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• Re: Final pictures (the red beast)
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Mon, 5 Mar 2007 22:06:15 -0700
  ...as no money left :-) and has >tons of work to do... ironic! as i thought i would finish this van in time >for a...
• Re: Stuck Head
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Mon, 10 Apr 2006 20:15:41 -0400
  ...I have only used this technique on engines with cast iron > blocks and cast iron heads so you should get a second opinion before...
• Re: FYI - U.P. Michigan VW shop
  Historical mailing list - Dave Warner
  Fri, 19 Sep 1997 15:00:54 -0400
  ...Michigan VW shop > > List members - > > On a recent road trip to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan we drove > through Ironwood, MI on U.S...
• Chrome Barrels - Iron Rings
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sat, 4 May 2002 10:57:12 -0500
  ...Aluminum pistons are the mated with grey-iron rings which are wear to a magnificent match with the crosshatching in the chrome in the...
• Re: another great portable BBQ
  Historical mailing list - Jonce Fancher
  Sat, 4 Jan 2014 10:52:24 -0500
  ...http://www.lodgemfg.com/seasoned-cast-iron/camp-ovens-and-grills/sportsmans-grill-L410 Heavy, Well Made and will last forever. Not something you...
• Re: Can somebody identify/explain these?
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:42:45 -0700
  oh, wait, I was looking at the wrong mystery object, you mean the rusty bent bit of iron in your hand! Its used to...
• Another good deal on tools
  Historical mailing list - Marshall Ruskin
  Thu, 25 Nov 1999 20:42:38 -0600
  ...Marshall Ruskin 84 Westy "Iron Igloo" Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Founding Member of "Vanagon's Anonymous"
• [Fwd: the irony of limbo]
  Historical mailing list - Jim DiGennaro
  Tue, 26 Oct 1999 20:32:34 -0500
  Hi Volks, I received this message today (10/26) and thought someone might become a movie star. If interested contact Kevin, not me. Thanks...
• Re: Removing/Replacing A/C Unit?
  Historical mailing list - Bill N
  Fri, 2 Aug 2002 14:01:59 -0700
  Ironic... about 4 years ago, I removed all the troublesome AC stuff from my '81 Westy. I offered it all to anyone on the...
• Re: Fiberglass rear bumpers (vanagon)
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 9 Mar 2010 23:52:17 EST
  ...so basically i have a steel angle iron rear bumper, that goes under the fiberglass one. looks stock, and a hell of a lot...
• Re: Shore batteries
  Historical mailing list - JRodgers
  Tue, 7 Aug 2012 09:41:40 -0500
  ...I just read about Lithium-Iron batteries (and >> I've been using Lithium Ion batteries in yard tools). >> >> (yes that>IS< IRON, and not...
• Diesel Irony
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Drahzal
  Mon, 3 Apr 1995 13:57:31 -0500 (EDT)
  '82 Diesel - NuBus On Saturday, I was driving to the airport to do a little pleasure flying. As I was cruising down the NYS...
• Re: Spam:WTB Gun Rack for Westy
  Historical mailing list - EMZ
  Wed, 20 Jan 1999 11:48:19 -0500
  ...with me, it just takes about 20 > seconds to pass the iron & ammo around the Vanagon. While that's going > on I just drop...
• Re: vanagon clear turn signals on ebay..cheap
  Historical mailing list - Tony Polson
  Wed, 14 Apr 2004 22:18:41 +0100
  ...MTS brand items to my newer Vanagon. They are excellent quality. Ironically, I purchased them from an eBay seller in the USA as they...
• Putting exhaust back together--question
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Fri, 21 Jan 2005 15:30:04 -0600
  ...At the big flange between the cat and the manifold pipe, there is a iron ring gasket, and three bolts go through the mating...
• Re: Out of Office AutoReply: Re: Wallaced?
  Historical mailing list - Sudhir Desai
  Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:44:37 -0500
  ...2008 8:12 PM, Richard Golen <rgolen@umassd.edu> wrote: > How ironic....getting Wallaced in response to the what does Wallace > mean querry... > > > At...
• Re: distilled water & wbx reliabilty
  Historical mailing list - Cary Chiang
  Mon, 18 Feb 2002 22:20:26 -0800
  ...How many "unseen wrinkles" got ironed out of that debacle? Cary developtrust <developtrust@home.com> wrote: What it has to do with wbx reliability...
• Re: Where can I get a new cap for the water tank?
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Fri, 31 Dec 2004 21:08:57 -0600
  ...With a nice hot soldering iron (not a punkt small iron) lay some heat across the hairline crack until the surface begins to melt...
• Re: Westy Stove Leveling Ideas Sought
  Historical mailing list - ralph meyermann
  Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:51:19 -0600
  A small bubble level,a double sided cast iron griddle with 4 corner screw adjustment?? Great now you got me thinking about that when...
• Re: Upgrades?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:24:51 -0700
  --snip-- Some say the cast iron front control arms make it ride like a Cadillac and sting like a Beemer. --snip-- I dunno about...
• Re: classic parts, seikel and vw cooperating on bringing NLA parts back to life!
