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• Front floor mats
  Historical mailing list - Neil2
  Fri, 28 Aug 2015 07:59:21 -0700
  My carpet is in great shape but I'd like to preserve it with some floor mats. What is the best source and style...
• Flooring in back
  Historical mailing list - Jeremy Stovin
  Sat, 8 Jun 2013 06:14:18 -0700
  Hey all, I was looking at some other vans and I see that some have replaced their carpet in the back with wood flooring...
• Re: Vanagon name and favorite thing...
  Historical mailing list - Gabriel Hourtouat
  Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:08:13 -0400
  ...Keeping with the thread, -Forget about the 5 second rule (you can eat things that fall on the floor if you get it within...
• Looking for parts to install Westy center seat
  Historical mailing list - Karl Mullendore
  Mon, 7 Dec 1998 23:32:45 -0500
  ...installation INTO the wood of the floor, as done by the factory, instead of on TOPof the floor. Anyone have an extra set they...
• Mrs. Squirrel gets nice floors in Mellow Yellow.
  Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
  Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:03:31 -0700
  ...http://www.altavistaaudio.com/Westy/Nice_Floors/index.html -- Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The...
• common rust problem?
  Historical mailing list - Mark Gajewski
  Tue, 13 Jul 1999 10:28:30 -0400
  While installing jump seats into my GL I noticed a bubbled rust spot on the floor just behind the front passenger seat/battery box...
• Re: westy middle seats, and how to install floor tracks/rails
  Historical mailing list - Calle Fallberg
  Sun, 20 Jun 2004 19:30:01 +0200
  ...westy middle seats, and how to install floor tracks/rails > FYI, i have the middle seats and floor tracks/rails for sale. > > install is...
• Re: Where to place my jack?
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Thu, 2 Sep 2021 10:27:59 -0700
  ...I went inside and talked to the manager and then they raised the van with 4 floor jacks - 2 on the rear and 2...
• Re: What's wrong with my brakes?
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sun, 7 Mar 2010 15:23:30 -0800
  ...Mark David Marshall wrote: > I can push the brake pedal to the floor and nothing happens. > > My > TriStar sat for about 3 years and...
• Re: Brake pedal fades to floor at stops
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Tue, 13 May 2008 20:28:08 -0700
  ...Brakes work fine, but under constant pressure fluid leaks past the piston seals and the pedal slowly sinks to the floor? Seen it in...
• Rainwater leak drivers side floor
  Historical mailing list - Erin Daniels
  Sat, 4 Jan 2020 11:27:42 -0800
  Anyone else have a really bad leak on the drivers side floor when it rains a lot? I cannot tell how the rain is...
• broken accelerator pedal
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 31 Jul 2015 09:53:26 -0700
  so my gas pedal just detached from the floor of my 82 westy. it originally was a diesel, I'm not sure if the...
• Re: A mod to make Felder's eyes bleed
  Historical mailing list - Angus Gordon
  Thu, 26 Mar 2015 15:33:05 -0700
  ...to get some flack for this flooring mod, already taken some from friends. > > https://shufti.wordpress.com/2015/03/26/vanagon-carpaccio-flooring/ > > Alistair
• westy middle seats for sale, blue, or grey
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 2 Dec 1998 21:20:11 EST
  ...folding seatbacks, 2 person, folding armrests, seatbelts, floor rails, slide in, slide out and use as campsite furniture. easy inst, factory holes already in...
• Westie Floor Removal How to?
  Historical mailing list - Al Knoll
  Mon, 12 Jul 1999 16:28:47 -0700
  ...So how do you get the bleedin floor up? I pulled the keeper flange off the doorsill and still no go. Where is the...
• Re: Power steering leak !!?
  Historical mailing list - Brandt Milczewski
  Tue, 14 Mar 2000 12:23:06 +0000
  ...If you follow the steering column to the floor it enters a doughnut shaped unit right at the floor. this is where the fluid...
• Filling seat tracks
  Historical mailing list - Bob Allen
  Thu, 7 Nov 2002 21:29:06 -0500
  ...If there is a good way w/o replacing the floor. Otherwise I'm replace the floor. Pls p-mail Thanks 86 Vanagon Syncro...
• Re: Harbor Freight Floor Jacks
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Wed, 27 Jul 2011 08:46:46 -0500
  ...It was a good safe way to use a floor jack, and was out where you could see what was going on and not...
• Re: That composite floor padding...
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Mon, 8 Apr 2002 16:36:04 -0500
  ...even out the floor corrugations. > has anyone found a better way to insulate, pad,level and sound > deaden the > floor using a more optimal...
• Re: carpet alternatives
  Historical mailing list - Slloth
  Wed, 1 Oct 2008 20:12:43 -0700
  ...With > the flooring there the fridge cannot be removed without removing the > flooring in front of the fridge. The Dometic fridge in the Vanagon...
