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• Re: engines and trannys for sale
  Historical mailing list - Captain Meno
  Sat, 1 Apr 2000 11:37:37 -0800
  how much for the engine? Greg. ---------- >From: JordanVw@AOL.COM >To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM >Subject: engines and trannys for sale >Date: Sat, Apr...
• Re: [T2] Wow--150hp engine (snicker snicker)
  Historical mailing list - Dan Snow
  Wed, 6 Mar 2002 19:22:19 -0800
  That would be the rare "steamer trunk" engine, as opposed to the suitcase engine. >Maybe he has two 914 engines in there!!! > Daniel Snow...
• 2.1 L engine mount bolts
  Historical mailing list - Joe
  Tue, 20 Aug 2002 21:28:45 -0400
  I picked up a used engine from a parts yard. The engine is missing the two bolts on Bently page 13.38 that go...
• Engine stand for Wasserboxer 2.1L
  Historical mailing list - will hansen
  Thu, 6 Feb 2003 15:26:38 -0800
  I dropped my Vanagon engine then tried to attach to my 'universal' engine stand. Oops...is there an adapter for the Vanagon motor? Is...
• Engine brackets...
  Historical mailing list - Sylvain B�langer
  Mon, 30 Aug 1999 17:58:51 -0400
  I own a 1980 Automatic transmission Vanagon and i want to convert to a Jetta engine. Can someone tell me where i can find...
• How much did you pay for a rebuilt engine, installed?
  Historical mailing list - K. Taylor
  Sun, 24 Sep 2000 01:13:26 -0800
  For those who've had a rebuilt 2.1 engine installed in the last year, how much have you paid for engine + installation? Ken
• Toronto Listees - Who does engine conversions?
  Historical mailing list - 80 Westy Pokey
  Mon, 2 Dec 2002 12:34:09 -0500
  I recal some mention about a local Toronto VW shop doing engine converstions (using the Golf engine I think). Anyone remember who and/pr...
• Re: 80 Westy Engine Fire - Mystery Solved
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Sun, 11 May 2003 08:20:59 -0700
  What bothered me was this was a new engine and all of the fuel lines were replaced when the engine was put in, so...
• RE: Big Engine Bozo's
  Historical mailing list - Scott Morrow
  Wed, 10 Apr 1996 10:12:30 -0500
  ...You do have to >do some fabrication yourself, depending on engine. But you won't be >overstressing your engine and hoping it doesn't...
• Re: CHErry picker is a pain in the ....
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Fri, 3 Nov 2006 12:32:25 -0600
  ...Andrew Libby on the diesel list uses a frame as you describe, but with four sections of all-thread hanging to below the engine...
• Re: New Engine Wanted: 85 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 10 May 2012 19:33:04 -0400
  ...New Engine Wanted: 85 Vanagon > > I know there is probably a mountain of info on this digest about > acquiring a new engine. > > I think...
• Re: Difference between North American Engines and European Engines
  Historical mailing list - Zoran Mladen
  Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:58:31 -0800
  ...Difference between North American Engines and European Engines I have DJ-code in my Westy.� Internally the engine has high-compression pistons.� The timing...
• Re: "Extraordinarily bad engines"
  Historical mailing list - Patrick Dooley
  Tue, 14 Apr 1998 11:07:07 -0400
  ...Re: "Extraordinarily bad engines" >We have 126,000 on our 90 Syncro Westy on original engine and no leaks except >occasionally from hoses. Roger...
• Re: internal EngineCleanerUpperStuff ?
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Fri, 21 Jun 2013 12:10:22 -0500
  ...I will buy more engines from those who make that kind of engine, not from ones whose engines wear out before their time. mcneely...
• Re: cost of installing engine on '87 Westy
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Wed, 12 May 2004 16:51:30 -0500
  Jenny, take a look at Bob Donalds engines on his web site WWW.BostonEngines.com and get some prices, then call and talk to...
