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Interior! / Re: Dashboard Cubby Installation

« on: August 15, 2016, 09:31:42 pm »

Do you have any more? I would love one!
Also, I can't stand the fancy temp controls in my MV - do you think it's possible to swap them out for the lovely simple knobs you have?

Yes, I have a few left. Send me an email to discuss.

What you're seeing here is some van owners who are posting their installed cubby -- the weekenders (w/pop top) are the simple 3 knob system as they don't have the rear AC. I too didn't like the look of the climatronic and prefer good old knobs - but having slipped into a GLS I have gotten used to it and actually it's very good -- and a great deal better than I thought given all the buttons.

Just be thankful you don't have an older van with 5 dials on the panel. 

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Show off your projects here! / Re: Project Lucille -- Clusters

« on: August 05, 2016, 09:04:07 pm »

On a second thought, maybe I just got a blown bulb in the cluster? Will have to take a look to see why it's not coming up when opening doors.

-albertr

The open door signal is only on that mk4 cluster I was playing with.

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Shiny things you no longer want / Re: Eurovan Passenger Side Cubby/Glovebox

« on: August 02, 2016, 10:10:23 am »

Ooh - I'm interested! Just spent a month living out of mine and the lack of space in the dash is so annoying. Is there a way to have a door on these? And what is in that space now? Kind of curious why they didn't make a glove box there to start with if the space isn't being used for anything important...
I have a 2002 MV.
Thanks!

The theory is they weren't included in the North American vans in order to make the Eurovan more competitive in the safety department - passenger side knee bolster must count for something somewhere (because it actually looks more expensive to produce than the cubby). Quantity over quality? "X" number of features makes one vehicle's safety rating that much better I suppose.

Send me a PM/email to order a cubby.

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Interior! / Re: Coating for the plastic entry wells?

« on: July 22, 2016, 10:59:39 pm »

I'm interested in a solution for this too. I'm weary of painting plastic interior parts -- I have seen examples of these parts painted black and the paint was peeling off making it look worse. My preference is to find a set of the black front footwells from an early van (or a Winnebago) and use them instead.

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Show off your projects here! / Re: Project Lucille -- EVW VR6 Manual Conversion

« on: July 22, 2016, 10:53:46 pm »

Itsamoto, just want to check in, looking forward to see more updates on your progress!

Do you have any pictures of water pumps used on AXK and BDF VR6's? I'm curious to see what are the stamping on these pumps? Are they VAG-branded or supplied by third party?

-albertr

Hi Albert

Sorry for the lack of updates on the van -- too many side projects. I really am hung up on the suspension because to come this far this many things removed from the van, it should be a no brainer to just refurb it all while I am there but I can't find the courage (or space) to pull all of it out. Ideally I would sand blast the crud off it- then powder coat or paint it to protect it from rusting. At the moment there is a lot of crud which looks bad, but it seems to be mostly surface oxidization. I'm thinking hard on the Power-flex bushings as well - but its pretty pricey.

As for the water pumps, I did take some pictures of them, which I'm not sure if I ever shared. The pumps are the same, save for the pulley (which accounts for the different offsets between the two engines). On hand I had 2 plastic impeller pumps and one metal impeller. The plastic ones are actually the OEM VW and they are stamped (both the pump-housing and the pulley). The pump housing with the plastic impeller reads as PN# 022-121-019. The metal impeller pump is on the engine, so I will have to dig a bit to get the number (I'm interested now too).

From my other VW's, I'm confident in using the metal impeller pump on Lucille (I don't recall which engine I got it off of - I think it was Lucille's original engine). The plastic impellers, in theory should work fine and have less wear on the bearing -- but after time the plastic impeller becomes so brittle that it just crumbles in your hand once you start touching it. Very common on this vintage of VW's that a plastic impeller is used and stories of overheating cars due to an impeller which sheds it fins! Now, would that actually happen inside a sealed working engine? -- I don't know perhaps, there are many claims of this happening. The plastic impeller would fail 100% though if a foreign object got into the coolant stream and travelled to the pump.

Here's some pics to share on the differences:

Water Pumps

L-R: AXK, BDF

Water Pump Pulley Offset Difference

L-R: AXK, BDF

The pulleys are actually about the same thickness, its just the mounting face heights differ a lot:

Pulleys off Pump



Water Pump Impellers

L-R: Metal impeller, Plastic impeller

Platic Impeller w/broken fins

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Exterior / Re: Which awning to get for EVC?

« on: July 22, 2016, 10:11:42 pm »

great looking rig, the awning support is attached directly to the van panels? Any close up pics install points?

Looking for roof rack options and seems like a goose chase already! :-(

Lucille's awning is mounted is using the the Go-Westy Awning brackets.

Heres some pics from the product page (cleaner than my pic):

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VR6 Engine tech / Re: PSA: Check your chains!

« on: July 12, 2016, 01:39:12 pm »

This is rotten news - but yes a BDF will work if you transfer over the Eurovan's ancillary components.

Can the head be rebuilt? If you've redone the HVAC and installed the dash subframe -- those are no small feats -- you could probably do the head too -- you got nothing to lose (and everything to gain) to try.

I have pulled apart a BDF head this was damaged -- and I can part-forward you any used valves or valve-train parts that you need for the head. Keeps the costs down - just let me know.

The lights look awesome btw.

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Shiny things you no longer want / Re: Eurovan Passenger Side Cubby/Glovebox

« on: June 27, 2016, 11:23:22 am »

FINAL 2

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Interior! / Re: Dashboard Cubby Installation

« on: June 27, 2016, 11:22:30 am »

Installed mine today. Went well thanks to your post! Looks like it came from the factory with the cubbie.

Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Right on!

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Shiny things you no longer want / Re: Eurovan Passenger Side Cubby/Glovebox

« on: June 14, 2016, 11:09:01 am »

FINAL 3 NEW UNITS!

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Shiny things you no longer want / Re: Eurovan Passenger Side Cubby/Glovebox

« on: June 11, 2016, 09:41:40 am »

I'll take one of the new ones.  I might be delayed getting back to you but let me know how to make this happen.

Email works -- I will send you one. 

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Shiny things you no longer want / Re: Eurovan Passenger Side Cubby/Glovebox

« on: June 11, 2016, 09:27:00 am »

Down to the final 4 new units.

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Interior! / Re: Uprated tailgate struts

« on: May 25, 2016, 02:06:02 pm »

I upgraded to the 1200N struts and took the van to a mountain bike race this past weekend.  I thought it was worth noting that the 1200N struts can hold up the tailgate, fiamma rack, and 3 mountain bikes with no problems.

Good to know -- cause I'd like to put the spare tire on the door.

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Interior! / Re: Dashboard Cubby Installation

« on: May 18, 2016, 11:05:06 am »

Are there any more of these?

Yep, I still got some left. Just email me if you want to get one.

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Winnebago "Full Campers" / Re: Custom Painted Winnebago Full Campers.

« on: May 15, 2016, 12:34:23 am »

Saw a bright russet orange EVC pass through my little town a few months ago, disappeared before I could take a pic. It was gorgeous.

I met a couple that had an custom painted EVC (he told me it was Audi Somoa Orange Metallic) - and it looked amazing and I too regret not taking a picture for internet's sake. Its an awesome color -- but its hard for a photograph to do it justice because it has some subtle hue shifting in the light -- better seen in person. This is probably the same van.