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Re: Pop top insulation
Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
Sun, 23 Jan 2011 21:19:05 -0800
...you solder the turnbuckle solid, its pretty easy to spin >> the barrel off and get into the van that way... > > > There are a couple...
FS 71 bus San Jose CA area
Historical mailing list - Kevin Collins
Mon, 29 Apr 1996 21:36:42 -0700
...I bought distributor, 34 pic 3 carb and dual port manifold like it's supposed to have and replaced the same- 2 barrel Weber...
Re: locations please
Historical mailing list - Mark B. Magee
Wed, 28 Oct 1998 22:20:25 -0600
...Padre Barrels!!: Beginning to realize my age!!!) I'm Mark Blue Magee hailing from Kemah Texas. Kemah is on Galveston Bay equidistant between downtown...
Re: Kombi Problems!!!
Historical mailing list
Thu, 27 Apr 1995 08:14:24 -0700
>I have a 72 Kombi. > >I put an 88 kit through it (barrels and pistons and new heads) what else >should be changed??? > >I...
Re: was Friday content Volt GM, etc..Now: SUV is really_____.
Historical mailing list - Anthony Egeln
Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:47:09 -0700
...in front of IKE northeast Florida......... .......not our turn in the barrel. Anthony '89 Syncro GL (Hidalgo) --- On Fri, 9/12/08, Don Hanson...
Re: throttle body fun
Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
Sun, 9 May 2010 23:18:14 -0500
...magnetic parts dish held all the rest, somehow I forgot the barrel clamp. > on that oil o-ring at the breather tower.. I am...
Re: 1982 Air Cooled with compression 110, 110, 115, 115
Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:04:45 -0700
...good > to to be true - 110 lbs in the 2 forward barrels and 115 in the rear > 2. > > The engine has not been torn...
Re: Cleanest head gasket job ever is now complete......
Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:05:22 -0400
...thickness of the metal rings that seal the head to the > barrels...they're 1 mm thick. > I dig around in my old gaskets...
oil fill level.....
Historical mailing list - Tim Smith
Thu, 31 May 2001 15:08:08 -0300
...Try over filling your oil about 1/2 qt and see what happens!!! It isn't pretty, that oil gets into barrels and you...
Non-Transplant: Prices of Ahnendorp Wasserboxer Mods
Historical mailing list - Tom Forhan
18 Dec 1995 11:43:11 EST
...Stroker Crankshaft 82mm 2783DM Piston and Barrel Kit 98mm 2748 Head Seal Rings 80 Camshaft 815 Modify Distributor 350 Total 6776DM Which works out...
Re: Friday Wal Mart standoff.
Historical mailing list - Robert Campbell
Fri, 18 Jun 2004 16:42:43 -0700
...You may want to note that California's finest sport both a >short barreled shotgun AND an "assault rifle" in their pursuit cars these...
Re: Correct Throttle tension (diesel)
Historical mailing list - Daniel Stevens
Wed, 6 Oct 2004 14:40:03 -0400
...there's a barrel nut there (8mm??) lossen it, pull the cable slack out from the rear, while maintaining that the pivot from the...
Re: What is it with the US? (No real van content)
Historical mailing list - Karl Mullendore
Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:04:03 -0400
...www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=45323 http://biodiesel.rain-barrel.net/biodiesel-from-algae/ Karl Mike S wrote: > The article I cited...
Re: '90 2.1: What are the chances that I just fried my engine? UPDATE 2
Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:05:39 -0700
...new pistons and barrels can restore a lot of lost power. I have a 1.9 I'm going to fire up with new...
Re: Best way to judge life left in Waterboxer?
Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
Tue, 8 May 2012 18:41:38 -0700
...The pistons and barrels last nearly indefinitely that I have seen. in VW engines.. it is usually the heads or valves that get ya...
Re: vannie info on cranks and radiators needed
Historical mailing list - Mark Dearing
Fri, 2 Jul 2010 09:20:16 EDT
...they both take the same pistons and barrels.. it's the longer stroke that makes it a 2.1 on bare cranks ....don't...
Re: *Sigh* Leaky Wheel Cylinder (PICS)
Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
Sat, 5 Sep 2009 10:41:46 -0400
Yes they should last longer but intermittent use allows for some rust to form in the cylinder barrel between the piston cups and outer...
Re: cylinder heads for my 84 westy
Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:16:19 -0700
If one is doing pistons and barrels, it's only one more step to remove and inspect the rod bearings....... and what condition there...
'80 Vanagon questions
Historical mailing list
Thu, 27 Oct 1994 09:11:02 -0500
...Thus to solve any future problems and make it run better (and cooler) rip the FI off and put on 1 two barrel progressive...
Re: Crossing the Canadian border...
Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
Tue, 21 Jul 2015 05:34:05 -0500
...to your need for firearm - > Long rifle for hunting - > legal short barrel for legit shooting contests - > > if you say you are bringing your fire...
Re: 6 mils of lash...
