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• Gutter Leak Down
  Historical mailing list - Jonathan Poole
  Wed, 4 May 2005 22:28:01 -0400
  ...When I purchased my van it had only been used occasionally in the decade preceding my purchase and had been parked nose up (slightly...
• Re: where did reverse go?
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 28 Sep 94 16:26:57 ADT
  ...It might be wear in the selector just inside the nose of the tranny, but you have to drop the tranny to get at...
• Re: Backup light switch malfunction - blinking backup lights when shifting
  Historical mailing list - Ed McLean
  Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:45:05 -0500
  ...BTW, the nose of the transmission did not have to be lowered although it was close. Many thanks to Daryl of AA Transaxle. Ed...
• Re: Safari Wipers
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 27 Mar 1996 22:54:16 -0500
  ...55-64, then 64-67 (lets ignore the barndoors) I bought an NOS wiper pivot for my 61 for the unspeakable sum of $85.
• Re: Vanagon in pub
  Historical mailing list - John Klun
  Fri, 3 Nov 2000 10:14:20 -0700
  It looks like a 60's model with a bulbous (how's that for a scrabble word) nose. ;-) Fran�oix wrote: > A funny picture...
• Re: Wasserboxer and NOS...ludicrous?
  Historical mailing list - Paul M. Hillbish
  Sun, 8 Apr 2001 11:27:02 EDT
  In a message dated 4/8/01 6:31:13 AM Eastern Daylight Time, andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ writes: << You do mean...
• EKTA Help?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Grillo
  Thu, 14 Jun 2001 06:10:35 -0400
  My hard drive with the EKTA image took a nose dive.... Of course, no backup. Anyone who could pmail a copy of the iso...
• parting out '93 eurovan
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 21 Sep 2002 12:40:22 EDT
  ...I can get an AC Compressor for a 1993 Eruro Van...nos > perfered, please. Thanks ~~Jennifer > call david at: 678-571-5678 he is...
• Choking on dinner ~ Friday humor
  Historical mailing list - Brian Tipsword
  Fri, 16 Dec 2005 20:39:34 -0800
  I hit the butt paste and about snorted dinner out my nose... googled it and my God it's real! I now know what...
• Re: hmm, is this bad? could it hurt?(lost spark plug)
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 1 May 1996 00:46:30 -0500
  ...I got it out with a pair of 90 degree angled needle nose pliers and a helluva lot of patience. The angled needle nose...
• Re: Winters in the van...
  Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
  Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:56:58 -0800
  ...covers...have tried silk nose mittens > (balaclava dealie), but it's the temp of the air going into my nostrils > that keeps me awake...
• Re: Rear spring question
  Historical mailing list - Pat
  Fri, 17 May 2013 22:26:30 -0400
  ...Rear spring question Stock 2wd Diesel Vanagons have the tranny nose mounted much higher than gas Vanagons due to a different nose bracket used...
• Re: CB Antennas and stuff
  Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
  Tue, 9 May 1995 16:20:10 -0700 (PDT)
  ...schwarze@nosc.mil '87 Mustang Lx 5.0 (Da Sleeper) http://papaya.nosc.mil/~schwarze '93 Weber WG-50 (Da Piano) ============================================================================
• Re: W pretour trip report
  Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
  Mon, 9 Jan 1995 14:54:41 -0800 (PST)
  ...Capri GT 2800 (Da Beast) San Diego, California '87 Mustang Lx 5.0 (Da Bruiser? Soon...) schwarze@nosc.mil http://papaya.nosc.mil/~schwarze =============================================================================
• Re: Water 4 Gas. com Does it work? Has Anyone Tried it? Know of It?
  Historical mailing list - dylan friedman
  Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:43:07 -0700
  ...I run NOS in one of my SVX vans, trust me, a little bit goes a long way and will put you back in...
• Re: pinch the fuel line?
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:23:04 -0700
  ...On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@yahoo.com>wrote: > "Hence the needle nose vice grips are one of...
