Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 16:08:46 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: Trip report, British Columbia
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Congrats on your successful trip !
re starter ..I only use Bosch rebuilt starters..and have perfect luck with
those.
re alternator ..
don't know which one you are running ...
but if you are running the stock cast iron diesel vanagon alternator stand..
and would like to upgrade to the common 90 amp alternator used on all
waterboxers, and many other vw/audi cars ..
I sell an adapter bracket kit for that.
it also allows you to get rid of the plastic plug-in connector on the
a;aternator that the stock 82 DV uses ...
eliminating a weak area, and those are not availbble anymore anyway.
scott
www.turbovans.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Poppie Jagersand" <poppie.jagersand@YAHOO.CA>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2011 2:10 PM
Subject: Trip report, British Columbia
> 2weeks + 1 extra day and 3200km later Poppie, the '82 Westy, with me, wife
> and 2year old arrived back home in Edmonton.
>
> Thanks for all the tips about BC sites. We got to go up the sunshine coast
> as several of you had recommended. Ran into Roger Whittaker + baby when
> shopping in Powwell river, then after some days kayaking we saw the baby
> again, this time accompanied by his wife. Also saw the Skukumchuck tidal
> rapids (impressive 6foot waves tacked by skilled kayakers doing flips and
> other tricks.), and stayed in the Porpoise provincial park just outside
> Sechelt (nice beach but a very large campground and a bit more of a
> generic experience after having been spoiled by the sights further north.)
>
> Weather report forecast rain for the second week, so we changed our plans
> and went into the arid southeast of BC instead. Stayed at Sasquatch
> provincial park near Harrison lake on the way (unremarkable), then through
> Manning provincial park, impressive but rainy on the wast slopes, to the
> arid southeast.
>
> Stayed at Haynes point provincial park in Osoyos lake in the very south, a
> spectacular camping spot (and the most sought after provincial campground
> in BC -- thankfully the very flexible rangers let us "overflow" camp at
> pull-offs on the causeway to the peninsula which was also very scenic. We
> kayaked both up the lake to the town of Osoyos, and down south to the US
> border.
>
> At Kokanee creek provincial park, on Kotenay lake we had the unusual
> pleasure of camping with only Westies. Circumstances had it that the usual
> campground was full for the weekend, so rangers had moved the smaller
> westies to camp in the beach parking lot. Each camper got two parking
> spots, one for the bus and one for a camping table the rangers had
> brought. That would have been pretty crowded if it had filled up the 50 or
> so spots, but there were only four westies, two vanagons and two T2, so we
> had plenty of space.
>
> Took the scenic ferry across Kotenay lake, then visited Fort Steele near
> Cranbrook and Bar U ranch in southern AB, both historic landmarks. Had to
> keep the Diesel running almost continuously for the last part of the trip
> since the rebuilt starter and alternator I had installed just before the
> trip were not quite up to the task of cranking the engine anymore. The
> problem is similar to what I had with the old starter. Sometimes it cranks
> vigorously, sometimes barely at all, while drawing massive current. I'm
> thinking the slow cranking is due to one or two brushes(of the 4) not
> contacting the commutator, thus only giving half the torque. It was not
> helped by the alternator putting out 13.6V instead of 14 (likely the
> regulator). 0.6V does not seem like a big difference, but the battery took
> another 20Ah when I charged it after returning home. Got until end of Aug
> to get it in shape again for the next trip when the wife's brother will be
> visiting.
>
> Martin
>
>
> --- On Fri, 7/8/11, Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
>> From: Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
>> Subject: Re: Waterfront campsites on Vancouver island and Bella Coola,
>> British Columbia?
>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>> Received: Friday, July 8, 2011, 10:39 PM
>> dear others
>> ran into poppie n family last night in powell river
>> i went up to a vanagon to brag i had one too and there he
>> was him self
>> i hope that he n his had a wonderful stay n that i did not
>> spend too much of
>> their valuble time here with my idle chatter about how
>> wonderful life here
>> is
>> regards
>>
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