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• RE: Head restoration.
  Historical mailing list - Tom Brunson
  Wed, 9 Jul 97 00:43:18 UT
  ...to scratch the head surface. The thin rubber ring fits in a small groove on the outside of the cylinder. After lots of miles...
• Re: How to remove and install broken head stud --- Easier than I thought
  Historical mailing list - Leo Lee
  Thu, 10 Mar 2005 20:38:14 -0800
  ...Leo --- Leo Lee wrote: > Hello everyone, > It is very unfortunate that one of the lower middle > (#4 according to Bentley) cylinder head stud broke...
• Re: OVERHEATING! - NEED ADVICE! !!! HELP!!!
  Historical mailing list - Ed
  Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:41:21 -0400
  ...You can do a rough check of engine temperature by splashing water on the cylinder heads and cylinder water jackets. If it sizzles, it...
• Re: Cylinder Head differences
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Wilford
  Sat, 28 Apr 2007 02:39:59 +0000
  ...I have problem, though... > > I have found conflicting information regarding the Cylinder heads between 1.9L > and 2.1L waterboxers. Are they indeed the...
• RE: Head Help!
  Historical mailing list - Skip Correll 615-757-5508 (School)
  Wed, 19 Apr 1995 21:50:05 -0400 (EDT)
  ...My best luck has been finding heads in junk yards and having them rehabed in a local shop called Dover Cylinder Heads. One of...
• Re: coolant in oil
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:00:36 -0500
  ...The second thing is when I did the head job, the number 4 cylinder started to come out with the head< I was able...
• Re: off with her heads
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Sun, 6 Oct 2013 17:31:30 -0500
  ...Then, I had to pull the head off > with the cylinder after days of trying and prying. I ended up standing on > the head...
• 2.1 wbx Compression Test
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Thu, 4 May 2017 16:08:33 -0700
  ...120 Cylinders 2/4 150 Throttle body valve was open for each test. As a last resort, I will check the head nuts to...
• Air Bubble?
  Historical mailing list - J Stewart
  Sun, 14 Sep 2014 12:28:08 +0000
  1985 Westy, 1.9 with new right side cylinder head. Driving back from my apartment last night it was actually getting a bit chilly...
• Re: Head gasket again...
  Historical mailing list - EMZ
  Tue, 14 Mar 2000 12:04:37 -0500
  ...the top of the cylinder has never and will never hold back > compression > never over torque a cylinder head nut ever when you increase...
• Identifying glow plug relay, engien & cylinder head.
  Historical mailing list - Steve Delasalle
  Sat, 8 Apr 2000 12:03:58 -0500
  ...first two letters 'CS' - this seems strange ...is it legal? My cylinder head has the numbers 068 103 373F 2BR on it .. can anyone...
• Re: VW Trends and Eurospec STILL LACK of power... Ignorance
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 26 Jan 2000 22:02:56 EST
  ...The main difference I saw was that the cylinders were pressed into the cast aluminum block. This allowed them to use very short head...
• Re: 2.1 head repair manual now available
  Historical mailing list - Doug Alcock
  Mon, 15 Jan 2001 16:08:02 -0500
  Hi gang, Sam Walters' "culled from the archives" treatise (all 11 pages of it) on JBWelding your leaky cylinder heads is now at http...
• Heads installed...
  Historical mailing list - Sean Bartnik
  Mon, 27 Jul 1998 14:56:12 PDT
  ...Then installed the fan housing, fan, cylinder head temp sensor (should have done this before installing the front upper tin!), intake manifolds, FI wiring...
• Re: nuts vs head gasket job
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel
  Wed, 4 Sep 2013 12:47:42 -0700
  ...the >> heads if the problem has not been left so long that the head seals (inners) >> or the tops of the cylinders have burned...
• Re: To compress or to remove wrist pin - A Poll
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:22:07 -0400
  Removing the pistons and cylinders as a unit is preferable. In fact, I once had a cylinder that wouldn't separate from the head...
• Re: Engine out--won't come apart. Need heads!
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:47:06 -0700
  ...tomorrow to get the >> cylinders out. >> >> Everything I've seen inside looks pretty good, to my amazement, except the >> heads, which were used anyway...
• Re: AMC / German Cylinder Heads
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Wilford
  Mon, 18 Oct 2004 23:09:07 +0000
  ...AMC / German Cylinder Heads > > > Now the question is this... > I bought a Vw remanufactured engine from south africa.. but when i > opened the box...
• Re: Coolant Overpressurization / Head Gasket Leak
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 26 Jan 2013 22:02:47 -0500
  You definitely need to do some testing to try to determine why the compression is down on those two cylinders. Before pulling the heads...
• Gene Berg and wasserboxer performance
  Historical mailing list - Cetin Seren
  Mon, 7 Oct 1996 13:26:42 -0400 (EDT)
  ...increased stroke still fit the existing cylinder depth, and did not play havoc with the cylinder head due to increased compression ratio, would it...
