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• Re: head gasket problem ?
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Fri, 21 Sep 2001 12:33:51 -0500
  ...the head gasket be slowly leaking combustion gases into the water > jacket ? Wolfgang, you have hit the nail on the head. If the system...
• Re: Removing watercooled cyl heads, engine in car
  Historical mailing list - jbclem1
  Tue, 1 Feb 2005 22:34:22 -0800
  ...I'm on the > > #1 & #2 side, I've separated the cylinder head about 3/4" from the > > block(water jacket) and I can...
• Re: Broken alternator bracket studs
  Historical mailing list - TC
  Tue, 7 Feb 2006 12:45:45 -0800
  ...sizes, and you go wrong any direction yer in the water jackets or maybe the cylinder walls.. once we got those out we retapped...
• Re: fuel problem
  Historical mailing list - Tom Young
  Fri, 3 Oct 1997 11:56:46 -0700
  ...although it was a > brisk 70 this morning (kids were putting jackets on :). > Since you don't mention the symptoms of rich running, I...
• more on engine braking
  Historical mailing list - Vanman
  Wed, 14 Oct 1998 07:45:59 -0700
  ...The water cooled engines have the water jackets and thermostats to maintain engine temp., therefore avoiding the rapid cool down problems. mckayaa@oit.edu...
• Dex-Cool . . . I hesitate to ask this
  Historical mailing list - gary hradek
  Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:13:43 -0700
  ...I have never seen any corrosion in the water jacket areas of the heads. I have seen corrosion under the rubber head gasket which...
• Re: Still More Friday - ECO
  Historical mailing list - Aristotle Sagan
  Fri, 31 Aug 2001 12:24:07 -0700
  ...236.6 cm3 de-encapsulated legume meats (sieve size #10) > > >Instructions: > >To a 2-L jacketed round reactor vessel (reactor #1) with an overall...
• 1986 2WD Engine/Electrical Problems/Questions.
  Historical mailing list - blytz
  Wed, 12 Dec 2001 21:56:38 -0600
  ...I'm also afraid the block might have possible water jacket problems, the previous owner mentioned it, but couldn't remember what the problem...
• Stuck fuel injector cures?
  Historical mailing list - Rob Scott
  Mon, 20 Oct 2003 18:14:39 -0700
  ...the (improperly installed by a professional shop) leaky port side water jacket gasket. Well, I found my tuit and got the beast all buttoned...
• Cold enough for ya? (Frydaye)
  Historical mailing list - Keith Adams
  Fri, 15 Dec 2000 09:24:02 -0700
  ...Canadians throw on a light jacket. 40 below - Hollywood disintegrates. Canadians rent videos. 60 below - Mt. St. Helens freezes. Canadian Girl Scouts begin selling...
• Re: Removing watercooled cyl heads, engine in car
  Historical mailing list - Ken Wilford
  Wed, 2 Feb 2005 06:46:16 -0500
  ...I'm on the >#1 & #2 side, I've separated the cylinder head about 3/4" from the block(water jacket) and I can...
• Re: [vanagon] TracPipe, anyone used it?
  Historical mailing list - James Fritz
  Thu, 26 Feb 2004 19:26:52 -0600
  ...Only drawbacks is the special tools, the fact that the yellow protective jacket isn't super-abrasion-proof, and the price. Oh, and be...
• Re: 1.9L WBX to 2.1L WBX -
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Tue, 15 Mar 2005 18:46:36 -0800
  ...This is not possible with a waterboxer since the water jackets would then be too short. Mark John Rodgers wrote: > Paul, thanks. > > You answered...
• Re: off with her heads
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Fri, 18 Oct 2013 21:18:25 -0500
  ...From that I set up some nuts and washers sticking out of the water jacket hole and ran another bolt down on the all...
• Re: What's up with silicone coolant hoses?
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Sun, 15 Mar 2020 16:20:03 -0400
  ...They fit well, are well contrasted, and they look cool with that custom outer jacket including their logo. > > Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vanagon Mailing...
• Re: [Fwd: [T2] H2O Vanagon part needed - pic included]
  Historical mailing list - Allan Streib
  Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:00:27 -0500
  If that part of the coolant system froze and split he may well have much bigger problems, if the water in the cylinder jackets...
• Re: It's alive, but it gives bad head! (Fixing head leak on '87 2.1L)
  Historical mailing list - Matt Roberds
  Thu, 21 Jun 2007 03:38:27 -0500
  ...yes, you're seeing daylight between part of the gasket and the head/water-jacket joint. http://www.birdbird.org/cars/westy/dscn0004.jpg...
• Re: Power Mirror Problem
  Historical mailing list - Madsen
  Mon, 25 Oct 1999 15:33:29 -0400
  ...your door and frame, right at the jam, inside that rubber jacket. This is quite easy to fix if you have a soldering gun...
• Re: Can I do my own head gasket replacement?
  Historical mailing list - Backus, Brian G
  Wed, 8 Apr 1998 11:43:37 -0700
  One thing nice about pulling the engine out is that if your water jacket needs welding/machining or if your water pump mating surface...
