Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:57:17 +0000
Reply-To: ROBERTANDERSON294@COMCAST.NET
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From: Bob Anderson <ROBERTANDERSON294@COMCAST.NET>
Subject: Broken Head Bolt
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Need some advice!
This morning I was replacing one of the head gaskets, on my 2.1 vanagon engine, everything was going fine until I was torquing down the head bolts and one of them snapped and my heart sank...not a good feeling.
I quickly removed the head and cleaned up everything including the rubber gasket and then just sat there assessing what just happened and asking myself "Now what am I going to do"?
The bolt snapped off pretty low leaving about an inch.
This is my first attempt at replacing the head gaskets and just learning as I go and I know there's a lot of experienced members of this forum and I'm hoping that you all might have some good advice for me.
Thanks,
Bob
Boston, MA
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Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:40:19 -0500
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Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:01:47 -0800
From: Richard Koerner
Subject: Re: Vanagon fix on a rainy Wednesday
Google Street view shows nice cardboard sun shields in all street facing Va=
nagons, and most likely all of them; this guy is cool to preserve these bab=
ies!=A0 And waaaay in the background is probably his house....a white Vanag=
on in the driveway.=A0 Also, some sort of England high top van near the for=
eground.=A0 How did he get all of these?=A0 How much invested?=A0 Who's buy=
ing them after restored?=A0 Anybody on The List?=A0 Is this guy in VA on li=
st?=A0 He should be!=A0 Sure would be nice to know the whole story.
Rich
San Diego
--- On Wed, 1/16/13, george jannini wrote:
From: george jannini
Subject: Re: Vanagon fix on a rainy Wednesday
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2013, 5:32 PM
Location of http://www.vuhvanagon.com/=A0 is on US 11, Pulaski VA.
Pump 1011 Old Lee Highway, Pulaski, VA into Google Maps click on Street
View and have a look.
Geo/ATL
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Stephen Grisanti wrote=
:
> Interesting.=A0 I've been by that spot many times on the way up U.S. 340 =
to
> Wayne Cycle in Waynesboro but I never noticed that place.=A0 Must not hav=
e
> been doing the Vanagons ten years ago when I made that run.=A0 I'll be su=
re
> to check next trip.=A0 Thanks for the heads up.
> I have seen some vans at the CJ Bugg place on U.S. 250 just west of there=
,
> and occasionally one or two at the Nethken place by the Augusta County
> Expo, visible from I-64.
> Stephen
>
> --- On Wed, 1/16/13, Harold Teer wrote:
>
> From: Harold Teer
> Subject: Re: Vanagon fix on a rainy Wednesday
> To: "Stephen Grisanti"
> Cc: "list"
> Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2013, 2:25 PM
>
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Stephen Grisanti
> wrote:
> ............You might be aware of the infamous Vanagon place in
> Pulaski, Virginia.
>
>
> Stephen,
>
> The owner of those Vanagons sends a lot of them to an automotive garage
> by the name of GOLDWrench (http://www.goldwrenchauto.com/) in Waynesboro,
> VA.=A0 If you drive by the place, you almost always see 10-15 vans waitin=
g to
> be repaired/restored/whatever you call it.
>
>
> Harold
>
> Harold Teer
> 1991 Westy
> Harrisonburg, VA
>
>
>
>
>
>
> http://www.latimes.com/videogallery/70309490/News/...rcial-yard
>
>
>
>
>
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Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 19:25:07 -0700
From: OlRivrRat
Subject: Re: Vanagon fix on a rainy Wednesday
Didn't take the time to StreetView it earlier but both GoogleEarth &
GoogleMaps show
a WholeBunch more Vanagons there they show in the view from above ~
Which image would
you suppose is the more recent ~~~
ORR ~ DeanB
On 16 Jan , 2013, at 6:32 PM, george jannini wrote:
> Location of http://www.vuhvanagon.com/ is on US 11, Pulaski VA.
>
> Pump 1011 Old Lee Highway, Pulaski, VA into Google Maps click on
> Street
> View and have a look.
>
> Geo/ATL
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Stephen Grisanti
>wrote:
>
>> Interesting. I've been by that spot many times on the way up U.S.
