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• Re: Even newer New question..Waterboxer rebuild
  Historical mailing list - drc11
  Thu, 9 Sep 1999 18:30:31 -0700
  I was off the list for a couple of weeks. Did anyone talk about gettng a factory new engine? Are they still available? Use...
• chili peper for sale in texas
  Historical mailing list - gary hradek
  Fri, 31 May 2002 10:33:37 -0700
  Some like them hot and green, Not sure if this is a good combination for a waterboxer http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI...
• Re: 2.5L 120HP waterboxer.....that runs on 91 octane......90mmstroke by 94mm bore....and pases smog...hmmm?
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Bell
  Sun, 30 Jun 2002 14:36:07 -0500
  I'd love to know also - AB vana-gogh wrote: > Hi, what is the european version of the engine? It gets 110hp? What is...
• Re: FYI has some one been co opted
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:42:29 -0500
  ...Can they turn waterboxers into wine? I'd go for that. Jim > > > Jim > > On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Richard Golen...
• Re: Sick sick sick of diesel Vanagon cooling problems
  Historical mailing list - vw_van_fan_Mark
  Thu, 10 Dec 2015 13:53:20 -0800
  ...When people with the earlier 81/82 system need a new tank they commonly use the 86-91 waterboxer tank since it matches up...
• Megasquirt on Waterboxer?
  Historical mailing list - John Anderson
  Sat, 5 Sep 2009 10:22:00 -0700
  ...in one of my "I'm never going to own another waterboxer moments." � Anyway I'm looking for some specifics as to info about...
• Re: how much interest IS there in the 5cyl conversion???
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Tue, 12 Jan 1999 17:47:52 -0800
  ...Try buying a brand new waterboxer engine. There are a lot more of these engines in newer cars than waterboxers. Your concerns are much...
• Re: engine size
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:41:52 -0700
  assuming it's a 91 waterboxer Doka.. ( engine type is coded in the VIN btw.....whether gas or diesel, from the factory ) at the...
• Re: W/B engine speed max.
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 27 Jun 1996 06:35:54 -0400
  ...Is 4500 a safe speed for extended periods like this? >> Water temp[ is rarely a problem in the waterboxer. I,ll bet your oil...
• Re: Vanaru / Subagon XT6...
  Historical mailing list - Larry Hamm
  Sun, 11 May 1997 16:19:46 -0600
  ...Has anyone else attempted this swap to a flat 6?? > this seems like the only economically feasable way to put a waterboxer 6 into...
• Turbo Waterboxer was Re: Tough driving in thin air
  Historical mailing list - Mark Keller
  Sun, 1 Jul 2001 13:16:09 -0800
  Ari, When Yoshi post pictures of his Nippon get together there was a turbocharged waterboxer. Sincerely, Mark Keller 91 Carat non turbo >On the...
• Brand New Bosch AFM
  Historical mailing list - dylan
  Sat, 6 Feb 2010 09:04:27 -0800
  ...the box, not remanufactured, air flow meter for the 2.1 waterboxer. Offering it here before off to eBay and the Samba. Theses are...
• Nylon window track guides for sliding window 84 waterboxer
  Historical mailing list - DThies1008
  Sun, 5 Apr 1998 00:24:30 EST
  Dealer says that the plugs not available. Have to replace the whole metal guide attached to window glass. Has anyone had experience with this...
• Re: gasket procedure help please
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Wed, 14 Apr 1999 07:10:51 -0400
  http://www.bostonengine.com/articles/print/waterboxers.html At 22:50 4/13/99 -0500, Shaners [KS Div] wrote: > > Does anyone have a good...
• Water Boxer parts FS
  Historical mailing list - Steve
  Mon, 9 Aug 1999 22:42:16 +0100
  Waterboxer parts for sale, all genuine German parts. Full gasket set �40 Main bearings STD & +.025 �25 each Big end (rod) bearings STD & +.025...
• Waterboxer rebuild
  Historical mailing list - W. Silva
  Thu, 9 Sep 1999 20:46:39 -0400
  YES! AVP Worldwide in CA. Call Erin, she will answer ANY question you might have. Great people to do business with, you won't...
• Re: Engine out--won't come apart. Need heads!
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:25:00 -0500
  ...this is a waterboxer. Jim
• FS: RARE single middle swival seat on lockbox, from westy
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 9 Nov 2001 12:09:55 EST
  ...195, watercooled trans 4 speed (fits '83-'91 waterboxer vanagons) also aircooled 4 speed trans,waterboxer running core 2.1L motor ,and also a...
• Wasatch Vanagoners parts cache
  Historical mailing list - Steve Blackham
  Fri, 11 May 2001 18:55:37 -0600
  ...It's the 86 up waterboxers I'm worried about. There are several parts that are not available locally which as a group we...
• Re: Carrier Bars?
  Historical mailing list - Michael Snow
  Sun, 4 Dec 2011 15:02:51 -0500
  On 12/04/2011 01:59 PM, Jim Arnott wrote: > Inline replacing a waterboxer. I keep getting ambiguous answers. > > Question: '84 wasserboxer. > > I have...
