[Vwdiesel] Wasps (was hydraulic heating)

[82 Diesel Westy]

Nope, just when I am routing through one during the
summer in a junk yard, they love the vanagons.

The van I am restoring was parked in a field in the
Ozark Mts. of Arkansas for a few years.  When I got it
back to NJ and start to strip it down for the resto, I
found mud wasp nests in EVERY possible orifice of that
van, after a year of working on it I still find
another one almost every time I am putting something
else back on the van, I am talking like 50 small and
large nests were found, none with life bugs thank god.

Bryan, NJ


--- cass <iscass at shaw.ca> wrote:

> a while back on the 'land cruiser 'list im on 
> (diesel)
> there was a link posted ..to a resurch project...
> don't remember the specifics now ,except they were
> studying spiders in...? Australia? maybe Africa?
> anyway..
> they would park a land cruiser wagon near the 
> bush.
> seems the spiders where drawn to the vibration of 
> the
>  (diesel)  motor running.
> didn't work well with gassers.
> 
> so maybe there's more to the bug attraction and 
> diesels?
> 
> cassie.
> happily driving in luxury in,
> the 88 turbo jetta :o)
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`
> 
> Shawn, my man, the wasps as something else!  Of 
> all the cars I've owned,
> with all the paint schemes, only two, a 1979 Lemon 
> Yellow Rabbit (got
> Lemon Yellow for visibility after someone ran a 
> stop sign into my
> Miami Blue Rabbit and totaled it), and my current 
> 91 Tornado Red Jetta,
> have the masterful ability of picking up wasps 
> nests while running
> down the road.  It's a constant battle in every 
> door, underneath the
> car, and even in the radiator area.  I can't 
> figure it out.  It's like
> the cars oooze some kind of pheromone.  The wasps 
> even gather at night.
> 
> Anyone else find this problem with VW?  Diesels?
> 
> Val 
> 
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Bryan Belman, Pt Pleasant, NJ
04 Jetta Wagon TDI PD, 100hp, 5sp
Rebuilding 82 Diesel Weekender from my old rusty 82 Westy 1.9NA
90 Audi 200, 2.2L Turbo FWD
70 Type 1 stock Beetle