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• Re: External oil cooler, Help overheating
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Tue, 12 Aug 2003 16:51:22 -0500
  ...a thermostatically controlled mega oil cooler on it and dual two barrel Weber 44IDF's and headers. Head temps measured at the exhaust manifold...
• Re: Oldest
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Fri, 7 Oct 2011 15:48:54 -0500
  ...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: Parts for sale - cleaning garage
  Historical mailing list - Mike
  Mon, 2 Nov 2009 19:00:12 -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: Are non German pistons really shorter than German pistons?
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Wed, 21 May 2003 10:53:14 -0700
  ...curiosity I checked the length on some VW Type IV cylinder barrels. I found that between them OEM, Cofap and Mahle there can be...
• Re: More on Westy Prices
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sat, 16 Feb 2013 14:23:11 -0800
  ...I see the green o-rings on top of the cylinder barrels are ancient and knew right there it didn't have new pistonrings...
• Fw: Online tool source?
  Historical mailing list - John Anderson
  Wed, 9 Dec 1998 00:13:07 -0500
  ...0001 accuracy, though they may have upgraded as the only difference is of course the vernier scale on the barrel. John janderson@iolinc.net
• Re: Oil ring question
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Wed, 7 Mar 2001 21:23:04 -0600
  ...To check the end gap clearance, each ring should be placed in the cylinder barrel, and using a piston to properly set the depth...
• Re: Gas leaking after filling to the top...84 2wd..
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:26:58 -0700
  This job is more fun than a barrel of monkeys! Drive until you are nearly out of gas, raise the front on stands and...
• BOSCH ANTENNA KEY.
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Sat, 3 Apr 2010 21:33:08 -0600
  ...and pointer finger that goes into a slot on the antenna barrel that houses the hidden antenna. I can push down on the antenna...
• Re: Adding twin carbs to 1600 aircooled
  Historical mailing list - kenneth d lewis
  Thu, 27 Jan 2000 17:31:13 EST
  ...The engine has just been >rebuilt >with unleaded twin port heads, new barrels & pistons, bearings etc... >In >fact I'm still running it in...
• Re: wrist pins/boston bob
  Historical mailing list - ROBERT DONALDS
  Thu, 3 Feb 2005 00:11:25 -0500
  ...had " > Walked " and started to score the side of the liner barrel. Reason given > is > because the gudgeon circlip had broken ??? allowing the pin...
• Re: What is the biggest & heaviest thing you've carried INSIDEyour van?
  Historical mailing list - charmaine zehring
  Thu, 10 May 2001 14:38:07 -0400
  WOW and I was proud of my 4 half barrells of Appalachian Brew Company micros complete with tubs and 130Lbs of ice - and camping...
• Research done, now your opinion...
  Historical mailing list - Richard Bias
  Thu, 14 Mar 2002 08:19:49 -0500
  ...when I did the heads last time I had the cylinder barrels out and they looked good, no scratches or gouges and the honing...
• Re: Busses By the Bridge number something
  Historical mailing list - DaBomb
  Mon, 20 Jan 2003 16:26:44 -0800
  ...and crap from when the magnesium burned a hole through the barrel. You know the rules: 1) Leave No Trace! 2) Fahrvergn�gen. 3...
• Re: Got Gas?
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Fri, 18 Mar 2005 20:59:19 -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...
• Re: Carburator help please
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:36:47 -0400
  ...Fourthly, FI is a science, Carburetion is an art! Having said that, my van's 2 barrel, progressive Solex carb (34C TCIC / 13 0757...
• Re: Vanagon Winter Survival Kit Question
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:38:44 -0500
  ...Supposedly top-of-the-line, but bottom of the quality barrel. Don't fall for it. When group camping, I've found it's...
• Re: oil fill level.....
  Historical mailing list - puzerewski
  Thu, 31 May 2001 15:18:47 -0400
  ...see what happens!!! It isn't > pretty, that oil gets into barrels and you lay a hellish oil cloud out > the exhaust. Done this...
• Re: Beyond Vanagon-Keeping older vehicles!
  Historical mailing list - ANTONY MARSH
  Sat, 23 Mar 2013 10:49:19 -0400
  ...No propane, all electric, rebuilt 455, new four barrel, headers, twin flow masters, laminate floor - blah blah blah - but going down hill with a...
• Re: was Friday content Volt GM, etc..Now: SUV is really_____.
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:00:03 -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: Should I rebuild the bottom end? Questions & photos.
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 7 Sep 2010 00:01:53 -0400
  ...I've pulled the barrels and pistons, and I am wondering whether to rebuild the bottom end, or not. Side play on the connecting...
