Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:05:09 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: Turning off rear heater
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what I have never understood is why cars have power windows on both sides.
you don't need one on the driver's side..
you're right there and can turn the crank handle.
but the other window 'way over there' ..
it would be handy to have a power window on that side sometimes.
I like to have that window open a few inches often ..
if driving alone it's a bother to reach way over there, though not 'that
hard' in a vanagon. ..
but still.
the only windows that really need to be power are the ones you're not
sitting right next to.
and speaking of power stuff..
had a few power steering racks and pipes decide to just puke fluid all over
the place recently.
not fun or useful.
and as I posted before ..the non-PS early ones 'feel' a tiny bit more lively
at speed and cornering at speed. And better on snow and ice. More feel
for sure.
Man, an auto trans vanagon with PS and more weight on the front than the
rear ..
has no almost no 'feel' on ice and snow.
and I do everything I can to shift weight aft in them............ gonna add
an # 2 battery and put it on the ride side under the rear seat ...85 westy
GL , vented overboard too probably.
lot of work but I always wanted to cut out the firewall there and take
advantage of all that wasted space around and above the transaxle on 2WD
vans. Huge amount of room there..
and any weight added aft is an advantage.....if it's gonna be in the van
anyway ..
the more aft you can keep it, and the lower, the better.
and ..within the wheel base too. ( weight added at the ends is not
good...polar moment of inertia ..
weight is best added within the wheelbase, and low, and aft if possible )
makes that area around the trans pretty attractive from a weight
distribution viewpoint.
Scott
www.turbovans.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Hanson" <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: Turning off rear heater
> O
>
>> As for your broken electric windows, I had the same problem when I first
>> bought my vanagon. I paid someone 50$ for the manual crank regulator
>> assembly and replaced the busted electric window regulators. That was
>> the
>> very first "upgrade" I did to my vanagon.
>>
>>
>> -Ry
>> http://www.google.com/profiles/rylincoln
>>
>> Thread modification....
>
> One of the reasons I chose my particular vanagon (besides it being VW
> inline four powered and having a 5sp) was that it was equipped with power
> Nothing. I find it inconvenient to have power windows. I do have to have
> em in some vehicles, they are the 'norm' after all, and often the only
> option.
>
> With non-power windows you can raise or lower them without the ignition
> key
> being on or at the Acc. position. So when I am camped or doing something
> else in my vehicle and want the window near me up or down, I just wind it
> up
> or down without having to go round to or crawl through the vehicle
> interior
> to the drivers position (after finding and inserting the keys) to be
> allowed
> to move the window with the little button. Moving the window (or
> activating
> the power door locks) is also dependent on not having the Vehicle battery
> disconnected or switched off...you have to 'fix' that to use those power
> features, too.
>
> Some vehicles have all kinds of other features tethered into having that
> key in the slot..Lights that dim inside, Dingers, automatic door lockers.
> So sometimes when you just want to move the glass in the door opening but
> you have to insert the key to do so, you must endure or work around a
> bunch
> of unintended consequences, too
> ..my 'dentist's wife's' Porsche..a 928 gt...it did lots of stuff when you
> stuck the key in the slot or removed it...raised all the windows, locked
> the
> doors automatically, armed the alarm etc. And the seat would 'remember' a
> bunch of adjustments for each driver and configure itself, automatically
> when the key went in...When something went haywire with that electrical
> system there was three full volumes (Bently book sized) on the electrical
> system and over 80 interconnected relays in the 'power center'.. the
> worst
> ever 'power equipped vehicle'...but incredibly fun when it worked
> sometimes.
>
> No, I looked long and hard to find a 'No AC, no power steering, no power
> windows, door locks, etc etc' vanagon. I'd probably pay double to leave
> that stuff off...rather than working around all those 'convenience and
> comfort' options that really aren't so convenient when they break or you
> don't have/want the vehicle's power turned on..
>
> Don Hanson
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