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• Split Weld Seam
  Historical mailing list - Matt Drew
  Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:50:48 -0800
  ...If YOU were a body shop that was taking in a Vanagon for repair work from a front-end collision, wouldn't you automatically...
• Re: fluid film - new use - windscreen sealer?
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:14:49 -0800
  ...The van came with evidence of > |>> some sealant around the edge between body and rubber, and this > last > |>> summer I tried adding a bit...
• Re: Hit 4 Deer...Need body Parts
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:10:30 -0400
  ...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: Frozen engine
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:31:10 -0500
  ...sprayed LPS in every cylinder . > How long does that take to work- any better ideas? > We are normally 60-100% humidity here in the...
• Re: Bronze Beige Metallic Stinkbug & Painting Cost
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Sat, 1 Oct 2011 04:48:51 -0700
  ...I had some bodywork and painting I needed to get done, and since I am restricted to working outdoors my time to get these...
• FS: 1990 2.1L Vanagon Base - $4500
  Historical mailing list - Joe Tu
  Thu, 4 Apr 2002 23:10:31 -0800
  ...so heavy but the handling is worth it Body/Paint: Front bumper needs some work, Rear bumper just straightened/painted from recent rear end...
• Re: Discovered my clutch failure reason.
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Mon, 24 May 2021 14:37:31 -0700
  ...Rebuilt a spare throttle body, and plenum, injectors, runners, hose assembly. > > Waiting for rain to stop before I drop motor. > > Was thinking about the...
• Re: 85 Uneven idle again
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Fri, 8 Dec 2000 21:34:50 -0800
  ...2.1 throttle body has a larger engine end opening and needs the 2.1 intake plenum too to work on the 1.9...
• Re: Wiring problems with tail lights etc
  Historical mailing list - Edward V Barger
  Thu, 11 Jun 2020 11:03:46 -0700
  ...the time of replacement up till now all worked as expected > > > > Had some body work done and total re paint lighting units were removed...
• Re: The Walrus Speaks
  Historical mailing list - kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
  Fri, 21 Jul 2023 09:24:26 -0400
  ...Because of injuries, aging (I'm 84), and > changes in living quarters, I can no longer work on my vans which I have > always...
• Re: help with temporarily stopping mail
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:53:16 -0800
  Send a message to Gerry with HELP in the message body and you'll get full instructions. On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2...
• how old are syncros?
  Historical mailing list - Gary Thaxter
  Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:45:02 -0400
  ...The old fellow bought it and did the body work and had been driving it up until when he died about a year back...
• Re: Need your opinions: stainless exhaust opportunity
  Historical mailing list - Steven Cu
  Sun, 20 Feb 2000 07:07:50 +0800
  ...The muffler I already ship proportedly has a stainless steel body > (excluding flanges), so this would make for an almost, but not completely, > stainless...
• Re: door lock
  Historical mailing list - Steve Sandlin
  Mon, 21 Feb 2000 19:00:49 -0600
  ...In a few instances I have seen the body of the lock so worn that the malady can't be repaired, but this is...
• Re: Throttle switches on 1.9 WBX
  Historical mailing list - Karl F. Bloss
  Fri, 14 Apr 2000 11:25:07 -0400
  ...I'm pretty sure that his switch wasn't working, even if it was there, since I didn't hear any clicking when manipulating...
• Re: AT Fluid Burping out of ATF Dip Stick Tube? Causes Trans Malfunction, 88 Auto
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Fri, 21 Jul 2006 06:52:32 -0700
  The valve body, 38.25 in the Bentley. I just cleaned mine out a while back, and while it didn't solve my problem...
• Re: Front Seat Upgrade............Cheap Alternative To Recaros?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Mon, 8 Dec 2008 14:49:48 -0800
  next time you're working on something designed dumbly in a vanagon .... say adjusting the clutch master slave push rod length..... the single hardest...
• Re: Fuel Injection Help NEEDED!
  Historical mailing list
  02 Jul 96 09:21:19 PDT
  ...Check the screw holding it to the body, it can't hurt to re-attach it to the body, good luck. Re: Bad ignition...
• Re: electronic rust control
  Historical mailing list - Keith Adams
  Wed, 31 May 2000 08:18:22 -0600
  ...This device mounts anywhere and hooks up to > your battery and then to your frame/body. That's it. It sucks up about > as...
• Re: Antenna replacement
  Historical mailing list - kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
  Mon, 3 Dec 2018 18:36:26 -0500
  ...I am wondering if old body work > closed it up. the hole is 1.135" tall by .585" wide, both at largest > point. Is...
• Re: Alternator not putting out volts 88 GL
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Sat, 1 Aug 2009 13:38:09 -0700
  ...The ground from battery to body is solid. From > transmission to body is dirty, but I don't think corroded. From the last > time...
