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• Remote Starting
  Historical mailing list - David Preston
  Wed, 27 Mar 1996 23:26:25 -0500
  I discovered an easy connection for starting my '72 van from the engine compartment. In center of the "computer Plug in thing" there are...
• Re: Loose engine compartment lid
  Historical mailing list - Michael Nichols
  Sat, 25 Nov 2000 13:28:58 -0500
  ...Check your clearances by placing a flat board on the engine lid lip and seeing what is too close and banging/tapping on it...
• Re: Power loss still in '85
  Historical mailing list - Allan Bagley
  Fri, 11 Jan 2002 09:57:35 -0800
  >>plug wires Worth looking in engine compartment with engine running in the dark of night. I have seen all kinds of unusual steady and...
• Re: Does back closet have a floor?
  Historical mailing list - Jason
  Mon, 6 Aug 2012 18:25:27 -0400
  ...The stuff in it fell into the > engine compartment when I removed the engine cover! > > > > Stuart > > '85 Westy, lots to do >
• Re: Bleeding Cooling system per Bentley
  Historical mailing list - kenneth d lewis
  Fri, 15 Jan 1999 06:38:42 EST
  ...close bleeder screw in engine compartment >16. turn engine off >17. top up overflow tank >18. reinstall grill >19. lower front end >20. drive...
• Re: Vanagon Starter relay kit
  Historical mailing list - Rob
  Wed, 9 Dec 2015 11:14:44 -0700
  ...while you're messing around down there at a remote start button in the engine compartment? Close it up and go drive your Vanagon...
• Fuel Injection Hose-----what size ID.....7mm?
  Historical mailing list - Smola, Tony
  Tue, 26 Feb 2002 18:16:40 -0600
  I'm going to replace the hoses in the engine compartment that lead from the plastic piece in the firewall to the metal T...
• reverse lights not working,
  Historical mailing list - Wesley Alden Pegden
  Wed, 24 Mar 2004 16:24:44 -0600
  ...I tried finding the "line fuse in engine compartment" that my haynes manual talks 'bout, but couldn't locate it. It would seem funny...
• Re: Hot Weather Effects... and some information.
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Thu, 12 Jul 2001 12:30:53 EDT
  ...So adding a fan to the Vanagon engine compartment may help cool down an air-cooled or inline-four engine. I'm not sure...
• Re: Battery placement alternatives
  Historical mailing list - Annie
  Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:10:40 -0700
  ...Kinda seems like placing it in the engine compartment would be less than optimal, though. Almost as inconvenient as under the passenger seat. Hmmm...
• Re: Burnt Vanagon of the Week
  Historical mailing list - jon
  Fri, 3 Mar 2006 13:04:06 -0800
  ...So, install one in the engine compartment, and connect it to your fuel pump (assuming fuel injection). If fumes are detected, it shuts down...
• antennas (FUBAR) /f
  Historical mailing list - Karl Bloss
  Fri, 11 Jul 1997 11:21:48 +0000
  <FRIDAY> Rather than install something in the stock location, I installed a FUBAR antenna in the engine compartment. Just like the units found on...
• Re: diesel to gas swap
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Tue, 18 May 1999 11:36:06 -0700
  ...The frame rail is NOT cut out (as some say it should be), the engine compartment wall area directly above the frame rail (an...
• Re: [Audi-VW-Diesels] YIKE! Lost 3 qts oil in 30 sec, messy eng. compartment...
  Historical mailing list - Gary, San Diego
  Tue, 5 Sep 2000 11:24:53 -0700
  ...engine compartment cover, entire right side (FIF) of | engine compartment heavily coated in oil, with spray concentrated to | forward portion of engine compartment. Appeared...
• Re: simple-green
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Fri, 3 Feb 1995 10:38:34 -0800 (PST)
  ...I also use it to clean the engine compartment of my vanagon, works better if you soak engine with a hot solution of the...
• 1987 Ground strap question
  Historical mailing list - Erik Feddersen
  Fri, 14 Apr 2000 10:23:36 -0400
  ...I have half a braided ground strap connected to the left hand side of tbe engine compartment body. It is near a ground star...
• Re: Intake Questions on a '74
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 4 Feb 1996 13:24:50 -0500
  ...There seems to be some metal tubing that comes >up out of the engine, bends and heads back down into the engine >compartment. This...
• Re: Styled Cockpit VR6 Engine German Bus Meeting
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Sat, 19 Oct 2002 20:44:47 -0400
  ...Engine compartment looks like it has a raised deck to accomodate the VR6.
• Magnets and Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Sun, 30 Jul 2017 22:28:18 -0400
  Hi folks, For some time I had a battle with a led light I wanted mounted over the bed over the engine compartment. I...
• RE: 87 van Idling problems
  Historical mailing list - Erik Rhodes
  Thu, 7 Aug 1997 11:54:36 -0700
  ...I checked the engine compartment for > obvious > problems, nothing, everything is tight with nothing dis-connected. > Oh, I > recently had the engine compartment pressure...
