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• Re: ok, you gotta look at this one ...
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Tue, 15 Jul 2003 05:08:29 -0500
  ...Transmision rebuilt within the last 18 months > Syncro and Viscous coupler work perfectly > 911 cross-drilled rotors & calipers, front > upgraded rear shocks + 15in. alloys...
• Re: torque on coolant sensor in expansion tank
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sat, 28 Apr 2012 15:55:58 -0700
  ...They start from the inside and work out. > > Yours, > David
• Re: Wind Noises 'round the doors
  Historical mailing list - Mike Elliott
  Mon, 5 Jun 2006 13:39:24 -0700
  On 6/5/2006 11:21 AM Jake de Villiers wrote: > My pal Pete the bodyman will sometimes adjust mis-shaping doors by > bending...
• Keeping Warm
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 07 Nov 95 12:14 CST
  ...Trapping water/vapour between the foam and >body panels is bad news. Any water accumulating near the >edge of the foam will seep in...
• Re: Vanagon Woes
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 21 May 2010 14:46:16 -0700
  ...Also...*all* front wheel drive sideways engine cars are inherantly much harder to work on than vanagons, or cars with inline-mounted front engines...
• Re: Not fixed right yet, was; Baffled, giving up
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Fri, 5 Oct 2012 11:30:46 -0700
  Test the blue wire continuity:Ground either end of the blue wire, at the alternator to the vehcile body, or the instrument cluster.�Connect...
• Sway bar fixing. Was: A sharp metallic SNAP...
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 9 May 97 17:37:45 EDT
  ...http://www.cs.rochester.edu:80/u/jag/vw/body/swaybar.html >4. Are there any tricks to replacing them? (Looks fairly easy, but...
• Re: Advice on 92 Eurovan
  Historical mailing list - Kristin G. Burke
  Sat, 20 Mar 2004 12:30:37 -0500
  ...Didn't have a chance to crawl around - getting dark and good clothes on but body looked solid, some minor repainting - back hatch and...
• Re: No Start Cause: Relay Failure. PICS, Thoughts.
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Wed, 6 Feb 2013 16:00:32 -0500
  ...Failing to mount the cover in this orientation will contribute to terminal failures. >Since this was my first time at a swap (or work...
• Re: Air Conditioner
  Historical mailing list - 80 Westy Pokey
  Sat, 30 Mar 2002 22:31:01 -0500
  Not from personal experience, but I have heard that these work great as long as you live some place that is arid not humid...
• Re: Putting a 2wd transmission into a Syncro?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:32:36 -0700
  ...You will have some work to > do at the nose mount. Get the complete 2wd nose mount with the tranny. > I'm wondering why...
• Re: sliding door handle adjust question
  Historical mailing list - Ryan Perry
  Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:54:47 +0000
  ...2) Make sure you have an escutcheon or rubber washer on the outside to keep water out and slack against the body of the...
• Re: Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Fri, 3 Apr 2009 14:47:21 -0400
  ...reliable?the body style or just > possibly because you have one and love her dearly. > > adam > 88 westy getting skinned this week for work >
• Re: '82 Diesel Westy For Sale in Denver (Glendale) CO
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:15:43 -0600
  ...at work... > > I'm following Ben's body restoration very closely. Not that I'm > necessarily > willing to take on this work, but it...
• Re: Accelerator Pedal Attachment?
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( Scott Daniel Foss )
  Sat, 8 Feb 2014 11:50:05 -0800
  People don't have heat guns to aim at a work area ? Dry ..yup ..that's important. Heat guns dry things nicely too ....as...
• Re: interesting vanagon for sale in victoria
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:58:00 -0800
  ...http://www.prliving.ca/ > View the growing list of video work at: > http://www.youtube.com/user/LastonLastof#g/u > http://vimeo.com/42309497...
• Chin Spoiler from Home Depot Racing shop..
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:47:06 -0700
  ...Below and behind the bumper there's a perfect body flange (welded joint). I used just 6 pop rivets and attached the air dam...
• Re: Lost coolant cap?
  Historical mailing list - Jim. Felder
  Wed, 10 Jan 2018 14:56:37 +0000
  Jen, Try reaching up from below and running your fingers along the crack between the bumper and the body, feeling along the inside bottom...
• getting seam rust repaired
  Historical mailing list - Joy Hecht
  Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:34:19 -0230
  ...I'm taking her in to a body shop next week to get an estimate on repairs - the options they mentioned involve replacing the...
• alternator problems
  Historical mailing list - joe Hunt
  Fri, 25 Feb 2000 20:01:10 EST
  In a message dated 2/23/00 7:41:11 AM Central Standard Time, Yo vanguy writes: << Listees, On the way home from work...
• Re: '86 Syncro for sale
  Historical mailing list - WFryer
  Mon, 7 Aug 2000 19:52:48 -0700
  ...165,000 miles - original engine, everything works almost perfectly, lots of new stuff recently: viscous coupling, front wheel bearings, ball joints, lower control arm...