• Re: 1987 Oxygen Sensor Wiring 2.1 liter Digifant MV engine
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 24 Feb 2002 17:30:54 -0500
  ...The clean way is to trim the shield braid off flush with the outer jacket, leaving a bit of the inner insulation sticking out...
• Re: Weird Stuff----
  Historical mailing list - David Richoux
  Sun, 10 Feb 2002 21:56:59 -0800
  ...system, introduced by the leaks in the water lines. (or you may have the classic head gasket/water jacket leak as well! :-( Dave Richoux
• Re: 84 head job update #2
  Historical mailing list - Tim Spotted Wolf
  Wed, 22 May 2002 10:50:28 -0400
  ...what do I use to pry the heads from the cylinders??? anyone have a special tool or technique??? Do the water jackets come off...
• Fryeday Follyes - Continued from Fryeday 13th
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Fri, 20 Oct 2000 05:46:55 -0500
  ...He reached into his jacket breast pocket and found he had run out of his favorites. He thought of that cigar he had left...
• RE: 1986 Vangon Cylinder head leaks - repair / Vanagon parts
  Historical mailing list - Bryan Feddish
  Tue, 22 Oct 96 09:34:24 UT
  ...Should I now remove all the barrels completely to replace the gaskets/sealing rings for the coolant jacket? Is it difficult to compress the...
• Re: Coolant Draining
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 30 Jun 2015 08:14:31 -0400
  ...IF one does > > NOT pull the plugs on the engine water-jackets when doing a coolant replace ? > > > > I'm curious as I replaced the...
• Re: Machining Cylinder Heads a Viable Solutuion to Wasserboxer Problem?
  Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
  Tue, 5 Jan 1999 06:47:09 -0600
  ...mate up to both the jugs and the case (block) water jacket at the same time. While doing the fly cut it would be...
• Re: Oil Pressure Gremlins
  Historical mailing list - Coby Smolens
  Mon, 6 Mar 2000 02:14:39 -0800
  ...When my '86 came home from the dealer after a warranty repair of the head/jacket seals, my oil buzzer started going off randomly...
• Re: Back From Mexico!
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Wed, 11 Apr 2001 14:53:11 -0700
  ...Outside of a couple quirks, like the water jacket design, they are as good as any other heavy vehicle, and a darn sight better...
• Re: Longevity of Conversion Engines
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Mon, 25 Mar 2002 12:00:38 -0600
  ...Harder to quiet down an engine without a water > jacket. > > Allan Bagley > 86 westy > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM...
• Re: leaky head gasket question again
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Tue, 2 Apr 2002 20:53:39 -0700
  ...leaky head gasket question again > I imagine the JB weld was only used on the jugs/water jackets, not the heads > themselves. Your heads...
• Re: Head gasket job getting out of hand (
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Mon, 13 May 2002 23:12:28 -0500
  ...I have had limited luck drilling this as they are hardened and down in the corner of the coolant jacket. I have sent them...
• Re: Turbo wasserboxer
  Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
  Fri, 20 Jun 2003 22:36:29 EDT
  ...It has been done in T1 engines and the WBX is really a beefed T1 engine with water jackets... You would have to loose...
• Re: exhaust header thread repair gone wrong?
  Historical mailing list - Douglas L. Urner
  Fri, 29 Aug 2003 11:14:44 -0700
  ...Doug >I think I may have penetrated the water jacket when repairing the = >stripped exhaust header bolt holes on the head of my 1...
• Head gasket FIX!!!
  Historical mailing list - Don Gibbons
  Sat, 12 Jul 97 20:29:00 -0500
  ...What would happen if vanagon waterboxers had such a system? Would the engine stay cool after a hot run? Would the water jacket gasket...
• Plat Cat Noise Levels and installation questions
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Sun, 16 Apr 2000 21:29:44 -0700
  ...was 15C and warn enough for me not to wear a jacket. The only complaint that I have with the heater is that the...
• Head gasket leak - does retorquing work?
  Historical mailing list - Various
  Fri, 10 May 2002 18:04:47 -0300
  ...If I have a water jacket leak, is it likely that I have coolant in my combustion chamber leak also? (as I said, otherwise...
• Sealing goop on cylinder sleeve inboard ends?
  Historical mailing list - Rob Scott
  Sun, 19 Oct 2003 16:51:38 -0700
  ...I know that it may upset some of the faithful, but this whole water jacket thing is a stinky design IMO. Regards, Rob It...
• Re: Stuck Head
  Historical mailing list - Michael A. Radtke
  Mon, 10 Apr 2006 11:30:34 -0700
  ...So, I > cut away all of the outer water gasket and can slip a knife between the > head and the water jacket all the...
• Re: WBX motor rather than ....
  Historical mailing list - Zeitgeist
  Fri, 1 Aug 2008 17:49:49 -0700
  ...it's really an air > cooled 911 cobbled up with water jackets around. Is not the WBX similar > (or > vica/versa) with the WBX...
• Re: Longevity tips (longish)
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 8 Jan 1999 19:52:17 EST
  ...Any debris that is in the coolant system also gets a chance to settle down in the bottom of the water jacket and help...