• For Sale broken 1.9, ECU & accessories
  Historical mailing list - Baja Leo
  Mon, 7 Jul 2003 22:06:16 -0700
  Converted to Subaru over the July 4th weekend and have a 1.9 with a head leak and a bad cylinder. Rocker arm broke...
• Re: Head Gaskets are Shot
  Historical mailing list - ERIC ZENO
  Mon, 3 Feb 1997 07:35:29 -0500 (EST)
  ...the cylinder seal area > and the rubber gasket seal area is? I have found that dimension is > different between the German heads and the...
• Re: Head Gasket repairs Question
  Historical mailing list - Benny boy
  Wed, 9 Feb 2005 00:06:30 -0500
  ...com/bjp_head2/head3_003.jpg http://www.benplace.com/vanagon_engine3.htm There is NO need to remove the sleeve / cylinder!!!!! There si...
• need help with coolant leak
  Historical mailing list - David E Most
  Wed, 18 Dec 1996 11:37:05 -0500
  ...There's a coolant hose that runs from the expansion tank to a diamond shape fitting on the right cylinder head. This "diamond" piece...
• Re: Coolant I use in my 1990 with stock 2.1
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 14 Jan 2014 20:17:03 -0500
  ...Subaru head gaskets and Vanagon Water boxers are not related in design or function. The Subaru is a cylinder cast in block, (parent bore...
• GEX
  Historical mailing list - David Carment
  Wed, 31 Jul 1996 16:29:11 -0400
  ...The no.3 intake valve seat had been pushed *into* the cylinder head by at least 5 mils or more. This is different from...
• Re: lifters for new engine? - and increased stroke
  Historical mailing list - John Connolly
  Sun, 23 Mar 2003 19:32:37 -0700
  ...So to keep > > the piston in the confines of the head/cylinder, the > > wrist pin is actually > > "higher" in the stroker piston. If you...
• Minutiae: Timing
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 13 Nov 95 17:57 CST
  Fellow air-cooled heads: Another gem from the archives of the VW Autoist, September, 1967 for those out there who may be *very* picky...
• 1.9L rebuild progress
  Historical mailing list - Scott Maurer
  Tue, 24 Sep 1996 21:47:33 +0000
  ...He said he only replaces waterboxer cylinders in matched pairs per head. He said I might otherwise have leaking due to small differences in...
• Fourth Gear Movement
  Historical mailing list - Frederick M. Wasserstein
  Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:25:45 -0500
  I have got the headlight relays in, they work great. So this is what we have done recently. New brake master cylinder, clutch booster...
• Troubled with my Westy 1988 clutch slave cylinder
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Jowell
  Thu, 1 Jun 2017 17:42:50 -0400
  ...Westy and are headed back to our farm in Vermont. Now i am having trouble with the clutch slave cylinder. Hard to shift into...
• Re: Corroding spark plugs in WBoxer
  Historical mailing list - Carlen, Gregg
  Fri, 6 Apr 2001 15:07:49 -0400
  ...Its tricky and the pen light will need to be right next to your head to see into the cylinder, but if the piston...
• Re: 2.1 questions
  Historical mailing list - Jim Cochran
  Thu, 9 Jul 2009 22:09:54 -0700
  ...one >> head, a >> quart (at least) of oil ran out of the pipe. If it got in through the >> bottom of the cylinder past...
• Re: head gasket sealing
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 24 Mar 2000 09:56:43 EST
  ...Do put the gasket on first and then put the sealer on the "gasket, side facing cylinder head" Per Bentley Manual 15.28. First...
• nylon head nuts?
  Historical mailing list - Jake Beaulieu
  Wed, 15 Oct 2003 17:09:28 -0700
  ...They only use nylon cylinder head nuts on their rebuilt engines. They claim that this eliminates the need to re-torque the head. Anybody...
• Re: REinstalling head on 91 vanagon
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sat, 11 Feb 2006 18:01:18 -0800
  The green o-ring goes around the outside of the cylinder, near the end that goes in the head. There is a small groove...
• Re: Cavitation corrosion/erosion
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Holser
  Fri, 1 May 1998 13:52:17 -0700
  ...Secondly, I have never heard of cylinder corrosion as being the big problem on Vanagons -- rather it is the corrosion of the heads. Vanagons...
• Reassembled 1.9L from head gasket replacement won't start/idle
  Historical mailing list - Mike Braden
  Sat, 22 May 2004 18:15:03 -0500
  Hello, I finally got my 1.9L digijet engine put back together today after doing a head gasket replacement and wanted to fire it...
• Re: QE: Cylinder head temp.
  Historical mailing list - J. Walker
  Fri, 30 Sep 94 16:45:52 CDT
  ...the cylinder head gets a lot hotter than the oil. >Another question: I tried to unscrew the transmission fluid inspection >and refill plug - with...
• Re: LONG BLOCK vs SHORT BLOCK??
  Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
  Thu, 3 Nov 1994 11:36:12 -0800 (PST)
  ...A short block is built up thru the case, but no pistons, cylinders, heads and all. A longblock is the same but with pistons...