• Re: Fw: Deep Cycle Batts.. A Journey
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Wed, 11 Dec 2002 18:10:06 -0800
  ...They don't > > > > spill, out-gas (noticeably) or rot your floor. They are prone to plate > > dammage like a wet-cell though, so never...
• Heat and Noise
  Historical mailing list - Alan Pickersgill
  Mon, 1 Sep 2003 22:42:01 -0400
  ...I'm thinking about insulating the whole floor in the front, maybe the living area as well, and probably the floor and engine lid...
• Re: Eng. off/cold; brake pedal goes to floor. Eng. on/pump pedal; pedal height ok.
  Historical mailing list - Wil Haslup
  Sat, 7 Oct 2006 22:37:54 -0400
  ...snip... > But..... > > Cold in the morning engine off; brake pedal is easy to > push to floor. Pumping doesnt' seem to bring up pedal > height...
• Re: Floormat Recommendation
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Feldstein
  Mon, 17 Mar 1997 11:17:45 -0800
  ...Flynn wrote: > > I am looking for some floormats for my 1988 Westfailia. Can anyone > provide me with their recommendations? > Thanks in advance! -- Jeff Feldstein...
• Re: Floor jack placement for tire rotation
  Historical mailing list - JRodgers
  Sat, 14 Sep 2013 14:22:12 -0500
  ...You can lift the whole front end by centering the floor jack on a structural frame near the front - but be bloody sure that...
• Westy behind kitchen insulation
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:50:54 -0700
  ...Will be completely pulling the floor after all and replacing it after retreating the floor with anticorrosion and probably a rubberized coating before I...
• Replacment of the clutch master cylinder
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Overmyer
  Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:13:58 +1000
  ...Is it possible that the rubber floor mats have absorbed some of the leaked hydraulic fluid and the heat from the coolant pipes warming...
• Tweaking Sink Water Pump (non-submersible)
  Historical mailing list - Roy O.
  Sat, 7 Aug 1999 23:09:12 -0500
  ...Before securing the pump to the cabinet floor, I placed a 1/4 inch thick rubber pad between the floor and the pump to...
• Floor Covering
  Historical mailing list - rpc
  Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:59:03 -0700
  ...http://us.f13.yahoofs.com/bc/43f26bfdm53b0fedd/bc/ruth+pics/vanagon+floor/IMG_0274.jpg?BClwv4HBnFvtq6Rr I can't remember why I chose "Euro...
• Re: Floor jack placement for tire rotation
  Historical mailing list - Project Pat
  Sat, 14 Sep 2013 14:48:33 -0400
  ...I have a heavy duty floor jack. Is there a preferred place to place the jack so that the car body can both take...
• Re: Parts Place Mats
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 5 Apr 1995 12:04:31 -0300
  ...Here is my $0.02. >..their rubber floor mats! These cost only about $30 plus shipping; they >are made for Vanagon. Derek, do these...
• Vanagon Tires/Carpet and Floor Mats
  Historical mailing list - Joe and Sue Fleming
  Wed, 21 Jul 1999 19:22:38 -0700
  ...Have to get a new set of tires - suggestions on type of tires? Also needs carpet and floor mats for the passenger seating area...
• Re: Rubber front floor rubber mat
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:38:51 -0400
  > I have an 89 Westy Syncro and I'm looking for two front > floor rubber mats. Any suggestions out there? The OEM German ones...
• Re: Mrs. Squirrel gets nice floors in Mellow Yellow.(NVC)
  Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
  Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:58:18 -0700
  ...I had recently added similar flooring to a bathroom in the house so I knew what I was getting into. The Bentley's manual...
• Re: Cork/Rubber flooring under front carpet
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:32:22 -0500
  ...A combination of events - hole in the floor by brake pedal,accumulation of water over time, rusting through, rotting the cork, slow brake fluid...
• Re: Installing a 1982 Westy rear seat into 1987 water cooled Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Paul Guzyk
  Sun, 23 Jul 2006 07:40:32 -0700
  ...assembly lives on top of the floor of the >storage compartment, or is the storage compartment floor cut to allow it >slide around the...
• Re: A mod to make Felder's eyes bleed
  Historical mailing list - Ben
  Thu, 26 Mar 2015 15:23:50 -0700
  ...to get some flack for this flooring mod, already taken some from friends. > > https://shufti.wordpress.com/2015/03/26/vanagon-carpaccio-flooring/ > > Alistair
• RE; under floor storage
  Historical mailing list - Terry Kay
  Fri, 26 May 2000 08:12:01 -0500
  ...However, I think a wood one may offer some problems, with a gaping hole in the floor, with nothing to supplement the missing sheet...
• Jump Seats-How to Mount to Floor?
  Historical mailing list - JOHN REYNOLDS
  Sat, 11 Aug 2001 16:45:58 +0000
  ...The two legs fit into hollow cyinders that are welded to the floor. Has anyone else mounted these into a van that did not...
