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Re: More v belt questions
Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:07:26 -0500
...design ...drives me nuts. > > just like people don't take a jacket with them in case the weather changes > .....or check that there is...
Re: 1987 Oxygen Sensor Wiring 2.1 liter Digifant MV engine
Historical mailing list - Robert Steven Fish
Mon, 25 Feb 2002 00:12:36 +0100
...is to trim the shield braid off flush with the outer jacket, > leaving a bit of the inner insulation sticking out. The important points...
Veteran's Day Missive
Historical mailing list - Pensioner
Sat, 11 Nov 2006 17:00:52 -0800
...From inside the tattered jacket he took three grimy medals and carefully pinned them on. The street was quiet now, closed off for the...
another road test: 1983-1/2 VW Vanagon
Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
Wed, 11 Jan 95 23:11:51 CST
...The crankcase is also new and now has an integral water jacket that occupies the space once filled by the finned cylinder barrels used...
In Alaska, Bear Attacks Camper NVC
Historical mailing list - Zolly
Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:08:22 -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...
[vanagon] ceramic caotings/corrosion
Historical mailing list
Wed, 29 May 1996 11:48:51 -0300 (ADT)
...The water jacket surrounds this system, but since it is aluminium it expands more than the steel barrels when hot, so it needs room...
Re: - and increased stroke - long and pretty pointless
Historical mailing list - Damon Campbell
Sun, 23 Mar 2003 18:07:33 -0800
...wonder how additional heat at the head will effect > the water jacket O-ring > since heat =pressure? > I just bought a set of those...
Re: Traveling/Camping With a Baby
Historical mailing list - Paul Wyand
Mon, 17 Oct 2005 16:01:22 -0400
...cloth diaper but you put it in a leak proof nylon jacket thing that had Velcro and the other better one was a Velcro...
Re: Why no bolt-on HP upgrades to the 2.1 WBX?
Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
Wed, 23 May 2012 21:18:44 -0700
It's the 1800cc 70's air cooled engine with somewhat better metallurgy and water jackets cast to the case with water cooled heads...
Re: Rebuilds, was: Mechanic Horror Stories
Historical mailing list - Bill Knight
Wed, 12 May 1999 11:52:25 -0400
...All was well for about 14 months and 15K miles until one of his heads developed a crack in the water jacket in a...
Re: Engine cuts/drops out while accellerating - 2.1 WBX
Historical mailing list - Vincent Poirier
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:30:28 -0400
...I checked out the engine bay, and found a small brown, ground wire that had some deterioration in the jacket...it was sitting on...
Re: Form Jay Leno's Garage
Historical mailing list - Daryl Christensen
Thu, 5 Apr 2012 16:35:02 -0700
...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: Broken bolts on 1.9L lower alternator bracket....
Historical mailing list - Jim Thompson
Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:22:18 -0800
...I go too far I assume I will break the water jacket? That > wouldn't be fun... > > Anyone have a better solution? > > If you...
Re: Head leak again.... What next?
Historical mailing list - Kurt Camealy
Sun, 11 Feb 2007 22:01:51 -0500
...There is no coolant leakage out of the outer water jacket gasket either which last time my head gaskets leaked the combustion gasses seemed...
Re: Dreaded water jacket head gasket leak strikes
Historical mailing list - J Stewart
Sun, 20 Dec 2015 19:32:38 +0000
I had the same, one sleeve was really stuck to the head, and pulled out about an inch. Several folks told me when that...
Re: head gasket problem ?
Historical mailing list - wolfgang
Fri, 21 Sep 2001 18:50:13 -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: camping trip, long and mundane
Historical mailing list - Richard Koerner
Sun, 29 Sep 2024 16:31:53 +0000
...also saw where something (bear?) had torn into a ground yellow jacket nest. Well, we probably will need to switch to a camper that...
Re: wrist pins/boston bob
Historical mailing list - ROBERT DONALDS
Mon, 31 Jan 2005 20:27:55 -0500
...water cooled engine may have as much noises but the water jacket is a great noise damper One other thought about wrist pins is...
Re: compressing piston rings in engine
Historical mailing list - Derek Burgess
Mon, 9 Dec 2013 13:48:28 -0500
...fits > (or maybe not) in the tight space between the water jacket and the sleeve. > If you've used one in this scenario, where...
Persistent running rich problem finally fixed. Here's how.
Historical mailing list - Laurence Smith
Mon, 28 Jan 2002 01:04:01 -0500
...The solution: * On the Digifant ECU terminal 19 there is a brown/black wire that grounds the green O2 sensor outer wire jacket. It...
