Date:         Mon, 21 Apr 2003 19:37:52 -0500
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Parting out advice
Comments: To: mudbug@TOAD.NET
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If you have another Vanagon of any year you can selective save parts that
will fit most Vanagons or just parts that you know are expensive.
Most common Vanagon parts failures are electronics, next are brake and
clutch, next are drive train.
Since you're limited on space this is what I'd save:
1) Fuel pump
2) Clutch master and slave
3) Brake booster, master cylinder
4) All plastic plugs, nut covers etc.
5) Seat belts (somebody always looking)
6) Drive axles, tranny if you got room.
7) Engine sheet metal (contact Boston Bob, he's an occasional buyer)
8) Heater boxes, flapper valves
9) Heads if they are good (worth 50$ each as cores)
10) Sell seats local and contact local VW club and offer them a 200$
field day on what is left.
11) Complete fuel Injection System, w/ control head.
12) Exhaust crossover pipe.
13) Instrument cluster with black box / speedo cables.

I haven't found any screaming need for much other than these items.

On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 19:32:06 -0400 John Jensen <mudbug@TOAD.NET> writes:
> I need some advice from an experienced vanagon part-out person.  I'm
> getting ready to get at the underside and I don't know what I
> should
> keep.  I don't have much spare space, so if it ain't likely ever to
> be
> used I should chuck it.  Seems a damned shame on some of these
> parts,
> They look so new and beautiful...like the pedal assembly or the
> steering
> shaft.  Hate to toss em, but can't imagine I'll ever have a use.
>   I'm saving all sorts of nuts and bolts, rubber seals and what not.
>  I
> imagine I'll loose the trailing arm and the coil springs and
> shocks,
> front and rear.  What about that bearing box or gear box on the
> back
> wheel.
> '80 Westy and parting '80 Westy
>
> John Jensen, Mudbug Pottery
> mudbug@toadhouse.com , http://www.toadhouse.com
>
>

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