Date:         Sun, 4 Oct 2009 19:31:50 -0500
Reply-To:     Michael Sullivan <sandwichhead@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Michael Sullivan <sandwichhead@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Installing Headlight Adjusters
Comments: To: Mister Tom <TomsGroups@salicos.com>
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Sounds like you're on top of it, then.  Good luck.
Michael in San Antonio
91GL AT 'Gringo'
73 Beetle


On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Mister Tom <TomsGroups@salicos.com> wrote:

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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
> Of
> > Michael Sullivan
> > Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2009 4:45 PM
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Subject: Re: Installing Headlight Adjusters
> >
> > First of all...BE CAREFUL!  These are NLA unless I am mistaken.
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> I hate to brag, so I'll force myself.  We're fixing up my daughter's Westy
> after a crash mangled the front end.  I know the low beam vertical adjust
> is
> NLA.  I went to my mechanic (for 25 years) to ask about finding the part.
> He threw me his box of miscellaneous VW adjusters.  "Take this and see what
> you can find". So I took it home and found two new vertical adjusters.  I
> asked what he wanted for them and he said, "Don't worry about it".  Then I
> said I would take both and pay him well and he said, "Don't worry about
> it".
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> While on the subject, the front sheet metal pieces are also NLA.  I had to
> buy a whole "front clip" (from the front doors forward) and deliver it to
> the body shop to get the van fixed.
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> Oh, Auto Body Excellence in Hillsboro, Oregon is a fine shop that does
> great
> work, knows Vanagons and doesn't mind doing "complete" paint jobs.
>
> Tom Salicos
> '87 Syncro Westy EG-33
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