• Fiberglass Taped Exhaust?
  Historical mailing list - Mark Dorm
  Wed, 30 Aug 2000 17:42:39 PDT
  ...They lower you engine compartment >temps quite a bit. If it gets too hot in there, you shorten the life of >the >plastic components...
• One more question?
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Libby & Denise DeWolfe
  Fri, 25 Aug 2000 20:19:43 -0500
  ...I know the heat is not hooked up, but am I pouring heat into the engine compartment?? Matt & Nise
• bosch female push on connectors
  Historical mailing list - Rick Koller
  Thu, 29 Sep 2005 11:50:55 -0400
  Hi all, Does anyone know of a source for the Bosch female push on connectors that are used in the engine compartment fuel injection...
• intake manifold hose
  Historical mailing list - Allan Streib
  Mon, 3 Mar 2008 11:44:16 -0500
  Looking things over in the engine compartment, I noted that one of the short rubber hoses on the intake manifold has some surface cracks...
• Re: Extra(?) holes in rear engine tin
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 21 Nov 1995 12:52:23 -0600 (CST)
  ...right) hole in the rear engine tin. Inside the engine compartment, a paper hose connects the right hole in the tin to the air...
• Re: Rear hatch vibration Why all vanagon sound alike
  Historical mailing list - Bruce Todd
  Tue, 13 Apr 2021 09:36:52 -0700
  ...It covers most of the steel area of the rear hatch and seems to work fairly well at reducing vibration noise and engine compartment...
• Re: advice on 80-83.5 engine convrsn?
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Thu, 23 Mar 2000 19:33:35 +0100
  ...Does anyone have in-depth knowledge of the differences between the > model years? For example, is the engine compartment the same size? would the...
• Re: Warning about A/C Hoses wearing out
  Historical mailing list - Yi-Ruey Wei
  Mon, 10 Aug 1998 18:31:42 -0500
  ...The metal would rub the A/C houses around the engine compartment. I replaced a newer angled metal house just out from compressor like...
• Re: Removing engine the German way
  Historical mailing list - Don Hundt
  Tue, 19 May 2009 23:42:23 -0400
  I have used a sawhorse spanning the engine compartment with a come-along winch. The sawhorse elevates the winch and gets it out of...
• engine rebuild date?
  Historical mailing list - Bill Carson
  Fri, 14 May 1999 10:49:28 -0700
  Folks - Got lucky and found a 83.5 vanagon that suffered an (unlucky) electrical harness meltdown/fire in the engine compartment; was able to...
• Re: '99 SA Vanagon pics
  Historical mailing list - Mike Pedersen
  Fri, 21 Feb 2003 11:56:58 -0800
  ...upgrade to the prop-rod in the last picture of the engine compartment. I also like the flocking... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alistair Bell" <albell...
• F$&#$*& Transmission
  Historical mailing list - Blake Thornton
  Sun, 18 May 2003 18:49:25 -0500
  ...the engine and transmission disconnected, I've got the engine supported (by a chunk of wood and a chain in the engine compartment), I...
• Re: Slim pickins from the Houston Chronicle this week
  Historical mailing list - Ari Ollikainen
  Fri, 5 Jun 1998 08:51:26 -0700
  ...mi, ^ !!!! Hmmm...an engine transplant? Naaah...the owner probably never looked in the engine compartment or is hopelessly confused. OLTECO Ari Ollikainen P.O...
• Re: occasionally won't start.
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Fri, 25 Apr 2003 12:38:01 -0700
  ...This wire feeds everything in the > engine compartment *except* the starter. Open the black box on the firewall > (on the left side, as you...
• Re: engine cooling fans
  Historical mailing list - Clive Smith
  Wed, 14 Aug 2002 00:46:57 +0100
  ...engine compartment rather than letting the heat down there > just heat of the car body and bake all the rubber parts in the engine...
• Fuel filters
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 18 Jul 1995 09:35:17 -0500 (CDT)
  ...Also, to those who actually put this outside of the engine compartment: where exactly do you put it on a bus? I mean I...
• Re[2]: How deep can a Syncro go swimming?
  Historical mailing list - Don Gibbons
  Thu, 16 Apr 1998 14:23:53 -0400
  ...I never found where it vented to but it seemed to go back to the engine compartment. Maybe then upto the area where the...
• VDO gauges
  Historical mailing list - Madsen
  Fri, 15 Oct 1999 00:54:52 -0400
  ...Be nice to know whats going on way back there in the engine compartment. Ken Madsen Whitby, ON 87GL [text/html]
• Re: A/C high idle
  Historical mailing list - Ram�n Celaya
  Thu, 6 Sep 2001 21:53:46 -0700
  ...There is a relay on the left > side of the engine compartment which is designed to raise the idle to > compensate for the AC...
• Re: Ignition cutout on 2.1L
  Historical mailing list - Ben huot
  Thu, 6 Nov 2003 14:01:11 -0500
  ...Loose plug in the engine compartment, left side, front black box with round connectors, one of the round connectors had a loose wire. Check...
