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Elwood · Post by **Elwood** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 3:28 pm

[quote="Birdibus"]Aha! there it is... my teeny, tiny Mac made avatar. PCs have the advantage with that particular task, or else I have something new to learn.

Hi Elwood. \:D/

This should be interesting... let's rock. =D>[/quote]

Back at ya Birdi, Yes this is going to be great and what alot of brain power
to pick from. I may even have to learn how to post pictures.

Love the Free speech and Music forums, they will keep this site rockin'

busboy · Post by **busboy** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 3:38 pm

Howdy Y'all!
I've seen the samba, but was always afraid to post... why are those guys so mean?

somebody needs to light some sage in here to get the party started! $\:D/$

Hey, why do I have to log in every time I visit, even when I click the log me in each visit button?

MidWesty · Post by **MidWesty** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 4:36 pm

Hey now!
Just wanted to say hey. Didn't catch the whole deal over on thesamba from the beginning, but I guess it is what it is now.
I'm always up for something new and this site looks pretty nice, so what the heck, right! It's nice to have a choice of different sites all dedicated to something we all have in common, and the ability to pick up a little from each one. Good luck and we'll see ya'll around the forums.

i_want_a_pre_49_ratbeetle · Post by **i_want_a_pre_49_ratbeetle** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 4:37 pm

wishing you best of luck here.. & hope this goes well
hope everything works out for you as well...
ill do my part here to best of my abilities..
Randy

busboy · Post by **busboy** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 4:59 pm

How long do I have to be new?

volksfolk71(aka-Jttosh) · Post by **volksfolk71(aka-Jttosh)** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 6:57 pm

Hey all,glad to see you guys did something else.Lots of questions to come.

Post by **Sluggo** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 7:03 pm

busboy wrote:How long do I have to be new?

http://sluggoproductions.com/iac/viewto ... ec148a7af9

Post by **Sluggo** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 7:20 pm

bedubs veedub wrote:greetings!

im glad that this forum is here! thanks to sluggo and colin for the wealth of information you make available to the masses. you are true pillars in the volkswagen community!

respect to the gurus

brianandsarah

Thanks for joining! That goes for everyone.

Just wanted to say I'm definitely not a Guru. I've been doing this VW stuff for a little over a year. In that time I've read every manual I could find and every website tech article I can find. I've been through 75% of the Bus at this point.

Colin is the man with the knowledge. But I think he would argue the Guru thing too. He's been into Bays since he was little and knows a hell of a lot more than 90% of the people I've met or talked to.

And finally, I just want to say that we're not in any way trying to compete with Samba or steal people away or anything like that. As Colin said, "It clearly is the current center of the VW Galaxy. It deserves every accolade that comes its way."

Competition with them would be foolish and pointless. I'll still be there daily. I like the Bay forum and most of the people in it. And it is still the best site on the net for Air-Cooled VW info.

Post by **Sluggo** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 7:22 pm

lovemybus wrote:Nice looking website. Wish you the best of luck.

The MyKin guys gave me one of your stickers when I helped them with their Bus. I'll be putting it on tomorrow.

chitwnvw · Post by **chitwnvw** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 7:42 pm

Do we want to limit our scope to the bays? That might be a way of defining ourselves, not all of vw, our narrow slice...

Post by **Amskeptic** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 8:46 pm

MidWesty wrote: Didn't catch the whole deal over on thesamba from the beginning, but I guess it is what it is now.
Good luck and we'll see ya'll around the forums.

Yes, it is what it is and was what it was. And this will be. . . .
what we make of it.

I like your avatar, kind of puts things into perspective.
Colin

Post by **Amskeptic** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 9:08 pm

chitwnvw wrote:Do we want to limit our scope to the bays? That might be a way of defining ourselves, not all of vw, our narrow slice...

The different models of VWs that have their own forum headings here will be quiet for a while, I do not doubt. They might even be reorganized in fundamental ways. It was suggested to break up technical forums not by models but by functional systems. Makes sense.

I truly was disappointed by the divisions that developed into cliques at some long-ago site whose name escapes me at present. Personally, I love driving all air-cooled VWs. I would happily shoot the breeze and assist any air-cooled VW owner.

So if spring plate adjustments are almost identical across the entire spectrum of VWs, we would get rid of a lot of repetitiveness in each model category if all air-cooled VW owners could just go to the "suspension forum" and find posts relating to their lowering, raising, adjusting, optimizing, repairing, of suspension components.

Same could be true of electrical. Terminal designations and overall engineering is identical amongst all air-cooled VWs.

Carbureted fuel systems, injected fuel systems, exhaust systems are pretty similar as far as issues and repair techniques. The topics you decide to post can announce their own specificity "'77 bus flange gaskets won't seal" can coexist with "My 1975 bug still sounds loud. "

I would enjoy putting a sticky at the top of each technical system forum where we could all over time develop a dynamite trouble-shooting flow diagram. . . with pictures even.

And we could also enjoy some needed cross-germination between model types so we can mingle at the shows more fully : )
Feedback?
Colin

Westy78 · Post by **Westy78** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 9:11 pm

Glad to see some familiar names here. Nice looking site Sluggo. Hopefully this can become a bit more productive resource for Baywindow enthusiasts than what The Samba forums has become as of late. It was really becoming tiresome to see someone come in that had never made one helpful post only to stir the s#!t.

spiffy · Post by **spiffy** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 9:15 pm

I think that would help the new to VW folks. It would also be a great benefit to those with more experience who want to jump into creative mechanics. extra bonus.....easier to diagnose the problems from member's posts as well.

chitwnvw · Post by **chitwnvw** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 9:25 pm

Uhh, this site is hot; reference to the Amskeptic post :

You are correct.

But in the google age information is so easy to come by. Even though a lot of this could be more ergonomically delivered, that's not an issue. Google is organizing it for us. Let's 'basically' stick to bays; Mostly '73s I'd say!

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