Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 10:49:13 -0700
Reply-To: Jim Thompson <jim@KARMANNGHIA.COM>
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From: Jim Thompson <jim@KARMANNGHIA.COM>
Subject: The Old Volks Home Name
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Hi Vince -
The Old Volks Home was originally started in 1976 as a manufacturing source
of Window Weatherstrip for Split Rear Window 45-Early 53) and Oval Rear
Window (Late 53-57) Beetle Sedans, as VW discontinued much of it in April
1975 (as an owner of a 1950 Beetle at the time, I was in a position to be
aware of it). Bob Raucher, both a Vintage Porsche and Volkswagen collector
and enthusiast was the founder of the company and I bought it in 1984 and
merged it with another VW parts company called Sherwood Automotive Parts (in
business since October 1971). I expanded the Old Volks Home's product line
to include restoration parts and accessories over the years for Beetles and
Buses and eventually graduated the product line into Vanagons, Westies and
the earlier Eurovans before hanging it up in 1999 (I hadn't had a vacation
in 14 years up to that point). I liquidated the inventory (most of it) and
went on a cross-country trip (ala Roadhaus) throughout much of 1999 toring
the East Coast and Midwest, meeting up with various members of the Vanagon,
Type 2 and VintageBus lists. I've kept the website alive with the various
"techie" stuff I've collected over the years and plan to expand it a bit
more as soon as I can finish sorting through piles of paper and data
collected over the past 30 years. Will I ever open the doors again to
supply parts full time? No plans for that (I still own all of the tooling
to make window rubber), but I do some minor buying and selling of parts
while I take it easy after a 4-way bypass in October 2002.
Thanks for your post :-)
Jim Thompson
84 Westfalia 2.1 "Ole Putt"
oldvolkshome@earthlink.net
jim@karmannghia.com
http://www.oldvolkshome.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: "MC" <gipsyflies@comcast.net>
To: "'Jim Thompson'" <jim@karmannghia.com>; <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 10:08 AM
Subject: RE: Re: Pseudo-Vanagon Syndrome?
> Jim,
>
> Thanks for the answer! I will look into.
>
> BTW, what is up with the Oldvolkshome name? I take exception to it :-).
> My VW may be old but it is hardly over the hill. It still runs as good
> as the day I took delivery 16 years ago.
>
> - Vince
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Thompson [mailto:jim@karmannghia.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 9:57 AM
> To: MC; vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Re: Pseudo-Vanagon Syndrome?
>
>
> Sure you can. Check my website, as it lists the Bosch Numbers for the
> replacement Hall Sender (or Pickup Coil as some others call it). Up
> thru 1984, it comes as a kit with the Sender, Cut-out Rotor and a few
> other hardware related parts. For the the 85-91 models, Bosch only
> supplies the Hall Sender itself, nothing else.
>
> 85-91 Trivia note: Bosch nor Volkswagen in their catalogs, microfiche,
> ETKA shows a replacement Hall Sender, they make you buy a whole new
> distributor - this can get expensive! It was after digging around in
> various Bosch sspecification databases I had access to that I found what
> the Hall Sender Bosch number was. This has saved a lot of people $$$
> when having to replace just this item instead of the distributor over
> the years.
>
> Jim Thompson
> 84 Westfalia 2.1 "Ole Putt"
> oldvolkshome@earthlink.net
> jim@karmannghia.com
> http://www.oldvolkshome.com
> ***********************
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "MC" <gipsyflies@COMCAST.NET>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 9:26 AM
> Subject: Re: Pseudo-Vanagon Syndrome?
>
>
> > Can one buys only the Hall sensor assembly instead of the entire
> > distributor?
> >
> > - Vince
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On
> > Behalf Of Laurence Smith
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 9:14 AM
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Subject: Re: Pseudo-Vanagon Syndrome?
> >
> >
> > Ditto for me as well. New Hall Sender fixed it.
> > - Laurence
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On
> > > Behalf Of Donald Baxter
> > > Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 10:20 AM
> > > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > > Subject: Re: Pseudo-Vanagon Syndrome?
> > >
> > >
> > > I had this problem and it turned out to be a defective Hall sender
> > > in the distributor as well ('85 Vanagon here). This was about
> > > five years
> > > ago that I replaced the entire distributor and it resolved the
> > > problem. I've noticed the problem recurring again in the
> > > last couple
> > > of years--very sporadically. It's been a year since I've noticed it
> > > but I'm anticipating another distributor someday.
> > >
> > > I don't think '85s generally suffered from Vanagon syndrome.
> > >
> > > DB
> > >
> > > On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 07:59:57 -0400, John Brigstocke
> > > <jbrig@attglobal.net> wrote:
> > > > Have 86 Vanagon.
> > > > Similar problem to yours. Cutouts in my case have been
> > > caused by faulty
> > > > Hall sender in distributor - when this happens tach goes
> > > to zero. Other
> > > > cutouts caused by faulty AFM - tach does not go to zero.
> > > Any ECU problems
> > > > on my van have been caused by faulty inputs or bad
> > > grounds - not ECU itself.
> > > >
> > > > John Brigstocke
> > > > Elora, Ontario, Can
> > > > jbrig@attglobal.net
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > ---------------------------------------------
> > > Donald Baxter
> > > 316 Ridgeview Avenue
> > > University Heights, Iowa 52246 http://www.mindspring.com/~onanov
> > >
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