[T2] Hwy 50

[Joe St.Croix]

I did the Nevada section in a Penske box truck...nice drive, went into Reno
then on to Tahoe for Wanderlust..I was driving gear for Shpongle..good
times!


On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 5:43 PM, David Parsons <bugnut1 at comcast.net> wrote:

>
> I live on the Md./De. Line on the good old eastern shore. If you make it
> this far shoot me a line. Maybe we could do dinner /beer. Depending I. When
> your around I'm putting on a Campout Nov.1-3 in Laurel De. 15 miles off rt.
>  50!
> Dave
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> >   1. Heater Boxes on '72 Riviera (Iain McLennon)
> >   2. Rear brakes on 71 (Jim Muir)
> >   3. Re: Rear brakes on 71 (accessys at smart.net)
> >   4. Re: Rear brakes on 71 (Old Volks Home)
> >   5. Re: Heater Boxes on '72 Riviera (John Kolak)
> >   6. Re: US Highway 50, going East (John Anderson)
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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 12:07:18 -0700
> > From: "Iain McLennon" <capt.12string at comcast.net>
> > To: <type2 at type2.com>
> > Subject: [T2] Heater Boxes on '72 Riviera
> > Message-ID: <006301cece90$c3ee7440$4bcb5cc0$@12string at comcast.net>
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> > I have replaced heater boxes on a '69 Beetle and '72 Super Beetle, but
> I'm
> > currently faced with doing the same on a '72 Riviera Bay (totally
> different
> > scenario).  Does anyone have any tips for things I should be aware of or
> > things I should do while I'm doing this particular project?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 2
> > Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 16:45:49 -0400
> > From: "Jim Muir" <JimM at polarisinvest.com>
> > To: <type2 at type2.com>
> > Subject: [T2] Rear brakes on 71
> > Message-ID:
> >    <233F3F28C40C184C9E89D9113DBC5E4902947520 at polaris-exch01.Polaris.local
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> > This is my first time on this list.
> >
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> > I have a 71 Camper that I am redoing the brakes on.  On the rear,
> between the shoes is a "connector" which separates the shoes.  Underneath
> that is the spring.  In the middle is a "clip" which would appear to clip
> the spring to the connector.  My old clips will not snap together.
>  BusDepot cannot find new clips.  Any ideas?
> >
> >
> >
> > Many thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> > Jim
> >
> >
> >
> > James I. Muir, III
> >
> > Vice President, Client Relations
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> > jimm at polarisinvest.com
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> >  Polaris Investment Partners Inc
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> > Polaris Private Managers Ltd
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> > 30 Fenwick Hall Alle?
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> > Johns Island, SC 29455
> >
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> > (843)414-4000 <tel:%28843%29414-4000>           fax: (843)414-4001<tel:%28843%29414-4001>
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> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 3
> > Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 16:54:55 -0400 (EDT)
> > From: accessys at smart.net
> > To: Jim Muir <JimM at polarisinvest.com>
> > Cc: type2 at type2.com
> > Subject: Re: [T2] Rear brakes on 71
> > Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.60.1310211653410.31862 at cygnus.smart.net>
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> >
> > I have not used the clip in about 20 yrs and have not detected anything
> > amiss.  however YMMV and for legal reason am not actually reccomending
> you
> > do this.
> >
> > Bob
> >
> >
> >> On Mon, 21 Oct 2013, Jim Muir wrote:
> >>
> >> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 16:45:49 -0400
> >> From: Jim Muir <JimM at polarisinvest.com>
> >> To: type2 at type2.com
> >> Subject: [T2] Rear brakes on 71
> >>
> >> This is my first time on this list.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I have a 71 Camper that I am redoing the brakes on.  On the rear,
> between the shoes is a "connector" which separates the shoes.  Underneath
> that is the spring.  In the middle is a "clip" which would appear to clip
> the spring to the connector.  My old clips will not snap together.
>  BusDepot cannot find new clips.  Any ideas?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Many thanks.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Jim
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> James I. Muir, III
> >>
> >> Vice President, Client Relations
> >>
> >> jimm at polarisinvest.com
> >>
> >> Polaris Investment Partners Inc
> >>
> >> Polaris Private Managers Ltd
> >>
> >> 30 Fenwick Hall Alle?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Johns Island, SC 29455
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> (843)414-4000 <tel:%28843%29414-4000>           fax: (843)414-4001<tel:%28843%29414-4001>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> > ------------------------------
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> > Message: 4
> > Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 13:57:34 -0700
> > From: Old Volks Home <oldvolkshome at gmail.com>
> > To: Jim Muir <JimM at polarisinvest.com>
> > Cc: Type 2 List <type2 at type2.com>
