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• Re: driver's power window motor removal
  Historical mailing list - Felder
  Sat, 29 Nov 2003 12:19:19 -0800
  ...Now pop out the plastic dish from the latch mechanism and remove the screw that holds the escutcheon on. Pop off the panel. Take...
• Re: Checking pressure cap function???
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Mon, 29 Jul 2013 06:20:13 -0700
  ...near the open sparkplug holes, and listen (and/or look) for escaping coolant going into the cylinders...Be careful to not drop dirt or...
• Re: BS Insurance Co sharks!!!! Re: specific features of 86 GL
  Historical mailing list - Clive Smith
  Fri, 28 Jun 2002 13:22:59 +0100
  ...judgement proof???' > > > >If/When someone destroys my property, they will not escape as 'judgement > >proof' These people need to be taken to court, and...
• Re: Stereo time... front speaker question
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Overmyer
  Wed, 6 Aug 2003 15:02:59 +1000
  ...Does anyone have any experience or suggestions they'd like >to share before I do something stupid? > >Thanks, >Steve >EJ22 -> '86 Westy "Escape Pod"
• Re: Gas Vapors
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 3 Jun 2012 11:34:11 -0400
  ...If all is well >>> whenever you open the cap for filling you should hear some pressure >>> escaping. After repairs the tank and vent system...
• Re: gas smell solution progress
  Historical mailing list - Eric Wunrow
  Thu, 6 Oct 2016 15:23:42 -0400
  ...Likewise, if water can get in, fumes could escape. > Good Luck , > Ken Lewis > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com...
• Re: EMERGENCY...HELP HELP formerly: Alaska Trek stuff....
  Historical mailing list - John H. Rodgers
  Fri, 24 Jul 1998 10:13:11 -0500
  ...Last night, one of our cats squeezed out of our van window and escaped into the local populous. Needless to say we are all...
• Re: [subaruvanagon] Re: Why I hate UPS (was: Vendors and shipping)
  Historical mailing list - Mark Dorm
  Sun, 7 Jan 2001 16:32:32 -0800
  ...Canada. <DIV></DIV>&gt; <DIV></DIV>&gt;The only way to "escape" this is to go with their expedited service which <DIV></DIV>&gt...
• Re: Wrong Tires from PO, ramifications? (Where is MXT?)
  Historical mailing list - Yi-Ruey Wei
  Fri, 11 Sep 1998 11:48:26 -0500
  ...Ms Carol, my wife, let's me drive it occasionally, if escorted) We have a lurid VW past: Karmann Ghia(1), Bugs(4), Super...
• Re: I are mades it
  Historical mailing list - Roger Whittaker
  Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:15:15 -0700
  ...in the republic of oregon i met many there who were escapees from california - and other parts of the Union of Associated Republics of...
• pissing and moaning coolant
  Historical mailing list - gary hradek
  Thu, 29 May 2003 08:07:14 -0700
  ...Lots of air escaping, and much to my surprise plenty of coolant in the tank as well as the expansion tank. I then did...
• Trip Report (long)
  Historical mailing list - Robert Rountree
  Mon, 26 Apr 1999 21:14:27 -0400
  ...like driving in, very hard to see anything, but it's escape this zone or visit Toto & Auntie M .... later somewhere near Lexington, bunched...
• Re: vanagon Digest - 3 Apr 2009 to 4 Apr 2009 - Special issue (#2009-284)
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Vickers
  Sat, 4 Apr 2009 10:21:21 -0700
  ...To my huge = > suprise and delight, there were no traffic jams this time and I just = > 'sailed-through' onto I-8, escaping east into...
• Re: Oxymoron Alert: AC While Camping
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Wed, 9 Jun 2010 22:24:01 -0500
  ...zipper? > Wouldn't want any of that cool dry air to escape while I'm snug in my > down bag. > > As for defining" camping...