• Re: TiiCo Conversion Engine
  Historical mailing list - selten
  Thu, 6 Jun 2002 16:37:57 -0500
  ...Typically I want > >to crank the engine and drive away. One reason I went > >with the TiiCo engine is because it would be a...
• 1.8l AC engine parts FS
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Wilford
  Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:15:36 -0400
  ...Or if someone on this list is looking for engine rebuilding parts for your 1.8l Air Cooled engine, look no further. I was...
• Re: EB2007 Vanaru Test Drive
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:37:33 -0400
  Subaru engines are usually quieter than the waterboxer engine (SVX engines excepted.) Now Tiico engines sound a lot like the original engines...cause they...
• Re: Why Bigger Brakes Was Cause of brake rotor warping
  Historical mailing list - Edward Maglott
  Sun, 15 Sep 2013 10:42:12 -0400
  My Golf TDI has "quite a bit" less engine braking effect than the gas engine Golfs I've owned, especially at lower RPMS. On...
• Engine Transplant Possible in an Air-Cooled?
  Historical mailing list - Joseph Dor�
  Sun, 6 Dec 2009 06:39:03 -0500
  ...It currently has a rebuilt original engine which, I assume, might last us another 100,000 - 200,000KM. When the time comes and all...
• Re: new engine question
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 4 Jan 1996 12:52:37 -0600 (CST)
  Mark, don't have any insight regarding reliability, but remember, the engine you buy may be "complete" as a engine, but lacking as a...
• Re: Hobart Kennedy
  Historical mailing list - JordanVw
  Fri, 13 Mar 1998 11:28:30 EST
  In a message dated 98-03-13 01:17:17 EST, hbandcmills@TNTECH.CAMPUS.MCI.NET writes: << If you are speaking of Kennedy Engineering...
• Subaru Conversion: I'm starting
  Historical mailing list - Markus Benne
  Wed, 14 Jul 1999 14:42:56 -0400
  I've puchased an '87 Syncro without an engine a months ago and had been agonizing over which engine to put in it. At...
• Re: 2.6 SA engine kit
  Historical mailing list - Robert Berkemer
  Thu, 27 Feb 2003 07:15:59 -0600
  Chris S wrote: > "The Audi 2.3L engine is rated at 130HP and 139 ft-lb of torque. These > engines came in '88-'92...
• Re: Engine Conversion MPG Question
  Historical mailing list - Weibel, Pius
  Fri, 23 Apr 2004 08:44:34 -0500
  ...Engine Conversion MPG Question Hi All, I am thinking about doing one of the conversions when the current engine dies. I have the Kennedy...
• Re: engine stand
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:25:21 -0500
  ...It is made I think for American engines. I would like to > know if I can use it for the waterboxer engine. > > Thanks, > Eric...
• Re: List of vanagon engine conversions that fit below the stock engine lid...
  Historical mailing list - Sudhir Desai
  Thu, 28 Dec 2006 10:59:43 -0500
  ...also list ground height clearance from > lowest point of engine or engine carriers, to pavement, with stock 14" tires. > please add your input..copy...
• Re: "Increase the HP, up to 45%(or more), in your Wasse...
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 20 Oct 1999 21:11:56 EDT
  Robert said: <<Well, Have you checked out any T1 engines and the horsepower they make when they are built right?? 150+HP and they...
• Re: VW gas I4 Engine Conversion
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:59:42 -0700
  ...I have the ABA engine with all these features and no vibration. The other question I would like to address is the engine angle...
• Re: Syncro engine stronger?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 2 May 2013 00:19:35 -0400
  Of course the Syncro engine is stronger. It has to work so much harder! (LOL). Seriously except for some details such as the thermostat...
• Re: [Bulk] Re: Secret tune-up / service item on 1.9 waterboxer engines.