Historical mailing list - David Beierl
Fri, 7 Jan 2000 18:04:21 -0500
...However I believe that the "barrel-type" lifter such as the Vanagon uses alleviates or eliminates this problem. david David Beierl - Providence, RI http...
Re: Converting EFI to Carberator
Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
Mon, 8 Mar 2004 10:22:09 -0500
...Stepping hard on the throttle at low RPMs would cause massive bogging, because the engine just couldn't take having the secondary barrel open...
Re: Leaking PS fluid, replace rack or just seals?
Historical mailing list - Al and Sue Brase
Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:53:36 -0600
...I succeeded in > breaking the cylinder barrel locking ring on mine. And that little > sucker was thin machined aluminum with about 5 threads in...
Re: Anyone ever tried this on their vanagon??????????????
Historical mailing list - jim&kim
Wed, 15 Aug 2001 11:37:15 -0700
Straight out of "lock stock & two smoking barrels" by Guy Ritchie. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joel Walker" <jwalker17@EARTHLINK.NET> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON...
Re: Oldest
Historical mailing list - Joy Hecht
Fri, 7 Oct 2011 15:44:19 -0230
...I immediately had a 2150 cc motor with a Holley > 2-barrel carb built and installed. That thing would scat. First Vanagon > - a 1985...
Re: A message from White House Spokesperson Scott McLellan: CAUTION POLITICAL CONTENT
Historical mailing list - Gnarlodious
Sat, 5 Mar 2005 14:35:00 -0700
...We reduced our national energy consumption by, get this, *6 > million barrels of oil per day*! Then Reagan got in the White House, > dismantled...
Re: fastest vanagon
Historical mailing list - Brian Steel
Sat, 1 Sep 2001 22:13:48 -0700
...I honestly feel little need to find out the maximum velocity but it is a barrel of fun standing on it in the first...
Re: Ring job?
Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:57:38 -0500
You're opening a barrel of worms here. Damned if you do and damned if you don't but you're going to need...
Re: heads- bus depot or van cafe??
Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:58:18 -0800
...I would also warn people to check if the AMC heads sit flat on the barrels so that the head is dead parallel to...
Re: What coil part number for my van?)
Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:56:48 EDT
...the problem is! What I see when I peer down the barrel of the coil's center connection is nothing. Looks like the inside...
Re: Ignition switch barrel and tumbler replacement?
Historical mailing list - William Warburton
Thu, 2 Jun 94 9:22:20 GMT
Hi, > Has anyone out there replaced the barrel and tumblers on their > ignition switch? I need to do this for Georg, my 1973 campmobile...
Re: 90 Syncro Westy clunker
Historical mailing list - Patrick Dooley
Thu, 23 Apr 1998 20:47:23 -0400
...Remans use the bottom of barrel. Of course, there is a thousand miles between us, and maybe things are different where you are. I...
Re: 1.9 Manual Trans Accelerator Cable Replacement
Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
Thu, 16 May 2013 14:20:33 -0700
...By a barrel clamp at the throttle assembly. The clamp on my van was > secured with a standard .05 allen type set screw. Yours...
Re: 1.9L WBX to 2.1L WBX -
Historical mailing list - mark drillock
Tue, 15 Mar 2005 18:46:36 -0800
...Can the 1.9L engine be upgraded to an essentially 2.1L >>> engine >> >> >> simply by changing a few parts......like cylinder barrels, pistons, etc. >> >> >
Re: Octane smoctane
Historical mailing list - David Etter
Sat, 26 May 2007 08:52:27 -0600
...of powder in a similar length barrel. YMMV.. David (TDdsl82westy) P.S.: Better qualified List member advice is requested here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >I've been keeping...
Re: MOFOCO(Respectable?????)
Historical mailing list - Bob Polys
Mon, 6 Nov 1995 08:34:26 -0600
...The kit includes reconditioned crank, Main, Rod and Cam >bearings, reconditiond rods, reground cam, reground lifters, flywheel >seal, piston and barrell set, geasket set...
Re: Got Gas?
Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
Fri, 18 Mar 2005 20:22:33 -0600
...It will probably hit $80 a barrel before labor day, maybe as little as $70. As I have written before, India and China are...
Busses By the Buoy
Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
Sat, 30 Jul 2016 09:57:12 -0400
...We will have, turkey in a barrel available from the campground. For those who wish, bring the recipe for your potluck dish to share...
Re: 2.1 rebuild - hone lifter bores?
Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
Thu, 7 Jul 2011 13:40:11 -0500
On this point - when you hone a cylinder barrel, you wear away metal, making the bore bigger - BUT - you install new rings and the...
Originally: JLP rebuilt wbxr engines in Denver
Historical mailing list - M. Jade
Sun, 6 Feb 2011 20:36:20 -0800
...blah blah .. > but used pistons with new rings and honed original barrels ( ??...sounds > strange to me ) > > so anyone ...? > A customer is suggesting/wondering about...
Re: Relay socket spade connectors
Historical mailing list - Stacy
Mon, 26 Dec 2005 22:42:36 -0800
...http://www.wurthusa.com buy the way the kind of crimp terminal that your after is generally referred to as a open barrel type...
