Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:57:29 -0500
Reply-To: Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM>
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From: Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: badly rusted mystery part
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The Bentley has the proceudre. Not that the final pressure is angle
dependant. Yo need to have the right pressure guage and a means to tie it
into the brake system.
Dennis
>From: neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
>Reply-To: neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: badly rusted mystery part
>Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:36:03 -0800
>
>Scott.
>During my journey into parting out my 85, I did a quick visual of the
>pressure limiting valve.
>Can this part can be tested?
>
>The brakes were iffy on this van when I test drove it, (MC and/or rears) so
>I wasn't about to "ham" on the brakes to see how well the regulator worked!
>
>Just curious.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Neil.
>
>
>
>On Dec 10, 2007 8:41 PM, Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@turbovans.com>
>wrote:
>
> > You got the right idea.
> > I'd call that the 'pressure limiting valve' for the rear brakes.
> > Evidently they got no rust-prevention treatment, and are bare cast iron.
> > I'd scrub it with a metal wire brush to get it to bare metal, then treat
> > is
> > with a rust treatment that turns it to premiered metal, then paint it.
> > In situ if possible.
> > Scott
> > www.turbovans.com
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
>Of
> > Allan Streib
> > Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 8:13 PM
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Subject: badly rusted mystery part
> >
> > Looking around under the front end of my '91 Vanagon GL, I noticed a
> > very rusted part, evidently part of the brake system, since it has
> > two steel brake lines connected to it. This mystery part is mounted
> > on the right frame rail near the sway bar. Is this the "pressure
> > regulator" that I see on a couple of the parts web sites? The rust
> > is just falling off it in chunks unusual because there is not really
> > much rust anywhere else under the front. Do they normally rust so
> > badly?
> >
> > Allan
> >
>
>
>
>--
>Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia -
>"Jaco" (Bustorius) http://web.mac.com/tubaneil
>
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