  Historical mailing list - Zeitgeist
  Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:08:24 -0700
  ...3:13 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans < scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote: > cast iron rear trialing arms ! ??? > > that can't be cheap, or light weight. ( thinking...
• Re: FTC, VWOA, Head gasket pr...
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 11 Jun 1995 13:26:57 -0400
  ...He had to shell out 2.5K for a new engine. Ironically two days after I purchased my syncro it was devoid of coolant...
• What Price to Diagnose A/C leaks?
  Historical mailing list - Marshall Ruskin
  Thu, 27 May 1999 19:41:38 -0500
  ...Marshall Ruskin 84 Westy "Iron Igloo" Founding Member of "Vanagon's Anonymous"
• Re: Wanted: Digijet idle controller
  Historical mailing list - -------------
  Tue, 12 Sep 2006 08:36:10 -0400
  ...one laying about somewhere..lemme look. > >John Lane >83.5 Westy >Iron Butterfly >Perkiomenville, PA > > > >----- Original Message ---- >From: Tabe Johnson <greentabe-vanagon@YAHOO.COM...
• Detecting R134a Leaks
  Historical mailing list - BJ Feddish
  Sat, 15 Jul 2006 21:24:41 -0500
  ...sure none of it is leaking into the passenger area? The irony of it all is I bought this van 8 years ago because...
• Re: Update Re: Engine died, March 31 update and maybe ecu smoking gun?
  Historical mailing list - Mark Belanger
  Fri, 3 Apr 2020 14:11:23 -0700
  ...The butane iron I referenced is the only one I've ever owned and have never run out of fuel in the middle of...
• Painted the "Iron Igloo" today!
  Historical mailing list - Marshall Ruskin
  Wed, 10 May 2000 19:05:16 -0500
  ...Marshall Ruskin 84 Westy "Iron Igloo" Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Founding Member of "Vanagon's Anonymous"
• Re: Magical cast iron suspension?
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Wed, 8 Oct 2008 19:39:09 -0700
  ...On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Chris S <szpejankowski@gmail.com> wrote: > I was interested in your magical cast iron pieces...
• Re: Stuck Head
  Historical mailing list - Michael A. Radtke
  Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:38:07 -0700
  ...I have only used this technique on engines with cast iron blocks and cast iron heads so you should get a second opinion before...
• Re: classic parts, seikel and vw cooperating on bringing NLA parts back to life!
  Historical mailing list - dylan friedman
  Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:14:35 -0700
  ...classic parts, seikel and vw cooperating on bringing NLA parts back to life! well, the cast iron arms are eur599 plus tax each. so...
• Heater lines under vanagon
  Historical mailing list - T Collins
  Wed, 24 Apr 2019 13:06:41 -0400
  ...The irony is that I had replaced the larger coolant pipes with the stainless steel ones and that's how I this happen. My...
• Re: exhaust leak, header tubes to collector on 2.1 engine
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 21 Jul 2013 10:54:54 -0400
  ...With that and some iron wire you can patch surprising gaps. Yrs, David
• /f Re: dashboard alters
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 15 Dec 1995 21:52:21 -0700
  ...far I have used a crowbar and a variable >temperature soldering iron. Lately I have switched to a pitchfork and find I >can get...
• Re: headlights
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Sun, 7 Nov 1999 02:38:37 +0100
  ...a set of Bosch H4 (euro) lights on his Scirroco, > (which, ironically, are the SAME lights as the 1986+ Vanagon). The > difference was incredible.
• Re: FLAPS for 50 amp fan fuse?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 21 Sep 2000 15:36:31 -0400
  ...amp wire? You Brits can get that stuff at your local ironmonger, unlike us poor benighted colonials... d David Beierl - Providence, RI http://pws...
• Re: round H4 headlights, was: Re: [Syncro] Sanity
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Tue, 8 Oct 2002 12:44:31 -0400
  ...Brodbeck (N8SRE) Ypsilanti, MI / _` | | | | | | +----------------------------------------------------- | (_| | |_| | | | @ cyberspace.org \__, |\__,_|_|_| "There is something ironic when the developers name |___/ housing development after what they bulldozed to build it, but...
• Re: no oil pressure, new engine, need help!
  Historical mailing list - Anthony Hecht
  Tue, 18 Mar 2003 20:11:09 -0500
  ...I prefer to get the bulk of the iron from the rings and cylinders flushed out in the first twenty minutes and a good...
• Re: Vancouver Island
  Historical mailing list - Gabriel Hourtouat
  Tue, 3 May 2016 11:58:38 -0400
  ...and parks during the weeks before and after. (Multiple competing events: Ironman in Whistler, music festivals, etc). Also, in case you are not familiar...
• Re: Sally is FS
  Historical mailing list - JRodgers
  Sun, 21 Jul 2013 23:59:48 -0500
  ...the colder weather over time causes and increase in your hematcrit - iron in your blood - and you can feel it when there are radical...
• Re: parts for sale
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:48:30 -0400
  ...not new are the cat (its been > hollowed > out but has new o2 installed) and the cast iron elbow > that was in perfect shape.
