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• Re: Ahhh, Grease!
  Historical mailing list - Rico Sapolich
  Thu, 15 Feb 2001 22:34:44 EST
  ...These can be slipped beneath a seal or rubber boot so that grease can be injected into a bearing or ball joint. In a...
• Re: Loose coil wire
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Mon, 4 Feb 2002 13:00:29 -0600
  ...tell on just sight is the quality of the > rubber/plastic > > boots that cover the spark plug holes. > > Cheap floppy plastic - cheap wireset. > > > > Stan...
• Re: your ideas please on painting vanagon.
  Historical mailing list - DOUG ELLEDGE
  Thu, 15 Jan 2004 18:23:33 -0800
  ...I will paint it myself in an outdoor booth on a warm day. I mean what really works with a Vanagon?I have searched...
• Re: BCFS GPX Camp sites was Re: Friday trips again (NVC) - now free BC campsites
  Historical mailing list - Paul Guzyk
  Sat, 15 Dec 2007 19:35:13 -0800
  ...keep it on the dash and access easily...no need to "boot up" a book. http://hikingcamping.com/camp_bc.php IMHO, books like...
• Re: replacement cv/axle assembly
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Wilford
  Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:05:56 -0500
  ...They are a brand new axle with new CV joints and boots already installed. They come ready to go except you do need to...
• '85 Westphalia: Engine is Frequently Dying
  Historical mailing list - Connal Hughes
  Sat, 6 Nov 1999 19:46:35 EST
  ...a huge list of problems (blown shocks, loose CV joints, torn boots, bad distributer, etc...). In addition, the push rods are apparently leaking oil...
• FS 1981 Westy near SF, CA
  Historical mailing list - Mike Munnelly
  Tue, 13 Feb 2001 19:47:37 EST
  ...new) & power brake booster (used), wheel cylinders (new), CV joints and boots (new), Rear wheel bearings (new), KYB shocks (new), Michelin MX front tires...
• What should I hear if I pressurize my intake manifold?
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Wed, 17 Apr 2002 21:18:16 -0700
  ...I will be blocking off the air intake boot with some ABS plumbing plastic - this leaves no way for the air to get out...
• Re: Rear Side Marker Bulb Replacement Help Request
  Historical mailing list - Don in North Carolina
  Mon, 20 Dec 2004 11:15:49 -0500
  ...holder out from the back (after you - carefully - remove the rubber boot which has probably bonded and "become one" with the assembly). Then you...
• Re: [Syncro] Syncro lower control arm bushing tips?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 26 Aug 2004 23:08:54 -0400
  ...Now I've got a ripped front CV boot and need to deal with it. I figure this is a good time to take...
• Re: Bear Attacks Camper NVC
  Historical mailing list - Roger Whittaker
  Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:06:38 -0800
  ...Polar bears who have ripped > > to top out of an igloo. Boots and jackets and mittens are laying around > > with some pink stains in...
• Re: rebuilding shifter linkage
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Tue, 18 Feb 2025 10:58:21 -0500
  ...Another option was bootless pliable bushings from VC but I wanted to have boots. I did not use any lubrication on the Teflon bushings...
• Re: Smog inspections..//??
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:13:47 -0700
  ...But really.....the amount of fuel just pissed away at toll booths in this country ever day - and there's got to be 400...
• Re: grease on axek
  Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
  Mon, 2 Oct 2023 16:11:59 +0000
  ...of the issue and the question again? > > Is this a failed boot?  Or something from the transmission?  CV Greece, or trans oil?  Your van...
• Re: Test
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 8 Nov 2022 22:39:40 +0000
  ...you have one) for 2 minutes and turn them back ON. - Boot up your computer On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 9:33 AM...
• Re: Excellent Service from The Motorworks in Dutchess County NY
  Historical mailing list - Sean Garrett
  Sat, 30 Jun 2018 05:36:35 -0700
  ...And the final bill was quite modest! > > (The outer CV boot was completely torn away, so no wonder it failed.) > > Alex installed a Chinese...
• Re: Dimensionally challenged - How big is that Westy in the window?
  Historical mailing list - Chris Szpejankowski
  Sat, 1 Aug 2015 08:40:23 -0400
  ...commute of either vehicle who are sufficiently competent to be my boots and photographer on the ground. > > I have RORO quotes to ship either...
• Re: CV joint raceway opinion
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Fri, 27 Feb 2015 07:58:28 -0500
  ...rear axles on my '87 Syncro to replace the inner CV > boot. Inspected the outer CV joint and found that it has one pit...
• Re: Almost a Westie (Those Vixen MHs)
  Historical mailing list - Roger Whittaker
  Mon, 5 Oct 2009 21:50:13 -0700
  ...See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the > boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail. Click on Options in Mail and switch...
