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• Re: '90 Wolfsburg Needs Repairs
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sun, 8 Jul 2001 23:41:38 -0500
  ...Had rebuilt heads, new valves, guides, and seats, new cylinder barrels, with matching rings, pistons, rebuilt rods, new camshaft, new oil pump, new water...
• Re: Leaky valve cover tip of iceberg
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Tue, 5 Aug 2008 12:39:21 -0700
  ...and the tiny green o-rings at the top of the barrels are very hard and stuck in their grooves- like they stopped doing...
• Re: omni engine...
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 9 Feb 2006 20:36:00 -0500
  ...Fuel intake was the Holley Progressive 2 barrel (looks like a Weber) mounted on a water heated manifold. In 81, O2 sensor trim was...
• Re: Coolant Overpressurization / Head Gasket Leak
  Historical mailing list - Walter Houle
  Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:22:09 -0500
  ...There was some slight discoloration on the end of the cylinder barrels where they fit in the head. On to the next head. this...
• apology, please read.
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 27 Jul 2001 12:51:18 EDT
  ...but all it takes is one disgruntled listmember, keyboard in hand, barrels loaded, ready to kill and maim.. well, maybe not kill and maim...
• Oil Leaks and Leak Down Test
  Historical mailing list - Thompson, Michael
  Thu, 2 May 2002 16:23:53 -0600
  ...full rebuild (as recommended by this garage - new pistons, rings and barrels as a minimum). Before buying the vehicle, I took it to a...
• Re: Porsche's SUV
  Historical mailing list - Jason Weisberger
  Sun, 6 Oct 2002 20:55:57 -0700
  ...fun, noisy, addictive." > > > > ...1970 914-6 with 2.4L, bigger pistons/barrels/ '67S cam, 2 > > rejetted > > triple-throat Webers. Ya, telephone poles looking like...
• Re: Gas price war / costs of road trips
  Historical mailing list - Joseph Fortino
  Fri, 21 Apr 2006 04:47:00 -0700
  ...Then, your glycerine ends up in a barrel. What to do with >it? People everywhere are trying to come up with ways to burn...
• Re: Head gasket job getting out of hand
  Historical mailing list - Zoran Mladen
  Mon, 13 May 2002 07:56:26 -0700
  ...Things were going great on the driver side, > barrels weren't stuck, > head sealing surface was pitted but reparable with > JB Weld. Replaced the...
• Re: Door handle/lock changing question
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:05:00 -0600
  ...If the wafer sits flush with the cylinder > barrel, then that wafer will work in that > position. You just keep doing this until all...
• Friday- Confusing Grace with Smarts (No Van Content)
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 1 Dec 2000 09:48:33 EST
  ...Dumped gas into a barrel with a fire burning in it. Jimmy rigged windshield wipers that broke in the middle of a downpour with...
• Re: Should I rebuild the bottom end? Questions & photos.
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Mon, 6 Sep 2010 18:57:46 -0500
  ...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: Looking for Special Camping Utensil
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:20:53 -0500
  ...There were two flaps mounted on a barrel, which in turn was >> attached to a pistol grip handle. The thing worked on spring tension...
• Re: (TIICO) ridiculous oil pressures
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:13:02 -0700
  ...So, what the hell is this all about? I've heard of folks seeing 80 psi when barreling down the highway, but rolling down...
• Re: Leaking PS fluid, replace rack or just seals?
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Wed, 25 Jan 2006 02:20:58 -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: 5-cyls in a Vanagon? Which ones?
  Historical mailing list - William Warburton
  Wed, 6 Apr 94 15:42:55 GMT
  ...out from van arriving at luxury hotel, windsurfers are visible pulling barrel rolls in the background despite total absence of wind in the plam...
• Thermostat checking (Overheating)
  Historical mailing list - pensioner
  Fri, 13 Jul 2001 10:27:01 -0700
  ...WBX is an "aircooled" design with a water jacket over the barrels poorly coupled to the cylinder heads with a waterpump that is at...
• Re: drips of antifreeze off head
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Tue, 1 Jan 2013 12:25:53 -0800
  ...http://benplace.com/head_check.htm So JB is not to be used on the head where the barrel sits? (higher heat, wider heat...
• '56 update - misc ramblings
  Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
  Mon, 3 Apr 1995 09:53:40 -0700 (PDT)
  ...again, ALL of the VW engines are gone, lock stock and barrel! There has got to be a conspiracy going on here... At Pull...
• Re: Diesel vs. Gas
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Thu, 28 Apr 2005 12:35:19 -0500
  ...We would fly barrels of "Arctic Diesel" to the North Slope. There, in the oil exploration camps, the diesel was used in the diesel...
