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• Replacing Propane tank - how to cut and flange tubes?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Chapman
  Fri, 9 Apr 2010 12:44:33 -0400
  ...One of them is pipe cutting/flaring. I read that the copper pipes to the propane tank are 8mm? In that case, I'm...
• Re: Stainless Steel Coolant Lines Now Available!
  Historical mailing list - Robert Cardo
  Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:40:26 -0500
  ...Replace your old coolant line with a no-rust Stainless Steel replacement>> This all depends on what grade of stainless the pipes are made...
• Re: Exhaust Pipe Question
  Historical mailing list - TJ Hannink
  Fri, 17 Sep 2004 08:15:04 -0700
  ...The the pipes and my Dynomax muffler show no signs of rust but most of my fasteners do, the blistered section of the pipes...
• More parts from Germany just in!
  Historical mailing list - Ken Wilford
  Thu, 31 May 2012 13:58:43 -0400
  ...Coolant pipe between water pump and thermostat housing (large with 2 tees in it)-025121081G- $199 Coolant pipe between oil cooler and thermostat housing...
• Installing a rebuilt engine. Does anyone have a list describing the order to reattach items?
  Historical mailing list - VWNut Hawk
  Mon, 2 Sep 2002 11:32:23 -0500
  ...I know I have to insert the top water pipe behind the pulley before I get to far. I'm surprised the pipe seals...
• Re: 1984 Frozen stuck O2 sender
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Thu, 7 Nov 2002 02:37:41 -0500
  ...Take yourself a Stilson wrench (pipe wrench) and put a bit of pressure on the sensor. Start tapping the wrench with a smallish hammer...
• Re: coolant pipe replacement
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:58:40 -0700
  I cut off the offending portion of rusted steel pipe on my '84 some years ago now. Replaced it with suitable rad hose, double...
• reversing subaru coolant manifold pipe
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 18 Jul 2001 17:45:19 EDT
  Has anyone reversed the subaru coolant pipe underneath the intake manifold, so that it points to the front of the bus? I thought it...
• Black carbon buildup on tail pipe after valve adjustments
  Historical mailing list - TC
  Thu, 13 Apr 2006 06:44:57 -0700
  ...a few weeks ago I am no noticing black carbon build up on the tail pipe Is the incomplete combustion some else need tuning ?
• two long coolant pipes
  Historical mailing list - Green Westy
  Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:35:24 -0400
  I have a set of brand new never installed long plastic coolant pipes. They are from VW and go from the back all the...
• Coolant Leak Fixed-'85 Westy
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 16 Jul 1996 15:26:44 -0700
  ...Then just pulled the pipe out of the hole in the waterpump(after removing the clamp holding the dipstick tube to the pipe). Snaked...
• Re: [syncrolist] Replacing Gas Tank Filler Gasket
  Historical mailing list - Lawrence Johnson
  Tue, 9 Jul 2002 20:07:25 -0400
  ...Waited 10 minutes for the skin to just start, then slid the pipe back in place. Bolted it down, reconnected the filler down pipe...
• Re: help with waterlines retro-fit
  Historical mailing list - Doug Alcock
  Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:40:28 -0400
  ...It only includes the rear ends of the very long stock pipes. To install Terry's short pipes you cut off the rear ends...
• Re: Exhaust manifold material?
  Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
  Wed, 12 Aug 1998 22:28:54 -0700
  The "manifolds" are just steel exhaust pipe right? The pipes bolt right on to the heads. While technically they are manifolds because they combine...
• Re: help!:bypassing rear heater
  Historical mailing list - Tom Stone
  Sun, 16 Jan 2000 06:28:09 EST
  I used a 1/2 inch plastic elbow pipe which is used with the black flexible plastic pipe. The elbow is barbed on both...
• Re: Stainless Steel coolant lines
  Historical mailing list - Allan Streib
  Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:31:03 -0500
  ...Ordinary white PVC water pipe is meant for cold water, and the drain pipe is not meant for pressure. I don't know how...
• Re: Exhaust Mounting question PLEASE HELP!
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:09:32 -0400
  ...The rear y-pipe has to be fished through the carrier bar and to do so it must be separate from the "collector pipe...
• Replacing hose on right side
  Historical mailing list - KENWILFY
  Sat, 13 Dec 1997 18:04:04 EST
  Have any of you had to replace that piece of 3 inch hose that connects a metal pipe that comes out of the waterpump...
• Re: bus depot .. gas tank ... 82 diesel ...
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Sat, 6 Jun 2015 22:13:33 -0700
  ...http://tinyurl.com/p96hbrv The fill pipe was too close to front and bottom of frame hole. Fuel starting leaking at the fill pipe...
• Re: Oxygen Sensor Woes
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Tue, 24 Dec 2002 14:22:40 -0800
  ...Then I slipped a 4 >foot length of steel pipe over the handle of the pipe wrench. I pulled >until I was afraid I...