• Re: what the vw waterboxer offers?? wasRe: 85 Westfalia beeping
  Historical mailing list - Mark Ingalls
  Wed, 30 May 2001 13:50:54 -0500
  ...what the vw waterboxer offers?? wasRe: 85 Westfalia beeping In a message dated 5/30/01 9:50:53 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ChrisS...
• vanagon diesel or inline 4 conversion kit FS on samba...converts wbx to inline4
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:21:38 EST
  not mine, but this is a good price....convert your waterboxer to diesel or inline 4cyl gas... _http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail...
• towing with a waterboxer 1.9
  Historical mailing list - Tony Moore
  Tue, 26 Nov 1996 15:29:09 -0500
  Any advice/opinions on the possibility of towing a bug on a trailer with my '83.5 wasserboxer 1.9 vanagon (recently replaced head...
• Re: Waterboxer rebuild survey Update! (more data please!)
  Historical mailing list - John
  Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:56:34 -0400
  Dom wrote: > > > before you drive (I think most of us let that one slip), don't over rev it > and maybe just as importantly...
• Re: Shuddering clutch
  Historical mailing list - Dadeeo
  Thu, 9 Dec 1999 01:01:35 -0500
  ...Excellent runner, pulled from van to donate the waterboxer to my '74 Baja. It's cold up here in Michigan, had to have real...
• Re: Coolant System Change/Flush (Archived Posts, Part 5)
  Historical mailing list - Budd Premack
  Thu, 28 Sep 2000 00:30:22 -0500
  ...Budd Premack 86 Syncro, 73 Super Minneapolis, MN (Land of Sky-Blue Waters) Re Pressure Bleeding the Waterboxer.eml [message/rfc822]
• Fw: Coolant System Change/Flush (Archived Posts, Part 5)
  Historical mailing list - Budd Premack
  Tue, 26 Sep 2000 05:45:58 -0500
  ...Budd Premack 86 Syncro, 73 Super Minneapolis, MN (Land of Sky-Blue Waters) Re Pressure Bleeding the Waterboxer.eml [message/rfc822]
• Re: Coolant System Change/Flush (Archived Posts, Part 5)
  Historical mailing list - Budd Premack
  Sat, 30 Sep 2000 23:01:20 -0500
  ...Budd Premack 86 Syncro, 73 Super Minneapolis, MN (Land of Sky-Blue Waters) Re Pressure Bleeding the Waterboxer.eml [message/rfc822]
• Sulfur-like exhaust smell??
  Historical mailing list - John Baker
  Wed, 16 Jan 2002 10:55:30 -0500
  Anyone know what would cause a sulfur-like exhaust smell from a 1.9l waterboxer? It kinda smells like the after burn of a...
• Re: Longevity of Conversion Engines
  Historical mailing list - Steven Gager
  Mon, 25 Mar 2002 22:36:35 -0500
  ...and I have to say that my tired 1.9 waterboxer has a lot more than my 2.0 air cooled had when it...
• Re: 82 tranny
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Wed, 14 Jul 2004 04:55:19 -0700
  ...Any 2wd waterboxer tranny from 83-91 will work fine. Mark Jere Hawn wrote: >Hi All, > > > >Will an 82 tranny air cooled fit in...
• Re: Vanagon carb needed, with waterboxer manifolds
  Historical mailing list - Richard Green
  Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:52:14 -0500
  Found this on the WBX forum, the URL is not good but you should be able to check in a Hot VW mag. "i...
• Re: Okrasa (was Fryeday - What kind of VW are you?)
  Historical mailing list - Bill Collins
  Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:09:58 -0500
  >wasserboxer as well as a complete 6 cyl waterboxer >of up to 3.7L capacity. Cost at the time of manufacture was something >like...
• Re: Exhaust Design
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:22:17 -0500
  ...equipment almost > ,......waterboxer intake set up. > > I even have late-night wild plans to fit a subaru intake onto a waterboxer > engine ....though ........that...
• Re: Vanagon Transmission swap
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Tue, 28 Mar 2000 06:21:29 -0800
  ...All US waterboxer 4 speeds are interchangeable. Near one of the bottom corners of the tranny is the ID # starting with 2 or 3...
• Re: lifters for new engine?
  Historical mailing list - John Connolly
  Mon, 24 Mar 2003 12:11:58 -0700
  ...We can get flow increases of over 30% from a stock waterboxer port. You should get a flowbench and play with it a little...
• Re: Bad heads and a noise
  Historical mailing list - KENWILFY
  Sat, 6 Dec 1997 15:39:55 EST
  ...Replacing the motor with another Waterboxer, to me, would be a mistake. You could replace it with a rebuilt Chevy V6 for less than...
• Re: waterboxer coolant light
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 1 Aug 1998 23:56:30 -0400
  ...VANAGON.COM> Date: Friday, July 31, 1998 4:33 PM Subject: waterboxer coolant light >The warning LED on my temp gauge(located over the...
• Re: Engine Conversion Options
  Historical mailing list - Pat
  Fri, 11 Dec 1998 21:37:33 -0500
  ...I would feel much better installing an Audi motor from the junkyard that I paid 150 bucks for than a new waterboxer I paid...