• Re: 2.1 questions
  Historical mailing list - Jim Cochran
  Thu, 9 Jul 2009 22:09:54 -0700
  ...Sounds like serious > ring problems. > It sounds like your 'back yard' repair is to get good barrels and > pistons from the other engine ....... > put...
• Re: Purging Cooling System
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 17 Jan 95 00:44:05 AST
  ...When you slip off the head, make sure the barrel stays put, or more work will be needed to reassemble. You 'should' replace gaskets...
• Re: The '71 single cab that isn't
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 8 Sep 1995 01:43:22 -0400
  ...It was a 3 barrel carb with a turbo that made 180 stock HP. Don Yenko, of Yenko Chevrolet that was in Cannonsburg, PA...
• Re: charging woes/charging joy
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Sun, 2 Mar 2003 00:19:12 -0600
  ...fast track rebuild and those with serious problems just sit in barrels and rot from humidity, rats nests before they go into the shop...
• Re: Intermittent high idle - able to make "go low"
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 25 Jun 2015 10:48:57 -0400
  ...The cable is adjusted at the throttle end by loosening the screw on the barrel fitting that engages the throttle arm, and slipping the...
• Re: Dreaded water jacket head gasket leak strikes
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Tue, 22 Dec 2015 10:52:56 +0000
  ...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: Sportsvans (sic)
  Historical mailing list - Gerald Skerbitz
  Mon, 11 Apr 1994 15:20:40 -0500 (CDT)
  ...out from van arriving at luxury hotel, windsurfers are visible pulling barrel rolls in the background despite total absence of wind in the plam...
• Re: Porsche 914 heads on Vanagon motor...
  Historical mailing list - Daniel Schmitz
  Thu, 7 Jun 2001 21:52:18 -0700
  ...If you are thinking of using 105mm pistons, either your barrel walls must be very thin where they seat in the head (not good...
• Re: Crossing the Canadian border...
  Historical mailing list - KI4TLF
  Tue, 21 Jul 2015 08:53:41 -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: Engine Disassembly, EGR, Air Pump
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 2 Nov 94 11:53:05 -0500
  ...or at least have your heads machined so that the bigger barrels would fit into them. Pat Walsh, '71 Westy, walshp@ippdsgi3.nawc-ad...
• FOR SALE
  Historical mailing list - Darrel
  Sun, 10 Aug 2003 08:50:33 -0400
  ...Rear electric door lock pull 35.00 1 Kingman paint ball gun and co2 tank ball hopper and long 14 inch barrel 150.00...
• Re: Question on Biodiesel
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Tue, 17 May 2005 12:01:27 -0600
  ...To be real cost effective oil was going to have to stay in the mid 50 buck a barrel range. Acreage available would never...
• Re: K&N filters (Dyno'ed '71 911 +4hp)
  Historical mailing list - John Anderson
  Tue, 14 Apr 1998 23:40:37 -0400
  ...any size particulates (silica >or whatever) that would scuff their rings/barrels to any signifacant >measure. You will be hard pressed to find an...
• Re: Nominations are now open: Top 10 Ugliest Parts to Fail
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 2 Sep 2009 12:28:06 -0700
  ...I also find that the way the small green o-rings at the top of the piston barrels...... how easily they get hard, dark...
• Re: Oldest
  Historical mailing list - A PETER MARSH
  Fri, 7 Oct 2011 20:06:11 -0400
  ...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: Instrument cluster light issues
  Historical mailing list - Thomas Casal
  Mon, 17 May 2021 23:37:23 -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: throttle cable replacement
  Historical mailing list - Daniel O Stevens
  Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:19:19 -0400
  ...Secure it to the pedal pivot locking barrel bolt. And once you are happy you have the throttle all the way closed, and pedal...
• Re: Winterizing Newbie Question
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:06:12 -0500
  ...Squirrel and I just moved our darn > selves--lock, stock, and barrel--to Bend, Oregon from a place much closer > to the tropics: southern...
• Re: Road trip suggestions wanted
  Historical mailing list - David McNeely
  Sun, 1 Jan 2023 20:16:41 -0800
  Eric, I can't see how Cracker Barrel would be any better than WalMart. Both are just a big parking lot beside a highway...
• heads off--now some questions
  Historical mailing list - Mike Blotz
  Tue, 3 Dec 2002 10:28:34 -0700
  ...piston to the bottom of its travel and then let the barrel ride with it out to the top of its travel (with care...
• Re: gas prices.. and what they'll be this summer
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Wed, 25 Feb 2004 22:56:34 -0600
  ...oil, because >the energy from one barrel of oil was enough to discover and produce many >new barrels of oil. > >dlk > > > >>I don't...
