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• Re: R12 to R134a Air Conditioning Conversion
  Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
  Wed, 16 Jun 2004 08:35:36 -0700
  ...Since the AC is marginal for our big boxes with R 12, it's even less effective with R 134a. I'm thinking of...
• Re: New SYNCRO van wanted
  Historical mailing list - Lee Peterson
  Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:10:45 -0800
  Look at the second to last pic, it has reduction boxes like an old type 2. > -----Original Message----- > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon...
• for sale/wanted: vwcoa and LiMBO
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Mon, 28 Nov 94 09:27:13 CST
  ...i don't need the heater boxes. Larry Easley, 145 Orangewood, Lafayette, LA 70503 (318) 988-6994 Wanted: late split window bus reduction boxes...
• More tidbits on my bus
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 01 May 1995 21:57:51 +0600
  ...I was thinking about trying to fit the small air boxes off a stock muffler onto the extractor. What is the lists opinion? BTW...
• Re: Series resistance unti question
  Historical mailing list - Tom Buese
  Fri, 21 Dec 2012 11:17:32 -0500
  ...there really vans out there that have not had the heater boxes > opened yet? << > > Yep. We''ve gotten by just fine for the past...
• Re: Which automobile to keep and which to sell :-<
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Palmer
  Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:35:59 -0500
  ...What about a little trailer to haul your wood in? I'm particularly fond of the ones where people amputate the boxes off their...
• Re: Lighting options - again.
  Historical mailing list - Anthony L. Mourkas
  Fri, 29 Dec 2000 22:20:08 -0500
  The part numbers from the VW/Audi boxes that my SA driving light assemblies were shipped in are: BCW 941 781 BCW 941 782...
• Air-Cooled Head Gaskets
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Tue, 22 May 2001 22:23:09 -0500
  You guys know those little plastic CD boxes that AOL sends to you every sixty days. The AOL CDs work pretty good as coasters...
• Re: WTB: Headlight assy for '86 and up
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:03:51 -0500
  ...I bought two sets of headlights that still sit in their boxes as the only thing I got from him was the lights, no...
• Re: Need epoxy type suggestion...
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:45:44 -0400
  ...Repaint with satin black.Reseal with silicone to the van or you get westy seem rust.New boxes are $60 each.ouch,ouch,ouch
• Re: NVC Moose vs Mailbox
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Fri, 24 Dec 2010 17:06:07 -0800
  ...And on a weekend night a truck was heard on the road, clangs of bat on metal boxes coming down the road. And then...
• Re: Exaust Systems
  Historical mailing list - Russell, William
  Tue, 28 May 2002 10:16:47 -0400
  ...First of all, get yourself a new pair of heater boxes. The heater boxes (or exchangers) bolt directly onto the heads. E-mail Stan...
• Re: optima batteries that fit under the driver's seat
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Fri, 28 Dec 2012 11:48:30 -0800
  ...tight battery boxes. I recently removed most of the lip on the passenger side battery box. Much nicer! Neil. On Fri, Dec 28, 2012...
• Re: '56 kombi - transmission: day 3/?
  Historical mailing list - Steve Johnson
  Tue, 3 Jan 95 8:08:14 PST
  So Thom Fitzpatrick says: > but I hope at the very least I won't have to crack open the reduction boxes. > If this trannyis...
• Bus Abouse, er Abuse
  Historical mailing list - Matt Bushore
  Sun, 30 Apr 1995 15:13:37 -0500
  ...Inside, three people, 6 tires, two tool boxes, luggage for three for the weekend, etc etc. I can't believe the thing would still...
• Parts Wish List
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 13 Nov 95 09:06:59 EST
  ...i need the follow parts for a 74 standard drive transporter: *tie rods *heater boxes *gas heater *front window seal/back window seal *cabinets...
• Re: re Shifting, no clutch
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Olson
  Fri, 24 Jan 1997 05:23:17 -0800 (PST)
  ...I drove diesel school busses for a couple years back in the 70s with crash boxes where a clutch was unnecessary. Every standard shift...
• Re: Ground Straps
  Historical mailing list - Mark Bowie
  Wed, 16 Sep 1998 21:48:18 -0400
  ...There is a ground wire near the electrical junction boxes on the driver's side, is this the only other one I need to...
• Re: 2nd battery; two questions
  Historical mailing list - TJ Hannink
  Fri, 10 Mar 2006 12:59:41 -0800
  ...Only the campers had the sealed and vented battery boxes. TJ Hannink Goldibox - 1987 Vanagon Camper, Wolfsburg Edition 1981 Bluebird Wanderlodge, FC-33 Winter...
• Re: One More 'Fridge Thread
  Historical mailing list - neil
  Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:23:04 -0700
  ...The model of thermometer is two white "boxes". One lives in fridge, the other on the passenger seat. Wireless wonders! Neil. -- Neil Nicholson. 1981...