• Re: A friend bought a NEW Camero Z28 in the midst of the first oil crisis
  Historical mailing list - levi hawkins
  Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:26:27 -0700
  ...becomes available, and then, with total reserves of only 18 billion barrels, it will make a very tiny impact on price. --- On Wed, 6...
• Thankful bus driver tells all
  Historical mailing list - ncbus
  Sun, 18 Nov 2001 20:06:26 -0500
  ...With no prospects for a bonfire Dave put his MIG to use and created a barrel stove to keep his guests warm without danger...
• Re: aw, what the heck ... more Phrydaye stuff (some oldies but oldies). :)
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sat, 6 Sep 2008 04:21:25 -0500
  ...John Rodgers 88 GL Driver joel walker wrote: > SONNET #43 > > From the Portuguese Man-of-War > By Lizzie Barrel Browning .50 cal. > > How do...
• Re: Dreaded water jacket head gasket leak strikes
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott )
  Mon, 21 Dec 2015 18:58:13 -1000
  ...Check that dimension by installing the head, with metal rings on top of the barrels, but no rubber gasket. then measure that gap. I...
• Re: heads- bus depot or van cafe??
  Historical mailing list - Jerry
  Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:31:05 -0600
  ...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: Pics of New Rotors (compared to no van rotors now)
  Historical mailing list - Michael Sullivan
  Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:15:17 -0500
  ...front rotors from my Porsche >> GT(sitting on my 55 gal barrel stove in the shop). 4 pistons on each of >> these rotors with...
• Re: For you paddlers--a petition
  Historical mailing list - Mark Dearing
  Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:07:11 -0400
  tell that to the law here in virginia or to the old guy standing on the side of the creek with the double barrel...
• Re: WBX Recommendations Sought
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Wed, 28 May 2014 21:27:46 -0700
  ...You spending about $100 more, but they will have the upgraded > valves and machined ports etc..... > > Your cylinder barrels should be OK, but sitting...
• Re: anti-sway bar
  Historical mailing list - developtrust
  Thu, 16 May 2002 23:50:33 -0700
  ...When that moose leaps off of the ledge right onto the roadway in front of you when you're barrelling along, *that's* when...
• To Eugene re: Kombi Problems.
  Historical mailing list - Tracey Knight
  Sun, 7 May 1995 22:55:03 +1000 (EST)
  ...have a 72 Kombi. > > > >I put an 88 kit through it (barrels and pistons and new heads) what else > >should be changed??? > > > >I have...
• Re: cylinder heads for my 84 westy
  Historical mailing list - David Kao
  Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:22:13 -0700
  ...The other way is to find or make some sort of ring compressor that > >will compress the rings to get the barrels on then...
• Re: Problem with lock cylinder?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Ohana
  Mon, 8 Jul 2013 14:04:06 -0700
  ...Should I change the lock cylinder or the steerring lock itself? If I change the lock cylinder, can a locksmith change the barrel so...
• Re: Got Gas?
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Fri, 18 Mar 2005 21:15:49 -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...
• Vanagon Trivia
  Historical mailing list - John Wessels
  Thu, 3 Feb 2000 11:52:34 EST
  ...changed often enough. (We always replaced the seals under the cylinder barrels, half of the time the cylinders were stuck to the heads.) We...
• Re: Smokin 1.9
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sat, 22 Jul 2000 09:27:11 -0500
  ...it will seep downward to the low point in the cylinder barrel, and pooling there, work its way past the rings to some degree...
• Re: Totally OT Siren Sound In Firefox
  Historical mailing list - Roger Whittaker
  Fri, 21 May 2010 23:35:54 -0700
  dear inky blinky pinky and clyde my wife is still playing and i just used an explosive accutated device with a long barrel to...
• Re: Might be forced to sell my van if I move to Florida
  Historical mailing list - * MtnGal
  Sun, 19 Mar 2000 15:18:36 -0800
  ...My friend of 20 years offered to move me out there lock, stock and barrel. That's what this trip is all about. I...
• Re: gas prices- a canadian perspective
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Sat, 5 Mar 2005 17:16:24 -0700
  ...They need to put out enough gasoline to meet the vehicles demands and yet out of the same barrel start storing up the fuel...
• Re: Engine teardown - 2.1L WBX
  Historical mailing list - kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
  Thu, 11 Jun 2015 10:05:25 -0400
  ...notice the 'ports' in the non-flywheel end of the piston > > barrel area of the block ? > > > > one is exposed when the water pump is...
• Re: Broken head stud
  Historical mailing list - Claudio Cella
  Wed, 2 Jan 2002 21:40:15 -0800
  ...Finally had to pull piston and barrell off to get better access to problem stud. At the end used some gentle heat and stud...