I too have a monstrosity
Historical mailing list - A PETER MARSH
Sat, 27 Nov 2010 09:17:08 -0500
...Lots of new bits - especially things like fuel lines, stand-by electric fuel pumps that can be switched on when the four barrel carb...
Re: Friday NVC: British Carburettor hilarity
Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:41:10 -0500
...At least in the Holley 4 barrel model. (though this is a vague recollection from a not nearly mispent youth looking at hot rod...
Re: Hydraulic lifter valve clearance settings on a 1600 aircooled
Historical mailing list - kenneth d lewis
Wed, 12 Jan 2000 20:44:12 EST
...compression should I be after with a new set of pistons, barrels >& = >heads ? > >Thanks in advance >Phil >81 Type 25 > > >------=_NextPart_000_004A_01BF5C35...
Sorry Rest Areas (was Street Camping)
Historical mailing list
Wed, 19 Oct 94 16:49:27 PDT
...by roads that are generally free of potholes, ruts, workhorses, orange barrels, etc. Back to the rest, areas, now. I often felt uncomfortable entering...
Re: EXTREME DANGER (was: Aluma-Seal Confessions)
Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
Tue, 26 Sep 95 15:34:30 CDT
...it will melt through entire truck engines, through the huge metal barrels of the artillery canons, or even through the hull of a ship...
Re: UPDATE Re: Coolant temp at idle questions
Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
Tue, 8 Aug 2006 22:32:06 -0400
...If the resister is a single barrel type, you have the later set up. If it is a two barrel resister, you have a...
Re: Electrical "Locking" Terminal Info + Question
Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
Fri, 8 Feb 2013 23:07:51 -0500
...Dennis http://www.ebay.com/itm/CRIMPER-TOOL-OPEN-BARREL-DEUTSCH-MOLEX-TYCO-AMP-DELP HI-HARLEY-WIRING-TERMINALS-/251095090154?pt=Race_Car_Parts...
Re: '56 kombi transmission: day 4/?
Historical mailing list - john keith hopp
Wed, 4 Jan 1995 11:16:46 -0700 (MST)
...the lead for the geek of the week award! > > I went barreling into the shop today, bitchin about how the tranny didn't > work...
Re: Diesel vs. Gas
Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
Thu, 28 Apr 2005 23:31:54 -0400
...He said that now with prices being over $50/barrel it was economically feasible to extract the oil from the shale oil fields. And...
Re: Hanging it over the edge
Historical mailing list - Eric Wunrow
Fri, 4 Mar 2016 15:28:48 -0800
...some extra boot. > > I have to admit to enjoying myself somewhat. Barreling along (I too, was > doing 70 mph, mainly to keep from being...
Re: Headlight Relay Kit Problems
Historical mailing list - Jay Brown
Mon, 2 Dec 2013 00:31:09 -0500
...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD2feNyZwFw I recently started using a new set of ratcheting open barrel crimpers (I probably have about a...
Re: gas prices going up.....more...
Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
Sat, 5 Mar 2005 01:21:12 -0800
...oil for April delivery > traded as high as $55.20 > a barrel in New York before closing at $53.57. > > A 24-cent jump...
Building Motor From 2.1 To 2.5
Historical mailing list - Derek Drew
Fri, 8 Sep 2000 21:48:41 -0400
...The Mahle piston and Barrel Kit 98mm--not sure where one could get one of those but it seems credible that it would be...
Hella Driving lights and High Powered headlights
Historical mailing list - Bob Freeman
Fri, 6 Dec 2002 01:44:07 -0800
...And another item I just bought is a red rear Hella fog lamp, so they can see you sooner when they are barreling along...
Re: Whoa! H6 subie & Dieselboxer
Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
Wed, 5 Sep 2007 23:39:54 +1200
...together, with pistons in a square layout when viewed down the barrels. You could do a six this way too (a rectangular-6, sounds...
Re: Carbs on my '91 Westie Syncro---"The Story"
Historical mailing list - Chris Uzzi
Wed, 25 Mar 1998 08:36:54 -0800
...on my Canadian '91 Syncro Westie that is running a 4 barrel Weber Carb. So I will post this to the list-serve in...
Re: Parts for sale - cleaning garage
Historical mailing list - Chris S
Mon, 2 Nov 2009 19:19:09 -0500
...Pulled off a > motor with crosshatch marks still in the barrels! :-) > 9. Genuine 2.1 l VW Head with valves. Not as clean as...
Re: Oettinger flat-six motor and accesories info wanted
Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
Sun, 16 Jan 2005 08:15:07 -0800
...I believe they came as 2.8 liter by >> using WBX 1.9 pistons and barrels; then 3.2 liter using pistons from >> the...
Re: '80 Vanagon questions
Historical mailing list
Fri, 28 Oct 94 17:48:50 -0500
...Thus to solve any future problems and make it run >better (and cooler) rip the FI off and put on 1 two barrel progressive...