• Re: Heating
  Historical mailing list - SMILE... IT'S STILL FREE
  Mon, 05 Sep 1994 13:36:01 EST
  The way the stock heating sustem was designed in the later model buses, air is pushed into the heater boxes directly from the main...
• Biggest/Strangest loads carried in a Westy
  Historical mailing list - Bob Norman
  Wed, 28 Apr 1999 22:08:19 -0230
  ...I have driven 25 syrofoam/wax cardboard boxes of moose and caribou meat across an airport ramp in mine. I don't know the...
• Re: Possible funky smell solution.
  Historical mailing list - Jake Beaulieu
  Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:06:52 -0400
  ...The boxes are in too good a >> shape and too expensive to >> replace to just throw away. Has anyone ever done >> this? Are there...
• Re: mouse profing
  Historical mailing list - Craig Cowan
  Tue, 7 Aug 2012 18:07:38 -0400
  ...have always kept some of those yellow boxes of mouse poison around .. >> and put those little boxes in nooks ..say behind a rear tail...
• Re: Vanagon 2.1 Suddenly Dies- Need Help
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:41:05 -0400
  ...And it's easy to check if you have another 2.1l around, just swap boxes and see if the problem moves, stays or...
• Re: Going rate for a 2.1L?
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 16 Aug 2002 14:16:18 EDT
  ...as long as I put the accurate > information in the option boxes. > Bob Stevens > '91 Westy > > hmmm i think he wants to know the...
• Re: Escatorial green....was:Re: looking for a good one!!!
  Historical mailing list - Ben T
  Fri, 4 Apr 2003 23:08:38 EST
  ...The cool thing is it uses the same cheap lock found on VW glove boxes. BenT
• Re: Roof Racks, Space Boxes and Westys
  Historical mailing list - Dennis
  Wed, 30 Mar 2005 19:23:00 -0500
  I carry windsurfing stuff up there all the time. If you're not 6ft and pretty strong, you might need just a little help...
• Re: Please pass the Salt :o) cylinder head drain plug
  Historical mailing list - John Carpenter
  Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:53:58 EST
  ...nothin but 4500 sq ft cardboard boxes !!!!! Ahhhhh.......progress !!!!!!!! JC....
• Re: More Fun with UPS
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Fri, 5 May 2006 03:28:20 -0400
  ...is best SO Far other than the current Kim Brennan's late > getting there > diff after I got the labels on 2 boxes switched...
• cargo boxes plus...
  Historical mailing list - Mark C
  Sun, 18 Jun 2006 11:44:00 -0700
  Im getting two thule spirits with yakima racks... these are high rise yak racks but I'm having two inches cut off the extension...
• Re: Cargo Hauls
  Historical mailing list - Maher, Steve (SD-MS)
  Mon, 16 Oct 1995 08:47:00 -0700 (PDT)
  ...4 tubas 5 people 2 ice chests 3 packing boxes of munchies 5 Colorado-type winter jackets ...and we partied hardy before each and...
• Re: Auto Tranny near Pittsburgh for sale!!!
  Historical mailing list - steeles
  Mon, 10 Jun 2002 21:21:55 -0700
  ...offer takes it.... > >kevindobrien@yahoo.com OK...I'll bid two boxes of twinkies and raise it with one Ho-Ho. :) Give us a...
• Re: Have any emails been captured
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Sun, 28 Nov 2004 14:52:49 -0700
  ...I am suddenly getting reject messages that I am a spammer if I send to personal boxes as well as the list, messages that...
• [Fwd: I be a needin']
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Thu, 7 Aug 2008 12:16:54 -0400
  ...John Dillon <johndillon@bellnet.ca Anyone have the following stuff? Heater boxes for 82 Vanagon; Transmission for 82 Vanagon; and, my medium-blue Vanagon...
• Re: Aux Battery Suggestions for under Drivers seat
  Historical mailing list - Karl Mullendore
  Wed, 20 Mar 2013 23:06:45 -0400
  ...But that was my 'old' Syncro, now rusted to pieces. :-( In the 'new' Syncro I cut out the original battery boxes and fabricated new...
• Re: Possible funky smell solution.
  Historical mailing list - neil
  Mon, 23 Oct 2006 21:56:46 -0400
  ...The boxes are in too good a > shape and too expensive to > replace to just throw away. Has anyone ever done > this? Are there...
• Re: Magical cast iron suspension?
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Wed, 8 Oct 2008 16:27:34 -0400
  ...I also have a set of stainless steel screws that fit the utility boxes, as non others that are available, do. Not shown in...
• Re: Suggestions for shipping a van from Germany to Halifax NS
  Historical mailing list - Robert Steven Fish
  Mon, 27 May 2002 19:50:32 +0200
  snipped ----- a Vancouver-area shipper tells me that if we pack our belongings in unmarked boxes (no recycled liquor boxes, electronics boxes, etc.) and...
