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• Rear Table Mod
  Historical mailing list - Susmay
  Sun, 5 Jul 2009 16:01:33 -0700
  I just did this rear table mod with a wooden dowel I had. Filed the dowel so it fit all the way into the...
• Re: pulling and replacing pilot bearing in crankshaft
  Historical mailing list - Rico Sapolich
  Thu, 31 May 2001 00:12:02 EDT
  In a message dated 5/30/01 11:24:16 PM, thewestyman@MINDSPRING.COM writes: << The grease and dowel method works the best, with...
• Re: Rear Table Mod
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Sun, 5 Jul 2009 19:47:48 -0500
  ...Bolted the base and top supports back into place with the dowel reaching almost to the curve of the metal table bracket. > Went camping...
• diesel to gas
  Historical mailing list - John Stepto
  Sat, 31 May 2003 14:09:45 -0400
  ...The problem is the block is not counterbored for these dowels. Can I grind them flush? There are two other dowels in the block...
• Re: Pilot Bearing Removal?
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Mon, 12 May 2003 22:24:19 EDT
  ...I'm looking for alternative methods. >> Paul, Find or make a dowel about 4 inches long which fits the ID of the bearing with...
• Secret Engine Lid Support
  Historical mailing list - Mark C
  Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:38:36 -0700
  ...get a dowel of 1 inch in diameter, and cut it to 28 inches in length... open your rear hatch... notice that up above...
• Re: Westy rear table mods: here's another one
  Historical mailing list - Florian Speier
  Mon, 3 Aug 2009 16:27:51 -0700
  ...so its like a two feet long dowel inside the table leg?more like a cut off broom handle? and why does it rise...
• Re: Westy rear table mods: here's another one
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:28:21 -0700
  ...Bolted the base and top supports back into place with the dowel reaching almost to the curve of the metal table bracket. > Went camping...
• Need dowel pin for 2.1 crankcase.
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Fri, 4 Jul 2008 21:22:43 -0500
  I need a dowel pin for the only place it is used to locate a crank bearing in a 2.1 engine. If you...
• Re: Secret Engine Lid Support
  Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
  Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:56:56 -0700
  ...Mike On 8/28/06 4:38 PM, "Mark C" <obeechi@RUNBOX.COM> wrote: > okay... > > get a dowel of 1 inch in diameter, and...
• Re: Last minute tips before engine re-install?
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Tue, 14 Sep 2010 15:44:47 -0700
  Speaking of dowels, make sure there are 2 in the engine where it mates to the tranny. These can pull out and stay with...
• Re: Broken axle stub on '81 Westy
  Historical mailing list - Dan Burgos
  Tue, 21 Jul 1998 00:30:32 -0400
  ...The only thing left is that troublesome locating pin (dowel pin). I've been following the instructions in the Hayes manual and it mentioned...
• Re: 85 westy at local pick and pull
  Historical mailing list - George Wietor
  Sun, 19 Nov 2000 09:40:25 -0800
  ...In Icy ol' Grand Rapids, Mich. --- Tony Dowell <DowellCMD@CS.COM> wrote: > i was stripping the final pieces on an 85 westy > yesterday at...
• Re: separating CV from shaft
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Fri, 29 Nov 2002 20:02:07 -0600
  ...Get an oak or otherwise hardwood dowel, or, you can use a brass dowel of 1/2" diameter. 1) Be sure the circlip is...
• Re: R&R Clutch
  Historical mailing list - vanagonvw
  Fri, 9 Nov 2007 14:11:47 -0700
  Scott Daniel - Shazam wrote: > Both pressure plate and flywheel fit only one way. > If the dowels are missing from the flywheel, that the pressure...
• 2.1 engine rebuild--details on bearing #3, please?
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Fri, 4 Jul 2008 13:35:21 -0500
  ...Bentley just says "hole for dowel faces crankshaft web." I have no dowel, but have what appears to be a hole for one. Am...
• Re: Pulling and replacing pilot bearing in crankshaft
  Historical mailing list - Karl Mullendore
  Wed, 30 May 2001 12:20:10 -0400
  ...Find a wooden dowel (or metal rod) that fits very snug into the old pilot bearing, pack as much wheel-bearing grease as you...
• Re: rear table pole base plate missing ???
  Historical mailing list - Al Knoll
  Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:41:42 -0800
  There is a useful modification that can be done with a piece of hardwood dowel, a rubber door banger preventer, and a little time...
• Re: Need dowel pin for 2.1 crankcase.
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Wed, 9 Jul 2008 20:13:45 -0500
  ...Need dowel pin for 2.1 crankcase. > > > > I need a dowel pin for the only place it is used to locate a crank bearing...