• Re: '86 Syncro FS - asking price reduced
  Historical mailing list - WFryer
  Tue, 22 Aug 2000 21:08:47 -0700
  ...Everything works almost perfectly (including 4 WD), lots of new stuff recently: viscous coupling, front wheel bearings, ball joints, lower control arm bushings, brake...
• Re: ROOF RACK IDEAS
  Historical mailing list - Kevin
  Thu, 7 Mar 2002 07:51:01 -0800
  I believe what you're looking for is a Yakima product, either the "wide body bracket" or the "side loader bracket", which you can...
• 87 Vanagon GL for Sale in New York City Area
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Wilford
  Fri, 12 Jul 2002 12:44:42 -0400
  ...It sounds nice body and interior wise. Please contact him about it and not me: 1987 VW Vanagon (90k miles). The Qualities: No rust...
• Re: Volksiebus - 88 Transporter - Rough Running Engine
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( Scott Daniel Foss )
  Fri, 17 Jan 2014 22:55:29 -0800
  ...Throttle body switches out of limits and need adjusting. " >>>>>> >>>>>> is it making contact at idle or not ? >>>>>> it either is, or it isn't...
• Re: Westy anti roll bars
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Overmyer
  Wed, 25 Jun 2003 16:13:29 +1000
  ...Has any body on the list done a similar thing? >Is anyone parting out a westy with this bar? Any help would be great...
• Re: Hit 4 Deer...Need body Parts
  Historical mailing list - JD Foster
  Mon, 25 Oct 2004 09:46:32 -0700
  ...Re: [VANAGON] Hit 4 Deer...Need body Parts > In a message dated 10/25/04 8:57:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > jwallace@MSAD43...
• Re: Jalousies Windows for a Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - mike .
  Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:15:56 -0800
  ...My idea is to cut NEITHER the jalousie or the van body,. but to make 2 filler > strips (aluminum) for the top&bottom gaps...
• Re: More questions pertaining to my 88 model Bluestar project
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel
  Mon, 9 Dec 2013 18:57:04 -0800
  ...The tail pipe rattles against the body work close to it so its probably not the right one either. I plan on rotating or...
• questions about 79 westy I Mike might buy (longiish)
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 27 Mar 1996 04:45:03 GMT
  ...What do you guys think about the body work though.. Except for sliding door not working.. you'd never know or even begin to...
• =?utf-8?Q?Re:_Nasty_work_ahead,_I_poked=E2=80=A6?=
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Thu, 19 Aug 2021 08:02:36 -0700
  ...Waiting for the body work gods to say it is my van’s turn. Never thought that the undercoating as the culprit but that...
• Re: Check those fuel lines!
  Historical mailing list - Roger Whittaker
  Wed, 7 Apr 2010 21:49:40 -0700
  ...a servant who becomes king ... ---------------------------------------------------------- Explore printed work at: http://www.prliving.ca/ View the growing list of video work at: http://revver.com...
• Re: Louvered camper windows
  Historical mailing list - Robert Rountree
  Tue, 15 Sep 1998 08:34:34 -0400
  ...you have to get into some messy work welding in filler strips and the body work required to make them, finish up like they...
• Re: 84 Camper engine dying
  Historical mailing list - Tim Demarest
  Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:08:52 -0500
  ...Make sure the ground braid from the left head to the body is in good shape, clean the point where this grounds to the...
• Re: My Vanaru
  Historical mailing list - Dan Lamb
  Sun, 27 Mar 2022 06:06:45 -0500
  ...They are about $8 each and usable over and > over. > > And now for the body work. Electric door lock, electric windows, electric > hatch lock...
• Re: 2.1 Throttle Switch Assmebly on 1.9 with later style switch?
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Sun, 22 May 2016 11:31:35 -0700
  ...Based on what little I know of major engine work on a WBX, it appears these guys did their best. e.g. I see...
• Re: [vanagon] Paint Job
  Historical mailing list - Doug Alcock
  Tue, 4 Mar 2003 12:33:51 -0500
  ...Body work is all by the hour --- the guy who takes the most hours is going to do the better job. When you're...
• Re: Leaky vent on Propane Shutoff valve?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:30:46 -0400
  ...care whether it seals to the body or not, but in practice I've found it to work better. Out of superstition I even...
• Re: Need New Propane Shut-off Valve
  Historical mailing list - David McNeely
  Tue, 22 Sep 2020 15:22:50 -0700
  ...org> wrote: > I appreciate all the info here; some propane tank work has been on my list. > > What's the best procedure if the...
• Re: difference's between model years
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Fri, 26 Sep 2014 11:23:04 -0700
  ...As far as I know, the only part that can't be swapped in (without enormous body work) is the slider door and latches...
• Re: NVC: The dirtiest job on the planet
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 5 Dec 2011 11:57:10 -0500
  ...say $10 >I think it would soften the blow of the work load to the current >moderator(s). Beyond that amount, >well, I think...