• Re: bostig kit for VW Vans
  Historical mailing list - Jeff
  Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:24:52 -0400
  ...can >> LEAD, not follow'' >> >> What are your experiences installing a ford Escort Zetec in your VW Van. > My >> friend in Seattle had one installed...
• Re: Checked your spare tire recently? Spare Tire Size
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:51:52 -0600
  ...Sure glad I escaped that place ! > > > > I do like to have a full size spare . It might be hours and many > > miles > > before I...
• Re: can't register my Vanagon, Calif madness, LVC
  Historical mailing list - Kim Springer
  Sat, 11 Jun 2011 22:38:46 -0700
  ...with no plates. "Yes officer it was a 2011 black Cadillac Escalate with no license plates." "I'll put out an APB" Joke is...
• Re: Alternative Fuels - Salt Water
  Historical mailing list - VW Doka
  Fri, 7 Dec 2007 13:25:00 -0800
  ...It had always been his goal to escape the USSR and come to "America" land of the free, to find it no different than...
• Re: Dometic
  Historical mailing list - Ian Allan
  Wed, 24 May 2006 00:36:18 -0400
  ...name escapes me and I am at home) that comes many ways. A unit like a cooler which sits behind the pass seat, runs...
• Re: Lube the accelerator cable on a vanagon? and some more..
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Fri, 14 May 2010 06:55:12 -0700
  ...This was (I surmise) causing air to enter (and some coolant to escape) from the leaks. This resulted in over-filling of my overflow...
• Fwd: MIG welding.
  Historical mailing list - Jim Akiba
  Tue, 2 Oct 2007 01:51:25 -0400
  ...You also get to look like you escaped from somewhere if people see you doing it ha. Jim Akiba On 10/2/07, neil...
• Re: CR@P!!! Now a NV Statistic
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:46:11 -0700
  ...us..........and always........stay way back, just to give yourself an >> escape >> route if nothing else. >> I hope your very loved Blackbeard is quite...
• Off-subject travelogue: Joshua Tree, San Diego, Ensenada
  Historical mailing list - Ben McCafferty
  Sun, 25 Nov 2001 20:34:37 -0800
  ...All three vehicles were immediately escorted to the back of the line, which by now had grown to about 300 cars. Call me childish...
• Re: can't register my Vanagon, Calif madness, LVC
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Sat, 11 Jun 2011 13:34:26 -0700
  ...with no plates. "Yes officer it was a 2011 black Cadillac Escalate with no license plates." "I'll put out an APB" > Joke is...
• Re: 2.1L into '84 Westy project - Cooling system question
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 9 Jul 2008 12:37:09 -0700
  ...The 2.1 will practically bleed themselves because they gave the air a place to escape. No jacking up one end of the van...
• Tracing Electrical fault in Coach battery system? (lotta words)
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sun, 4 Nov 2007 07:13:25 -0800
  ...able to use this millimeter to trace where the power is escaping, right? Right now, I am thinking it may be the stereo, which...
• (no subject)
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Fri, 17 May 2002 18:25:33 EDT
  ...Did you know that "escalator" was once a registered trademark? And so were "aspirin", "trampoline", "refrigerator", "yo yo" and many more! But they failed...
• Trip Report: Snowbird NW>desert SW>NW (long)
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Fri, 11 Mar 2011 09:52:47 -0800
  ...pack my small 'van-specific' solar panel in my rush to escape before the X-mas storm hit, so I was relying on my...
• Re: engineering nightmares vehicles was: cruise control speedometer sensor
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Wed, 27 Oct 2004 09:20:32 -0500
  ...It'll keep you >> from displaying your ignorance to the list quite as often. >> >> Steve >> '86 Westy "Escape Pod" (EJ22) >> '73 Beetle "ain't...
• Re: Car Talk
  Historical mailing list - Steve Johnson
  Wed, 21 Sep 94 20:25:32 PDT
  ...But, one that eschews the science isn't necessarily > a moron. Yes, and don't you think the people who bought these VWs had...