• Re: Collapsed BreatherHose Support
  Historical mailing list - Brian Doss
  Wed, 19 Jul 2000 17:37:54 EDT
  The way I supported mine was to take a wooden dowel rod, about 5/8" dia., and wound a stainless steel wire around it...
• Awning (was Refrigerators, alarms, fans and other toys)
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 16 May 95 13:30:37 -0400
  ...Secure the tarp with the dowels to the rain gutter by using the spring clamps to clamp the tarp and dowel in the gutter...
• Rear Table Mod
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Sat, 4 Jul 2009 17:42:20 -0600
  Some of you have put a long dowel (broom handle?) down the center of the table leg and somehow fastened it in the base...
• Re: Brake Bk plate dowel pin ??
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sat, 16 Oct 1999 19:28:02 -0400
  At 18:56 10/16/99 , icculus wrote: >Any suggestions on removing the brake backing plate when the dowel pin is >holding it's...
• Re: OIL PRESSURE RELIEF PLUG
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Pollard
  Sat, 27 Jan 2001 11:47:31 -0800
  ...I think i used 1/2" dowell. The dowell is soft enough that if wouldn't bugger up the relief plug. This is the...
• Re: Door Handle Repairs
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 27 Oct 1996 11:24:47 -0400 (AST)
  ...Apparently removal of the core involves >removal of a dowel-pin instead of a set screw. Anyone else have >any experience with this or...
• Re: Rear table leg holding bracket
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Thu, 17 May 2007 17:06:44 -0700
  ...A pice of 3/4" dowel and a dowel screw in one end then screwed into the center of the lower bracket. Now the...
• Re: calendar
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:58:05 -0800
  ...Robert Mac Dowell <yakandhike@COMCAST.NET> Subject: calendar To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Date: Wednesday, January 11, 2012, 3:48 PM ���Does anybody besides...
• Brake Bk plate dowel pin ??
  Historical mailing list - icculus
  Sat, 16 Oct 1999 15:56:14 -0700
  All knowing list, Any suggestions on removing the brake backing plate when the dowel pin is holding it's own? I've tried the...
• Re: Engine Teardown Q's
  Historical mailing list - Ken Lewis
  Sat, 14 Dec 2002 20:53:30 -0500
  Curt; I made this tool out of a piece of dowel and an Exacto blade. The dowel diameter should be close to the ID...
• Re: Why this type IV engine caught fire, spun the mains and ruined everything.
  Historical mailing list - Robert Donalds
  Thu, 8 Aug 2002 21:41:37 -0400
  ...needless to say I now measure all the dowel pins and trim the points off when needed. The older single port and forty hp...
• Re: Front 'badges' / emblems
  Historical mailing list
  19 Sep 94 24:09
  ...You can get to the bottom two dowels by removing the cardboard kick panels under the dash - it's not been stolen yet! I...
• Re: Collapsed BreatherHose Support
  Historical mailing list - Rico Sapolich
  Thu, 20 Jul 2000 07:23:36 EDT
  ...I placed the whole deal in the hose, and pulled out the dowel, which sort of let the wire expand to the i.d...
• Re: Rear Table Mod
  Historical mailing list - Roger VanTill
  Sat, 4 Jul 2009 22:26:47 -0400
  ...mtbiker62@gmail.com> wrote: > Some of you have put a long dowel (broom handle?) down the center of the > table leg and somehow fastened...
• sun. 9:00 nat. geo channel
  Historical mailing list - Mark Tuovinen
  Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:32:24 -0900
  ...Robert Mac Dowell <yakandhike@comcast.net> What color, distinguishing features, location, ??? I don't watch the show but may know the van or slim...
• The pin goes in
  Historical mailing list - Craig Jones
  Tue, 1 Jan 2002 13:01:28 -0800
  Thanks for the imput on the dowel pin. I'm going to install. More questions to come as this rebuild evolves. Craigw/81
• Re: Rear table leg holding bracket
  Historical mailing list - Doug Alcock
  Thu, 17 May 2007 20:36:36 -0400
  ...A pice of 3/4" dowel and a dowel screw in one end then > screwed into the center of the lower bracket. Now the...
• Re: Where to buy Limbo Hatch Stick?
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Thu, 15 Jul 2010 06:44:05 -0700
  ...I drilled into one end with a 1/4" Forstner bit and inserted a short piece of hardwood dowel, leaving about 3/4" of...
• Re: Rear Table Mod
  Historical mailing list - Harold Teer
  Sun, 5 Jul 2009 11:30:26 -0400
  ...mtbiker62@gmail.com> wrote: > Some of you have put a long dowel (broom handle?) down the center of the > table leg and somehow fastened...
• Re: tool needed
  Historical mailing list - Don Hundt
  Sun, 6 May 2007 11:07:43 -0700
  Ken, Stuff the bearing full of grease, find a wood dowel that is a tight fit in the hole, put the dowel in the...
