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• Re: Type 4 Necromancy?
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Thu, 29 Aug 2002 20:32:38 -0500
  ...It is important to recognize the cause of an engine failure or identify an oncoming problem when you see the signs. In most cases...
• Re: Air cooled diesel Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Fri, 22 Oct 2004 19:07:49 -0500
  ...Are the diesel engines from the early '80s based > on a Type 4 gas engine? Are there other things besides the fuel injection > that...
• Re: I am considering installing an auxiliary oil cooler
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:17:01 -0700
  ...Or am I just > trying > to over engineer something? Anyone with experience with an > auxiliary oil > cooler might know if I am trying to...
• Re: DJ-code WBX technical specs
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:14:37 -0800
  ...9l DH > WBX. > > DJ Engine - 2.1l Waterboxer - FI > Technical Specifications > > Vehicle Identification > > capacity: 2109cc > mumber of cylinders/type: 4/overhead valve > production run...
• Re: engine for 73 bus.
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 22 Jun 95 8:22:52 MDT
  The 2.0L engine also came in 2 head flavours as well. Up to about '78 or '79 they used the type 4 exhaust...
• Re: Carb conversion?
  Historical mailing list - Jonce Fancher
  Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:50:11 -0400
  ...I've been told that these >do not fit water cooled engines, but I'm not the expert. >I have been running a carb...
• Craigslist 72 Bus
  Historical mailing list - Michael Sullivan
  Sun, 6 Jan 2008 07:48:50 -0800
  ...The motor is a 2.0 Liter that came from a porsche 914, it's essentially the same as a type 4 Volkswagen motor...
• Re: what the vw waterboxer offers?? wasRe: 85 Westfalia beeping
  Historical mailing list - Road Camper
  Wed, 30 May 2001 19:42:33 -0700
  ...engine >54 Bug./ 1960 356 engine >74 FJ55 Landcruiser / Chevrolet >68 Camaro 6-cyl / Corvette 327 >67 Karmann Ghia / 2.0 914 Type 4...
• Re: ECU Chip Upgrade Info.
  Historical mailing list - Lawrence Dongilli
  Fri, 31 Jul 1998 07:03:05 -0700
  ...I guess I am a little slow, as I still haven't yet taken the engine apart. =B7D Anyway, check into the possibilities. I...
• Re: best way to remove original hose clamps?
  Historical mailing list - Mike
  Sun, 27 Jan 2008 09:43:33 -0500
  ...And replace them with good quality screw type # 4 size American style small hose clamps, or There are German small ones that are even...
• Re: Compression Question
  Historical mailing list - Vanagon man
  Sat, 17 Aug 2002 19:02:07 -0400
  ...I forget about how great that stuff (MMO) is at fixing > such. > I just pulled a 132,000 mile Type 4 apart today, and...
• 2.1 w/solid lifters - Frankenstein's Monster Lives!
  Historical mailing list - VW Doka
  Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:48:04 -0700
  ...VW bug camshaft (mild grind) and solid lifters from a Type 4 engine (his old lifters rattled incessantly). The cooling system is stock 1...
• Re: Valve seat drop on 81 vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Daniel Schmitz
  Mon, 24 Jul 2000 10:50:47 -0700
  ...The VW Type 4 engine is notorious for dropping exhaust valve seats at either high mileage or when severely overheated. However, normal operation should...
• Re: Help setting deck height on Type 4 motor
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:55:46 -0600
  ...Help setting deck height on Type 4 motor > > Stock VW Heads require the head gaskets. > AMC Heads do no not require gaskets. > Base shims...
• Re: DJ-code WBX technical specs
  Historical mailing list - Kim Springer
  Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:32:49 -0800
  ...DJ Engine - 2.1l Waterboxer - FI Technical Specifications Vehicle Identification capacity: 2109cc mumber of cylinders/type: 4/overhead valve production run: 2/1985 - 10...
