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Stuartzickefoose
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 Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2018 11:33 am Post subject: Re: Corkey! The 1980 Westfalia Vanagon |
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Oh! Almost forgot. Who might you be?
A fellow Washington van!?
A tin top green van with a Subaru swap, which I didn’t get a pic of...
And this guy who I didn’t stop for either...:
I knew this guy so I didn’t stop to chat...just kept pulling the corners into the sunset...:
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Wasted youth
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2018 7:58 pm Post subject: Re: Corkey! The 1980 Westfalia Vanagon |
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Priest grade put my Toyota Yaris in shame. That’s a steep friggin’ grade!
What is going on with that zero compression? 
You know that Yosemite takes more than a few hours to appreciate, right?
We just spent about a day and a half visiting Olympic NP and traveling the peninsula. I could spend the rest of my life in the San Juans surving on poutine and would enjoy it. How the heck did 38* in Yosemite beat your PNW ass like that?!  |
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Stuartzickefoose
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2018 9:50 pm Post subject: Re: Corkey! The 1980 Westfalia Vanagon |
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I will go back to Yosemite when I get married and enjoy it with the future wife. By myself I wasn’t real eager to explore and the busted engine wasn’t helping.
Funny story I forgot my buddy heater so I had stock heat only! I’ve snow camped without a heater before and I have all that gear with me too...not THAT bad...just had a colder face in the morning then I expected!
And no idea what lost the compression. Maybe I floated a valve and it hit and I bent one? There’s no sign of extra crankcase pressure with bad rings, and the valves readjusted just fine no sign of them pulling through. No head gasket noise either from a leaking head...all I can suspect is a bent valve head. Driving it anyways, it’s not getting worse very fast and I’m driving it fairly hard kinda. I think I’ll make it to San Diego fine, making it back north may take a while but I should at least get close.
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Stuartzickefoose
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| Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2018 10:59 pm Post subject: Re: Corkey! The 1980 Westfalia Vanagon |
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Left the national park and headed south ish towards Fresno, then Bakersfield. Made it to my cousins place and her new husband, hung out for the day and then left early in the morning for LA.
Hit the sunrise right around Mojave and fueled up. Had to get the snow pants out for the second morning...twas cold!! 34* in the high desert!
Enjoyed just rolling down a long empty highway for a few hours. Totally legit, no matter how slow it goes uphill, it still makes the memories and the engine is becoming less and less of a worry in my mind. Just putting up with it being slow for now!
Met up with my uncle for lunch!
Then made it from Orange County to Riverside to my grandpas place!
Getting along in life I enjoy every time I see him and our time together more and more. He’s one of those guys who if we were close in age, we would likely be very good friends in life 
Decided to drive on out to Vegas Friday evening, as I have some friends In Town that I wanted to see and connect with. So I did!
Should be headed out around Monday morning or evening, and will be spending a few days back in riverside with grandpa helping him with stuff on his cars and his house, then my uncle for a day or two to hit the beach with a surfboard.
Then maybe I’ll go give Jason his trailer back 
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Abscate
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| Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2018 1:52 am Post subject: Re: Corkey! The 1980 Westfalia Vanagon |
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Thee are a bunch of things that a Grandpa could learn from you, if he can put aside nostalgia and history for a bit,
There’s a ton of things that can go the other way, too.
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Wasted youth
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| Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2018 4:04 am Post subject: Re: Corkey! The 1980 Westfalia Vanagon |
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| Did you resolve the zero compression on that cylinder? |
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| Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2018 4:39 am Post subject: Re: Corkey! The 1980 Westfalia Vanagon |
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| Wasted youth wrote: |
| Did you resolve the zero compression on that cylinder? |
He did. He is running the rarely seen and sought Flat Three VW engine.
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notchboy
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| Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2018 9:49 am Post subject: Re: Corkey! The 1980 Westfalia Vanagon |
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Well, let me know sooner than latter butthead. Showing up out of the blue is no Bueno for me. At least give me THE day you will be here then I can plan. More importantly, let everyone else here, you know the people that live here - Know on this day Stuart will descend upon us.