• Main Seal tool
  Historical mailing list - patrick paul clerkin
  Thu, 18 Oct 2001 02:01:57 -0500
  ...This tool features unique design that includes clearance for stock as well as longer protruding high performance crankshaft dowel pins. For use by both...
• Re: Front table in rear
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Mon, 2 Jul 2007 11:58:15 -0400
  ...it's not because the front leg is shorter that this works (you'd want the dowel or pipe to stabilize the shorter leg...
• CV Stuck: NOT!
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 28 Jul 1995 08:40:59 -0500
  ...I did manage to get it apart by tapping at the right place with a short wooden dowel (hammer driven) as the CV sat...
• Re: Pilot Bearing/Outer Race Removal -- 81 Westy
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:45:34 -0700
  Gary If you can find a round object ~ rod or dowel ~ that is the same O'D' as the I'D' of the Chase...
• Re: R&R Clutch
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Thu, 8 Nov 2007 21:50:46 -0800
  ...If the dowels are missing from the flywheel, that the pressure plate fits over, then the p. plate would fit 6 ways, but if...
• Re: Diesel head gasket blown?
  Historical mailing list - Doktor Tim
  Sun, 21 Sep 2003 15:31:47 -0700
  At 08:32 AM 09/21/2003, you wrote: >I've always used wooden dowels, 3/8" I think. I figured this was safer...
• Re: Rear Table Mod
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Sat, 4 Jul 2009 17:29:41 -0700
  ...Loren Busch, didn't you do this? > How did you fasten the dowel in the base? Like this http://www.pbase.com/labusch/tablemods
• Re: tire circumference
  Historical mailing list - Mike S
  Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:12:07 -0400
  At 09:20 AM 10/14/2011, Robert Mac Dowell wrote... >Dose anybody know what the RPM (revolutions per mile) number is for >the...
• Re: Westy closet mods?
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:03:58 -0500
  ...I'm one to use it for hanging things so I removed the shelves and dowels but could put them back at any time...
• Door Handle Repairs
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 26 Oct 96 11:23 CDT
  ...Apparently removal of the core involves removal of a dowel-pin instead of a set screw. Anyone else have any experience with this or...
• Re: Homemade awnings?
  Historical mailing list - Gnarlodious
  Wed, 26 Mar 2003 09:11:15 -0700
  ...Can be a little challenge to remove, but I keep a wood dowel to insert into the tubes and pry out of the gutter...
• Flywheel Dowel Pins
  Historical mailing list - Kurt Grotz
  Fri, 2 Jul 2010 15:44:56 -0400
  My dowels are missing - and I need 3. Thinking of fabricating something. Do I need a special steel? Anyone done this before? Kurt A...
• Re: starter bush bashing
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:58:21 EST
  ...But, the fit between the dowel and the bushing or bearing has to be a close sliding fit and the dowel has to be...
• Re: Flywheel Dowel Pins
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 2 Jul 2010 13:12:49 -0700
  ...Flywheel Dowel Pins > My dowels are missing - and I need 3. Thinking of fabricating something. > Do I need a special steel? Anyone done this...
• Kitchen-side awning, cheap and easy.
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:11:24 -0500
  ...The single support is a dowel that fits between a magnet that sticks on the side of the van under the window. The dowel...
• Re: Pilot Bearing Removal?
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Tue, 13 May 2003 09:40:35 -0400
  ...The idea here, to perhaps clarify, is that when you whack the dowel you're applying pressure to the grease. A lot of it...
• Re: Side mirror fix
  Historical mailing list - Richard Koerner
  Sun, 9 May 2010 13:23:06 -0700
  ...NOTE:� David Beierl commented that he did the same fix as me...except he used a roll pin instead of a solid dowel pin...
• Re: full timers
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Mon, 8 Oct 2012 08:38:42 -0700
  ...http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/VWVANFULLTIMERS/ Mark Robert Mac Dowell wrote: > I think I remember reading about a full timers group related to...
• Re: Frozen Engine
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Tue, 3 Mar 2009 20:53:23 -0800
  ...Easier to tap on the pistons with a dowel and dead-blow, or whatever. Inline engine? FIve minute job! -- John Bange '90 Vanagon - "Lastwagen...
• Re: ET 45 alloys
  Historical mailing list - Phil Menchions
  Mon, 26 Dec 2005 09:01:34 -0330
  ...The dowels are a good idea. Even better would be simply fastening the spacers to the wheels, one would think. My 2 cents worth...
• Re: Flywheel Dowel Pins
  Historical mailing list - Jay lefstein
  Sun, 4 Jul 2010 12:24:37 -0700
  ...Flywheel Dowel Pins > > >> My dowels are missing - and I need 3. Thinking of fabricating >> something. >> Do I need a special steel? Anyone done this...