• Re: Alternative way of reinstalling cylinder liner
  Historical mailing list - Doug in CA
  Tue, 30 Mar 2004 13:41:58 -0800
  ...reinserting the > cylinder > > liner back in to the block. > > I had accidentally pushed the cylinder out from the piston after the heads > > were removed...
• Re: off with her heads
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sun, 6 Oct 2013 19:46:55 -0700
  ...one head a real bear to remove. I got it off with a pry bar ( you see the tabs on the cylinders where to...
• Re: off with her heads
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Thu, 28 Nov 2013 09:09:02 -0600
  ...cylinder kits. > > I had also asked them if they could clean up/smooth the surface area under > the compression gasket (where the head mates...
• Re: Sliding Door Handle Cylinder Replacement
  Historical mailing list - Dr. Rainer Woitok
  Thu, 6 Aug 1998 09:56:46 +0200
  ...and removed this headless screw you can insert some sort of bolt into the boring at the end of the cylinder and apply some...
• Re: air cooled 2.0 1981 Cylinder head temp?
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( Scott Daniel Foss )
  Thu, 6 Feb 2014 18:17:09 -0800
  ...On 2/6/2014 5:55 PM, Stuart MacMillan wrote: > My '78 van had a #3 cylinder head temp sensor in the casting as...
• Re: head gaskets and time bombs
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 5 Feb 1996 19:25:12 -0500
  ...that, when it blew a head gasket, the increased >pressure of coolant leaking into one of the cylinders while it was running >at freeway...
• Re: head gaskets and time bombs
  Historical mailing list - vanagon
  February 05, 1996 6:26PM
  ...that, when it blew a head gasket, the increased >pressure of coolant leaking into one of the cylinders while it was running >at freeway...
• Re: Alternative way of reinstalling cylinder liner
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Tue, 30 Mar 2004 15:16:03 -0500
  ...reinserting the cylinder > liner back in to the block. > I had accidentally pushed the cylinder out from the piston after the heads > were removed...
• Re: Alternative way of reinstalling cylinder liner
  Historical mailing list - zolo
  Wed, 31 Mar 2004 09:07:13 -0800
  ...reinserting the cylinder > liner back in to the block. > I had accidentally pushed the cylinder out from the piston after the heads > were removed...
• Re: Bent push rod jammed into rocker and damaged valve
  Historical mailing list - Dave Bayer
  Fri, 7 Aug 1998 19:09:55 -0700
  ...Anyone have any ideas on what happened? The cylinder head is >| an AVP that only had about 40 miles on it. Can anyone think...
• Re: Head Damage?
  Historical mailing list - Jason
  Thu, 31 Oct 2013 22:16:59 -0400
  ...be a cracked head or > more commonly the heads are actually loose. Under load they are lifting off > the cylinders and letting gasses into...
• Re: quick and dirty head swap-dennis' 2 cents.
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Thu, 23 May 2013 09:13:38 -0700
  ...While the cylinders are out I also use them with some lapping compound the clean the heads where the cylinders have to seal. You...
• Re: Air Bubble?
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott )
  Thu, 18 Sep 2014 21:36:33 -1000
  ...When I did the cylinder head I replaced the water pump, thermostat, and temp sensors. Prior to that the van had always run cool...
• Re: J.B. Weld Head Repair (Bill Knight)
  Historical mailing list - Bill Knight
  Tue, 31 Mar 1998 16:03:10 -0500
  ...The cylinders can be so stuck to the head that it will take soaking the joint with WD40 and then some mighty blows with...
• Re: Oxyboxer Motors
  Historical mailing list - Benjamin Tan
  Tue, 30 Jan 2001 08:01:38 EST
  ...They machine off the water jackets and fit air-cooled cylinder barrels and cylinder heads to make an air-cooled version of the Vangon...
• Re: jugs, vw that is...
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Fri, 5 Nov 1999 18:25:20 -0700
  ...jugs, vw that is... > No amount of reading would allow that head to be removed leaving the > cylinders on the pistons. In fact, I...
• Re: THANKS FOR THE HELP...Re: Re: Removing watercooled cyl heads,
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Sat, 5 Feb 2005 06:53:25 EST
  ...I received a bunch of good ideas for removing the cylinder head stuck to the cylinders...here's what worked finally: Just one small...
• Re: Caveat Emptor, or: So You're Buying a Vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 16 Nov 2001 11:10:44 -0500
  ...cylinders by stripping off the fins and building up the case to form a sort of aquarium extending out to the head. The head...
• Re: Smoke after head replacement
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Mon, 9 Jan 2012 14:15:42 -0800
  ...the heads always slide down over the o-ring nicely for me doing it that way. if you have no compression in one cylinder...
• Re: Leakdown and compression test results
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:53:47 -0400
  ...coolant? (headgasket) Mike Giasson, Pascal (DNR/MRN) wrote: > Well I finally tested my home made leakdown tester today. Here are my results: > cylinder # 1...