Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 12:34:00 -0800
Reply-To: Fin Beven <FinBeven@MSN.COM>
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From: Fin Beven <FinBeven@MSN.COM>
Subject: Wheelskin, an alternative (was best Mods)
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For custom-cut steering wheel covers, try www.boatleather.com. 1-800-468-9110.
As the name implies, they make leather covers for sail-boat steering wheels, some as big as 6' in diameter.
They can surely make exactly what you need. It may not be cheap.
Fin Beven
'90 Carat, Custom camping conversion
Pasadena, CA
----- Original Message -----
From: TJ Hannink
To: wolfsburg_campers@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 6:35 AM
Subject: Re: [wolfsburg_campers] favorite vanagon mods
cakrause <cakrause@yahoo.com> wrote:
I keep reading about how nice the Gene Berg short shift kit is for the
vanagon. People say its the best $20-25 they've spent on their van.
Question is, where can you buy the short shift kit for that kind of
money. I called the Gene Berg shop directly and got a price of $73.06.
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I paid right around that for my shift kit with the extension. It is worth every penny even at $100.00.
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Other favorite mod is the wheelskin leather cover for steering wheel.
My steering wheel is off a non-power steering vanagon (now I can see
the guages) so its a little over 17.5 inches in diamter. So I bought
the wheelskin size B. Its the only size they offer that fits a wheel
that large. Trouble is that it doesn't wrap completely around the
wheel and I have a 1/4 inch gap no matter how tight I string it. Maybe
it will just take a little getting use to but the nice leather feel
is offset by the feel of the tight stitching across the gap. Has
anyone else wrapped a non-power steering wheel with a wheelskin?
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I have the Wheelskin cover on my 1987 non-GL Camper w/o power steering. The wheel diameter is 18" not 17.5". I sent them the dimesions (diameter + grip circumference) and they sent me the correct Wheelskin, mine fits perfectly. I also advised them that their website selector was incorrect, they assume that all Vanagons had the smaller power steering wheel. The best $30.00 that I spent on my camper, period.
TJ Hannink
Goldibox - 1987 Vanagon Camper, Wolfsburg Edition
Winter Park, Florida
http://home.earthlink.net/~tjhannink/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wolfsburg_campers
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