• RE: '90 GL A/C
  Historical mailing list - Jonathan Dove - VAX Master
  Thu, 7 Jul 1994 16:25:54 -0400 (EDT)
  ...the top of the unit with 12" wide >aluminized mylar (dumpster-booty from my NASA days) before bolting it back >in place. Hopefully, the...
• <syncro> starter differences
  Historical mailing list - Tim Smith
  Mon, 25 May 1998 14:05:49 -0300
  ...Still ample area to carry the current, now fits onto the regular 2WD solenoid, but the rubber boot needs a tie-wrap to keep...
• Re: adjust parking brake?
  Historical mailing list - Fred Porter
  Thu, 7 May 1998 13:35:43 -0600
  ...later, fred PS while in there, gently peak under the rubber boots on the wheel cylinders for fluid. Maybe consider replacing if there is...
• Re: Removing CV joints.
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Mon, 18 Sep 2000 19:04:43 -0700
  ...Then spray them down with brake cleaner (advoid the rubber boots) - after that I insert my KD tools 8mm tripple square on the A...
• Re: CV Joint failure - New or Rebuilt?
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Tue, 20 Jul 2004 14:08:53 -0500
  ...If you got good Boots and lots of grease I doubt you'd ever have a complete failure ........... just noise. Stan Wilder www.engineceramics...
• Re: tie rod removal
  Historical mailing list - Hector Zapata
  Sun, 6 Jun 2004 23:02:49 +0000
  ...steering rack. <DIV></DIV>&nbsp;&nbsp; This morning I pulled the boot back and verified that the joint where <DIV></DIV>the tie rod...
• Re: The nature of dielectric grease; was Re: Charging better
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Sun, 28 Aug 2005 10:44:00 EDT
  ...writes: << I thought it was used to, say, keep yer plug boots from getting stuck, or as a corrosion/dirt/etc. barrier outside of...
• FW: Starter removal???
  Historical mailing list - Robert Clemmer
  Sun, 6 Dec 2015 18:02:49 -0500
  ...Now we're ready to head south for the winter. > > Thanks, BobC > > > > Just remove the air flow meter boot and use an open end...
• Re: Bear Attacks Camper NVC
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:43:11 -0600
  ...Polar bears who have ripped to top out of an igloo. Boots and jackets and mittens are laying around with some pink stains in...
• Re: Suggestions for lights and shocks
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Tue, 30 Oct 2018 10:33:14 -0600
  ...Bilsteins), look closely for an added spacer shim inside the dust > boot-bumper. That spacer needs to be removed. If it isn't, little...
• Re: Coach Net roadside services
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Sun, 1 Mar 2015 14:31:35 +0000
  ...My AAA membership is up the end of March and I'll bve giving them the boot too. ----- Original Message ----- The towing plan for...
• Gas and Deisle Heaters....
  Historical mailing list - Mark & Kate Sheflo
  Tue, 5 Oct 1999 21:10:40 -0700
  ...He got booted from the list for a post including some extreme views as outlined in Bulley's post. Also, from personal experience, he...
• Re: Syncro shifter rattle
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Tue, 28 Sep 1999 17:38:39 -0700
  ...My 83 had much more > tension in it. > > I've looked at the ball under the shift boot, and it _looks_ fine, but > that...
• Plastic cooling pipes damaged...
  Historical mailing list - Daniel Schmitz
  Sun, 10 Jun 2001 20:57:33 -0700
  ...Thanks in advance! Dan '87 Westfalia (will again be on the road after radiator, CV boots, new calipers and wheel cylinders, or I will...
• Fwd: Re: need input on confusing CV joints...
  Historical mailing list - Craig Morton
  Thu, 9 Mar 2006 07:41:12 -0800
  ...The only joints I have ever had fail while the boots were intact were on cheap FLAPS re-built axles. Bill --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Use...
• Re: Case of the disappearing brake fluid
  Historical mailing list - Chris S.
  Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:25:49 -0700
  ...did you pull the drums and check for fluid inside the rubber boots on wheel cylinders? Flex hoses? Hard hydraulic lines?) then check at...
• Re: why I discourage people from buying vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 3 Jul 2016 14:11:16 -0400
  ...My CV boot had a hole in it the shop could not find > but a VW friend answering a unrelated question noticed grease splatter...
• Re: Transmission (transaxle) Drive Flange Seals
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Sat, 26 Mar 2016 13:16:58 -0700
  ...Could cause rub marks on the axles from the > boots too..... > > There is always tranny oil at the back of the blue cap, that...
• Re: 1.9 manual 4 speed linkage question
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:19:14 -0700
  ...this was after adjusting the shift plate under the rubber boot at the base of the shifter .. that's where I usually tweak to...
• Re: Syncro shifter rattle
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Tue, 28 Sep 1999 17:31:46 -0700
  ...My 83 had much more >tension in it. > >I've looked at the ball under the shift boot, and it _looks_ fine, but >that...