• Re: battery tray replacement story
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 18 Apr 1994 15:32:09 -0600 (CST)
  ...A lot of my friends are into SCCA slalom racing, and have their batteries mounted in plastic boxes with a lid that straps on...
• Old Bus Review/Wannabusers
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 31 Dec 95 13:50 CST
  ...The NEATO newsletter "Old Bus Review" should be hitting mail boxes in the not-too-distant future. I just finished typing the For Sale...
• Cool Van things
  Historical mailing list - ERIC ZENO
  Thu, 28 Nov 1996 22:59:59 -0500 (EST)
  ...Also I think that the earlly Vanagon don't have this because there fuse boxes aren't the same. Eric Zeno <emz@nauticom.net...
• Re: brattleboro van
  Historical mailing list - ROBERT DONALDS
  Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:36:21 -0400
  Dude Factory bong no those are the heater boxes! That smoke is from a differant fire B Bob the B does not stand for...
• Re: Recalls
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Stewart
  Mon, 9 Jul 2007 22:00:25 +0000
  ...Are ya sure about that? In the late 90's a buddy of mine got his heater boxes replaced on his '72 Westy because...
• Re: Buses FS (CT/MA/NY Area)
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 19 Nov 1996 20:44:23 -0800
  ...Getting parts for the reduction boxes is getting a bit hard, tho'. malcolm
• Neeed aircooled heat parts
  Historical mailing list - Ed Maikranz
  Mon, 6 Oct 2003 09:32:55 -0700
  ...I need the metal pipe that go from the plastic ones that com off or the alternator/fan housing to the heater boxes. I...
• Re: New Car Dealers And Parts Prices
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:50:05 -0800
  ...He walked over to the shelf and picked up three or four boxes containing wheel bearings, front bearings if I recall right. All from...
• Problems with Rebuild of Rumba
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 10 Jul 96 15:50:03 EDT
  ...today i sanded and painted the heater boxes...thanks for the info bob...also looked at the muffler that came with the heater boxes...
• Brown Window Crank
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Schwaia
  Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:39:04 -0700
  I was rummaging about in some boxes here at the shop and came across a brand new, original VW, brown window crank. Still in...
• Re: Porta-potti boxes
  Historical mailing list - Richard A Jones
  Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:59:11 -0600
  I've made three portapotti covers out of heavy grey vinyl. Or maybe gray vinyl. Local fabric store stuff. Then you have a grey...
• Re: Diesel Transaxles
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Sun, 10 Jan 2010 03:28:57 -0800
  ...Were some built with 4-speed boxes? Inquiring minds want to know the truth of the matter. Craig
• Help!! '67 transmission
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 16 Aug 94 15:19:13 EDT
  ...BTW, the reduction boxes are fine. thanks Richard
• Re: 5spds
  Historical mailing list - Blue Eyes
  Mon, 07 Jul 1997 16:17:53 -0700
  ...If somebody has access to the torque ratings on Porshe gear boxes, that might be great information since any substantially higher torque engine than...
• Re: busdepot and thepartsbin going nose to nose
  Historical mailing list - westydriver
  Sat, 5 Oct 2002 10:52:00 -0600
  ...There are simply fewer 100 > pound boxes in the mail truck than in the UPS truck, so your fragile > item > has less of a...
• Heater question
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Tue, 28 Aug 2012 10:03:40 -0400
  Does anyone know how to tell the difference between the front heater boxes that have heat output to the side vents in the dash...
• Buying from German Ebay.. Hard/Easy?
  Historical mailing list - Thomas Myers
  Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:42:00 -0500
  ...isnt someone Running through German / European pick and pulls and dragging boxes of parts over... Tom Myers Rochester Ny 90 Westy "ChiliPepper" 91 Syncro...
• Re: laptop hideout
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Mon, 10 Dec 2001 07:06:03 -0600
  Go to your local electrical supply house, get their catalog on NEMA Electrical boxes. Nema rated boxes are expensive but very strong and waterproof...
• Vanagon 2.1L Remanufactured Heads for Sale
  Historical mailing list - kevin obrien
  Tue, 12 Jan 2016 16:01:14 +0000
  ...Still in the boxes. I'm located in Ohiopyle, PA (South of Pittsburgh) or I can ship them.Selling one or both to best...
• Re: Asbestos Resurrected
  Historical mailing list - David Greenland
  Tue, 15 Feb 2000 22:13:52 -0800
  Same Here, I had good non-rusty heater boxes replaced (on my '75) because of the Asbestos thing. the new ones weren't original...
• wv magazines from 80s & 90s anyone interested?
  Historical mailing list - Spencer Allen
  Sat, 20 Jan 2001 10:49:31 EST
  I am cleaning my basement and have boxes of VW & PORSCHE/EUROPEIAN CAR, and VW TRENDS magazines. They are from early 80s (even late...