Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 15:33:42 -0800
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: 85 Vanagon GL Rolling Chassis in North Texas needs a pasture
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doors seem to sit around forever waiting for a new home...
they're useful...
but I've always had to wait years and years to find a new home for a door ..
but the innards...window and regulator ..all good parts.
the front springs are just right for 85 Weekenders and Westy's that are too
tall in front stock.
85 GL front springs fix that perfectly.
there are two kinds of 85's..
early and late ones.
early items...
the old style parking brake handle,
metal main coolant pipes,
stamped lower front suspension arms
and early style TPS ..two of them on top of the throttle body
later ones have ..
the much better later style parking brake handle..
plastic main coolant pipes
cast lower suspension arms
and ....only used for the second half of 85 of 1.9 wbxrs...
the later type throttle switch that's hidden on the bottom of the throttle
body
kinda a rare part and good to have when you need one.
it's all good though.
I'm still mining parts off an 85 that had the whole interior burn up
....been getting parts off that van for about 8 years. Hate to smunch up a
non-rusted and non-crashed 85 or later body,. or any water cooled one for
that matter. I usually bring them back to full health.
oh ...here's one ..
these are rare ..
a decent sliding door inside panel.
keepen' 'em alive,
Scott
www.turbovans.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Wolz" <wolzphoto@Q.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 3:01 PM
Subject: Re: 85 Vanagon GL Rolling Chassis in North Texas needs a pasture
> Mike,
>
> In an afternoon, you could strip a thousand bux worth of parts
> (replacement
> prices, obviously), should it turn out that no one steps forward. Lights,
> turn signals, the set of switches in the steering column, fuel pump,
> starter
> motor, alternator, wiring loom, etc. I'd like to see it stay together,
> too,
> but there are realities ...
>
> If the instrument cluster and especially the foil are any good, I'd
> certainly be interested in them.
>
> Karl Wolz
>
>
> |-----Original Message-----
> |From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
> Of
> |Mike South
> |Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 2:40 PM
> |To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> |Subject: 85 Vanagon GL Rolling Chassis in North Texas needs a pasture
> |
> |Hi,
> |
> |I have an '85 GL that I'm using as a donor van for my automatic->manual
> |conversion. That being the case, the transmission and everything needed
> to
> |control the transmission is gone. It rolls, is what it does.
> |
> |It still has the engine in it, the condition is unknown. When I bought
> it,
> |I started it and drove it far enough to see that the transmission
> |functioned. The previous owner was selling it because coolant sprayed
> out
> |all over the engine bay (he didn't find the source, except for the hole
> in
> |the water pump where I've heard it comes out when the pump starts wearing
> |out). He didn't want to deal with it any more. So the state of the
> engine
> |is technically "unknown", possibly "ruined when the coolant leaked out"
> or
> |"ruined when the stupid current owner drove it to test the transmission
> |after the coolant had leaked out".
> |
> |I just want rid of it, but I want it to go to someone who has some sort
> of
> |vanagon use for it (rather than a "hey, I could melt this down" use for
> it,
> |I mean). The metal is in very good shape in general.
> |
> |I have contacted the one other person I know in my immediate area, but if
> |he
> |doesn't want it, it's up for grabs. I'm open to suggestions, as well, if
> |anyone can think of something to do to keep things like doors and seats
> |(upholstery is pretty shot on these, though) and whatever in the vanagon
> |world.
> |
> |The city apparently forbids you to keep an uninspected vehicle on your
> own
> |driveway. I know I feel safer knowing that is illegal. Thank goodness.
> | But I can't finish my project with two vanagons in the garage, so I've
> got
> |to get rid of this one.
> |
> |If you're interested in taking it off my hands, please pmail.
> |
> |mike
| 