• Re: Rislone Ring Seal and Other Oil Pressure Thoughts
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 13 Oct 2002 09:05:44 -0400
  ...I also bought this type 4 extender from CIP1 http://store.cip1.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=cali& Product_Code=VDO...
• Re: WBX Carb conversion?! - Still a Hoax!
  Historical mailing list - Mike Rouby
  Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:32:57 -0700
  ...While even >>the Weber site lists it as working with the early watercooled as well as >>the aircooled Vanagons and earlier Type 4 motors...
• Westy battery cable
  Historical mailing list - Ian Heier
  Tue, 25 Feb 2003 02:36:30 -0500
  ...Off to Sears I go to get an "International" type 40 batt. Slog it home on the bus hook it up..zoom!! off I...
• Advice Rebuilding an 84 : head coating
  Historical mailing list - Todd Francis
  Wed, 18 Dec 1996 12:56:23 -0800
  ...I also had a couple of air cooled race engines (type 4) done. This was done strictly to keep as much heat out of...
• Thoughts on a GEX engine
  Historical mailing list - Chris Smith
  Tue, 31 Jul 2001 13:49:13 -0700
  ...Since this is my 3rd GEX engine to crap-out on me, I do have a bit of experience. But $500 for a type...
• Re: major problem or minor faux pas?
  Historical mailing list - Bulley
  Mon, 15 Nov 1999 06:57:31 -0500
  ...The type 4 motor can *conceivably* skip timing if the distributor drive shaft isn't mated to the base of the distributor. And in...
• RE: CB Performance Fuel Injection system
  Historical mailing list - Scott Allred
  Tue, 28 May 96 15:51:28 UT
  Jeff Lorentzen wrote: >Has anyone actually purchased and used a fuel injection system from CB >Performance for a VW type 1 or type 4...
• Re: Water vs. Air
  Historical mailing list - Daniel Schmitz
  Mon, 17 Jul 2000 20:40:00 -0700
  ...The aircooled engine suffers from a design problem inherent in the VW Type 4 engine, where the cylinder head is the weak link in...
• Re: DJ-code WBX technical specs
  Historical mailing list - Jim Akiba
  Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:51:17 -0500
  ...9l DH >> WBX. >> >> DJ Engine - 2.1l Waterboxer - FI >> Technical Specifications >> >> Vehicle Identification >> >> capacity: 2109cc >> mumber of cylinders/type: 4/overhead valve >> production run...
• Re: finding TDC--super precise
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Wed, 5 Jan 2000 08:56:48 -0800
  ...Take all the plugs out, it is much easier to turn the engine by hand. Instead of using a finger, take an old spark...
• Re: Carb conversion?
  Historical mailing list - David Bohannan
  Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:09:37 -0400
  ...I've been told that these > >do not fit water cooled engines, but I'm not the expert. > > >I have been running a carb...
• Re: 86 syncro I-4 swap
  Historical mailing list - selten
  Mon, 2 Jun 2003 12:57:15 -0500
  ...Oh! by the way I have owned 5 Vanagons ,both air and wasser; rebuilt both engines and have gone Tiico because I wanted to...
• Re: DJ-code WBX technical specs
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:17:34 -0500
  ...9l DH > WBX. > > DJ Engine - 2.1l Waterboxer - FI > Technical Specifications > > Vehicle Identification > > capacity: 2109cc > mumber of cylinders/type: 4/overhead valve > production run...
• Re: Choosing a case sealer
  Historical mailing list - James Felder
  Fri, 26 Aug 2011 07:14:54 -0500
  ...I've used the product(s) to > assemble aircooled engines (Type 1 and Type 4 in the past with > excellent results thanks to the...
• Re: I am considering installing an auxiliary oil cooler
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:32:43 -0500
  ...Or am I just > > trying > > to over engineer something? Anyone with experience with an > > auxiliary oil > > cooler might know if I am trying to...
