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• Re: Writers aren't artists
  Historical mailing list - Sudhir Desai
  Mon, 25 Dec 2006 02:19:54 -0500
  ...Goodnight hammer. Goodnight spoon. Goodnight talking, philosophical cat food can humming a tune..." And if you call now, you can win a free trip...
• Re: Story (lite vngn cntnt)
  Historical mailing list - Tommy Dunn
  Thu, 17 Feb 2000 13:24:56 -0600
  ...Grabbing a wood block and hammer I start tapping. Nothing! The book >says the case should just come apart. I get my flashlight and...
• Re: Rear Brakes - How do you get JUST the drum off?
  Historical mailing list - Fred Porter
  Mon, 29 Jun 1998 09:32:18 -0600
  ...it did require some force and a bit of time going between hammering and pulling and soaking more with liquid wrench. BTW to replace...
• Re: Brake Drums?
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Sat, 31 Jan 2004 13:00:02 EST
  ...2/ If you want to risk damaging (Brinnelling) the bearings with a hammer then back off the adjusters, squirt copious amounts of penetrant around...
• Re: Subject: quad runners are street legal here too (NVC)
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:30:43 -0500
  ...Sure, and if you have a really big screwdriver you can use the handle to hammer nails. But if you've got the right...
• Re: [Syncro] SO's auto hammers into Park at ...
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 15 May 2001 22:15:43 -0400
  ...SyncroList - post; Vanagon (Gerry) - Post; 16V list Post Subject: [Syncro] SO's auto hammers into Park at ... ..... oops, 40, and she wondered why there...
• Re: hex bolts
  Historical mailing list - Scott Walker
  Mon, 8 Sep 2003 07:28:05 -0400
  If the bolt is already stripped, I have had some success hammering in either a Torx or standard hex that is slightly larger than...
• Re: ARRGHH! PARKING STUPIDITY! (DENT!!)
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 17 Mar 2004 14:00:47 EST
  ...I'm assuming hammering out the dent won't > yield very good results (I'm good at repainting, though). What about a > new door...
• Re: Starter Problem
  Historical mailing list - Tim Demarest
  Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:07:21 -0400
  ...Tapping it with a hammer eventually >gets it going. > >This happens both when cold and hot. I tried "jumping" the starter by >shorting the...
• Re: How to remove U-joint from power steering?
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Tue, 11 Sep 2001 07:01:05 -0500
  ...As I recall I finally found a piece of steel with a taper to it and managed to hammer that in at the right...
• Re: Starter Bushing Removal Question
  Historical mailing list - S DaRoota
  Wed, 23 Jun 2021 11:47:57 -0700
  Use the starter bolt on it and tap it with a hammer. The bushing is softer than the bolt. On Wed., Jun. 23, 2021...
• Re: Steering column shear bolt removal
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sun, 16 Feb 2014 14:16:43 -0800
  Give them a good whack with a hammer and then visegrips. Replace with good grade hex bolt or allen bolt. The sheared off heads...
• Re: Pop top issue
  Historical mailing list - Mike S
  Mon, 30 May 2011 16:17:13 -0400
  ...4'' pipe? Not sure what he used, but a taper and hammer would be my guess. >And annealing . . . Annealing copper is easy. Get it...
• Re: do vanagons ever get stolen???
  Historical mailing list - Timothy Lee Harrison
  Sun, 18 Aug 2002 02:30:49 +0100
  ...you've got to hit the starter with a big hammer and a long pole to get it started. That's better than any...
• Cylinder sleeve - removing
  Historical mailing list - Dave Vieira
  Wed, 9 Jul 2003 19:26:17 -0700
  ...valve head side, I tryed a little gentel prying, hitting with hammer, not good usually resulting in cracked cylinder :), Gunk the crap out of...
• Re: Upper Ball Joint Removal (!#$%^&)
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Sat, 5 Oct 2002 23:42:37 EDT
  ...However, if the shank is curved and the fork is all boogered up, its owner subscribes to the get-me-a-bigger-hammer school...
• Re: 85' won't start :-( any clues??
  Historical mailing list - Doug Alcock
  Mon, 25 Aug 2003 11:14:45 -0400
  ...worth crawling under the van and banging the starter with a hammer a few times. Thebearing at the end of the shaft can wear...
• Re: Heater Box
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Wed, 13 Jan 2016 22:46:28 +0000
  I use a chisel and a hammer to get a point started and then a hammer and a putty knife to chase the slot...
• '56 kombi transmission: the finale!
  Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
  Sat, 14 Jan 1995 22:31:34 -0800 (PST)
  ...a 3" extension, a body hammer and a screw driver, a block of wood, and a claw hammer. You don't want to know...
• Re: CV help!
