Hi all.

On thesamba.com there's a thread on adapting a Fox cluster to the Vanagon.
I can't find the thread right now, but it should be there. The thread
content was aimed, in part, toward the Suby crew, but IIRC, the swap is
applicable to any Vanagon.

What would it take to reproduce a new cluster housing? Is it even $
feasible to do this? Thoughts towards this?

Does it have to be made of plastic? I bet a 3D printer could make a
prototype for (casting?) purposes.

I guess it all comes down to someone taking the ball and investing $ to
make it happen. I'm just thinking that at the very least, a plastic housing
could be reproduced then one could install parts specific to their model
year. That said......

Is the housing the same for all model years? I imagine there's differences
in the amount and positioning of warning lights.

OTOH, maybe there's enough Vanagons in the bone yard to provide suitable
parts.  (?)

Neil.

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 8:33 AM, george jannini <georgejoann@gmail.com>
 wrote:

  Fonman, I've just gone through somewhat the same dash crap as you-
> original problem was a broken speedo cable, but the job devolved into
> my being forced into finding, then assembling the best parts that I
> could come up with from 4 spare dash pods, all of which suffered from
> varying degrees of dinged/cracked/broken plastic and/or
> folded/broken/missing contacts where the console attaches to the
> wiring harness.
>

--
Neil n

65 kb image Myford Ready For Assembly  http://tinyurl.com/64sx4rp

'81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco"  http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/

Vanagon VAG Gas I4/VR Swap Google Group:

http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines