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• Re: Unflattering '99 EuroVan review(now my opinion)
  Historical mailing list - Steve Lashley
  Thu, 7 Jan 1999 00:16:30 EST
  ...Had the reviewers ever owned VW buses, then I'm sure driving the EV would of evoked that nostalgic feeling. Of course the automatic...
• Re: Help! - was Failed Crankshaft seal - now low oil pressure / Maybe Not
  Historical mailing list - David Shepherdson
  Mon, 31 Oct 2005 07:29:18 -0800
  ...to the dynamic oil pressure switch (1.8 bar) at the nose of the engine. 2/ If it is connected, check the oil pressure...
• Darwin and the VW or " I Stuck my nose into a new van this past weekend."
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:43:26 -0700
  Last weekend while using my 84 partial westy for it's primary purpose, I had a chance to glance into a modern version of...
• Re: OEM Grease Colour: Rear Axle Shaft, Bearings
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Mon, 9 May 2016 10:45:05 -0700
  ...Possibly NOS so outer dimension should be correct. Thanks again for the description Dennis. Given what I've read on rear wheel bearing sleeves...
• Re: Winters in the van
  Historical mailing list - Hans Brouwer
  Fri, 15 Nov 2002 11:04:53 -0500
  ...for fuel find parts, elec > draw requires second > bat > > carverp4 $500 NOS just the right not made anymore, > size for vanagon hard to find...
• Steering: PS Rack U-Joint R&R
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:49:12 -0500
  ...First thought was to try and remove the two 6mm allen head bolts and see if the nose of the rack would come off...
• Re: queston on H4 55/60w bulb to fit stock bulb socket
  Historical mailing list - Al Knoll
  Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:39:39 -0800
  ...Sadly these were discontinued years ago and bring a dear price on the auction/used/NOS market. The original h1 h1 configuration was simply...
• Re: misc
  Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
  Tue, 30 Aug 94 14:21:54 PDT
  ...Camper (Da Boat) SAIC Comsystems, San Diego '73 Capri GT 2800 (Da Beast) schwarze@nosc.mil '87 Mustang Lx 5.0 (Da Bruiser? Soon...) =============================================================================
• Re: '85 not level?
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Fri, 1 Nov 2002 15:56:10 -0800
  ...Mike '85 Westy (Nose in the air) '84 GL (Bowing like a playful puppy) --- Joachim Preiss <spielmobil@EARTHLINK.NET> wrote: > I remember reading on...
• Re: Oil pressure mystery, resolved???
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Tue, 1 Oct 2002 10:00:00 -0500
  ...Every time it happened, the gauge read 20 PSI on the > nose. No fluctuation. So I'm confused. If there was a sudden drop...
• Re: Self-tapping screw size for headlight assy?
  Historical mailing list - DaveC
  Wed, 2 Oct 2002 07:04:03 -0700
  ...Can't remove the screw unless you've got special (ie, 90-degree needle-nose) pliers. Or install a "leash", a small crimped steel...
• Re: Digital Camera
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Thu, 7 Jul 2005 23:51:50 +1200
  ...Stray nosehairs, even. Good in low light also. >Digital display in both eyepiece and camera back but both are kind of >small. Eyepiece has...
• Re: FS: NOS front door, sliding door, rear hatch, & ignition lock cylinder
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:54:31 -0500
  Doug, The handles for '85~'91s have "Tails" that extend a bit further toward the door skins. Some have cut them down a bit...
• how to sink a vanagon
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:02:07 EST
  ...the toyota actually make it most of the way to the finish line but the 250hp outboard was too powerful and it nosedived..and...
• Re: Friday Philosophy: On Fixing Things Right
  Historical mailing list - Roland
  Fri, 1 Feb 2013 08:12:59 -0800
  ...Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the...
• Re: tools to have onhand...
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:49:38 -0600
  ...5" needle nose and 7" curved jaw with cutter. Screw drivers? How do you turn the bolts on your CV joints? Larry A. On...
• Re: Anyone need '53? parts
  Historical mailing list - william killian
  Fri, 2 Jun 1995 13:55:48 -0400 (EDT)
  ...And buying new nose skins and parts is WAY too expensive. If anybody else listening in knows another way I could get such a...
• diesel (fwd)
  Historical mailing list - Sean Bartnik
  Sun, 4 May 97 16:04:06 EDT
  ...However, whenever I have > been able to nose around a golf diesel engine bay, the engine seems very > tall vertically, whilst to my knowledge...
• '84 1.9l knocking rattle left sd of engine
  Historical mailing list - Choreboy
  Mon, 8 May 2000 22:02:18 -0700
  ...But now for something completely different...a man with three noses... Naah, jests aside, here's my trouble: I started my '84 waterboxer 1...
• Fraday-Duck Hunter
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Fri, 19 Apr 2002 15:41:29 -0500
  ...His second kick nearly wiped the man's nose off his face. The barrister was flat on his belly when the farmer's third...
• Question on replacing shocks on 87 2WD
  Historical mailing list - dave
  Sat, 22 Apr 2000 21:21:53 -0700
  ...fast) with the old shocks and then with the new, the nose dive is fairly excessive right now, we'll see if the Bilsteins...
• Re: Selling on the list
  Historical mailing list - Michael S. Nichols
  Fri, 6 Sep 2002 21:06:08 -0400
  ...been shat upon on two parts deals when parts were not NOS as advertised. It is best when sellers on the list post a...
• Parts FS (kind of long )
  Historical mailing list - Matt Faust
  Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:18:24 -0700
  ...wheel cylinder, Febi $7 � Cam bearings, 1.9 L , NIB $5 � NOS pod speaker for an 83-85 $10 faustmb@yahoo.com Thanks for...
• Re: Which Type 2 to recommend?
  Historical mailing list - Nathaniel Poole
  Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:36:00 -0800
  ...You can have as much camping fun in an old Dodge tradesman camper, but nobody has nostalgia about those things. The VW buses are...
• Re: Aerodynamics for MPG
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:56:00 -0400
  ...If you could fabricate a long nose like an airplane and > attach it to the Vanagon it might help, but you still need to...
• DM: F.I. diagnosis, was: vanagon Digest
  Historical mailing list - T.P. Stephens
  Tue, 16 Nov 1999 08:46:18 -0800
  ...When hard nosed following of Bentley diagnosis procedures step by step do not lead in a straight line to the failure, reconsider how hard...
• Re: Ever have one van job that leads to another?
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Sat, 25 Jul 2020 21:12:53 -0400
  ...All of them were cracked and somewhat hard. > > Nosing around the engine I saw a “tell” on the metal coolant line , the lower one...
• Re: Leaky rear heater---Autozone Loan-a-Tool program
  Historical mailing list - David McNeely
  Thu, 21 May 2020 17:37:00 -0700
  ...Your nose is a good detective tool as well....smelling > something sweet. > So I will fix Leak Number 1, and then try again. For...
• Re: Pilot Bearing
  Historical mailing list - kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
  Wed, 8 May 2013 10:02:28 -0400
  ...point and then pull it out with a pair of needle nose pliers. Take a small punch and grind a sharp end on it...
• Re: Power mirror glass
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Wed, 15 Aug 2012 20:46:01 -0700
  ...I got the last NOS glass replacement in North America from Rennie at Santa Monica VW this week. They are now obsolete at VW...
• Re: Can this do that? [THANKS, ALL]
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Sun, 22 May 2011 20:18:28 -0700
  ...sender rig mentioned above, and am waiting on delivery of short-nose temp senders to fit the plumbing); then wire up in the instrument...
• Re: My weekend project.
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Tue, 9 Jun 2009 16:36:36 -0700
  ...she can get on board with the nostalgia thing ............or 'classic VW' etc. but otherwise....... orange .........orange is a funny color. Awesom color, but...
• Re: New T5 (Next generation Eurovan) pics posted!!!
  Historical mailing list - Sean Garrett
  Thu, 14 Mar 2002 08:19:29 -0700
  ...New T5 (Next generation Eurovan) pics posted!!! > > > the remodeled nose is a nice improvement....but its > STILL a Eurovan, dont they know Americans like...
• Re: Question re buying & selling a westfalia in Europe
  Historical mailing list - Nolan Hester
  Tue, 4 Feb 2003 21:48:12 -0800
  ...The real advantage, however, was that we didn't have to plan out our whole trip in advance and, instead, could follow our nose...
• Re: K&N Cone filters Cold Air Intake for vanagon-eliminate factory airbox
  Historical mailing list - P.Dooley
  Sat, 25 Dec 2004 16:53:28 -0500
  ...dumb luck for finding the exact part I needed under my nose. Thought the list may be able to use the info. Merry Christmas...
• Re: Adding windshield fluid? Where?
  Historical mailing list - Joy Hecht
  Sat, 24 Dec 2005 23:23:24 -0500
  ...It is :::there to enable you to easily add oil to the engine without having to :::stand on one foot, pick your nose, screw...
• Re: Need "MUST-HAVE" Tool List
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Tue, 2 Jan 2018 14:46:38 -0500
  ...But if it > doesn't work out, you can do a while lot with > > Long nose pliers > Big pliers that open long enough to...
• Re: Garcia's Ghost doesn't like gettin' high.
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:35:43 -0700
  ...but with engine off, get your nose in there and look carefully at *everything* ...like Monk ( TV series ) ... I just found a fat intake...
• Re: Safari Windows
  Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
  Tue, 21 May 1996 10:59:21 -0700 (PDT)
  ...Wish I had a grand or so laying around, so I could step up to a set of NOS originals... Its raining today, of...
• Re: Vanagon Bra Pricing
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Fri, 31 Jul 1998 10:23:03 -0100
  ...A poor fitting bra can cause damage to your van's finish due allowing moisture to sit between it and the nose of your...
