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Best Mods for the Vanagon

The best mod that I can think of (and I'm waiting to do this yet as I need new window rubber) is swapping the two side windows in a Westy so that the back passengers can be closer to an open window.
Jon Welge, rhythmpoetdonut@comcast.net
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cup holers on each front door... 8$/each Wallmart Jerome Grenon dje1er@yahoo.ca
Jerome Grenon dje1er@yahoo.ca
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My favorite mod (at this time) is the brown RV rocker switch I had installed for the stereo deck. The switch controls the ACC wire from the stereo, so I can have the deck play without the key. Works great with my house battery!
Jon Welge rhythmpoetdonut@comcast.net
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This might be bad (for those purists), but I just converted my middle westy seat that had never been sat in to being the driver's seatm complete with headrest. I changed the seat in the usual fashion, and discovered that I could pop the headrest hole tubes from the former driver's seat, feel where the interior hole structure should be on the new seat, cut a small pencil-sized hole in each headrest support location, insert the plastic headrest hole (holders) and then add the clip and the headrest itself -- voila, one hardly-used-at-all drivers seat. Now I know how that first drive felt!
rhythmpoetdonut
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If you have an automatic vanagon, you may have the same problem that I did, in seeing the shifter position at night. I could see the glow from the letters but not the shaft. A 1/2"x3" strip of aluminum tape put on the driver side of the shaft is enough to reflect the light from the letters and show the position of the shifter.
bill; billtymer@hotmail.com
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Big brake kit on the front of my syncro with 15 inch wheels drastically improved braking.
cornerj@shaw.ca
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inna ima trata verba
Alexander2110
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have 1980 aircooled 094 trans 4.86 gears 205r14 comtrac tires stock FI motor best aircooled ever
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