• Re: CV Joints
  Historical mailing list - Joseph Fortino
  Mon, 20 Jan 2003 07:38:33 -0800
  ...Also, if there is no obvious cause of failure > >(ie damaged boot) of the bad CV joint, can > >the others be expected to last...
• Re: CV joint hard times
  Historical mailing list - Anonymous Digest
  Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:33:27 -0700
  ...I also used two ty wraps to hold the boots onto the joint so it wouldn't flop around and risk falling apart. After...
• Re: Beat the heat portable AC unit for vanagon $77 bucks
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Thu, 30 Jun 2005 18:12:16 -0400
  ...continuos. > > > Thoughts? > > Be Cool, > > > Doug Fayne > 87 dove blue (hot) syncro with no a/c and a bad heater shut off > valve to boot! > > >
• Re: technique question-- molds - modify a top??
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Mon, 7 Feb 2005 17:41:53 -0800
  ...Vanagon model version top and a little too beat up to boot. I went by to look closely at it again yesterday and it...
• Re: Bilstein shock installation
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Tue, 30 May 2006 17:37:32 -0700
  ...It was the only way the shock would fit in the rubber boot > correctly. I hope this is OK?? The entire job took about...
• Re: Clutch Slave Cylinder
  Historical mailing list - Tom Forhan
  Sun, 30 Sep 2007 14:54:43 -0700
  ...I removed the slave without opening the lines, pulled off the plunger/boot, and with a 12mm socket and a c-clamp pushed the...
• Re: New Noise coming from under the body
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:53:43 -0400
  ...If no visible leakage on ground yet, check the boots on the side of the steering rack. Any fluid in there means rack time...
• Re: Engine Rebuild - week 3
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Sun, 24 Mar 2002 23:13:55 -0600
  ...Drained and filled the tranny > while It was lowered, replaced the rear selector arm, > boots and bushing. Both the boots were hashed, and > there...
• Re: E-Code Headlights
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:23:59 -0800
  ...You also need the weather boot for the back, park light bulb >> holder, park light bulb and the main H4 bulb and an H4...
• Re: Mystification
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Sat, 3 Sep 2011 15:51:01 -0700
  ...Had that problem > yesterday, - would die immediately - but found the AFM connection to the > black boot open. Fixed that and it would run longer...
• Re: camping amidst bears, safety question - Friday Joke
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:33:25 -0800
  ...One hiker whips off his pack, yanks off his hiking boots and begins hurriedly lacing up a flashy pair of running shoes. "What the...
• Re: Engine misses, Type IV heads
  Historical mailing list - Erik Soule
  Mon, 24 Apr 1995 13:15:08 -0700
  ...Turned out to be a cracked injector protective bootie that would let water in there and corrode the contact. Cleaned the contact and the...
• FREE VW Mechanics "School"
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 31 Mar 1996 05:47:59 -0500 (EST)
  ...This will include replacing all mounts, seals and boots. 3. Replace Brake Components. Because the tranny is being removed, the brake system has to...
• RE: RE[2]: BUM STARTING FUN FOR A WHILE BUT...
  Historical mailing list - Maher, Steve (SD-MS)
  Wed, 06 Sep 1995 17:19:00 -0700 (PDT)
  ...If it ever had a boot on it, it's usually naked by now, exposed to all kinds of crap. And years of vibration...
• Re: Westie luggage area
  Historical mailing list - Jim Cain
  Thu, 18 May 2000 10:29:57 -0400
  ...thinking of putting in some wooden rods, width-ways across the >boot/trunk area, at the height of the top of the rear seat...
• Re: Tranny installation
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Mon, 17 Sep 2001 21:31:49 -0500
  ...felt seal in the flywheel and service all CVs, replace the boots and lubricate the throw out shaft bearing surfaces. You can also replace...
• 1/33 Scale Model Samba
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Thu, 20 Dec 2001 06:11:18 EST
  ...rings it up at $2.99 ! It's on sale to boot ! Well, that's about $.50 in US dollars so what a bargain...
• Re: No current at FI injector plug
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:06:29 -0500
  ...Make sure it is connected, none of the wires broken and that the boot and those big vacuum hoses are in place. There is...
• Re: Question about Transmission Stutter
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Tue, 21 Mar 2017 09:19:45 -0700
  ...New S boot as well and all vacuum lines redone. I found a thread on samba that talks about some of the same issues...
• Re: Idle issues...
  Historical mailing list - Marc Perdue
  Sat, 4 Apr 2009 21:45:53 -0400
  ...While inspecting the rubber boot between the AFM and the fuel injection assembly, I noticed that the clamp on the rubber boot was not...
• Re: Fw: Virus Warning! (YET ANOTHER HOAX)
  Historical mailing list - Chris Smith
  Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:43:40 -0600
  ...We have it on here at work, and they are not talking about viruses today, and it's a slow news day to boot...