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Fri Jan 27, 2012 4:29 pm

Westfabulous wrote: mattcuddy wrote: I've never seen factory documentation of the burner removal tool before. Awesome.

Glad you like it....it is a very spezzzzzial tool. I have lots of really good original literature, and I am happy to share it with folks, but I have put in a ton of time and money getting this stuff, and I am not sure that I am ready to just give it all up, and spend hours scanning it for the general populous. Selfish I know, but helping the odd guy would be a pleasure, for now.

Yea, that tool is another thing that is always missing form campers; even though they all came with one.

I can understand your desire to keep stuff you've searched forever for locked away; but as food for thought, remember that large portions of this site wouldn't exist if EB and others hadn't scanned in all their shit. A true bus perv gets the difference between an original document, and a printed pdf.

Fri Jan 27, 2012 5:46 pm

mattcuddy wrote: Westfabulous wrote: mattcuddy wrote: I've never seen factory documentation of the burner removal tool before. Awesome.

Glad you like it....it is a very spezzzzzial tool. I have lots of really good original literature, and I am happy to share it with folks, but I have put in a ton of time and money getting this stuff, and I am not sure that I am ready to just give it all up, and spend hours scanning it for the general populous. Selfish I know, but helping the odd guy would be a pleasure, for now.

Yea, that tool is another thing that is always missing form campers; even though they all came with one.

I can understand your desire to keep stuff you've searched forever for locked away; but as food for thought, remember that large portions of this site wouldn't exist if EB and others hadn't scanned in all their shit. A true bus perv gets the difference between an original document, and a printed pdf.

I look far and wide and for YEARS for original paper work, manuals,documents I just love them my wife thinks Iam sick when it comes to paper work but when I can't fine them copies will have to do till I find the real thing if I ever do. I have a coleman lantern collation a friend was pulling open a wall in his house stashed in the wall was a complete packet for a late 60 s coleman lantern manual, hang tag,mantels and all :shock: he knew right where to take it :D what a nice present :D I have a coleman air pump just a little newer then those blue ones my dad got it for me back in about 1978 I will pull it out I still use it. Coleman puts the date of manufacture on everything they make so somewhere on the pump should be the month and year of when it was made.

Fri Jan 27, 2012 9:04 pm

Westfabulous [-X Trinket Miner?, no more like Hoarder. To not want to share all your Bus wealth with everyone :roll: I dont care how much time and money you may have spent on your swag, I want it all for free.

All the correct answers and good advice I give here on the Samba nets me $ in my account. Or arnt the rest of you entered in this form of contract with Everrett?

Welcome to the dark side Hoarder, hoarder, hoarder!

Fri Jan 27, 2012 9:11 pm

i dont know if this is rare but i recently bought a bench seat out of a 73 at a junkyard for 15 bucks. It is a stock seat, but it has this bolt on mechanism that looks to be either factory or aftermarket but it is definately not homemade. I can find any part numbers or company name on the mech but i know it was made in a factory. it bolts directly onto the stock seat and acts as a "z-bed" mech to fold the seat into a bed. Does anybody know what this is? Seems rare

Fri Jan 27, 2012 9:24 pm

notchboy wrote: Westfabulous [-X Trinket Miner?, no more like Hoarder. To not want to share all your Bus wealth with everyone :roll: I dont care how much time and money you may have spent on your swag, I want it all for free.

All the correct answers and good advice I give here on the Samba nets me $ in my account. Or arnt the rest of you entered in this form of contract with Everrett?

Welcome to the dark side Hoarder, hoarder, hoarder!

Hahaha. Oh boy, Jason, did you hit your head by any chance when you fell down and broke your leg? Ask bigbore, A B Westy Nut, SG Kent, and Curtis4085 if I am willing to share my goodies. I might even share with you too, if you start being a good girl. :wink:

You do make me laugh!

Fri Jan 27, 2012 10:13 pm

Westfabulous wrote: notchboy wrote: Westfabulous [-X Trinket Miner?, no more like Hoarder. To not want to share all your Bus wealth with everyone :roll: I dont care how much time and money you may have spent on your swag, I want it all for free.

All the correct answers and good advice I give here on the Samba nets me $ in my account. Or arnt the rest of you entered in this form of contract with Everrett?

Welcome to the dark side Hoarder, hoarder, hoarder!

Hahaha. Oh boy, Jason, did you hit your head by any chance when you fell down and broke your leg? Ask bigbore, A B Westy Nut, SG Kent, and Curtis4085 if I am willing to share my goodies. I might even share with you too, if you start being a good girl. :wink:

You do make me laugh!

Hey dont start dropping names like that. It just shows your full embrace in denial :wink:

You know Im being sarcastic right brother?

I am a well know "collector" of T3 goodies so I know the signs of a hoarder.

Hoarder :roll:

:lol: :lol:

Fri Jan 27, 2012 10:15 pm

VWcruzer wrote: i dont know if this is rare but i recently bought a bench seat out of a 73 at a junkyard for 15 bucks. It is a stock seat, but it has this bolt on mechanism that looks to be either factory or aftermarket but it is definately not homemade. I can find any part numbers or company name on the mech but i know it was made in a factory. it bolts directly onto the stock seat and acts as a "z-bed" mech to fold the seat into a bed. Does anybody know what this is? Seems rare

A photo would be helpful. My deluxe station wagon had a similar part when I bought it. Flat plate that fastened to the floor and little channels where the tubing of the seat base are clamped.