• Re: head stuck to cylinder tricks
  Historical mailing list - Benny boy
  Sat, 17 Dec 2005 21:08:32 -0500
  ...into the coolant hole/piston pin removal location in the water jacket, you will see the piston pin, you CAN see the pin all...
• Re: '82 diesel cooling problem
  Historical mailing list - Bill/Lisa Protzek
  Sat, 22 Jun 1996 18:22:24 -0700
  ...the process, compression and combustion gasses are leaking into the cooling jacket, pushing the cooling water away from the metal even more, while sending...
• Re: Vanagon Head Studs
  Historical mailing list - Bill Knight
  Thu, 19 Nov 1998 16:34:50 -0500
  ...The stud extractor got some of them, but was too bulky on the corner ones due to the water jacket being so close to...
• One of the best additions to my vanagon..Car Organizer
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Wed, 31 Jul 2013 06:04:08 -0700
  ...It's become my "office" holding my job folders and clipboards, lumber invoices, pens and thermos, an extra jacket, maps or instruction booklets, phone...
• Re: Friday rant: fabric stores and sewing
  Historical mailing list - J Stewart
  Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:23:35 +0000
  ...What does one's sex have to do with the fundamentals of keeping things working, whether a vehicle or a jacket? mcneely David McNeely
• Re: Single Cab FS: North Vancouver B.C.
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:11:26 -0700
  ...black leather jacket, t-shirt, and black > > jeans, with disheveled brown hair, standing in the road. He asked what > time > > it was. It was...
• Re: just one drip
  Historical mailing list - Coby Smolens
  Thu, 23 Aug 2001 03:07:41 -0700
  ...If a leak is due to overpressure in the water jacket from leaky head gaskets or cracked head(s) there WILL be HC there...
• Re: Choice of Plug wires
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Sun, 7 Mar 2004 20:29:48 -0500
  ...Both they and Bosch obtain the bulk copper wire from the same large manufacturer; but each makes their own jacketing and ends. The Canadian...
• MSW plug wires
  Historical mailing list - Dan Houg
  Wed, 13 Mar 1996 12:26:04 CST6CDT
  ...inconel?) around a glass fiber supporting core covered with a silicone jacket. their great claim to fame is full ignition energy delivered to the...
• Re: rebuild survey! (more data please!)
  Historical mailing list - Dana E Hager
  Tue, 7 Sep 1999 18:58:45 -0700
  ...it developed a leaky left side water jacket gasket. Being my only car at the time, I called around trying to locate gaskets to...
• Re: Infared Thermometer/Radiator temps?
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Pollard
  Mon, 3 Sep 2001 11:26:46 -0700
  ...coolant in the small hose that runs from the #4 water jacket, has > never gotten over 208F. > > Thanks for the help > > Dimwitted Mose and...
• Re: Bear Attacks Camper NVC
  Historical mailing list - Roger Whittaker
  Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:06:38 -0800
  ...Boots and jackets and mittens are laying around > > with some pink stains in the snow. One bears says to the other as he > > picks...
• Re: When & why replace heads? A Friday Dennis Discussion.
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Fri, 7 Apr 2023 22:45:01 -0500
  ...Next > is failure of the seal between the heads and the top of the cylinder(s). > > For the outer water jacket gasket leaking or...
• Re: Bear Attacks Camper NVC
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:43:11 -0600
  ...Boots and jackets and mittens are laying around with some pink stains in the snow. One bears says to the other as he picks...
• Re: Dreaded water jacket head gasket leak strikes
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Sun, 20 Dec 2015 12:21:34 -0800
  ...Dreaded water jacket head gasket leak strikes I pulled the cylinders and put in the new o rings ( I had the gasket set). Then...
• Alternator vibration -
  Historical mailing list - Bruce Todd
  Sun, 14 Jun 2020 15:02:34 -0700
  ...that sits below the alternator and connects the right side cylinder jacket to the water pump. To my surprise (once I cleaned the blackened...
• Re: Form Jay Leno's Garage
  Historical mailing list - Hector Zapata
  Thu, 5 Apr 2012 15:57:34 -0400
  ...Evans coolant after showing > them a photo of typical Vanagon water jacket seal corrosion, and asking if > using their coolant would help: > > ".......we have...
• Re: 2.1L heads leaking @ -10?
  Historical mailing list - Caston/Payne
  Wed, 19 Jan 2000 09:45:09 -0500
  ...is beginning to pit allowing collant to seep from the collant jacket. The cold contracts the sealing surfaces enough for leakage and when it...
• Re: Head Update (getting worse)
  Historical mailing list - Jere Hawn
  Sat, 5 Mar 2005 18:24:46 -0800
  ...The o-ring looks like it is good shape???? > > > > Part of the oil ring was in the coolant jacket :-( area > (#$%$$#$) > > > > What to do?????????? > > > > Jere >
• Re: Vngns ARE junk!
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Thu, 10 Mar 2005 22:48:49 +1300
  ...the wasserboxer is just a Type-1 aircooled with a water jacket >instead of cooling fins, you're TRIPLE-nuts. >You ARE aware of...