• flywheel locker?
  Historical mailing list - Scott W.
  Mon, 22 Sep 2003 09:00:31 -0700
  ...lots of stuff in the archives about building your own with angle iron, and might give that a try. was wondering if anyone knew...
• <No subject>
  Historical mailing list - Richard A Jones
  Sat, 11 Jun 2005 20:29:55 -0600
  ...You're hoping nobody will notice, but there is the secret of your old Detroit iron running and running: 10/30! If you stuck...
• Re: adding an oven to a westy
  Historical mailing list - Pensioner
  Mon, 9 May 2005 07:03:13 -0700
  ...A cast iron dutch oven is more versatile and fits well under the seat. Using a cast iron circular griddle as a heating plate...
• Re: lug nuts torque-
  Historical mailing list - Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\"
  Fri, 2 Jul 2010 06:04:46 -0700
  Thomas Buese wrote: > My last resort cheater bar is a 4' piece of 1 1/2" dia black iron pipe > w/ a cap on...
• Re: Do U carry spare ECU?
  Historical mailing list - pdooley
  Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:14:41 -0400
  ...If so, don't bother with a spare ECU, just carry a butane powered soldering iron:)
• classic parts, seikel and vw cooperating on bringing NLA parts back to life!
  Historical mailing list - Florian Speier
  Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:48:22 -0700
  ...Noteworthy are especially a new 16" sized rear trailing arm that is now cast iron, as well as 16"CVs at a new lower...
• Bumpers
  Historical mailing list - Dan Fleming
  Sat, 13 Dec 1997 18:04:36 -0800
  ...On my Trooper I have a large piece of angle iron ..... to bent it would take an impact that would destroy the rest of...
• Re: Who has/had the longest lived head gasket on this list?
  Historical mailing list - Chris Stann
  Wed, 17 Oct 2001 08:22:15 -0500
  ...gasket on this list? Has anyone tried to anodize the aluminum heads in order to stop the aluminum/iron bi-metallic chemical process? dbowie
• Re: Stranded - my first heartbreak
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Lincoln
  Tue, 5 Dec 2006 09:57:27 -0500
  "It was a brilliant irony that a Westy would pass me by just as I had broken down..." I find it a sad fact...
• Re: Hydrogen power for the Vanagon Now!
  Historical mailing list - Neil2
  Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:45:13 -0700
  ...net> wrote: >> >> >> >>> Good plan. >>> >>> I filed it and the Magical Cast Iron Suspension in along with Cone >>> Remover, Sky Hooks, and Bag Stretchers. >>> >>> John...
• Radiator, serviceable?
  Historical mailing list - Richard Schmittdiel
  Mon, 10 Mar 1997 16:41:50 -0800
  In the good(?)old days, radiators on Detroit iron used to be serviceable at radiator shops: one could have them "rodded-out" to restore...
• Re: steering rack juju (F)
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Fri, 19 Feb 1999 17:16:54 +0100
  ...go bad when you mix in a Mercury! Isnt that some deee-troit iron?? That doesnt belong in VWs. Its friday, isnt it?? PerL
• Additional Prize for Sticker Contest Runner-up
  Historical mailing list - Marshall Ruskin
  Wed, 15 Mar 2000 22:15:24 -0600
  ...Anybody else care to come up with some runner-up prizes? Marshall Ruskin 84 Westy "Iron Igloo" Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Founding Member of "Vanagon...
• Re: I find out more on this hose thing. <FISH>
  Historical mailing list - Ed Sato
  Tue, 5 Nov 2002 21:34:02 -1000
  ...my post would hook someone but I can't believe the irony that > it is > someone named Fish! > > Oh this is too good to...
• Bliking coolant light and back firing?
  Historical mailing list - Mike Ray
  Fri, 9 Jul 2004 05:50:26 -0700
  ...Maybe bad temp level sending unit but ironic I get the back firing too. Is the computer changing the spark curve based on the...
• Re: Speaking of rust... How to seal this?
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Tue, 1 Mar 2005 17:06:27 -0500
  ...replacement metal will deal with the hole. Now to the rust... Iron oxidizes in two forms, ferric oxide and ferrous oxide. One is black...
• Water and Battery LEDs dead - fix
  Historical mailing list - Jonathan Poole
  Thu, 24 May 2007 09:29:30 -0400
  ...This is easy to fix if you know how to use a soldering iron (don't overheat the board). Jonathan Poole '82 ac westy
• BusFusion News
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Sun, 24 Jun 2007 07:25:14 EDT
  ...story, links to movies of BusFusion, the Music Festival at the Ironworks Pub and the visit to the Diefenbunker. Also, links to many photo...
• Carbon van top..cost relationship...
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Fri, 7 Sep 2007 10:34:51 -0700
  ...I've always thought that a bit ironic that I bought this 'cheap' van to carry around my expensive bikes.. Relative value, I guess...
• Re: vw tools?
  Historical mailing list - J Stewart
  Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:13:45 +0000
  ...in years-maybe the reason for the home brew solutions-I used I piece of flat iron with two holes drilled into it. Jeff