OK, thinking of selling my 1985 Vanagon in Seattle-NOW using tables
  Historical mailing list - Tom Buese
  Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:38:36 -0400
  ...I use a cut off wooden broom stick placed in the rear table leg that allows moi to easily raise table to stove height...
• Re: Bentley Manuals on CD-ROM :)
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Wed, 1 Mar 2000 17:29:50 -0500
  ...They came out with a half-height 8", and within a year everybody was building half-height 5 1/4 drives too. That worked...
• Fwd: High top
  Historical mailing list - Gregoire Blachon
  Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:04:21 -0600
  ...sandwiched by glassfiber resin) *cons:* 1/ Height sucks in europe you have a lot of 2meter height bars limit. 2/ high consumption due to...
• Re: Z-bed ???
  Historical mailing list - EMZ
  Tue, 16 Dec 2003 23:26:31 -0500
  ...They make a platform that goes over the engine, at the sam height of the existing seat, when folded forward. Under this deck you...
• Re: How high is a Syncro Westy Hightop?
  Historical mailing list - VW Doka
  Sat, 22 Dec 2007 12:48:30 -0800
  ...Anyone know how the height of a Syncro Westy Hightop? I'm shipping one via RORO from Germany, but the shipping company wants dimensions...
• re: lifting syncros for bleeding radiator
  Historical mailing list
  16 Dec 95 12:42:00 CST
  ...even a small hill should help you get the height you need!
• stuck lifter
  Historical mailing list - Donald Baxter
  Sun, 21 Aug 2005 23:45:53 -0500
  ...Am I courting disaster? -- --------------------------------------------- Donald Baxter 316 Ridgeview Avenue University Heights, Iowa 52246 www.onanov.com
• Re: conversion to Swivel chair (fwd)
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Pollard
  Sun, 12 May 2002 19:28:46 -0700
  ...Any lowering of the mechanism to alleviate the approximate 1" increase in height over the standard seat height would not allow the swivel seat...
• Re: TD/TDI noise?
  Historical mailing list - Zeitgeist
  Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:51:56 -0800
  I think both length and height would be the primary constraints. The MB oilpan/pickup would need to be modified--it's all aluminum...
• Pictures - Trip to Burning Man
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Sun, 29 Aug 2004 19:54:47 -0400
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• Re: No go on ice
  Historical mailing list - Ervolina, Thomas R. (Tom)
  Thu, 21 Dec 95 10:15:28 EST
  ...and besides, studs are only useful on ice." Tom Tom Ervolina Production, Distribution and Transportation Research IBM Research Yorktown Heights, NY
• Will a westy fit in my garage?
  Historical mailing list - steve delasalle
  Thu, 9 Sep 1999 17:36:49 -0700
  ...Can someone tell me the height of a westphalia camper vanagon please? My garage door clearance is 81.5" - Will it fit in? Steve...
• Re: WESTY HEIGHT
  Historical mailing list - Larry Hamm
  Fri, 26 Jan 2001 16:27:44 -0700
  Anthony Smola wrote: > > My 85' is at 6 feet six inches. The rake of the vehicle is actually slightly > lower in the back, as...
• Re: G.W. 1.5" lift springs
  Historical mailing list - ToddB
  Wed, 12 Mar 2014 08:16:38 -0700
  ...1.5" lift springs Interesting - just last week I installed new GW shocks/springs on my Weekender bringing me up from Carat height to...
• Pics from Everybus 2004
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Sat, 24 Apr 2004 08:44:07 -0400
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• Re: Screen room recommendations?
  Historical mailing list - BA
  Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:22:21 -0700
  ...I'll try to remember to measure the center height ... B(&S) '87 Westy 'Esmerelda Blanc' SoCal On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 22:51...
• Pics from Everybus 2004
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Sat, 24 Apr 2004 08:50:05 -0400
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• Re: Rear Shocks, Syncro vs. 2wd
  Historical mailing list - Robert Stevens
  Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:54:53 -0700
  ...Because of an additional ride height of almost 2", I put a Pro Comp shock that is a 14", stock height is 12". We...
• Re: Spring question - help needed
  Historical mailing list - John Meeks
  Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:39:52 -0500
  ...I have also put up a page, _Vanagon Ride Height Survey_ > (http://members.aol.com/Fkc43/survey2.htm) , to make a survey of the...
• Re: Bug screen (Answer to Joe)
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 23 May 96 21:45 AST
  ...Saludos, Angel Olivares Rio Piedras Heights 133 Weser St. San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00926.
• Re: VANAGON digest 1277
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 27 Feb 1997 03:35:52 -0500 (EST)
  ...93 VW VR6 MOTOR, trans, wires, computer. (718) 398-2147 > Brooklyn Heights >> did anyone actually call on this?? how much were they asking?? chris
• Re: leveling van ride height /cheap way to do it
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Thu, 2 Jan 2003 21:15:37 -0800
  Why not use regular coil spring adjusters?? Not a sublime way to attack the problem, but as they say, different strokes for different folks...
• Re: Vanagon mentioned on Car Talk today
  Historical mailing list - Donald Baxter
  Mon, 22 Aug 2005 01:12:08 -0500
  ...side lived? I'm pretty sure that's where i saw it. -- --------------------------------------------- Donald Baxter 316 Ridgeview Avenue University Heights, Iowa 52246 www.onanov.com
• Re: Westy 2WD HD springs - any interest?
  Historical mailing list - Steven X. Schwenk
  Mon, 14 Jun 1999 21:06:29 -0700
  ...My thought is that this would give an improvement in handling with > no loss in the off-road abilities of the stock height suspension...