Fri Jan 27, 2012 10:29 pm

notchboy wrote: Westfabulous wrote: notchboy wrote: Westfabulous [-X Trinket Miner?, no more like Hoarder. To not want to share all your Bus wealth with everyone :roll: I dont care how much time and money you may have spent on your swag, I want it all for free.

All the correct answers and good advice I give here on the Samba nets me $ in my account. Or arnt the rest of you entered in this form of contract with Everrett?

Welcome to the dark side Hoarder, hoarder, hoarder!

Hahaha. Oh boy, Jason, did you hit your head by any chance when you fell down and broke your leg? Ask bigbore, A B Westy Nut, SG Kent, and Curtis4085 if I am willing to share my goodies. I might even share with you too, if you start being a good girl. :wink:

You do make me laugh!

Hey dont start dropping names like that. It just shows your full embrace in denial :wink:

You know Im being sarcastic right brother?

I am a well know "collector" of T3 goodies so I know the signs of a hoarder.

Hoarder :roll:

:lol: :lol:

Yes, of course I know you are kidding. You and Kirk are amongst my favorite hoarding buddies. I just have to make sure I have the quickest draw in town, if I ever expect to beat you to the next classified trinket. :wink:

Kirk's been laying reeeaaallll low since I got the tire and pump. I'll be looking to see who's lurking outside before I open the door. The smell of Sonic wrappers will be a strong clue that Kirk has arrived. Good guy that Kirk.

Sat Jan 28, 2012 5:24 pm

georgeL thats exactly it it has a 2 foot"?" plat that bolts to the floor i dont have any pics right now but when i find my camera ill post some its actually acting as a couch by day and bed by night in my room haha it works great!just to clarify what my room means im 15 so i still live with my parents :lol:

Sun Jan 29, 2012 3:34 pm

VWcruzer wrote: georgeL thats exactly it it has a 2 foot"?" plat that bolts to the floor i dont have any pics right now but when i find my camera ill post some its actually acting as a couch by day and bed by night in my room haha it works great!just to clarify what my room means im 15 so i still live with my parents :lol:

There is a really good Z-Bed thread here by airkooledchris:

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=456659

Wed Feb 08, 2012 1:59 pm

no, i've got one too.

Hoody wrote: Your crumpet toaster is a one off homemade.

Wed Feb 08, 2012 2:32 pm

Got a pair of 68 wipers in SUPER good condition! Saw a guy on here selling a set of crusties for 100 buck? Says they are super rare?

Wed Feb 08, 2012 2:37 pm

They are not "super rare", but can be tough to find in nice condition. I have a few sets, and I pick them up at swaps when I see them. Last pair I bought were pretty nice, and I paid ten bucks for them. That was just a few months ago.

Mon Feb 20, 2012 5:12 pm

Just got my blue box nos bearings today for my rebuild, std case .20 crank std thrust. Found a guy who had an old porsche dealers stash for 914's. Had to buy several large boxes of misc bearings to get these but I think it was worth it. I've got to run some numbers as there's lots of individual bearings as well as several sets on mains. All the main bearing sets are std std .20 that I needed but there must be 15 other sizes of mains that are individually boxed with different part numbers. These bearings look and feel so nice. As a bus geek I had to share some pics as the wife is indifferent to more parts heading to the garage, and more money spent. I still working on the pic links.

Mon Feb 20, 2012 5:56 pm

shawnhigh@hotmail.com wrote:

parts porn! :lol:

Mon Feb 20, 2012 7:59 pm

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Thu Feb 23, 2012 7:42 pm

Anybody got they are an idea on where to look up these individual bearing numbers? Been looking them up on various search engines but not coming up with what sizes they are for. Any ideas or websites I'm not using?
thanks
shawn

Thu Feb 23, 2012 7:53 pm

Better include genuine cylinder tins. The ones coming out of China are trash and don't include the inner baffle tin that controls the cooling cylinder heads.

Tue Feb 28, 2012 12:00 pm

Although the question was some time ago, here's some answers to this one:

Malokin Martin wrote:

anyone know what the arrow knob does (under radio)? (...) black and silver thing under the glove box?

black and silver thing As WestyPop wrote, its a map light.

(under radio)? That's the interval control for the extra strong electrical front window washer.

Here you can see the washer nozzles:

Flashlights, plastic windowshields and loudspeakers are missing at this car...

Mon Mar 05, 2012 8:28 pm

mattcuddy wrote: cdennisg wrote: HMMM Can't say that I have ever seen blue seat upholstery in an early bay. Tell us more about them. Is the rest of the interior blue also? What year?

yep, very early neptune blue 68s.

upper left hand corner. note it is only for the models listed at the top, all others got the light grey/medium grey.

Here's a 68 Neptune blue single with blue seats in the classified section. Anyone smarter than me that can save the pics to this thread? It would be good to put this in the 68 only thread, too.

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1272198