• Re: what the vw waterboxer offers?? wasRe: 85 Westfalia beeping
  Historical mailing list - Rico Sapolich
  Thu, 31 May 2001 07:53:47 EDT
  In a message dated 5/31/01 5:38:59 AM, andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ writes: << What do you have against the...
• new zealand waterpump fights deportation
  Historical mailing list - gary hradek
  Mon, 24 Jun 2002 13:24:05 -0700
  There has to be someone outhere in new zealand with a waterboxer who will give a home to this pump. gary http://cgi.ebay...
• need muffler brackets for 2.1 wbx
  Historical mailing list - Al and Sue Brase
  Tue, 14 Oct 2003 22:43:12 -0500
  ...I need both muffler brackets for a 2.1 waterboxer. (Straps, too, but those are usually shot!) Mine are too rusty to bother fixing...
• coolant disposal
  Historical mailing list - Scott Walker
  Mon, 1 Dec 2003 08:25:46 -0500
  A bit ago William (developtrust) was asking about r&r of a hose on his waterboxer. Many responded with what I am sure was...
• Re: 396,000 miles!!?? can anybody beat that?
  Historical mailing list - Zeitgeist
  Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:01:51 -0800
  ...have a '90 carat parts van here that has over *450k on its original > engine* > > *despite that, i still think waterboxer motors are junk.* > >
• Re: digifant injection
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Mon, 6 Apr 2009 19:21:45 -0700
  ...not that big a deal..........I was even dreaming of retrofitting a Subaru fuel injection system to a waterboxer. Vanagon fuel injection is pretty...
• Re: Tune Up Poll
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott )
  Sat, 20 Feb 2016 16:35:58 -1000
  ...and now we know you drive a 1.9 waterboxer engine ... or at least the fuel/ignition system on some waterboxer. Doesn't that...
• intake air temps, was:Re: Oil Buzzer advice
  Historical mailing list - vw_van_fan_Mark
  Fri, 2 Oct 2015 01:28:28 -0700
  The people who check IAT's on waterboxers are people who are trying to figure out why the engine is failing emissions tests. The...
• Re: Not shifting into 4th gear...maybe?
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:01:26 -0800
  ...According to VW parts data and the Bentley, North American waterboxers got DU, ABD, and ACW 4 speeds. All are very nearly the same...
• Re: Gas heaters...was Re: Heater
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015 21:14:02 -0800
  ...You can add a BA6 >>>> to a waterboxer vanagon is you do some custom ducting, but vw never used >>>> them on the waterboxers. the...
• Re: vanagon Digest Huffer motor post
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Fri, 18 May 2007 14:18:38 -0700
  ...I have a couple still powered by 2.1 waterboxers as well. One will become a turbo diesel next week. Mark Don Hanson wrote...
• Re: vanagon Digest Huffer motor post
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Fri, 18 May 2007 12:15:00 -0700
  For all the gripes about them, the 2.1 waterboxer is the strongest and longest living stock engine ever sold in a VW Van...
• Re: MAF sensor and a waterboxer
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Mon, 1 Oct 2007 12:44:56 -0700
  ...MAF sensor and a waterboxer I remember GM MAF's are karman units, and produce a frequency based "count" for the ECU, this would...
• used 2.1l waterboxer FS $800
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 1 Feb 1999 23:47:25 EST
  ...smoke, passes NJ emissions, runs with plenty of power (for a waterboxer that is) and has been very reliable. No head leaks and really...
• Re: True Canadian Winter Bus Campout
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Tue, 24 Feb 2004 06:02:54 EST
  ...Have a good one and don't freeze your butts off ! Good luck to you and yoiur dad finding a waterboxer. I'm now...
• Re: Oil Pump Replacement.
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Tue, 10 Nov 2015 15:47:33 -0600
  ...And you expect to get that from a waterboxer? Well, I guess all things are relative. David McNeely
• Re: road greetings
  Historical mailing list - nick mcree
  Wed, 24 Aug 1994 23:13:35 -0500 (CDT)
  ...Almost every airhead waved back, but hardly any waterboxers returned the greeting. (The splitties were especially enthusiastic in seeing another in their brood plugging...
• Suburu Engine Transplants into Vanagons
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 30 Jun 1996 08:47:06 -0400
  As a new owner of a 1987 Vanagon waterboxer with a bad engine I wonder if any one out there in VW Bus World...
• diesel for sale?
  Historical mailing list - Jon Kostal,Sr.
  Sun, 31 Aug 1997 13:44:29 -0600
  ...I need parts from it to do a conversion for my waterboxer to a rabbit fuel injected gas engine. Please e-mail me directly...
• Re: air cooled to 5cyl=heat?
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 25 Jan 1999 15:05:34 EST
  ...Probably need to scrounge the parts off of a smashed or trashed waterboxer Vanagon. Hope this helps. Ken Wilford Van-Again John 3:16
• tranny question....
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 3 Jun 1999 11:33:24 EDT
  ...i know it's not a bolt in thing, but is it possible to adapt a aircooled 4spd to a waterboxer vanagon? he's...