• Re: Coolant disposal
  Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
  Mon, 23 Jan 1995 17:09:15 -0800 (PST)
  ...Capri GT 2800 (Da Beast) San Diego, California '87 Mustang Lx 5.0 (Da Bruiser? Soon...) schwarze@nosc.mil http://papaya.nosc.mil/~schwarze =============================================================================
• Oh no! Another one!
  Historical mailing list - Richard
  Wed, 17 May 95 12:53:27 EDT
  ...The only other bad thing is a nasty spare-tire sized dent in the nose, where someone left it in gear, and it smacked...
• Re: W pretour trip report
  Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
  Mon, 9 Jan 1995 13:14:40 -0800 (PST)
  ...Capri GT 2800 (Da Beast) San Diego, California '87 Mustang Lx 5.0 (Da Bruiser? Soon...) schwarze@nosc.mil http://papaya.nosc.mil/~schwarze =============================================================================
• Re: red rock canyon
  Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
  Wed, 8 Feb 1995 10:34:46 -0800 (PST)
  ...Capri GT 2800 (Da Beast) San Diego, California '87 Mustang Lx 5.0 (Da Bruiser? Soon...) schwarze@nosc.mil http://papaya.nosc.mil/~schwarze =============================================================================
• Re: Keeper quotes
  Historical mailing list - Ben T
  Wed, 28 Nov 2001 00:21:32 EST
  ...COM writes: << He can't either! He's never rubbed his nose with a sheep. No comment on any other activity. >> You people are...
• the new "Microbus"...
  Historical mailing list - Warner, Jeff (DSIO-MS)
  Wed, 28 Aug 2002 11:15:28 -0400
  ...I find the concept vehicle pretty ugly on the outside.)" FIX THAT NOSE! (Flame on!) Jeff Warner Galloway, OH VW stuff everywhere you look.
• Re: vanagon nose
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Fri, 17 Nov 2006 14:02:18 -0800
  Did you hear about the bowlegged cowgirl who couldn't keep her calves together? --- Kenneth Lewis <kdlewis@NORTHSTATE.NET> wrote: > Did you hear about...
• Buses by the Bridge - brain eating bacteria
  Historical mailing list - Janet Sanford
  Fri, 5 Oct 2007 12:23:05 -0700
  ...and the boys who got it - it was assumed they "jumped" into the water - thus causing the water to rush up their nose Janet
• Re: Do You Ever Wish...
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:49:58 -0700
  ...I couldn't get enough grip with just a regular pair of needle nose, and I don't have any needle nose vice grips...
• Re: Lockers -- how hard to install LLSD?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Tue, 10 May 2011 15:43:32 -0700
  I think I've used a needle nose pliers, or maybe a needle nose vice grips, to hold the spring back. ----- Original Message ----- From...
• Re: Westy WOES...
  Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
  Wed, 4 Jan 1995 09:08:33 -0800 (PST)
  ...Capri GT 2800 (Da Beast) San Diego, California '87 Mustang Lx 5.0 (Da Bruiser? Soon...) schwarze@nosc.mil http://papaya.nosc.mil/~schwarze =============================================================================
• Re: Keeper quotes
  Historical mailing list - mike miller
  Tue, 27 Nov 2001 21:27:32 -0800
  ...his > supplier? > >> He can't either! He's never rubbed his nose with a sheep. No comment on >> any other activity. >> >> >> >>> From: il cikaspers...
• Propane bleeder valve gloves..
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Thu, 21 Dec 2006 22:13:01 -0800
  ...Or how bout some needle nose vise grips? One tool that does everything for me...the needle nose vise grip..Don't leave home...
• Re: Getting a vehicle into California - How hard?
  Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
  Wed, 1 Feb 1995 13:55:18 -0800 (PST)
  ...Capri GT 2800 (Da Beast) San Diego, California '87 Mustang Lx 5.0 (Da Bruiser? Soon...) schwarze@nosc.mil http://papaya.nosc.mil/~schwarze =============================================================================
• Re: Some 1600cc questions.
  Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
  Mon, 15 May 1995 11:45:16 -0700 (PDT)
  ...schwarze@nosc.mil '87 Mustang Lx 5.0 (Da Sleeper) http://papaya.nosc.mil/~schwarze '93 Weber WG-50 (Da Piano) ============================================================================
• Re: FS: Never welded complete Vanagon swivel mechansim NOS!
  Historical mailing list - Michael S. Nichols
  Sun, 13 Jul 2003 20:12:30 -0400
  ...Never welded complete Vanagon swivel mechansim NOS! > >Or, buy this super nice and complete one for $240.00 and you are ready to > install...
• Re: Vanagon front sheet metal--tie bars structural?
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:21:44 -0800
  ...If one were to cut these out, > would there be any concerns with strength of the nose in, say, a crash? > Has anyone here...
• Re: Trans swap between Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:59:19 -0700
  ...The linkage is different, the nose mounts have a different bolt pattern and length. Mark Doug Noganav wrote: > Anybody know if an 81 Air...
• Front VW Emblem installation
  Historical mailing list - Edge
  Tue, 11 Jun 96 21:42:13 -0500
  ...How do I get to the back side of the front nose panel of my 71 Bus to install the big "VW" emblem? TIA...
• Who's going to Lime Rock?
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 14 Jul 1995 08:56:36 -0400 (EDT)
  ...I am going to try to go, assuming my wife feels better (she had surgery on her nose yesterday).... Any particular place people are...
• End of the World and Vanagon timetable.
  Historical mailing list - Eckie Prater
  Wed, 30 Jun 1999 06:37:15 -0500
  ...This Sunday is the day Nostradomus (sp) predicted the world will end. Well, it's been real. It's been fun. But it hasn...
• Re: Idea I had.... BOB ALEXANDER RULES
  Historical mailing list - Horace K. Sawyer
  Wed, 23 Feb 2000 22:41:39 -0500
  I remember >a former listee, Bob Alexander claimed he had NoS in his 85. It made 150 hp, he >said. He never proved it...
• Re: Windshield Nozzles
  Historical mailing list - John Andersen
  Tue, 4 Apr 2000 12:31:33 -0700
  Use a pair of needle nose pliers to squeeze the barbs together and lift the nozzle out. this takes some practice to do it...
• Re: GNATT, EASTERN LEG
  Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
  Tue, 4 Apr 1995 22:09:58 -0700 (PDT)
  ...Capri GT 2800 (Da Beast) San Diego, California '87 Mustang Lx 5.0 (Da Bruiser? Soon...) schwarze@nosc.mil http://papaya.nosc.mil/~schwarze =============================================================================
• Re: Black Hills 1st 2 weeks in June
  Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
  Tue, 9 May 1995 13:25:24 -0700 (PDT)
  ...schwarze@nosc.mil '87 Mustang Lx 5.0 (Da Sleeper) http://papaya.nosc.mil/~schwarze '93 Weber WG-50 (Da Piano) ============================================================================
• Re: Keeper quotes
  Historical mailing list - Edward Nutter
  Wed, 28 Nov 2001 20:23:27 -0800
  MCOOMN? il cikaspers wrote: > booyah! milk came out of my nose, man. > > bill > > >This riposte has inspired me to coin a new ChatListAcronym: > >LSHISAOMM...
• Wet electrics - nostart!
  Historical mailing list - Clive Smith
  Wed, 6 Nov 2002 12:54:15 -0000
  Hi, Plenty wet here (like damp through your skin wet). Van no starty, dash lights gone weak . Am I looking first to the earths...
• Re: How big is your cat?
  Historical mailing list - Pensioner
  Mon, 14 Mar 2005 10:10:29 -0800
  ...My cat is 34" nose to tail, hangs in at 16 lbs-pork. Very hard to accurately measure the physical properties as the subject...
• Re: Who wants to play "Guess that part!"