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Jason "notchboy" Weigel
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Stuartzickefoose
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| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 9:15 pm Post subject: Re: Corkey! The 1980 Westfalia Vanagon |
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Looking like a Saturday takeoff, planning to spend a few days down south. Pics and such to come!
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| Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2018 1:01 pm Post subject: Re: Corkey! The 1980 Westfalia Vanagon |
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Left Rialto around 8 am!
Grandpas given that green Acura to me as well, an unexpected treat and a good backup ride home...
made a special stop in Murrieta CA, and met a awesome fellow samba member, Jorge, and he shared his beautiful vanagon westy (inside the garage) and the new to him 76 westy too! Currently working on a SVX engine for the vanagon...trying to convince him to sell me his old air cooled motor was unsuccessful at this time...
Enjoyed driving into the sun for a bit. 83* out here
Made it to Jason’s!
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| Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2018 2:26 pm Post subject: Re: Corkey! The 1980 Westfalia Vanagon |
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Yep. Made it safe and sound. Trailer put up and Stuart already rebuilt the dizzy in the 77 Westy.
Time for lunch!
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Jason "notchboy" Weigel
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| Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2018 3:35 pm Post subject: Re: Corkey! The 1980 Westfalia Vanagon |
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Went for the full California effect, and now have a cal spec wiper to match my California emissions 
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| Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2018 9:28 pm Post subject: Re: Corkey! The 1980 Westfalia Vanagon |
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Jason, please make him resolve the zero pressure in that cylinder before he goes anywhere else. Fold him up and put him in the trailer if need be!
I remember when Murrieta was not even a pee stop. Seems like yesterday. Next thing you know, Winchester will have a gated community. |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2018 7:19 pm Post subject: Re: Corkey! The 1980 Westfalia Vanagon |
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Cleaned out the van....turned around and saw this!
Thinking that was pretty awesome, I turned around 5 minutes later and snapped this...:
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Stuartzickefoose
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| Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2018 11:35 pm Post subject: Re: Corkey! The 1980 Westfalia Vanagon |
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Went for a drive in the 77 westy with Jason through a sweet canyon, and saw the San Diego safari from the street. Looked like a sweet place to go check out someday!
We went and got some lunch...killer carne asada burritos!
We come outside and Jason’s engine won’t stay running. It’s been dying repeatedly as I’m fine tuning his AFM for his 2.3l camper special...come to find out (thankfully first guess) it was simply out of gas. So we hooked my tow rope up and I dragged him with my 2.5 cylinder engine (what’s left of it) to the nearest gas station!
After that, I Went and got some solar goodies I’ll bring up later from Chris, who I’ll be meeting with Monday about his sweet 77 and a 71 westy tin top his mom drove off the dealer floor...should be a fun Monday 
Then met with Seth, who’s going subaru. His well documented engine is going to end up in my van...likely before I get back to Seattle. So there Steve
Ten minutes later we made it to Gary’s...!
Had a great time and saw some sweet rigs thanks Gary!
More to come!
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| Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2018 4:05 am Post subject: Re: Corkey! The 1980 Westfalia Vanagon |
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| Grandpas given that green Acura to me as well, an unexpected treat and a good backup ride home...Laughing |
You meet the nicest people in a Honda Acura.
Pro tip. It’s easier to tow gas home than a car to a gas station
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| Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2018 6:19 pm Post subject: Re: Corkey! The 1980 Westfalia Vanagon |
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Hit the road today from Jason’s...made it a whole 30 minutes west
Glider port per Aeromechs suggestion:
Enjoyed a sweet 3 hour nap nice n warm....
Then shot this and took off south...:
Found some palm trees...
And a beach...
And decided to call it a night.
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| Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2018 8:09 pm Post subject: Re: Corkey! The 1980 Westfalia Vanagon |
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After such a sweet sunset I settled down and this ends up being the view out the back window by my head...DANG. Right on the water!
(Camped at mission beach in SD)
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