• Re: Carb conversion?
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Wed, 16 Aug 2006 16:42:48 -0700
  ...Be sure to buy a jet kit with any carb that you buy, as that way one can tweek the jets for the engine...
• Re: best way to remove original hose clamps?
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:26:14 -0500
  ...No damage to > the > hose or anything. > And replace them with good quality screw type # 4 size American style small > hose clamps, or > There...
• Re: Fryeday - What kind of VW are you?
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Sat, 11 Mar 2006 20:13:28 -0600
  ...of big bore kit for either the Vanagon engine or maybe it was the Type 4. Took it out to like 2.5 liters...
• Re: Cracked head/temp sensor...
  Historical mailing list - Daniel Schmitz
  Fri, 24 Aug 2001 13:33:16 -0700
  ...Re other work, the Type 4 engine is pretty robust in the lower end. The heads are the weak point, with exhaust valve seats...
• Re: State of the List... State your ages
  Historical mailing list - Norman Rowe
  Sun, 9 May 2004 23:18:29 -0700
  ...two buses ('70 and '73), a Type 3 squareback ('68?), a Type 4 squareback ('74), and now an '85 Vanagon GL we bought a...
• Re: 81 Westy Dead Engine
  Historical mailing list - G. Matthew Bulley
  Sun, 15 Sep 2002 21:06:11 -0400
  ...Boston Engine Exchange also does smart things with Type 4 motors and have earned a reputation for turning out rock solid daily-driver motors...
• Re: PHRYDAYE Rambling... oh, didn't she ramble, ramble, she rambled til the Navy cut 'er down ... ;)
  Historical mailing list - joel walker
  Fri, 7 Sep 2007 09:41:09 -0500
  ...and there are some who trash the type 4/914/411-412 motor as being worse than the old beetle engine, but lemme tell...
• Re: replacing noisy lifter for 91 multivan
  Historical mailing list - Vanagon man
  Fri, 28 Mar 2003 06:40:15 -0500
  WBX is not quite as easy as on a type 4 engine......you cannot pull the pushrod tubes out thru the head on a...
• Re: Rislone Ring Seal and Other Oil Pressure Thoughts
  Historical mailing list - G.M.Bulley
  Sat, 12 Oct 2002 13:03:06 -0400
  ...I also bought this type 4 extender from CIP1 http://store.cip1.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=cali& Product_Code=VDO...
• Bus for Sale (not mine)
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 15 Apr 95 12:46:44 EDT
  ...Price ? and '73 Bus, engine blown, body excellent, $350 I will go look at both as I have this mission in life to know...
• Re: Replacing pushrod tubes
  Historical mailing list - Noto-Gaudette
  Thu, 17 Jun 1999 22:56:07 -0400
  ...on the type 4 engines, (1972-1983), they used the porsche seals for the 914/912E ... it seems that the porsche seals lasted longer...
• Re: 2.1 w/solid lifters - Frankenstein's Monster Lives!
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:57:56 -0700
  ...VW bug camshaft (mild > grind) and solid lifters from a Type 4 engine (his old lifters rattled > incessantly). The cooling system is stock 1...
• RE: Alpine Developments, V6anagony
  Historical mailing list - Maher, Steve (SD-MS)
  Wed, 17 Apr 1996 09:05:00 -0700 (PDT)
  ...shape as the ridge on the mounting flange of a type-4 engine I would guess, so that the adapter can't slide back...
• for sale/wanted: vwcoa and LiMBO
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Mon, 28 Nov 94 09:27:13 CST
  ...2 and Type 4 parts available. Call Mike in IN (219) 672-3558 Available: 1970 westfalia pop-top camper. new trans, engine fair, little...
• Re: 2.1 w/solid lifters - Frankenstein's Monster Lives!
  Historical mailing list - Keith Ovregaard
  Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:23:18 -0700
  ...VW bug camshaft > (mild > grind) and solid lifters from a Type 4 engine (his old lifters rattled > incessantly). The cooling system is stock 1...