  Historical mailing list - Michael Snow
  Sat, 30 Jul 2011 04:33:45 -0400
  ...Also, diesel oils tend to contain more zinc, which has slowly been removed from gasoline engine oils over the past couple of decades to...
• Re: Steam Clean Engine?
  Historical mailing list - S Sittservl
  Mon, 3 Aug 1998 21:56:03 EDT
  ...Steam Clean Engine? > From: janetda@cris.com (J. Andersen) > > Get a spray bottle of Simple Green and use as directed, it will more > gentle...
• Re: New Engine Conversion
  Historical mailing list - neil
  Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:11:09 -0700
  ...SNIP > After evaluating other engines based on fitment, performance, > availability, and cost, we have decided on using GM's Ecotec line of engines > as...
• thank you joel, as it takes all types
  Historical mailing list - gary hradek
  Wed, 18 Jul 2001 20:16:21 -0700
  An engineer dies and reports to the pearly gates. St. Peter checks his dossier and says, "Ah, you're an engineer. You're in...
• Re: Engine out, CHErry picker is a pain in the ....
  Historical mailing list - Anthony Egeln
  Fri, 29 Jun 2007 07:03:13 -0700
  ...I used to use a 'cherry picker' style engine hoist for removing or installing an engine. I can't tell you how impractical it...
• Re: Weird engine noise update (LONG)
  Historical mailing list - Edward Maglott
  Fri, 10 Jul 2015 18:44:29 -0400
  ...I do know that my engine > definitely would go running off of a pallet if unrestrained. > > Bus Depot has a rebuilt engine for under...
• Re: CA Smog Legal Conversions/Facts
  Historical mailing list - phil stanhope
  Thu, 7 Mar 2002 08:43:21 -0800
  --- Eric Unrau wrote: > All this talk about engine conversions got me > wondering about the > engines used in the current SA bus models. > they be...
• Re: Engine Rebuild Questions
  Historical mailing list - midworld midworld
  Thu, 23 Apr 1998 22:57:35 PDT
  I'm currently having my engine rebuilt at Freds garage in Redwood city CA. and they told mme it would take about a week...
• Re: engine swaps
  Historical mailing list - Veverka Family
  Thu, 15 Apr 1999 22:07:36 +0000
  Marcus, We drove an Audi A4 Avant last year for 4 months while in Germany and I fell in deep lust for this engine...
• 1985 Vanagon - Engine Transplant. Factory vs. other Rebuilds
  Historical mailing list - - Lauren Pelzer
  Mon, 28 Feb 2000 21:14:57 EST
  Hi, Listees! This is excerpted from an Email I got from one of the guys on my list to do my engine transplant. It...
• Re: Bostig, Zetex, Tiico - what do those names refer to?
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Thu, 3 Sep 2009 10:57:54 -0600
  TIICO was the "kit" importer (out of business).Zetec is what Ford calls their I4 engine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Zetec_engine...
• RE: Question re: engine removal
  Historical mailing list - William R. Kennedy, NJIT CIAT, 201-596-5648
  Fri, 14 Oct 1994 09:14:06 EST
  My impression is that the Type 4 engines, including Peter Williams' 73, hold up the transaxles, rather than vice versa. So Peter you do...
• Engine-stand search, northern Utah
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 21 Dec 1995 21:02:55 -0700
  Howdy folks, if anyone in this part of the country could loan (or rent!) me an engine stand while I'm reassembling my bus...
• Re: corrosion
  Historical mailing list - Robert Rountree
  Tue, 19 Jan 1999 09:20:14 -0500
  ...Bottom line >here is that we have the same metals in our engines as millions of other >companies engines, but we have a badly...
• Re: Subaru Engines
  Historical mailing list - Larry Hamm
  Fri, 5 May 2000 23:06:43 -0600
  Lawrence Johnson wrote: > They > have 6 racks of three shelves each and about 40 feet long of just > Subaru Engines. We simply walked up...
