Date:         Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:49:49 -0500
Reply-To:     Derek Drew <derekdrew@DEREKMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Derek Drew <derekdrew@DEREKMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: The Price We Pay ... Upgrade Brake Booster
In-Reply-To:  <4EFCD59A.4040900@gmail.com>
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Those red things are magnetic socket holders that are not in current
use, so they are just thrown up against the garage door as a form of
storing them while they are inactive.

You can see how the disease progresses incipiently, as once I had the
wiring exposed, I realized I needed to upgrade the gague of the
speaker wire to the speakers in the doors, and this begot the
obsession to add a 2nd driver in the door (the bottom one) here...

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Li-8OHlmlz0/TvznKCApdpI/AAAAAAAAACo/KsuRbxRwCBE/s576/year-end-2011%252520046.JPG


.... where you can see more scary wiring, including lots of little
permanent labels for the extra wires I put in there saying what they
do and where they go.

By the way, if you are a syncroist with large tires and oversized
brakes, now is a convenient time, if pulling the dash, to install the
upgraded brake booster,  ATE part number 300088, BMW part number 34
33 1 157 416.

This is the brake booster from BMW 3 Series
(E21,E30,E36,E46,E90,E91,E92,E93) 325i readily available at the local
junk yard, or online.

It cross references to 34331150231; 34331152600; 34331152601;
34331154024; 34331157199; 34331157217; 34331157416; 34331157982; .

Best new prices is from either:

1. Go Westy Auto Parts special discount site (the external site) Part
Number BMW018726

- OR -

2.  http://www.car-stuff.com/store/?N=9709+4294963685+1580+11921+9177

If you have stockish sized tires, there is no need for this upgraded
larger booster.

Also, note that this change greatly enhances the feel of braking with
large wheels, but it does not actually increase braking capacity.

Nevertheless, all who have done the modification in syncro circles
really appreciate having done it. These people are already running
large diameter tires.

See Samba for details on 34331157416 because you have to drill
something out and retap it to fit.

*I* am going to need a psychiatrist now that I feel forced to visit
both our traditional email lists and Samba at the same time because
the good stuff is distributed. Gives me a headache. I think wistfully
back to the day when the Vanagon list was IT.

For a long time I held the line at email lists and refused to visit
forums, but my resolve has been finally crushed onto the trash heap
of history by the inexorable march of people willy nilly
communicating wherever they they want to.

How would you feel about it if somebody told you to check all of
these before any job, using Google Translate as needed. You would
tell them to please go die in a Vanagon junkyard and leave you alone.


         http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewforum.php?f=20
                 (Vanagon, which traditionally in the USA was called
Type II [both vanagons and busses alike]  but we now confusedly call
T3 in deference to mother Germany)

         http://forum.club8090.co.uk/index.php  (UK; they call it T25!!!!)

         http://www.vwt3.co.at/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=3
(Austrian, where production went; see... they call it T3)

         http://www.syncrosa.co.za/forum/index.php  (South African)

         http://ig-syncro16.de/forum/ (16" version)

         http://www.bulli-forum.de/forum/ (German)

         http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/Diesel-Vanagon/

         http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nwsyncrogroup/

         http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/Syncro/

         http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/Syncro16/

         http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/Syncro_T3_Australia/

         http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/syncro4wd/

         http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/SyncroSA/

         http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/TDI-conversion/

         http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/vanagon/

         http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/VW-TDI/

         http://cf.groups.yahoo.com/group/VW_SYNCRO_QUEBEC/

         http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?S1=vanagon

         http://gerry.vanagon.com/files/

         How about a "Type II,T3,T25,16" list to confuse the public?


At 04:03 PM 12/29/2011, you wrote:
>On 12/29/2011 03:29 PM, Derek Drew wrote:
>>
>>https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-SW-fdOP_6nE/TvzHXjifK9I/AAAAAAAAACg/6OBli2UqA-U/s800/year-end-2011%252520049.JPG
>
>Yep, my new-to-me '86 Syncro will be getting this next month. Ugh!
>
>What are those strange red panels on the inside of your garage door?

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