  Historical mailing list - John Reynolds
  Sun, 18 Mar 2007 08:03:13 -0500
  I do have one NOS Johnson Rod, fit's all Vanagons. I propably have to E-Bay it to get what it is truely...
• Re: Oil cooler in 1980-1982 aircooled buses?
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Mon, 6 Sep 2010 21:38:17 -0500
  ...Pumping oil all the way from the rear of the vehicle to the nose and then back just doesn't make sense and most...
• Clearing out parts today only in San Francisco area
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Sun, 11 Apr 2010 05:00:56 -0700
  ...Also have NOS Syncro rear skidplate/bar for $150. Westy and non-Westy rear cushions for both AC and non-AC models. FREE steel...
• Follow up on stuck in first gear problem in my '71
  Historical mailing list - Scott Allred
  Mon, 21 Oct 96 18:58:10 UT
  ...I pulled the nose cone off the tranny and found the problem. For those who have never seen the inside of the nose cone...
• Re: Where have all the Vanagons gone?
  Historical mailing list - Mark Dorm
  Sun, 23 Jul 2000 00:34:37 PDT
  ...interested! But the nose would have to be sloped --- a place to put your briefcase and stuff right in the nose like a 911...
• NOS VDO Oil temp dipstick sender for AC Vanagons FS
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:47:10 -0500
  Since the list is talking about oil temperature this time of year, I thought I'd mention that I bought an NOS VDO oil...
• LVC: Popular Science Puts Entire Scanned Archive Online, Free
  Historical mailing list - Karl Ploessl
  Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:50:11 -0500
  ...search for "volkswagen" or "volkswagen vanagon" and you get some nostalgic reading. How about a comparison between a Dodge Mini Ram 250 to a...
• =========================================================================
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 5 Jun 1995 10:04:39 -0700
  ...while sending mail to vanagon$lenti.med.umn.edu -MAIL-E-NOSUCHUSR, no such user !AS ---- Recipients of this delivery ---- vanagon$lenti.med.umn...
• Can Holders... Help (U)
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 31 Jul 1996 12:43 -0400 (EDT)
  Being a purist, I want to install the NOS ($5) flip holders in the precise, original location in the 84 Westy. Would someone with...
• FS: '56 single cab pick-up, Seattle
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Mackenzie
  Fri, 15 Sep 1995 17:29:54 -0700 (PDT)
  ...Handcrank, Hazet box, NOS reargate, tent frame. 100% complete. Needs paint only. This is not mine but belongs to: Richard Frost w: 206 776...
• Re: VANAGON digest 297
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 11 Jan 1995 23:25:34 -0600
  ...David Schwarze <schwarze@superc.nosc.mil> >After about a half hour of waiting, I decide to try out the showers, cuz I >had slept...
• Bus names/plates
  Historical mailing list - Eric B. Pickering
  Sun, 3 May 1998 11:31:40 -0400
  ...Corneilious, the read headed/bearded, prospector dude on those claymation-like Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer Christmas specials. Eric Need a name for a...
• Re: NOS style seat covers?
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 5 Jun 2000 18:13:21 EDT
  In a message dated 6/5/00 3:36:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Magic1910@AOL.COM writes: << My seats are tan corduroy and...
• Re: white smoke?
  Historical mailing list - Terry Kay
  Wed, 13 Jun 2001 10:17:56 -0500
  Believe it or not your eyes and nose will tell you. If the exhaust smells sweet---it's coolant If the exhaust smells like...
• Oder from new brakes
  Historical mailing list - Noel Cookson
  Fri, 29 Nov 2002 10:07:43 -0600
  ...After putting on around 50 miles I have noticed an oder coming from the wheels when I put my nose right by the them...
• FS 88 vanagon $200 bremerton, wa USA
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Sun, 11 Apr 2004 03:42:57 -0500
  found it on www.traderonline.com (click on Auto Trader and follow your nose) ... Contact: Private Seller 360-613-0532 Bremerton, WA 98311 Distance...