• Help decipher S.African Vanagon engine code
  Historical mailing list - Jim King
  Mon, 16 May 2005 11:28:52 -0400
  I need to decipher a VW engine code from Vanagon Wasserboxer crate engine that I've come across. Can anyone point me to a...
• Re: Boxer engines
  Historical mailing list - David Richoux
  Wed, 2 Jan 2002 17:03:56 -0800
  Andrew Grebneff wrote: > > >Some more aircraft engines offhand, include the Franklins, Jabiru and > >Rotax. What engine did the Haflinger have? I've seen a...
• ABA 2.0 I4 @15 degree adjust engine height? (a few questions)
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Wed, 7 Nov 2007 10:15:13 -0800
  ...transfer mark from centre of crank pulley on my current air cooled engine to frame or sheet metal in engine bay? And.... It seems...
• Re: Removal of Vanagon Engine
  Historical mailing list - Don Hundt
  Fri, 5 Jun 1998 15:12:44 -0700
  when I removed my engine, rather than use a jack or engine crane, I built a stout sawhorse out of 2 x 4s, attached...
• Hobart Kennedy
  Historical mailing list - Holly and Chris
  Thu, 12 Mar 1998 23:56:30 -0600
  << installing an audi 5000T engine is a better one. >> ok..i'd like to do this, but it seems unfeasable for people w/ automatic...
• Re: Why Bigger Brakes Was Cause of brake rotor warping
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Sat, 14 Sep 2013 16:33:40 -0500
  ...So, seems that a diesel engine has little or no engine braking capacity in its raw form, because it gives it up as the...
• Re: 82 Diesel Vanagon Engine Replacement - I'm looking at the 1.9 NA
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Fri, 26 Apr 2002 11:02:12 -0400
  The 75 hp is a non-TDi turbo engine. Stock head would not work. 1.9 NA is 66 hp. Jay Birkenfeld Jeff <BirkenfeldJeff...
• Re: New engine start-up, help a brother out
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Sat, 23 Aug 2003 11:21:33 -0700
  ...This will circulate oil without loading the engine. My instructions also say ". After making oil pressure start engine bring the engine to 2500 RPM...
• engine damage?
  Historical mailing list - Dan Soiney
  Mon, 7 Apr 1997 22:34:40 -0500
  I have the chance to purchase an 80 vanagon that suffered an engine fire. I believe that a fuel line came off and fed...
• Re: gov't sure fire way to destroy an engine Re: about oil additives
  Historical mailing list - Aristotle Sagan
  Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:27:24 -0700
  ...Start the engine. > >> 7. Run engine at approximately 2000 rpm (for safety reasons do not > > operate at > >> high rpm) until the engine stops. (Typically...
• Re: Friday engine conversions
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:22:31 -0600
  ...Anyone? I'll help! http://www.512bbi.com/engine-photos/ <http://www.512bbi.com/engine-photos/>I agree ... but want to call it a...
• 73 Camper needs engine?
  Historical mailing list - Shannon Mitchell
  Thu, 1 May 2003 09:31:31 -0400
  I am looking at a 73 camper that "only needs an engine" what would an engine for a 73 camper cost? The Camper is...
• Re: Speaking of CV Joints ...
  Historical mailing list - Ben huot
  Sat, 17 May 2003 01:08:18 -0400
  http://pages.infinit.net/engine/cv_boot_anatomy.htm http://pages.infinit.net/engine/cv_joint_maintenance.htm That should help you. Ben http...
• Vanagon temperature problem
  Historical mailing list - samchez, alexander
  Wed, 06 Aug 1997 16:08:24 +0000
  ...Since then I've had the engine replaced three times. When my engine first went out I bought a remanufactured engine from the Volkswagen...
• Re: VW of Canada motors
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Mon, 3 Jun 2002 14:33:33 -0500
  ...Then the engine blew at around 90,000. Burned clear through the top of the piston on #3. Imagine my surprise when the engine...