Re: [Fwd: [T2] H2O Vanagon part needed - pic included]
Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:32:53 -0800
...well have much > bigger problems, if the water in the cylinder jackets and heads froze. > > Allan > -- > 1991 Vanagon GL > > "Scott Daniel - Turbovans" <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS...
Re: Complaint Dept (engine swaps, reliability, whining)
Historical mailing list - John Anderson
Sat, 14 Mar 1998 09:35:40 -0500
...The pliable seal avoids having to maintain exacting tolerance control on the length of the liners, deck height, and the block to cylinder jacket...
Re: Engine cuts/drops out while accellerating - 2.1 WBX
Historical mailing list - Tom Myers
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:04:43 -0400
...I checked out the engine bay, and found a small brown, ground wire that had some deterioration in the jacket...it was sitting on...
Re: travel to ak
Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
Thu, 6 May 1999 18:56:30 -0500
...Though it's daylight most all night, in the evenings, especially in mountanins areas, it can get quite cool, so jackets are in order...
stuff left for sale
Historical mailing list - Seth Bruggeman
Sun, 18 Nov 2001 10:29:03 -0800
...pipe from water pump to right water jacket 8. oil/case breather box/tube--the cylindrical black thing that bolts on top of case...
Re: HEAT glorious heat!!!
Historical mailing list - Jeff Strickrott
Sat, 16 Feb 2002 14:07:26 -0500
...You > won't need your jacket, but you will need your wallet. > > >From historic, walkable Mount Olive, NC, > > G. Matthew Bulley > Bulley-Hewlett > Corporate...
Latest BNNTA update & early arrivals...
Historical mailing list - Bill Bowman
Wed, 28 Aug 2002 11:11:33 -0500
...80's!!! You better remember to bring a sweatshirt or light jacket for the evenings around the campfire, it might actually get kinda cool...
Re: Tools for engine overhaul on 85 waterboxer
Historical mailing list - Mark Seifert
Tue, 20 Apr 2004 21:52:58 -0700
...This is basically an air-cooled vw motor with a water jacket, so the only BIG difference is the pistons/sleeves. I would recommend...
Re: Bogus engineering
Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
Fri, 5 Feb 2021 10:07:40 -0500
...mind being the idea that you could just wrap a cooling jacket around an air cooled engine. Then we have an oddly shaped fuel...
Re: Engine stalling at high speed
Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
Sat, 16 Apr 2016 15:32:27 -0400
...Disconnect the sensor and strip back the outer jacket on that green wire to get to the outer braid. With the ignition on (engine...
Re: head gasket problem ?
Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
Sun, 23 Sep 2001 08:29:41 -0400
...Could the head gasket be slowly leaking combustion gases > into the water jacket ? I don't know if this is possible since I don...
Re: � � Re: � � � Expe riment (Musings)
Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
Tue, 27 Jul 2004 17:43:54 EDT
...I loved the sounds and the smell of the hot oil (vanagon content inferred) and the aviation gas, as well as the leather jackets...
One more veterans day NVC
Historical mailing list - Pensioner
Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:14:06 -0800
...From inside the tattered jacket he took three grimy medals and carefully pinned them on. The street was quiet now, closed off for the...
Re: end of camping season????
Historical mailing list - Karl Hartmut Filc
Mon, 20 Sep 2004 19:57:52 -0400
...There's various solutions to making the van warmer, including the fabrication of a secondary vinyl jacket around the pop top tent and installing...
Re: Temp/vent control lever panel...
Historical mailing list - David Beierl
Tue, 17 Nov 1998 17:12:11 EST
...heat control cable --- clean it off and out of the cable jacket just as well as you can (I suggest many repetitions of water...
Re: Oxymoron Alert: AC While Camping
Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
Wed, 9 Jun 2010 13:16:19 -0500
...I've spent some wet nights, but usually stayed dry enough to avoid hypothermia with rain jacket and pants, and tarp. Now I'm...
Re: Phoenix to Wisconsin and back
Historical mailing list - Budd Premack
Sat, 26 Jun 1999 02:43:06 -0500
...Anyway, wear a helmut and life jacket, and have a safe and exciting float. Obviously, this is only a partal listing of the scenic...
Re: How do you pack your Westy for a long camping trip?
Historical mailing list - Steven Johnson
Thu, 24 May 2001 09:04:06 -0700
...heavy jackets, emergency odds-n-ends that hardly ever gets used. More paper plates. Hiking boots... > 8) Rear closet... > TP, oil, folded screens, ship...
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Historical mailing list - Jonathan Farrugia
Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:20:38 -0400
do these stainless brake lines have a protective jacket over the outside of the stainless steel braid? jonathan On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, robertmstewart...
Re: Head gasket again...