• Re: Busses By the Bridge number something
  Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
  Mon, 20 Jan 2003 18:47:16 -0800
  ...and crap from when > the magnesium burned a hole through the barrel. You know the rules: 1) > Leave No Trace! 2) Fahrvergn�gen. 3...
• Re: help! vanagon engine rebuild
  Historical mailing list
  2 Dec 1995 07:52:35 GMT
  ...The cylinder barrels actually slip into the heads and are sealed by o-rings to keep the water out and the compression in. The...
• Was: Noisy fuel pump Now: Fuel Filters
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Fox
  Tue, 25 Jun 2002 08:49:07 -0600
  ...Bell wrote: > On my I4 conversion I have the big silver barrel shaped filter after the > pump and the small plastic box shaped filter...
• Re: 1982 Air Cooled with compression 110, 110, 115, 115
  Historical mailing list - Benny boy
  Tue, 1 May 2007 00:19:47 -0400
  ...good >> to to be true - 110 lbs in the 2 forward barrels and 115 in the rear >> 2. >> >> The engine has not been torn...
• help me understand US emissions control strategy.(NVC)
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:43:37 -0700
  ...many states? These 'allowed vehicles" use up six times as many barrels of oil burned up per mile traveled, and six times as much...
• Re: WBX Recommendations Sought
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Thu, 29 May 2014 20:41:10 +0000
  ...Heads, valves, cylinder barrels, rings, > maybe even rod end bearings, oil pump and water pump. I know the lower > end of these engines are...
• Re: Ring job?
  Historical mailing list - Vince Jahn
  Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:20:46 -0700
  ...Ring job? You're opening a barrel of worms here. Damned if you do and damned if you don't but you're going...
• Re: Busses By the Bridge number something
  Historical mailing list - Joseph Fortino
  Mon, 20 Jan 2003 18:02:45 -0800
  ...and crap from when the > magnesium burned a hole through the barrel. > You know the rules: 1) Leave No Trace! 2) > Fahrvergn�gen. 3...
• Re: Oh Deer, Oh Deer
  Historical mailing list - Roger Whittaker
  Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:01:06 -0700
  ...Just barreled through and sped away... no > Operator's License, no insurance or drunk... or all three. I > pulled over, collected my wits and...
• Re: off with her heads
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel
  Fri, 18 Oct 2013 21:06:03 -0700
  ...it's a bit fiddly ...fitting the wrist pin into the assembled piston and barrel though the hole in the block, the the circlip...
• Re: Amsoil vs. Mobil Delvac vs. RedLine Diesel Oils?
  Historical mailing list - Dan Q
  Sun, 19 Sep 1999 23:35:10 -0400
  ...found cylinder bores with deep "lips" at the tops of the barrels, and terrible blow-by and piston wear from what I figured was...
• Re: funny disc? OR BETTER YET, SERIOUS DISK!
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Fri, 28 Feb 2003 21:28:25 -0600
  ...My engine burned a > piston > > clear through and scored the dickens out of the cylinder barrel > and > > never once showed any sign of overheating...
• RE: Moving to Colorado
  Historical mailing list - Maher, Steve (SD-MS)
  Fri, 13 Oct 1995 11:21:00 -0700 (PDT)
  ...I eventually put a Weber 32/36 single two-barrel progressive carb with whole-shot manifold on it, along with a 009 (never noticed...
• Re: Normal oil temp and oil leak
  Historical mailing list - Max/Joyce Wellhouse
  Tue, 11 Jul 2000 13:34:58 -0700
  ...It never got over 200 degrees but then I had dual two barrel webers on it which made for good power and cooler heads...
• Re: State of the List... State your ages!!!!!!! :<)
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Sun, 9 May 2004 02:30:43 -0500
  ...then went to a 79 orange/tan in 85 for $3k and put dual 2 barrel Webers on it and more work than I...
• Re: Instrument cluster light issues
  Historical mailing list - Thomas Casal
  Mon, 17 May 2021 23:29:04 -0400
  ...A > mouse ate it on me. > > > > So I finally got the 2.8mm open barrel connector to fix it so I wire > > everything up...
• Re: drips of antifreeze off head
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Tue, 1 Jan 2013 14:13:54 -0800
  ...JB is not to be used on the head where the barrel sits? (higher >> heat, wider heat cycling destroys the JB?) >> >> If a head...
• Re: Replacing Accelerator Cable on an 87 syncro, manual
  Historical mailing list - Robert Stevens
  Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:28:39 -0600
  ...The "adjustment" will come from cutting the stranded cable (front end > > of van AND cable) where it goes into the barrel adjuster with the...
• Re: Friday question.Re: Vacuum gauge NVC
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:16:34 -0500
  ...My 79 loaf engine had dual two barrel Webers on it with individual intakes obviously and I tried running the brake booster off one...