> > Subject: Re: [T2] Rear brakes on 71
> > Message-ID:
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> >
> > VW Part Number 211 609 625
> >
> > Fits Buses 64-71, VW discontinued it in July 1991.  Guess it's time to
> hit
> > the boneyard.
> >
> > Jim Thompson
> > 84 GL 1.9 "Gloria"
> > 84 Westfalia 2.1 "Ole Putt"
> > 72 411 Station Wagon "Pug"
> > 75 914 1.8 "Nancy"
> > Full Timing From March 1999 To January 2012
> > oldvolkshome at gmail.com
> > http://www.oldvolkshome.com
> > Find me on Facebook:
> > http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Thompson/100000710343835
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> >
> >
> >> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Jim Muir <JimM at polarisinvest.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> This is my first time on this list.
> >> I have a 71 Camper that I am redoing the brakes on.  On the rear,
> between
> >> the shoes is a "connector" which separates the shoes.  Underneath that
> is
> >> the spring.  In the middle is a "clip" which would appear to clip the
> >> spring to the connector.  My old clips will not snap together.  BusDepot
> >> cannot find new clips.  Any ideas?
> >> Many thanks.
> >> Jim
> >>
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 5
> > Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 18:06:00 +0700
> > From: John Kolak <jkolak at gmail.com>
> > Cc: t2 <type2 at type2.com>
> > Subject: Re: [T2] Heater Boxes on '72 Riviera
> > Message-ID:
> >    <CALJ58tqSPBoNeVar5yUxuF1hWPTCY9UfwhQ4Ao1cpz0qffwyeg at mail.gmail.com>
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> >
> > Disconnect the heater boxes from the fan shroud, remove the fan and work
> > the shroud back a little so the heater boxes can clear the fan shroud
> when
> > coming down. Of course, first disconnect the heater ducting and
> alternator
> > bracket from the heater boxes. Originally there were also support
> brackets
> > that helped take the weight of the heater boxes off the exhaust studs,
> but
> > these are often long gone. Install them while you are at it.
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 6
> > Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 11:14:43 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: John Anderson <wvukidsdoc at yahoo.com>
> > To: Bob Perring <perring at roadrunner.com>
> > Cc: type2 at type2.com
> > Subject: Re: [T2] US Highway 50, going East
> > Message-ID:
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> >
> > Bob I've driven US50 coast to coast twice, and the WV to DC section
> probably 50+ times, so I'll make a couple suggestions depending
> how/when/where you find yourself, I'd of course recc staying in WV (over
> OH, MD or VA ugg).  Both North Bend and Tygart Lake state parks are nice to
> camp, but both are a bit off the highway (Tygart Lake closer to the
> higway.)  For that matter if you got time, I'd probably initially take US
> 40 or whatever hits Dayton OH and hit the Wright Patterson aviation museum
> if you never had then come down to US 50.  In WV, Parkersburg to Clarksburg
> pretty boring 4 lane (be careful it is all non interstate style at grade
> intersections, and people do stupid things.)  Between Grafton and the MD
> border about halfway is Cool Springs Park, a real neat place where some guy
> in the 60's drug a bunch of old tractors, early trucks, etc, built a
> giftshop, unfortunately it gets a little more into disrepair every year,
> still neat just the rust takes
> > over more every year.  After that Cathedral State Park in WV nice as
> well to see, some of the remaining first growth trees on the east coast,
> but not so much to camp, Mt Storm Lake nice to sail, don't think there is
> camping there either.  That area BTW can have unexpected bad weather
> passing over the eastern front.  Mount Storm (aptly named) area in MD can
> have snow/wind like you wouldn't believe.  The whole section east of
> Grafton in WV until you get well into VA is some of the worst/best road on
> US 50 in the whole country depending on perspective.  A good illustration
> is when I lived in Keryser WV (on the WV/MD border) and had a then new VW
> Corrado, if I drove balls to the wall on 50, vs doing the same drive via
> US48 (now I68) and I79 which was twice the miles, the time to get back to
> my parents in Clarksburg was the same.  In a bus, that 150 miles or so is a
> crawl, and will take nearly twice the time you think.  Get in snow or
> behind 1 coal truck and
> > you are creeping not even crawling, I've even seen the road shut down
> totally several times.  Once you get into VA past Winchester it is pretty,
> becomes rolling hills, farmland with stone fences, and is actually as good
> a way into DC as I66 or anything else.  If you go all the way, of course
> you eventually go to Annapolis and then the eastern shore with a lot of
> nice stuff over there, Assateague at the very end.
> >
> > John
> >
> > --------------------------------------------
> > On Sun, 10/20/13, Bob Perring <perring at roadrunner.com> wrote:
> >
> > Subject: [T2] US Highway 50, going East
> > To: "Type 2 List" <type2 at type2.com>
> > Date: Sunday, October 20, 2013, 7:42 PM
> >
> > Thank you all for the information I
> > am getting !!
> > Keep it coming as you think of more.
> > We are looking forward to our trip with great excitement.
> >
> >
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