Date:         Tue, 10 Aug 2004 18:27:53 -0700
Reply-To:     Vince S <gipsyflies@COMCAST.NET>
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From:         Vince S <gipsyflies@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: The Old Volks Home Name
Comments: To: Jim Thompson <jim@KARMANNGHIA.COM>
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Jim,

Thanks for detailing the historic background.


- Vince

http://gipsyflies.home.comcast.net
1989 Vanagon GL Camper
1996 Land Rover Discovery
2005 Mini Cooper S



-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of Jim Thompson
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 10:49 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: The Old Volks Home Name


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
> > >