Historical mailing list - John Anderson
Tue, 14 Mar 2000 14:23:42 -0500
...VW waterboxers also crack the water jacket to the outside, got to watch that though. Unlike with air cooled, I'd be inclined to...
Re: WBX motor rather than ....
Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
Fri, 1 Aug 2008 18:22:50 -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: Dreaded water jacket head gasket leak strikes
Historical mailing list - Alistair Bel
Sun, 20 Dec 2015 12:07:36 -0800
I pulled the cylinders and put in the new o rings ( I had the gasket set). Then I had the fun of compressing rings...
Re: head gaskets
Historical mailing list - B Feddish
Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:53:06 -0500
...It's not the head gaskets proper but the rubber water jacket gaskets. > Well... the head gaskets may be leaking as well, but in...
Re: Head gasket leak - does retorquing work?
Historical mailing list - Ben huot
Mon, 13 May 2002 15:03:26 -0400
...cost heads overall and new rad. >>If I have a water jacket leak, is it likely that I have coolant in my combustion chamber...
Re: DOn't use SM rated oils Re: Flickering Oil Light 84 auto
Historical mailing list - David Kao
Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:50:49 -0700
...The water jacket design should really keep it cool. Even it is hotter, the 20W part of 20W-50 does not help the cold...
Re: Broken Head Stud
Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
Sun, 26 Dec 2004 14:00:45 -0800
...Hmmm...Sounds like I'll have to remove the cylinders/water jacket to get a > good look. Am I likely to be Asking For...
Re: 2.1 rebuild - new nuts for case halves
Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
Wed, 4 May 2011 16:23:58 -0700
...hardware. > I am going to re-use the four internal water jacket nuts, but figured I'd > replace the rest with stainless steel nuts...
Re: Alternator vibration -
Historical mailing list - Stacy Schneider
Sun, 14 Jun 2020 22:53:01 -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: [vwpassat] road rage...my first experience tonite.. LOCK YOUR DOORS!!!
Historical mailing list - Saramak, Walter HS
Sat, 10 Feb 2001 17:59:05 -0500
...this guy then reaches in, grabs my jacket, and tries > to > PULL ME OUT OF THE CAR, i was pretty shaken up, i was...
Re: ceramic caotings( was Re: The trans)
Historical mailing list
Tue, 28 May 1996 17:40:18 -0500
...to all the little bubbles on the surfaces in the water jacket carrying away metal, I figure it starts this way in the Vanagon...
Re: Engine question just curious (long winded reply)
Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
Wed, 25 Oct 2017 15:53:00 -0700
...The engine is basically the type 2 aircooled case (upgraded with somewhat better metallurgy) with water jackets cast onto it, and water cooled heads...
Re: HEAT glorious heat!!!
Historical mailing list - Don Hundt
Sat, 16 Feb 2002 11:37:35 -0800
...You > > won't need your jacket, but you will need your wallet. > > > > >From historic, walkable Mount Olive, NC, > > > > G. Matthew Bulley > > Bulley-Hewlett > > Corporate...
Re: Monoxide CO deaths 2005
Historical mailing list - Roger Whittaker
Sun, 8 Feb 2009 20:14:01 -0800
...has a wood fired stove in his > basement > complete with water jacket > --- > it is always ood to see someone is keeping stats on the...
Trip report-how the west was fun...
Historical mailing list
Fri, 5 Jul 1996 21:35:19 -0400
...And it didn't hurt matters that I had to wear a jacket. Nice to have a low below 73-hasn't happend for...
Re: compressing piston rings in engine
Historical mailing list - Tom Carchrae
Mon, 9 Dec 2013 11:12:55 -0800
...fits > > (or maybe not) in the tight space between the water jacket and the > sleeve. > > If you've used one in this scenario, where...
Re: Refrigerator help-yes, I've already searched the archieves
Historical mailing list - Keith Ovregaard
Sun, 1 Jul 2007 21:26:07 -0700
...This was done by removing the metal jacket (just push the sides together on either side of the seam. Gently peal back the fiberglass...
Re: Alternator vibration -
Historical mailing list - Bruce Todd
Mon, 15 Jun 2020 06:14:20 -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: wrist pins Boston bob
Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:03:14 -0800
...water cooled engine may > have as much noises but the water jacket is a great noise damper > One other thought about wrist pins is...
'66 air conditioner (description + anyone want it?)
Historical mailing list
Sun, 10 Mar 1996 14:14:09 -0700
...There were a couple big hoses wrapped in a plastic jacket that ran down the inside of the back of the bus and went...
Re: DM: Re: VW coolant
Historical mailing list - karl
Wed, 17 Nov 1999 10:00:04 -0500
...Subarus don't have the problem, they actually designed the engine for liquid cooling instead of adding water jackets to an air-cooled design...