• Re: RoadHaus - Louisiana Raccoons / The rest of the story
  Historical mailing list - DOUG ELLEDGE
  Thu, 12 Feb 2004 08:06:28 -0800
  ...threw everything into the Van and at around 4:30 am escaped > back to the paved byways of rural LA. > > Now this morning in...
• Ione #2
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Olson
  Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:37:12 -0600
  Ione and I pulled into a small canyon off a dirt road in the Grand Escalante. We'd been on the road for a...
• Back in Virginia from Baja trip
  Historical mailing list - Harold Teer
  Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:45:02 -0400
  ...heading West on the Burr Trail Road and entered Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. Camped in a "dispersed camping area" with no other vehicles...
• toon physics (also applies to VW's)
  Historical mailing list - H Steven Dolan
  Mon, 5 Dec 1994 08:09:24 -0800 (PST)
  ...pressure explosions and of reckless cowards who are so eager to escape that they exit directly through the wall of a house, leaving a...
• RE: New Book Examines Volkswagen's Nazi Years
  Historical mailing list - Lebron,Nathan
  Thu, 07 Nov 96 07:30:00 E
  ...Displaying his support for the project, Hitler briefly eschewed his favored Mercedes to ride in a prototype Volkswagen Beetle when the first plant was...
• Stealth Vanagon Camping
  Historical mailing list - Richard Koerner
  Tue, 9 Nov 2010 20:52:15 -0800
  ...on this list.� But what I'm hearing of your traveling escapades (especially including the COSTS for late arrival at campgrounds which are too...
• Re: Window Trim Install - Details & MisInfo in Archives
  Historical mailing list - Daniel Schmitz
  Sun, 16 Jul 2000 22:23:23 -0700
  ...This continued until I was escorted > from the yard as some kind of nut. > > So, sorry, Chris and the other purveyors of "pull 'em...
• Re: WBX Nightmares
  Historical mailing list - CHRIS STANN
  Sun, 13 Aug 2000 08:27:11 -0500
  ...How many '85 Chevy Cavaliers still running strong? Ford Escorts? Heck, Honda Accords? (Honda drivers, I'm flame proof, so don't waste your...
• Re: Brake light circuit current with trailer, WAS: Re: No High Beams
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:17:33 -0700
  ...August 2008 when I first hooked up the trailer for my Escape From > SoCal. > > Science is baffled. > > > ========== > * These GBC "ceramic torpedo" fuses only come...
• Re: Radar detector
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 17 May 2002 07:33:24 -0400
  ...The Escort from Cincinnati Microwave was one of the first examples of the superhet type, if that helps give you a time line. Passive...
• Re: First camping trip problems
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Mon, 7 Jul 2014 18:19:34 -0700
  ...never saw any sign of them again so they must have escaped on their own. As I continue to tear-down camp this time...
• Re: Sudden head gasket coolant catastrophic leaking
  Historical mailing list - David Kao
  Sun, 8 Jul 2007 09:31:59 -0700
  ...The cap should open when pressure rises to a point to allow some coolant to escape and give relief to the rising pressure. Perhaps...
• Re: funny story
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 17 Jun 1996 23:01:00, -0500
  ...fast they could light the charcoal. > >>From the vacuum cleaner, they escalated to using a propane >torch, then an acetylene torch. Then Goble started...
• Re: Vanagon alternator too weak for Optimas.
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 21 Jul 2003 22:02:20 -0400
  ...It's pretty easy and works GREAT! Steve EJ22 -> '86 Westy "Escape Pod" _______________________________________________ Derek Drew CEO & Co-Founder ConsumerSearch, Inc. New York, NY & Washington...
• Re: vanagon syndrome week - Friday
  Historical mailing list - Aaron Pearson
  Fri, 10 Jun 2005 13:13:57 -0600
  ...Paranoid Maintenance Syndrome begins simply enough with the purchase of a Vanagon and quickly escalates into full blown Vanagon Syndrome as the owner spends...
• Re: Ione #2
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:05:25 -0700
  ...into a small canyon off a dirt road in the Grand > Escalante. We'd been on the road for a week and had made...