• Re: Home Made Bull Bars--Pipe Benders
  Historical mailing list - Jonathan Farrugia
  Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:35:31 -0400
  Phil pipe is to heavy in my opinion, you want the bumper to be mostly sacrificial in impacts. my brother got into an accident...
• How I Closed Down A Gas Station Today
  Historical mailing list - PSavage
  Thu, 24 Aug 2000 20:52:20 -0700
  Evening Listees, All four CV joints & boots replaced today & the fuel lines to the gas tank, including the crossover pipe, etc. So far so...
• Loss of Power False Air Oil Breather?
  Historical mailing list - Tim Marciniak
  Fri, 16 Aug 2002 15:30:37 -0500
  ...Next I pressurized the intake system with air found a leak coming out of the oil breather pipe. This is the large black plastic...
• Re: Look at my crack!
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:14:13 -0700
  ...The pipe sprang away and up from the > flange. There was about a 1.5 cm gap before I > put the obvious hose clamp...
• 2.1L engine parts for sale
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 3 Dec 1998 04:08:17 PST
  ...Front exhaust pipe $15 (pipe to flange on third cylinder is rusted through but could be welded up, rest of pipe in good shape...
• Re: S&S exhaust
  Historical mailing list - George Thorburn
  Sat, 24 May 2003 09:49:46 -0600
  ...He had to cut and re-weld the pipe in one place to make it fit. Since then the pipes have been off and...
• Re: rear exhaust header question
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:28:11 -0700
  ...then you undo 3 ends of the rear pipe - where it goes to each head, and where it goes to that cast iron junction...
• Re: Heater pipe insulation
  Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
  Thu, 12 Jan 1995 21:22:39 -0800 (PST)
  >The pipe on my '59 appears to be wrapped in asbestos. I refuse to touch it! I'm with ya there. I took mine...
• <No subject>
  Historical mailing list - Lance LeBaron
  Tue, 4 May 1999 19:58:50 PDT
  ...This particular hose attaches to one of the long pipes which run to the radiator. 1. Should I put some kind of sealing compound...
• Re: cooling system modification, OK?
  Historical mailing list - Karl F. Bloss
  Sun, 29 Oct 2000 13:48:02 -0500
  ...Flow for a pipe changes with the 4th power of diameter. For example, a 18mm pipe will only have about 65% of the flow...
• Bus Depot water pump kit
  Historical mailing list - Mark Ingalls
  Wed, 22 Aug 2001 10:09:21 -0500
  Hi, In order to remove the old water pump the upper steel coolant pipe must be unbolted from the right side of the engine...
• 2.1L Metal coolant pipe
  Historical mailing list - Jason
  Sun, 19 May 2019 17:56:26 -0400
  Looking for a decent used coolant pipe from the water pump to coolant flange 025121081G. Anyone near Toronto or London, Ontario with one? Not...
• Re: Coolant Pump Gently Weeping
  Historical mailing list - Scott
  Mon, 2 May 2016 11:39:22 -1000
  ...that cross=over pipe attached to the waterpump at the 5 o-clock posistion .. a pipe going to the right side of the engine...
• Re: Exhaust system insulation
  Historical mailing list - Jim King
  Fri, 20 May 2005 10:07:04 -0400
  I'm still not sure that I would wrap the pipes on a stock engine/exhaust just to try to keep the engine compartment...
• Re: Replacing Propane Regulator Advice?
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:02:20 -0600
  ...That > left me with the only option of splicing new pipe in. I used a > flaring tool and flare fitting for the pipe ends...
• Re: Vanagon exhaust diameter? + Custom exhaust fabrication questions.
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:29:38 -0700
  ...My > >> plan: > >> > > >> > Short run of 1 5/8" 90 degree pipes from manifold to collector, then a > >> > "J" pipe forward, around, and back to...
• Re: 84 exhaust prices
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 29 May 1996 22:13:58 -0500
  ...To fit the front pipe I had to overdrill the mounting holes, front and rear pipes flanges into the connector pipe out of line...
• diesel vanagon part search
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 8 Jan 1995 11:15:40 -0800
  ...I need a tubular steel type oil pump pickup pipe as was fitted to later model diesel or turbodiesel transporters (the vanagon bodied type...
• Re: leaking exhaust manifold
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Tue, 15 Feb 2000 13:59:13 -0800
  Are you kidding? These things leak more often than the heads do! They can leak at the joint where the crossover pipes connect to...
• Re: stainless steel coolant pipes
  Historical mailing list - Ken Wilford
  Thu, 6 May 2010 07:25:30 -0400
  ...If you are going to change your long coolant pipes, the stainless steel pipes are the best option in my opinion. Oh yes and...
• "G" Copper Pipe: Use with LP Tank on Westy?
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Thu, 11 Oct 2012 12:53:37 -0700
  ...This 3/8" OD "G" type copper pipe sold here (Canada): http://tinyurl.com/8rxhl66 claims, in part: "For natural gas and propane ..... (TPC...
