Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:15:06 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: Help in northern Ontario...
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Hmmm....really ?
I'll have to check that out.
I don't doubt you, just never had to think about it.
On the spindles.....I'm pretty sure, since I noticed that 82 front outer
bearings are underbuilt, that they fixed that with 85 models, one year
before 86.
Yes, the single piston calipers started in 86,
But the cast iron lower control arm and better outside wheel bearings
started in 85. I believe.
Really.....they did a lot of really good improvements in 85, - the sliding
door,
Cast iron lower control arms, plastic cooling main pipes, better parking
brake....
Then they held back 3 big improvements until 86....
The headlights, the different or better front brakes , and the fuse box.
And probably others I'm not remembering now.
It's like 86 completes what 85 started.
It would be fun to have a 'when did various changes occur in vanagons'
contest.
Like what year did the heater valve move from inside the cockpit to under
the front floor ?
For example.
Lots of fun possibilities and trivia, but useful technical trivia.
Scott
www.turbovans.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Collum [mailto:collum@verizon.net]
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 7:01 PM
To: Scott Daniel - Shazam
Subject: Re: Help in northern Ontario...
The holes for the tie rod ends are in a different place for standard
steering as compared to power steering. Different geometry. It makes
the standard steering models have more turns of the steering wheel from
lock to lock.
And yes, the spindles are different starting with the '86 "Single
piston" caliper models.
Mike
Scott Daniel - Shazam wrote:
> Must be some people are befuddled , or distracted, by the 'two french
> Canadian girls' thing...
> And who knows maybe that's even just a scam to create salivating and big
> interest. ....
> Too bad some member didn't get to run up there and rescue them and be the
> hero.
>
> PS and manual steering are the same I think.
> And still, not knowing where it lies on 1980 to 1991......they vary a bit.
> How about a pic of the girls !!
>
> Could anyone say 'automatic transmission' when they mean power steering
???
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> Jake de Villiers
> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 5:10 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Help in northern Ontario...
>
> Maybe Greg's thinking about the difference between manual and power
> steering.
>
> Or maybe the thought of two French Canadian girls stranded in a Westy
simply
> short-circuited his brain.
>
> On 7/27/07, VW Doka <vw.doka@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Front spindles don't care about transmissions...
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
>> Of Greg Potts
>> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 4:09 PM
>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>> Subject: Re: Help in northern Ontario...
>>
>>
>> Automatic or standard transmission?
>>
>> On 27-Jul-07, at 6:31 PM, Benny boy wrote:
>>
>>> Hey, i have friends standed 3 hours from Tunder bay, the left
>>> bearing let go
>>> and they keep on driving... of course, the bearing eploded and the
>>> disk ate
>>> the spindle...
>>>
>>> So those 2 girls are in need of a left spindle, the mechanic was
>>> able to
>>> find a disk and bearing but no spindle.
>>>
>>> Anyone with one in the north east who is willing to help 2 nice
>>> girls going
>>> on a big roadtrip??
>>>
>>> Thanks, Ben
>
>
>
> --
> Jake
> 1984 Vanagon GL
> 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
> www.crescentbeachguitar.com
>
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