>> 340 to
>> Wayne Cycle in Waynesboro but I never noticed that place. Must not
>> have
>> been doing the Vanagons ten years ago when I made that run. I'll
>> be sure
>> to check next trip. Thanks for the heads up.
>> I have seen some vans at the CJ Bugg place on U.S. 250 just west of
>> there,
>> and occasionally one or two at the Nethken place by the Augusta
>> County
>> Expo, visible from I-64.
>> Stephen
>>
>> --- On Wed, 1/16/13, Harold Teer wrote:
>>
>> From: Harold Teer
>> Subject: Re: Vanagon fix on a rainy Wednesday
>> To: "Stephen Grisanti"
>> Cc: "list"
>> Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2013, 2:25 PM
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Stephen Grisanti
>>
>> wrote:
>> ............You might be aware of the infamous Vanagon place in
>> Pulaski, Virginia.
>>
>>
>> Stephen,
>>
>> The owner of those Vanagons sends a lot of them to an automotive
>> garage
>> by the name of GOLDWrench (http://www.goldwrenchauto.com/) in
>> Waynesboro,
>> VA. If you drive by the place, you almost always see 10-15 vans
>> waiting to
>> be repaired/restored/whatever you call it.
>>
>>
>> Harold
>>
>> Harold Teer
>> 1991 Westy
>> Harrisonburg, VA
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.latimes.com/videogallery/70309490/News/...rcial-yard
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:44:42 -0600
From: JRodgers
Subject: Re: VuhVanagon.com
In Alabama, even if you are the most redneck of rednecks - with your car
in front of your house trailer sitting up on blocks with the engine out
after the car died - if you have a title, it is supposed have current
registration and if registered must have a current tag or license. If it
is licensed, it must have liability insurance. The annual tag serves as
the property tax. Of course nobody with a vehicle up on blocks ever does
all that - but it is the law! Screwy!
John
On 1/16/2013 7:03 PM, kimbrennan@mac.com wrote:
> Haven't checked on Pulaski county, but many other counties in Virginia require you to pay personal property tax on vehicles regardless of whether they are titled or road worthy. Can add up to quite a bit of change. Like Chris says, local govts aren't necessarily auto enthusiast friendly.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Jan 16, 2013, at 6:11 PM, Jamie Fitterer wrote:
>
>> Amazing. So a guy wants to have a hobby to fix up and sell a few vans and big brother or business has to come along and stomp on you. Although, this example is a little absurd I am referring more towards if a person wanted to just sell one or two a year. And that somehow hurts used car dealers that want nothing to do with VW Vanagons? Some state require 50 - 100K bonds to be able to sell only one or two.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:55:44 -0500
>>> From: JordanVw@AOL.COM
>>> Subject: VuhVanagon.com
>>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>>>
>>> In a message dated 1/16/2013 2:07:36 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>>> Rubatoguy@COMCAST.NET writes:
>>>
>>> And apparently the city went after him because they claimed he was an
>>> unlicenced auto dealer:
>>>
>>> _http://www.southwesttimes.com/2009/12/archive-4281/_
>>> (http://www.southwesttimes.com/2009/12/archive-4281/)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> the mistake kevin made was buying a property that was right in the middle
>>> of town on a main road. if he had bought a farm in the country off a main
>>> road in the middle of nowhere, nobody would have complained.
>>>
>>> i went thru something similar a few yrs ago as some of y'all may remember.
>>> the most vanagons ive ever had at one time was about 25 -30 or so at my
>>> folks farm. you couldn't even see them from the road, they were all neatly
>>> lined up like kevins.. but..it just took one person to make a call to the
>>> township and that was it. it was a way for them to make money on the
>>> fines so they jumped on it like flies on poo.... "fine" with me, i sold the
>>> westys and parted out the rest. i saved what i could but a lot of good
>>> stuff went to the crusher as i was under a time constraint. made some money
>>> back at the local scrapper when i hauled them over the scale, but mostly it
>>> was a loss because scrap metal was down then. such is life. i just
>>> have 3 runners now and one parts van for my own use. my vanagon
>>> collecting days are over! :)
>>>
>>> chris
>>> '89 westy
>>> '84 sunroof wolfsburg
>>> '85 doka
>>> and one '85 parts van.
>>> that's it!!
>
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