Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 17:48:31 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: Rubber mats..
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lol.
I'll bet it's quiet though ..
and for a diesel ..you need all of that you can get.
how much added weight though ?
how many gallons of extra fuel got burnt pushing that extra weight ?
teasing of course. ( I think our rubber is all synthetic anyway ...from
petroleum mainly ...should wik-it.)
not fridae, but I am appalled at the jillions of gallons of oil out of the
ground that have been dug up and burned in the atmosphere in the last 100
years ..
more gallons than there are stars in the sky, seems to me.
and we can only expel exhaust from fossil fuels into our air for so long .
The atmosphere is probably already 30 % old exhaust already.
and a really cool thing about a vanagon or a westy, or a diesel vanagon, or
a car ..
is that you don't have to actually drive it a lot of miles , to get great
value and reward from owning it !
Particularly a Westy or camping van of whatever sort - it's way cool, fun,
and comfortable even not going !
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Felder" <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: Rubber mats..
I got one of those very cushy pads they use in front of industrial
equipment as a floor mat for the operator. Eight dollars, slick on top
and foamy in the middle. It made a nice rear over-the-engine cover and
I extended down under the seat, across the floor and up the front of
the underseat area, so it's completely lined. I got the gowesty rubber
mat for the middle and the heavy duty bus depot mats for the fronts.
Many rubber trees perished for my Vanagon.
Jim
Easy to clean and a little quieter, which a diesel can always use.
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans
<scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
> hey ...kinda clever running a stock inline four dipstick tube right into
> the
> side of the filler tube at an angle.
> kinda neat actually, if it works well.
>
> have you seen a 5 speed diesel vanagon dipstick and tube ?
> they work well.
> I call it an 'overhead' dipstick as it's up by the alternator ..
> like at the top of the license plate opening ..check you oil lever from
> there nicely.
> I just make them out of metal fuel line bent in a curve ..
> like a copy of a stock 5 speed one ...and use some longish slender
> dipstick
> from pick n' pull.
>
> but your filler nick/dipstick one is a work of art.
>
> I find brazing works really well.....not on brass so much , but a
> metal-to-metal ..
> works well, is easy to do, and is arty too.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Don Hanson" <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 6:33 AM
> Subject: Rubber mats..
>
>
>> For possible varied Vanagon and shop use. I may have mentioned this
>> before, if so sorry for the doubly- redundant redundancy..
>>
>> Look at horse stable mats as a possible source for floor covering or
>> engine deck area mats in your vanagon. I have them on some of my benches
>> in
>> the shop and as cushioning where I work. They're made from reclaimed
>> tires. Come in various thicknesses and are really durable. I have front
>> floor mats cut from them in my van and one for outside under my slider in
>> rough camping spots, My wife has them in her barn and stable stalls.
>> They
>> would also work as sand traction mats for the Syncro crowd.
>>
>> Don Hanson
>