• Re: Camper floor mat option, flexitiles
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:13:37 -0700
  --- Ryan <easywind1975@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote: > I was in need of a floor covering for my 86 I have a brown (from a 1983) westy...
• Re: Floor Mats
  Historical mailing list - W. Silva
  Tue, 29 Sep 1998 08:22:49 -0400
  We have great floor mats, think we got them from Volks Motorsports but in any case, they are made by Lloyd Design and almost...
• EuroVan Floor Mats $33/pr
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Wed, 13 Dec 2000 16:02:46 -0500
  I just received a close-out on German made black rubber floor mats for the front floor of a Eurovan. These are heavy and...
• Re: Removing '87 Westy floor
  Historical mailing list - Bill Kasper
  Tue, 15 Jan 2002 08:17:12 -0800
  ...On Tuesday, January 15, 2002, at 07:42 , Chris Hinkle wrote: > Folks, > I'm trying to remove the floor in my '87 Westy in...
• Re: Why does my floor gets wet whenever it rains?
  Historical mailing list - Ken Lewis
  Tue, 12 Aug 2003 17:52:35 -0400
  ...Why does my floor gets wet whenever it rains? In my 84GL the floor in the front of the van gets soaked whenever it...
• Re: Harbor Freight Floor Jacks
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Fri, 22 Jul 2011 22:29:46 -0500
  ...I've wanted to try one of their aluminum racing floor jacks - One of these days. I already have 4 floor jacks....though one...
• Re: Carat Question/seating arrangements
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 5 Jan 1996 14:57:41 -0400
  At 10:52 AM 1/5/96 -0600, Norman Leong wrote: >I just remembered something else about the bus floors; since it's pretty...
• Free Vanagon floor mat
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 11 Mar 1996 13:19:49 -0500
  Vanatics, I have a rubber floor mat for a Vanagon that I'm willing to give away. It fits the cener section of a...
• Re: rubber floor mats?
  Historical mailing list - David Bogle
  Wed, 8 Sep 1999 22:07:48 -0400
  ...Any suggestions for good floor protection during in winter and > spring goo? Deena, The Bus Depot has some rubber mats for the front of...
• Re: My door fell off last night
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Tue, 31 Mar 2020 11:20:17 -0700
  ...seems fine and then suddenly the sliding door drops on the floor.. the rear hit the floor first and the whole door came off...
• Who knows this?
  Historical mailing list - Zoltan
  Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:59:13 -0700
  ...The pedal did not go to the floor and it did not disingaged yet fully. The guy just changed the transmission and the plate...
• Re: middle seats, how heavy
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 14 Aug 2002 12:07:58 EDT
  ...i know because i had to get one of these weighed for shipping purposes, with the floor tracks included. chris
• Re: the 5th seat
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:38:18 -0500
  ---- mark drillock <mdrillock@cox.net> wrote: > See this part of the post you quoted. > > "floor tracks that can be fitted to any year van...
• again - for sale: optional Westy 2 person middle seat w/ floor rails
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 26 Sep 1998 11:45:55 EDT
  ...rails mount on cargo floor, permanently, or temporarily. seat can be slid out a few feet to access fridge. same grey velour upholstry as...
• Re: Floormats and carpet
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 9 Feb 2000 08:44:16 EST
  I got a nice set of floormats from www.gowesty.com. Gary is a really great guy to deal with. The mats are custom...
• Re: Jumpseat measurments
  Historical mailing list - John C...
  Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:07:11 -0600
  ...What I have not been able to find in > the list is a precise location where I should drill through the > plywood/plastic floor...
• Doka/utility rubber cab mats
  Historical mailing list - Cunegonde
  Sun, 9 Jul 2017 12:56:07 -0700
  ...Love Cunegonde's new center engineered hardwood floor, now disgusting front carpet and rotting padding's got to go. Mold removal/antifungus completed everywhere...
• FS: OEM Vanagon rubber front floormat (replace or covers carpet)
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 23 Apr 2000 00:42:58 EDT
  i have an OEM black rubber front floormat for the vanagon..this is the kind that was used in the transporters, in place of...
• Middle seat in GL
  Historical mailing list - Janet Sanford
  Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:03:07 -0800
  ...They used the area originally for a wheelchair, so the floor has bood and rubber floor over the original carpet. Recently an email here...
• Re: JT's Magic Bus Project Update
  Historical mailing list - John T. Croteau
  Wed, 6 Sep 1995 10:25:37 -0500 (CDT)
  On Wed, 6 Sep 1995, thom fitzpatrick wrote: > Having done rockers and front floors myself, I can truthfully say it can > be done by...
• Re: Vanagon Floor Pads Available?
  Historical mailing list - Bill
  Sun, 14 Nov 1999 10:21:20 -0500
  ...Vanagon Floor Pads Available? >Cc: >Bcc: >X-Attachments: > >I too, would like to have a source for replacement cork mats for my 82 >Westy...