Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 12:55:25 -0800
Reply-To: Mark Dorm <mark_hb@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Mark Dorm <mark_hb@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Fan Belt Squeal
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<P>Older soaps would be more waxy than todays synthetic soaps... back then made from real coconut ect... and a derivative of a derivative... I washed my vanagon with a bar of old fashioned soap... boy was it waxed well... water beaded everywhere... <BR><BR></P></DIV>
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<DIV></DIV>>From: Robert Steven Fish <FISH@SALZBURG.CO.AT>
<DIV></DIV>>Reply-To: Robert Steven Fish <FISH@SALZBURG.CO.AT>
<DIV></DIV>>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
<DIV></DIV>>Subject: Re: Fan Belt Squeal
<DIV></DIV>>Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 13:19:52 +0100
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<DIV></DIV>>I could be wrong here... but I always learned that applying any sticky
<DIV></DIV>>substance to a "fan belt" can really screw things up in there.
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<DIV></DIV>>We always used the parrafin wax trick, or sprayed belt dressing (which I
<DIV></DIV>>still do not really know what is in there), or used a bar of good hard soap.
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<DIV></DIV>>The belt, when you buy it new, I believe, has a coating on it, on the pulley
<DIV></DIV>>side, which allows it to gracefully slip a bit when necessary... and not to
<DIV></DIV>>squeal.
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<DIV></DIV>>I have no idea what the results would be if you applied any sticky or
<DIV></DIV>>gluelike substance onto the belt... but it sounds strange to me, and I would
<DIV></DIV>>not do it until learning from a few "experts" otherwise.
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<DIV></DIV>>Just my 2 Euro worth.
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<DIV></DIV>>RSF
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<DIV></DIV>>IMPORTANT!!! In order to reply to me, you must have the word "FISH"
<DIV></DIV>>somewhere in the subject line of the email. Otherwise it goes directly in
<DIV></DIV>>the trash.
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<DIV></DIV>>Robert S. Fish
<DIV></DIV>>Salzburg, Austria
<DIV></DIV>>1987 Wolfsburg Vanagon 2.1 GL Weekender
<DIV></DIV>>1987 Golf Cabriolet
<DIV></DIV>>1991 Golf
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