• Re: bostig kit for VW Vans
  Historical mailing list - Jim Akiba
  Sat, 1 Aug 2009 01:03:47 -0400
  ...can >>> LEAD, not follow'' >>> >>> What are your experiences installing a ford Escort Zetec in your VW Van. >>> My >>> friend in Seattle had one installed...
• Calif. Smog Fail and Catalytic Converter
  Historical mailing list - Steve Williams
  Sat, 16 Mar 2013 09:23:55 -0700
  ...suddenly, but it gives me peace of mind to know my escape pod is ready for the next earthquake or financial disaster, or just...
• Another safety point of a Vanagon re: road monsters, was Re: California law (smog)
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:58:39 -0800
  Maybe it's self defense in part, like an arms escalation. Case in point: I had to go to heart specialist at UCLA on...
• Re: Using American engines for Vanagon swap - why the heck not? - Long
  Historical mailing list - Walter Evens
  Fri, 22 Mar 2002 12:12:40 -0800
  ...I had a Ford Escort once that had over 200,000 miles on it before it was totaled. It also had TBI. All I...
• read!!! please long-QUAD ROUND SOUTH AFRICAN DRIVING LITE GRILLES (READ)
  Historical mailing list - JordanVw
  Wed, 22 Apr 1998 22:35:40 EDT
  ...frankgrun@aol.com jwall@whidbey.net vw4x4@fyi.net bill@ns.esc.state.nc.us scottmcdonell@sota.com turinsky@juno.com eric_small@sabre...
• Re: road rage...my first experience tonite.. LOCK YOUR DOORS!!!
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Lundy
  Sat, 10 Feb 2001 10:31:32 -0600
  ...I turn around and see this piece of crap mid 80's red Escort scooting down the road with the passenger side window down...
• Re: (no subject)
  Historical mailing list - Barb and Scott Stothers
  Fri, 17 May 2002 05:56:17 -0500
  ...Did you know that "escalator" was once a registered trademark? And so were "aspirin", "trampoline", "refrigerator", "yo yo" and many more! But they failed...
• Re: Engine Removal
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:44:49 -0700
  ...experience or > insight here? > > As a result of another day spent escaping the reality of just how much > coolant really is in the vanagon...
• Re: Two bolts to mount the alternator bracket to the engine block are just plain missing!
  Historical mailing list - Roland
  Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:26:02 -0800
  ...Roland '89 Syncro Escondido, CA On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@hotmail.com>wrote: > It is unlikely the...
• Re: engineering nightmares vehicles was: cruise control speedometer sensor
  Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
  Wed, 27 Oct 2004 08:31:18 -0700
  ...It'll keep you >>> from displaying your ignorance to the list quite as often. >>> >>> Steve >>> '86 Westy "Escape Pod" (EJ22) >>> '73 Beetle "ain't...
• Westy as escape pod,was: fighting condensation
  Historical mailing list - Bulley
  Mon, 22 Nov 1999 06:37:02 -0500
  ...emergency escape "housing". Very cool. Thanks for sharing. G. Matthew Bulley Director Bulley-Hewlett & Associates www.bulley-hewlett.com Cary, NC USA 888.468...
• Re: Optima Blue D31M
  Historical mailing list - Philip Zimmerman
  Mon, 2 Jun 2008 23:07:37 -0700
  ...I eschew most of the detractors as not matching their current-loads to an appropriately sized battery-bank and not boosting-up the mediocre...
• Re: Alternative Fuels - Salt Water
  Historical mailing list - tom ring
  Fri, 7 Dec 2007 17:30:35 -0500
  ...It had always been his goal to escape the USSR and come > to "America" land of the free, to find it no different than...
• Re: Smoke after head replacement
  Historical mailing list - Gregg Carlen
  Mon, 9 Jan 2012 10:52:29 -0500
  ...I would if this leaked coolant or exhaust, I think it would be allowing exhaust to escape to the outside of the engine since...