• Re: Cross-country trip report
  Historical mailing list - Gary Bawden
  Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:19:10 -0700
  ...John Rodgers and I commandeered a corner of the local Cracker Barrel, Unca Joel made an appearance after driving up from Tuscaloosa, and the...
• MPG report
  Historical mailing list - Lawrence Johnson
  Thu, 11 Jun 1998 11:18:32 -0400
  ...averaged the following > for a 91 Syncro Westfalia running Webber two barrel progressive > Carbs, and premium pertrol: > Overall: 12.6 L/100 km = about...
• Re: Head gasket again...
  Historical mailing list - Bob Donalds
  Tue, 14 Mar 2000 09:46:59 -0500
  ...I cleaned the heads and the cylinder barrels myself. I was > extremely careful to do a precise job, took close to a month, with...
• FS: 69 westy. cheap! Washington
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Pollard
  Fri, 4 Aug 2000 11:25:08 -0700
  ...so...I'm going to sell it lock, stock & barrel, or part it out & junk it by next Thursday. I'm not heartless, although...
• Re: WBX Recommendations Sought
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 29 May 2014 08:31:02 -0400
  ...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: old, old gas Q?
  Historical mailing list - Marius Strom
  Wed, 2 Jun 2010 21:53:11 +0000
  Wouldn't a possible solution be: * Disconnect the supply, drain tank. * Disconnect the return from the tank, point hose into a barrel/container * Repeatedly...
• Re: 22.5 Gallon Winkler Gas Tank
  Historical mailing list - Max/Joyce Wellhouse
  Fri, 18 Aug 2000 10:49:53 -0500
  ...would rather have my co-pilot take >over the controls while barreling down the highway at 60 mph so I can open >the sliding...
• Re: 1.9L exhaust system comments
  Historical mailing list - Chris Stann
  Sat, 27 Apr 2002 23:12:55 -0500
  ...Inside you have two steel cylinder barrels that mate > up with the middle areas of the heads. Eight LONG bolts attach the head to...
• Re: Volksiebus - 88 Transporter - Rough Running Engine
  Historical mailing list - JRodgers
  Sat, 18 Jan 2014 11:52:10 -0600
  ...Air-cooled aircraft engines (most common types) both radial and flat types -use a a steel cylinder barrel that is screwed to an aluminum...
• Re: best lube for sliding door
  Historical mailing list - Roland
  Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:32:30 -0700
  ...Brushless motors with only bearings or bushings that > have moving parts .. > they last nearly indefenitely. > > we coinsume btw ..just read today .. > 21 million barrels...
• Re: Hot oil -- good idea to change, I reckon
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Tue, 6 Sep 2011 07:52:13 -0700
  ...That grade has big barrels of water for boiling radiators located in turnouts every ... what? 1/2 mile or so? Things probably predate Interstate...
• RE: '73 1700 rebuild
  Historical mailing list - King, Robert
  27 Sep 1994 09:13:12 +1000
  ...5000 k's and number three dropped a valve which shattered my new 93mm piston, cracked my new barrel and bent the conrod in...
• Re: Crunch, I hit a deer
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Tue, 3 Dec 2002 23:53:35 -0600
  ...We just use the Armadillos to make purses, Raccoons to make hats and Possums to serve tourists at Cracker Barrel Restaurants. We try to...
• Re: Water 4 Gas. com
  Historical mailing list - Neil2
  Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:44:07 -0700
  As usual, with the exception of Dylan, you men (who are debunking it lock, stock and barrel) are too proud to meekly comm with...
• Re: Upgrading Digijet to 3-Wire O2 Sensor
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 13 May 2003 18:55:10 -0400
  ...The 1-wire seems a little marginal at idle speeds with low exhaust flow, especially after barreling along and then suddenly slowing to idle...
• Re: cracked AMC heads question
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Sun, 9 Sep 2007 20:32:25 -0700
  ...Put the head on temporarily ( with metal sealing rings at the top of the barrels ) and measure the water gasket gap. Iv'e seen...
• Re: leveling van ride height /cheap way to do it
  Historical mailing list - Nock
  Thu, 2 Jan 2003 09:14:16 -0800
  ...Since your front seats are on top of those front wheel wells, isn't your > solution akin to sitting on the barrel of a...
• Re: apology, please read.
  Historical mailing list - Mark Upton
  Fri, 27 Jul 2001 15:32:48 -0400
  ...but all it takes is one disgruntled > listmember, > keyboard in hand, barrels loaded, ready to kill and maim.. well, > maybe not > kill and maim...
• Re: head job
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Tue, 8 Feb 2000 22:23:21 -0600
  ...Aircooled aircraft engines are made with the steel cylinder barrel screwed to the aluminum head, so the head, rocker bosses, and barrel are all...