  Historical mailing list - Lawrence Johnson
  Wed, 10 Jul 2002 05:56:17 -0400
  ...Take a heavy hammer or mallet (1 � lb or more); slide the CV rubber boot well back from the CV joint; hold the shaft...
• starter dead? 88 GL Auto
  Historical mailing list - Bobby Brown
  Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:12:32 -0500
  ...My uncle says to take a hammer and "bang" on the starter a few times to loosen the soleniod? What gives? What is the...
• Now in Charleston
  Historical mailing list - Cameron Hunziker
  Mon, 23 Nov 1998 09:21:00 -0500
  ...It was a great trip, and definitely a success- a few problems with my starter, but nothing a hammer wouldn't fix. I will...
• Re: Power Steering Pump
  Historical mailing list - Dick Taylor
  Sat, 4 Dec 1999 19:32:40 -0800
  ...There is >plenty of fluid, and no, I haven't done the bleeding procedure, hit it >with a hammer, dissasembled it, or anything other...
• Re: BROKEN ARM REST
  Historical mailing list - pedro dos santos
  Mon, 27 Aug 2001 21:22:29 -0700
  ...Just push it back in with a screwdriver and hammer. Pedro dos Santos vanagon carat 91 (thanks Chris for the carat interior) __________________________________________________ Do You...
• Removing axle question
  Historical mailing list - Gary Bawden
  Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:34:14 -0800
  ...it be driven out from the outside with a big bronze hammer (Bentley shows a circlip in there somewhere)? To clarify, I am NOT...
• Re: Syncro cv-joint fun
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Mon, 26 Oct 1998 04:02:04 -0800
  ...I just knocked it with a 1 kg hammer and a socket extension bar, it came out without too much effort. I remember changing...
• Re: Your method to fit grp 41 battery in box
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:35:49 +0000
  ...in it at that location I used a hammer.  Not a big hammer a medium hammer.  It went in after a few taps and...
• Re: Loud and heavy popping noise up front
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:44:26 -0500
  ...The lower spring pad had been hammered to pieces allowing the spring to move around. Apparently the spring was hitting the metal and making...
• Re: Stereo suggestions
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Tue, 28 May 2013 14:41:23 -0700
  ...Hit the bracket with a hammer Repeat. Done.
• Re: Stuck together
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 29 Mar 2003 16:17:21 EST
  ...bolts out including the starter bolt, whack the bellhousing w/ a hammer, sometimes they stick. make sure ALL the bolts are out tho. chris
• Gas Tank Alignment Questions. PIC
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:07:31 -0800
  ...Have any other people found that fitting a new tank is tight, and, did they successfully "hammer" it tight to frame? ("hammering" on 2x4...
• Re: Ball Joints
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Mon, 23 Dec 2002 13:14:38 -0600
  ...1)Floor Jack 2)Pickle Fork 3)3# pound Hammer 4) Ball Joint separator 5) Front end alignment machine 6) Press 7) Experience Stan...
• Re: CV removal tips?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 14 May 2006 15:09:55 -0400
  Once you take a hammer to the end of a drive shaft, you could be done. The end of the shaft will mushroom out...
• Re: off with her heads
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Fri, 18 Oct 2013 08:32:06 -0500
  ...Some raps on the side with a dead blow > hammer will get the cylinders out. Then you can clean them properly and lap > them...
• Re: Suggested Minimum Tools To Carry
  Historical mailing list - Jason
  Sat, 20 Jul 2013 12:51:13 -0400
  ...a mechanic > and > > a master mechanic is the master mechanic can use a smaller 'beat'n tool'. > > I carry a very big hammer! > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Casey >
• Re: Suggested Minimum Tools To Carry
  Historical mailing list - Kevin Gilbert
  Sat, 20 Jul 2013 15:18:40 -0400
  ...a mechanic and >> a master mechanic is the master mechanic can use a smaller 'beat'n tool'. >> I carry a very big hammer! >> >>> >> > > > > -- > Casey
• Re: fuel inlet pulls out of Solex carb! how to fix?
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 23 May 1994 08:46:19 -0700
  ...try driving home today > Hmmm....perhaps you could peen the material around the fitting with a small punch and hammer? Dave '71 Westfalia & SB
• Re: Removal of flywheel bolts
  Historical mailing list - Robert Donalds
  Sun, 19 May 2002 13:25:37 -0400
  ...I would hit the bolts hard with a hammer. then with the flywheel locked try turning the bolts with a braker bar Bob http...
• Stupid Question of the Day - Brake Drums?
  Historical mailing list - tabe johnson
  Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:17:45 -0500
  ...pend.) How do I pull the rear drums? Tried tapping (OK, hammering) from all sides to no avail. I don't have to remove...
• Re: Fw: Re: Failed Crankshaft seal - 2nd time!
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:46:30 EDT
  ...NET writes: << The seal failed becuase it was not countersunk a hammer would not do this. get the right seal and be done with...
• Diesel Vanagon conversion project update.
  Historical mailing list - Tom Carrington
  Mon, 4 Nov 1996 01:16:00 GMT
  ...Liberal use of a hammer and pry-bar helped. :) I have updated my website as well. Be warned though, I have not compressed the...
• Re: Pulling and replacing pilot bearing in crankshaft
  Historical mailing list - Karl Mullendore
  Wed, 30 May 2001 12:20:10 -0400
  ...bearing, push in the dowel, then pound it in with a hammer, and voila'- the hydraulic pressure will pop that bearing right out. Please...
• I got the 215/75R14 to fit in the carrier of my 88.
  Historical mailing list - VWNut Hawk
  Mon, 17 Nov 2003 21:51:28 -0600
  ...The hinges had been grinded and air hammered off. With the hinges welded back on the lower 1" angle iron the tire fits and...
• TLA problem
  Historical mailing list - Rod Swanson
  Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:54:26 -0500
  ...memory serves correctly) about loosening some stuck part with a big hammer. It's called "percussive maintenance" Who knew that smacking something as a...
• Re: Installing Starter Bushing
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:56:25 -0500
  ...I was using > > an old steel clutch pilot tool and a small ball peen hammer to seat the > > new one. They are pretty fragile...
• Re: 78 bus won't move -- brakes?
  Historical mailing list
  10 Jul 96 08:05:25 PDT
  Rodney - Banging on the brakes drums with a hammer should work. Similar problem with my '67 sqbk in the rain. Rust formed between the...
• Heater plenum removal tips
  Historical mailing list - Chuck Hill
  Mon, 3 Feb 2003 20:32:46 -0600
  ...I use a rather heavy hammer to do this, and it almost always works to loosen the screw which can then usually be turned...
• Re: Frydae humor
  Historical mailing list - tom ring
  Fri, 21 Sep 2012 19:32:51 -0500
  ...asteroid hits the Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty...
• Re: Air vs. Water - pro's and con's
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Mon, 7 Aug 2000 22:05:30 +1300
  ...a minor nerve you say? > >Honda? Have a hammer? I hate to say it, being a nut for rear-engined VWs, that VW doesn...
• tip on taking dents out of pushrod tubes
  Historical mailing list - Giasson, Pascal (DNR/MRN)
  Mon, 9 Jul 2007 16:11:43 -0300
  ...When I got to a dimple I would lightly tap on the dimple from the outside with a hammer and it would completely remove...
• Re: coolant pipe replacement
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:54:26 -0400
  ...pliers or vice-grips bending out a little lip. >Ball been hammer a bit too. >finsih by filing smooth or sanding until smooth. Then...
• Re: Another DIfferent Rear Brake Question: Kink in centerbore of drum
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:23:49 -0500
  ...Either way though, this is what hammers are for..... : ) -Craig '85GL turned WESTY On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 5:05 PM, BenT Syncro...
• Re: Rear Drums wont come off.
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 6 Jul 94 16:58:18 ADT
  ...I was desperate by that time, having used hammer, chisels, oil, an oxy-acet. torch to no avail. Once they do come loose, (or...
• Re: Advice please
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Fri, 29 Aug 2003 22:25:32 -0400
  <Snip> Is the starter quirk 'normal' (Saint Muir's book seems to indicate this) and do I therefore just need to keep a hammer...
• Re: Inner CV joint Allen bolt...
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Sun, 18 May 2003 19:24:19 -0700
  ...If the hex head is stripped, I use a 12 point and seat this also with a hammer. An impact driver may also be...
• Re: Upper ball joint - WTF? GOT IT!
  Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
  Sat, 17 Feb 2007 09:29:59 -0800
  Hi Roger, Zoran also suggested using a big ol' hammer to whang on the cast metal that the ball joint's shaft is pressed...
• Re: Windshield Removal and Installation
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Overmyer
  Mon, 8 Oct 2007 12:09:19 +1000
  ...I will tape the windshield all over both sides and use a hammer to further cracking it. Then I will push it from inside...
• Heater box
  Historical mailing list - Robert Clemmer
  Thu, 14 Jan 2016 11:45:54 -0500
  ...I used a utility knife and a hammer to cut open the glued tabs. Only broke one. Got my gauges (oil pressure and temperature...
• Re: Wiper Shaft Stripped
  Historical mailing list - ed donnen
  Sat, 24 Sep 2011 10:13:27 -0400
  ...In my experience hitting a socket with a hammer can ruin the socket. Anyway, I did it and now everything fits like new. THANX...
• Air bag temporarily disable
  Historical mailing list - Denis B�lisle
  Wed, 6 Jan 1999 23:25:05 -0800
  ...the air bag diagnosis module and is not serviceable Do not hammer the steering column used a puller to remove the steering .(just in...