• Re: [WTB] Rocker Panels, 72'...
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 23 Apr 1995 16:20:43 -0300
  > I am tackling the body of my 72' these next few weeks, and I'm > wondering if anyone has or knows where I can...
• Re: miles
  Historical mailing list - Michel O'Hara Escaravage
  07 Mar 1996 08:11:25 -0500
  ...that there wasn't much point going to work anyway (nothing that a little gas line anti-freeze couldn't fix). My exhaust pipes...
• Copy of: Re: Dead Deer on a Syncro
  Historical mailing list - Turner,Ronald L.
  06 Dec 96 16:21:47 EST
  ...I've had quite a few "close calls" too, and I used to work part time at a body shop a few years ago...
• Fair Price for an 88 Westy
  Historical mailing list - Fast, Timothy
  Wed, 23 Sep 1998 16:36:57 -0500
  ...owner) No rust at all No body damage at all Full camper interior with everything in working order. A/C (however it has two...
• Re: What next??????
  Historical mailing list - Dane Tessler
  Sat, 30 Jan 1999 07:56:04 -0500
  ...O2 sensor new wires (Bosh) Temp sender II cleaned throttle body And still the idle is not correct ..it isn't surging but it...
• Someone wanted Eurovan parts...
  Historical mailing list - Martin Jagersand
  Sat, 13 Feb 1999 22:25:04 -0500
  ...Eurovan crash parts wanted > >My digest got chopped so I didn't actually see the body of this message. >Anyway, Tom's Foreign in...
• Re: oil pressure
  Historical mailing list - EMZ
  Mon, 5 Jul 1999 15:55:11 -0400
  ...switch for proper grounding, it grounds between the > connector and the body of the sender. > cleaned out the sender, didn't see anything in...
• Re: tan captains chairs w/ adjustable armrests/swival seat fyi's
  Historical mailing list - Otmar Ebenhoech
  Wed, 11 Aug 1999 13:05:00 -0700
  ...your camper's body at the factory, but >they are NOT part of the seat. ANY vanagon seat will work with these >mechanisms. FWIW...
• 84 Westy For Sale - $ 2,900
  Historical mailing list - Budd Premack
  Sun, 5 Dec 1999 19:00:18 -0600
  ...The body is in good shape, with a little seam rust on the driver's side. The interior is in fine shape. All camping...
• Re: Cold Morning Puzzlement Part Deux
  Historical mailing list - Chuck Mathis
  Sat, 19 Feb 2000 08:45:38 EST
  ...chance to pull the throttle body later this week -- we share the use of a big garage at work and Rick's Jeep needs...
• Re: oops!! was Re: Introduction and Wish List
  Historical mailing list - Karl Mullendore
  Fri, 28 Jan 2000 14:04:36 -0500
  ...It was basically a rough condition van with an excellent drivetrain, I sold the trans, front diff, and other parts, now the body is...
• Seattle- 88 Wolfsburg Subaru-Legacy powered van for sale.
  Historical mailing list - Steve Coseo
  Wed, 7 Feb 2001 22:45:01 -0800
  ...If you want a 130 hp Vanagon without the headaches of doing the the work yourself, this is it. The van passed emissions with...
• Re: Haynes Manual
  Historical mailing list - Tom Young
  Tue, 18 Mar 2003 18:09:01 -0800
  ...have one think it'd be worth buying just for the body > mechanical stuff? I have the Bentley and it's useful enough for...
• Re: Autotranny
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Wed, 11 May 2016 15:51:04 -0500
  ...After that the valve body (rare) or something internal is > leaking enough the system can't get enough pressure to apply all the > clutches...
• Re: Odd Vanagon on Ebay (go figure...)
  Historical mailing list - VW Doka
  Thu, 7 Jun 2007 10:57:59 -0700
  ...Teca conversion and importing the parts? Sounds like a lot of work!! > > http://tinyurl.com/2vleug > > or > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Volkswagen-Bus...
• Re: Crash Survivor
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Wed, 9 Apr 2008 18:11:14 -0700
  ...Not really the kind of work you can do in the carport! :) Maybe take it to the body shop for the structural repairs, then...
• Propane tank fittings in 90 Westy
  Historical mailing list - Rich
  Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:58:57 -0700
  ...Then gently lower the outboard part of the propane tank to clear the body work of the vehicle and then slide the tank off...
• Re: Recall for A/C Duct on 91GL
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Sun, 21 Dec 2008 08:54:38 -0600
  ...Now if I just knew why my AC blower doesn't work on all speeds anymore... Larry A. -4 F in Chicago this morning...
• Re: Bus Shopping
  Historical mailing list - EMZ
  Mon, 8 Jun 1998 12:15:31 -0400
  ...not bad (body dings). > > Good stuff: Maroon color/silver interior. Camper inside looks good and she > says the stove/frig works. (She also says...