• Re: Toolkit
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Mon, 22 Nov 1999 18:54:51 -0800
  ...socket set >screwdriver set (2 x flathead, 2 x philips) >needle nose pliers >adjustable wrench > >What about parts? >hose clips >oil >coolant >belts - Anyone...
• Re: [vanagon] URGENT ASSISTANCE NEEDED --- ETAK P/N Help Request
  Historical mailing list - Doug F
  Tue, 17 Sep 2002 19:02:16 -0400
  Larry, The part # 251 121 438 doesn't come up as valid, but the part nos. 251 121 438a, and 438b come back as...
• Re: REMOVE THOSE HATCH PLUGS!!
  Historical mailing list - Aristotle Sagan
  Wed, 10 Sep 2003 10:51:38 -0700
  ...I cut part of the nose off of a >junker and replaced the whole part between the seams below the >windshield and above the...
• Re: noise reduction
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Tue, 19 Oct 2004 07:22:20 -0400
  ...YOu need to add a nose to the body to break the wind before the passenger compartment. Good luck with this one.... Eric Reinhard...
• Re: Healthiest way to lead an UnHealthy Vanagon lifestyle? (a long attempt at Phrydey humour)
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:04:31 -0700
  ...pressing into place rotated in my hands and drenched me from nose to tits. Can I say 'tits' on here? Anyway- I dunno about...
• Re: 91 Vanagon Manual - slow cranking....
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Wed, 8 Dec 2010 14:21:21 -0500
  ...On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Daryl Christensen <daryl@aatransaxle.com> wrote: > That bushing is bad and the starter nose looks...
• RE: Lifespan of a master cylinder?
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 19 Jul 94 09:42:25 PDT
  On Mon, 18 Jul 94 David Schwarze <schwarze@io.nosc.mil> wrote: >Subject: Re: Lifespan of a master cylinder? >>STAFFORD@zenith.dnet.hac.com...
• Re: Redline trans oil (part 2) and a trans question
  Historical mailing list - Fred Porter
  Thu, 14 May 1998 08:29:46 -0600
  ...my $.005 worth fred -- remove NOSPAM to reply
• Re: Toolkit
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Tue, 23 Nov 1999 07:39:26 -0700
  ...socket set > > >screwdriver set (2 x flathead, 2 x philips) > > >needle nose pliers > > >adjustable wrench > > > > > >What about parts? > > >hose clips > > >oil > > >coolant > > >belts - Anyone...
• Intermittent smoke after stop signal wait...
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sat, 19 Oct 2013 09:21:58 -0700
  ...slight leak at my homemade filler when I park with the nose up on a steep incline...a quarter sized puddle below maybe. I...
• Re: camping amidst bears, safety question
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:38:29 -0800
  ...one that's presumably permeated by food smells, at least from the perspective of a bear's nose. so i put the food in...
• driving without sway bar? (was: Re: stabilizer link hitting coil? (WAS: Re: sway bar wiggling))
  Historical mailing list - Wesley Pegden
  Sat, 18 Mar 2006 21:04:09 -0500
  ...on the passenger side, and that's what's > causing my nose. How do I reposition the stabilizer link? The lower > bushing is certainly...
• Re: syncro springs on a 2wd?
  Historical mailing list - Joel VanderKwaak
  Tue, 6 May 2008 09:00:43 -0700
  ...a diesel they won't be unless you lower the > tranny nose a several inches and this adds other problems. > > Mark > > > > > Chris S wrote...
• Re: Coolant hoses fun
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Sun, 30 Jun 2024 17:47:46 -0600
  ...crid=3AP0K3I6RIHPM&sprefix=breeze+liner+clamps,industrial,124&ref=nb_sb_noss_2> > On 30 Jun , 2024, at 11:48 AM, Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57...
• Re: ID Buzz
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Sun, 4 Jun 2023 10:02:46 -0400
  ...developing backwards since the 2000s. > > Yes, VW has to ride the nostalgia wave. But in my opinion, they are dismantling their own heritage. > The...
• Parallel flow A/C condenser
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Mon, 5 Nov 2012 13:38:44 -0800
  ...http://www.nostalgicairparts.com/air-conditioning/16-x-22-superflow-r-134a-c ondenser-741.php Haven't done this myself, but planning to...
• It's back together and it runs.
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Wed, 9 Nov 2011 08:19:55 -0800
  ...rear of the van up on wooden ramps in an already nose-down position in the sloping driveway, I simply removed the bleeder bolt...
• Help the chimp avoid getting crushed
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Sat, 4 Jun 2011 06:35:52 -0700
  ...Maybe nose down so the rears are on the pavement. Set it in Park and chock it, then, one side at a time, jack...
• Re: Deer Hit
  Historical mailing list - craig cowan
  Sun, 14 Nov 2010 19:08:58 -0500
  ...Not a ton of damage, but there is a dent in the nose (corner) that resulted in the paint being chipped off. I was...
• bus stuff
  Historical mailing list - Sean Bartnik
  Tue, 16 Apr 96 18:04:26 EDT
  ...I can't smell gas outside the car at all, even when I get my nose right up to the filler cap but inside...