• Re: Refrigerator Pump Mod.
  Historical mailing list - davidson
  Thu, 5 Nov 1998 23:21:30 -0800
  ...To bad because > it was just out two days ago when the body repair shop had to gut my van > to repair the BIG...
• Re: Vanagon owner w/ non-VW dealer compliant
  Historical mailing list - John Lauterbach
  Sun, 2 Oct 2005 20:19:38 -0400
  Larry, others may disagree with the following, but here is what has worked for me in the past. One, stay away from dealerships if...
• Re: Wasserboxer Horsepower Increase, an intellegent discussion
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Fri, 1 May 1998 10:47:19 -0700
  At 10:39 AM 5/1/98 +0800, Steven Cu wrote: >Will the heavy duty pump work on my 82 Westy 2.0 Aircooled...
• Re: upper bunk entry
  Historical mailing list - Karl Mullendore
  Mon, 31 May 1999 00:04:44 -0400
  ...It's worked for fifteen years. > > Sometimes, for variety, we'll pivot on the stove and go in head first. > Boy-o-boy, does...
• 81 diesel rabbit for sale(min. vanagon content)
  Historical mailing list - Brian McClure
  Sat, 17 Mar 2001 23:04:37 EST
  ...Recent work i have had done: front struts and tie rods-about a month ago. 4 new glow plugs and the fast glow relay...
• Re: Yup, I solidly guarantee ALL my work, (here I go into the AT again)
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:30:28 -0500
  ...Yup, I solidly guarantee ALL my work, (here I go into the AT again) Thanks Dennis... I know you HATE to tell me you...
• Re: 91 Vanagon will not start..? FIXED
  Historical mailing list - Shannon Mitchell
  Tue, 1 Jun 2004 05:56:02 -0400
  ...Are you connecting both cables to the battery posts or is the negative jumper wire grounded to the body somewhere? If you are connecting...
• Re: 84 running issue solved?
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Thu, 2 Jun 2022 10:11:58 -0400
  ...to make it work. >> While you think it is working the earlier throttle body and exhaust reduce the performance some and there is no...
• Re: A Westy awning (UPDATE)
  Historical mailing list - Edward V Barger
  Tue, 17 Nov 2015 09:20:27 -0800
  do you have photos to show what the part the goes into the ground / sand looks like will it work in sand pull out...
• Re: Gas cap ideas
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:07:42 -0700
  ...tie, drilled into the gas cap's rim and > > through the body work. Then I took one of those parts marking paint > > pens..(handy...
• Re: Engines: what to choose
  Historical mailing list - Rob
  Thu, 26 May 2016 08:55:48 -0400
  ...The only work I’ve had done on the 2.2 was its routine, 100k timing belt replacement. It’s the engine that should...
• Re: Low idle, let's take some bet's!
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:07:50 -0700
  ...Mine, I enlarged a little half/round air bleed that was there to allow air past the Throttle body plate.. I used a small...
• Bad heads and a noise
  Historical mailing list - Daniel Clark
  Sat, 6 Dec 1997 14:07:12 -0400
  ...afford the engine work right now. If I WERE to sell..what's it worth as it sits now? (Body wise no rust to...
• Re: Has anybody gotten their van painted?
  Historical mailing list - Terry Kay
  Sun, 15 Apr 2001 12:31:40 -0500
  ...A single stage paint is cheaper than base coat-clear coat, and less work but it won't last as long. Polyurethane paint is...
• Re: Middle seat mount question
  Historical mailing list - Dan Snow
  Thu, 2 Aug 2001 16:56:47 -0700
  ...I plan to do a similar change if I can ever get my diesel working again (thanks to those who gave advice--I'm...
• Re: Fw: Re: Ford Excursion is DEAD - Off topic
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Thu, 1 Aug 2002 22:27:55 +1200
  ...It'a quiet, unlike my workplace's basic I4-diesel 1982 Wagon (same body). Both are used imports from Japan. Tanks, these cars. >The...
• Hi again!
  Historical mailing list - tp
  Tue, 26 Aug 2003 12:38:45 +0100
  ...It is suffering from the early stages of body rust which I am just about keeping pace with! The van has been off the...
• Re: grey vinyl beltline decal stripe
  Historical mailing list - dylan friedman
  Sat, 6 Mar 2004 14:17:49 -0500
  ...These are found at > > an > > auto body supply house. > > > > > > using a rotary high speed buffing device to remove the vinyl stripe is not > advised...
• Re: Alignment at (Sears/Pep Boys)?
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Fri, 7 Sep 2007 22:14:20 -0700
  ...Dropped it off the next day and got it back that evening with minor body damage that I did not find until in my...