• VENT
  Historical mailing list - patrick
  Sun, 14 Mar 2004 11:04:10 -0600
  ...about six" in diameter on the passenger side coming from the engine compartment. I am wondering if this is for the heater booster or...
• Where can I find the AC charge\evacuation fittings for the BEHR AC
  Historical mailing list - Tom Lambas
  Wed, 20 Jul 2005 18:30:40 -0500
  ...I looked around the engine compartment along the ac lines and don't see them. Where else should I look. Behind the grille perhaps...
• Re: Very Interesting Fire Suppression System
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Sat, 29 Jun 2013 18:05:38 -0700
  ...Just how hot does the engine compartment, especially the engine lid, get when running? Like climbing a mountain pass? I'd hate to spend...
• Re: 87 HELP!!!
  Historical mailing list - ERIC ZENO
  Thu, 14 Nov 1996 17:06:40 -0500 (EST)
  ...I simply traced out every wire in the engine compartment from the computer to the engine. Found the temperature sensor not making a connection...
• Re: pre-83 vanagon engine swaps: gas vs. diesel
  Historical mailing list - GMBulley
  Tue, 17 Mar 1998 20:40:47 EST
  ...Is the diesel body substantially different in the engine compartment area? Could someone please explain the problem? >> Gary-- The engine compartment area is predominantly...
• Re: Cleaning Engines...
  Historical mailing list - Harry Yates
  Wed, 15 Jul 1998 07:52:00 +0000
  Folks, I clean our engine compartment every oil change. I just use a very light spray from a garden hose to wet things down...
• Re: Another Vanagon Burns Up
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Fri, 1 Apr 2005 11:23:44 -0700
  ...Example... > > My parent's diesel boat engine caught fire, and the fire extinguisher was IN > the engine compartment. When we opened the engine compartment...
• 1991 Syncro Westfalia
  Historical mailing list - Russ Hogue
  Sun, 30 Jun 1996 14:04:21 -0300
  ...If you know of a source for this or anything else (van has been burnt in engine compartment), could you please reply direct to...
• Re: syncro transmission vent ?
  Historical mailing list - Dave Bayer
  Sat, 7 Oct 2000 21:00:14 -0700
  ...Anyway, it runs into the engine compartment and pokes into the circular hole in the sheet metal that separates the fuel tank and engine...
• Re: Proper adhesive for engine compartment seal
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:23:33 -0400
  At 07:28 AM 6/24/2011, Jim Arnott wrote: >that's what I'd use, However, the engine seals typically were held in...
• Re: Bleeding Cooling system per Bentley
  Historical mailing list - Robert Rountree
  Sat, 16 Jan 1999 10:47:17 -0500
  ...open bleeder valve at front of engine compartment (on black plastic >>> >fitting with 4 large radiator hoses connecting to it.) >> >> >
• PRICE REDUCED 80 Westy/82 Parts van combo
  Historical mailing list - Richard Golen
  Sat, 6 Sep 2003 13:46:02 -0400
  ...Has all the parts necessary to get the 80's engine compartment back into shape. It also has a Weekender folding rear seat and...
• Re: electrical systems
  Historical mailing list - Chris
  Thu, 19 May 94 16:23:00 CDT
  ...One little thing that was a HUGE success was the installation of a small light in the engine compartment. Ever tried to find the...
• hard plastic fuel lines??
  Historical mailing list - Pollard, Matthew
  Thu, 17 Jun 1999 14:23:12 -0700
  ...This hard plastic tube went into the engine compartment. Is this standard? thanks matthew 84 weekender
• WTB-3 items
  Historical mailing list - john scheckel
  Mon, 4 Jun 2001 11:49:09 -0400
  ...1989 or later engine compartment wire harness. 2. fuse box cover, black 3. lower half of steering column cover. Please p-mail me if...
• Re: Meter Recommendation
  Historical mailing list - Loren A. Busch
  Wed, 18 Dec 2002 12:14:45 -0800
  ...Very handy for checking tire temp's (for uniform loading) and in the engine compartment.
• '81 Vanagon: 12V source in engine compartment?
  Historical mailing list - Lee Wood
  Mon, 18 Sep 2000 07:58:49 -0700
  ...ve figured is to drop the hookups in front of the engine air seal down to the starter and connect positive to the battery...
• Engine installation at last
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Wed, 12 Jan 2000 23:04:05 -0600
  ...The van is getting the rebuilt engine, all new hoses in the engine compartment, new fuel injection hoses, new thermostat, new sensor for fuel...
• Re: Head gasket FIX!!!
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 14 Jul 1997 13:00:57 +0200
  .. >Many cars today have engine compartments that have very bad air flow for >cooling. When the car is stoped and engine turned off Coolant...
• Re: So thar I was (Engine wouldn't start)
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Wed, 5 Dec 2007 12:49:19 -0800
  I'm not aware that any early Honda's had such a button in the engine compartment, but perhaps a few did. There is...