• Re: On Longevity, Displacement, Efficiency and Technology in Conversions
  Historical mailing list - Edward Nutter
  Wed, 27 Mar 2002 09:44:23 -0800
  ...The engine longest in the tooth is the old Type 4, followed closely by > the old low compression I4 CIS engines, and Vanagon WB...
• Re: 1.9L Build early stages rod question
  Historical mailing list - ROBERT DONALDS
  Mon, 7 Nov 2005 09:27:09 -0500
  ...After saying all that my recomendation would be to install a rebuilt 2.1 engine longer stroke and better engine over all. The stock...
• Re: Drain plug problems
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 6 Jan 1996 13:38:01 -0500
  ...However, warming up an aluminum engine and then >pulling a bolt out of a warm crankcase may win me new honors in the >"no...
• Phone list part 2
  Historical mailing list - Ben McCafferty
  Tue, 27 Nov 2001 08:03:26 -0800
  ...The downside right now is that the site only allows you to list knowledgeability on 1200-1600 air-cooled engines, as well as type...
• Re: Oil level vs temp test
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Tue, 9 Aug 2011 15:36:21 -0700
  ...It will creep up a bit on a grade, but Type 4 engines tend to run a bit warmer than their 1600 air cooled...
• Re: '80 Westfalia-- best way to drive over passes
  Historical mailing list - G. Matthew Bulley
  Wed, 23 Jan 2002 07:26:34 -0500
  ...Type 4 vehicle #8 for me, and only one motor failure (at 135k due to low compression) This whole notion that the "ENGINE ACCUMULATES...
• Re: '79 Westy A/C ??
  Historical mailing list - Turner,Ronald L.
  20 Sep 96 13:56:23 EDT
  ...Nearly all the late model aircooled type 4 engined, fuel injected buses I have seen with A/C that were in the junkyard, that...
• Re: Ethnicity of Oil Pressure Switch
  Historical mailing list - G. Matthew Bulley
  Sat, 20 Apr 2002 15:41:12 -0400
  ...Ethnicity of Oil Pressure Switch Once the oil is hoot, the engine will not reliably hold 29 psi at 200 rpm. These engine typically...
• Re: How To Get Fatherland "Vanagon" Lists delivered here in English
  Historical mailing list - Ray Hunnam
  Tue, 15 Sep 1998 16:52:45 -0700
  ...Fast backs etc were the Type 3 models and the Type 4 were the Golfs Passats etc. Now each Type had a further sub...
• <No subject>
  Historical mailing list - Don Williams
  Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:45:26 -0700
  ...I didn't want to start the engine because I thought that it might provide the spark that lit the whole thing, but I...
• Re: DJ-code WBX technical specs
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:20:28 -0800
  ...DJ Engine - 2.1l Waterboxer - FI Technical Specifications Vehicle Identification capacity: 2109cc mumber of cylinders/type: 4/overhead valve production run: 2/1985 - 10...
• Re: Vanagon Manuals
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Mon, 16 May 94 03:26:50 CDT
  ...Band 101, VW Bus, from August 1972 to June 1979 (all type-4 engined buses of the second generation body style). the other set...
• oil cooler details.
  Historical mailing list - Bulley
  Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:43:24 -0400
  ...is a small engine, with a LOT of oil. I think VW skimped on the oil capacity for the type 4. As far as...
• Re: Oil level vs temp test
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Tue, 9 Aug 2011 16:37:06 -0700
  ...It will creep up a bit on a grade, but > Type 4 engines tend to run a bit warmer than their 1600 air cooled...
• Re: Engine Balancing
  Historical mailing list - G.M.Bulley
  Thu, 24 Oct 2002 07:31:00 -0400
  ...engine balance in VW engines is very good, I've never found a VW engine that was far enough out of balance to cause...