• Re: 81 Vanagon needs restoration looking for ideas
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Mon, 9 Jun 2003 12:22:08 -0400
  ...drive train, body, and interior. Sorry to tell you, any vehilcle that is 10 years or older, with 2 out of 3 of these...
• 1980 Westfalia parts for sale
  Historical mailing list - Mark Upton
  Sun, 5 Dec 1999 21:05:29 -0500
  I have a 1980 Westfalia Vanagon I am scrapping out.Located in Akron,Ohio.Here is parts I have available-motor runs needs work...
• Re: headlamp upgrades....
  Historical mailing list - Calle Fallberg
  Sun, 14 Sep 2003 01:33:16 +0200
  Hi Wanna hear about the Volvo "upgrade" :-) The engine charasteristics works perfect in the V�gon, it�ll pull away easily from zero in...
• Re: Heat, vapor lock, won't start?
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:23:46 -0700
  ...The fix certainly worked and I have never |> had another problem. However, since then I have been through every part |> of the fuel system...
• Re: Re
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Sun, 20 Apr 2003 21:27:04 -0400
  ...throttle body or swap over linkage,shift > rod+bracket and spacers at the mount for the tranny, linkage to throttle > body for kick down...
• Re: headlamps
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Sat, 22 Aug 2020 16:36:15 -0400
  ...I put in the old low power bulbs and they worked. Odd. > > Jeff > 85 Westfalia > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Aug 22, 2020, at...
• Re: This could be a real buy...
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:48:56 -0500
  That brown one also looked like it still needed $5K worth of body and paint work. I'm now working on an 82 that...
• Re: Adventurewagen Hi-top camper for sale
  Historical mailing list - Ward Smith
  Fri, 7 Jun 2002 10:53:02 -0700
  ...around, a very fun and useful camper! Needs very minor body and paint work. $6900/ono. Located western MD, have pics. Karl Mullendore Westy...
• Re: Oil temp musings and hairbrained ideas
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:18:55 -0800
  ...Might take a little detective work to find hoses that fit, but it looks like it might do the trick. The TDI guys seem...
• Re: Antenna replacement
  Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
  Mon, 3 Dec 2018 13:48:35 -0800
  ...I am wondering if old body work > closed it up. the hole is 1.135" tall by .585" wide, both at largest > point. Is...
• Re: Neil's motor..
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:16:38 -0700
  ...if my plan works that is! > > > > I've never seen brake ducting before, but I'll bet there's some kind > > of residential HVAC...
• Re: Intake air flow, improvement possible?
  Historical mailing list - Al and Sue Brase
  Sun, 28 Nov 2004 05:31:52 -0600
  ...What torque it makes at any given rpm is what determines the power. (HP = work/unit of time) In other words an engine making...
• Re: An idea for Replacing Pop Top Canvas
  Historical mailing list - J Stewart
  Fri, 2 May 2014 15:45:40 +0000
  ...Unscrew the bottom edges of the canvas from the > body. > 2. Unbolt the rear hinges from the top. > 3. Here's what I see...
• Re: ADMINISTRIVIA - Hurricane Sandy
  Historical mailing list - J Stewart
  Fri, 26 Oct 2012 23:26:52 +0000
  ...I have read: “In the > meantime, a friend of a friend who works in emergency services said in > a call with the feds yesterday...
• Re: Syncro 16 Body Modifications
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:18:32 -0700
  ...on the suspension and > steering, but that's a lot of work. In this case, a picture really > is worth > a thousand words. > > Anyone...
• Re: 84 vs 85 Digijet
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 6 Apr 2009 21:44:21 -0300
  ...Electrically they're identical, so if an earlier throttle body isn't ready to hand you can adapt the harness connectors to work with...
• signing off for a month
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 14 May 1996 05:45:44 -0500
  ...We're talking about replacement of a cylinder head, extensive body work (mostly dents, but serious ones), and basic maintenance. I also might have...
• Rusted Sunroof
  Historical mailing list - Jason Leigh
  Thu, 4 Feb 1999 18:38:02 -0500
  I just got a T3 sunroof model, Florida car, body is great except for the sunroof. It was siliconed up when I got it...
• Re: Leaky Transmission, the plot thickens
  Historical mailing list - Suzanne Hackett
  Sun, 7 Mar 1999 15:35:51 -0800
  ...I am, of course, in love with "Geordi," and his body and interior is all right. He was almost free (traded in my "uck...
• Re: Question to a diesel expert... :o)
  Historical mailing list - Bulley
  Sun, 17 Oct 1999 22:08:02 -0400
  ...I know that small TD engine must work very hard to move that 2 tons body but i find that oil consumption a little...