• Re: 73 kombi backfiring
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 25 Mar 96 12:59:06 PST
  ...The EGR feed pipes are not plugged. Finally, I have checked >and tightened all of the nuts and bolts on the exhaust system and...
• Re: Do I forgive my VW?
  Historical mailing list - Martin Laycock
  Thu, 6 May 1999 12:35:40 +0100
  ...The hydro clutch pipe gave up and I had to end up goung >> to the VW truck dealer for new pipes front to back...
• Re: [DIESEL] Coolant Pipes in Vanagon (was Reinhardt Lives!!)
  Historical mailing list - Maynard Southard
  Tue, 4 Sep 2001 22:39:04 -0400
  The inner diameter of my pipes is 1-3/8" and the outer is diameter is 1-1/4" (tape measured - not calipered). I...
• Re: Stubborn Exhaust leak
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:23:12 -0700
  ...Stubborn Exhaust leak 85 vanagon with exhaust leak at the junction between the two header pipes and the collector pipe (part #G on this...
• 79 exhaust found(80-82 also)
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 17 Apr 1996 13:26:44 -0500 (EST)
  ...They DO have the elusive crossover pipe we've all been looking for. They have all the rest of the exhaust components too, although...
• Re: plastic coolant pipes,,,ummmm
  Historical mailing list - Bill Kasper
  Mon, 22 Apr 2002 09:58:08 -0700
  i just replaced one of my long coolant pipes with wet exhaust hose. i tried to run it in a single piece from the...
• Re: Exhaust 'donut' question
  Historical mailing list - Michael Nichols
  Sun, 30 Sep 2001 09:08:57 -0400
  Hello Mark, The cat end is flared so that the muffler pipe goes inside it about one inch + and then you install a saddle...
• Re: insulating hot side of Dometic refer
  Historical mailing list - Phil Zimmerman
  Sun, 25 Sep 2011 12:52:14 -0400
  ...My pov, the City Water exhaust fan addition, a Ceramic Sleeve (Blanket) around the corrugated Aluminum exhaust pipe and insulation on the wall behind...
• Re: 85 gas tank removal
  Historical mailing list - Erik Valeur
  Wed, 11 Aug 1999 22:00:44 EDT
  ...Pull the crossover pipe up outof the tank. (This plastic pipe crosses above the steel radiator pipes going to the front of the car...
• EVERYONE READ THIS..hatch strut supports
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 5 Mar 2002 23:11:19 EST
  ...slide a 8" section of 1" dia PVC pipe over the hatch strut. gravity will make the PVC pipe fall into place, bracing the...
• Re: Is there a phone number for Dometic refrigerator technical help?Re: Is there a phone number for Dometic refrigerator technical help?
  Historical mailing list - George Thorburn
  Tue, 20 Sep 2005 22:32:37 -0500
  ...The brown material between the pipe and the aluminum heat sink is called "thermal mastic". The local RV place had the thermal mastic in...
• FS: Syncro header pipes in great cond.
  Historical mailing list - mike and shari
  Sat, 31 Mar 2001 07:44:24 -0800
  Dear vanagon gearheads, Still trying to get rid of my 2.1 engine, computer and header pipes. Won't someone make an offer and...
• Re: 46mm Socket = 1 13/16" SAE
  Historical mailing list - T Berk
  Tue, 31 Jul 2001 12:36:10 -0700
  ...When I did that job I purchased a 3/4 > drive breaker bar from Sears as well as a 5ft length of pipe from...
• Re: [vanagon] New Eurika in Coolant Pipe Set Ups--
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Wed, 19 May 2004 10:10:53 -0400
  On Wed, 19 May 2004, Eric Zeno wrote: > ANY hose on ANY pipe, under pressure will come > off unless it has something to bite...
• Exhaust 'donut' question
  Historical mailing list - Mark Ingalls
  Sat, 29 Sep 2001 21:38:00 -0500
  Hi, I bought a new muffler and I also purchased the catalytic converter replacement 'test' pipe in case I needed it. The catalytic converter...
• Re: Replacing Propane Regulator Advice?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:24:01 -0500
  Both of those pipes can be disconnected from the inside without removing anything. Short wrenches and reach in the hole near the outlet the...
• Re: distilled water grabs free ions like crazy
  Historical mailing list - Mark Dorm
  Mon, 28 Aug 2000 01:33:09 PDT
  ...Jonc <jonc@webgears.com> > >distilled water knocks holes in copper pipe... in one anecdote copper pipe >had to be replace by Plastic pipe at...
• Steel coolant line patching
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
  Sun, 13 Feb 2005 20:41:20 -0800
  While wresting with the tranny fill plug (82 Diesel Westy), I managed to disturb the metal coolant pipes enough to start a leak. I...
• Re: Interesting problem
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Tue, 24 Aug 1999 14:31:23 -0700
  ...The pipe was > flattened and rotten & there was a big gash in the side of it. > The pipe disintegrated as I removed it. > > Off...