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• Cant accelerate
  Historical mailing list - Ed
  Mon, 8 Oct 2007 06:46:49 -0700
  ...down and you can here it popping back thru the air intake. What should I be checking to fix this? Ed --------------------------------- Catch up on...
• Re: Leaking plenum hose
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Fri, 30 Jun 2017 16:06:42 -0700
  ...If all 4 intake runner hoses are the same age, others will follow. Neil. On 6/30/17, B Feddish <UprightBassGhost@hotmail.com> wrote...
• Re: Performance chip
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Wed, 4 Jan 2012 07:49:45 -0500
  ...With only a two-wire connection to the Temp-I sensor (they call it IAT, or intake air temp) it cannot possibly have the...
• Re: Late beetle muffler
  Historical mailing list - No Quarter
  Wed, 10 Apr 1996 23:08:00 -0500 (CDT)
  ...It has an equally unique > matching intake manifold. > Yup, this is what my 1974 Sun Bug had on it. I couldn't find a...
• Re: Oettinger Prepped Vanagon from German Car Mag
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Mon, 15 Mar 1999 03:52:05 +0100
  ...So, Oettinger turned the intake manifold > by 180 degrees. > > Does someone know, how this would be possible? > Or, is the intake manifold from a...
• Air Intake Boot clamp/seal question
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Sprague
  Tue, 22 Mar 2005 14:13:13 -0800
  ...My air intake boot keeps slipping off of the connection on the top that leads to the air filter. (I know, that's super...
• Re: 84 Vanagon GL Intake Air sensor?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Wed, 3 Oct 2007 19:14:51 -0700
  ...I do have good used 1.9 air flow meters if that's what you mean by 'air intake sensor.' I find I have...
• No Vanagon Content, Supercharger (was: 5 cyl. Audi in Vanagon - was EngineConversions)
  Historical mailing list - Thomas Czerniak
  Mon, 14 Aug 2000 08:35:56 -0500
  In North America an exhaust driven intake charge pressure increaser is called a Turbocharger. A belt driven intake pressure charge increaser is called a...
• Contents of Head Gasket Kit 025 198 102A 025198102A
  Historical mailing list - tabe johnson
  Thu, 24 Mar 2005 22:17:25 -0500
  ...21) Another intake/head gasket? For 1.9 engine maybe? 22) Another intake/head gasket? (???) Thanks for helping complete the list! --tabe johnson/'87...
• Re: Emissions failure Nox
  Historical mailing list - Walter Houle
  Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:06:10 -0400
  ...Next thing to check is the entire intake system. Look for leaks, loose clamps, bad gaslets, bad cold start aux air regulator valve, etc...
• Re: Fridge goes out above 40mph
  Historical mailing list - Alfred Bagdan
  Tue, 7 Mar 2000 18:27:51 -0700
  ...The idea is that combustion air should come in only from the air intake hole (the one off center) and not through any cracks...
• Re: T-Pipe at the gas intake
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Sat, 31 Dec 2005 12:33:18 -0700
  ...T-Pipe at the gas intake > > I too am starting on this project, and am also waiting on the cross-over pipe. I want...
• Re: An Engine Conversion Begins-Mixed Emotions!
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Mon, 16 Sep 2013 16:46:17 -0700
  ...The intake didn't stick > up too high. IIRC he lowered the engine aboot 1". 1/4" at the motor mounts. http://tinyurl.com...
• Tornado Air
  Historical mailing list - Karl Bloss
  Tue, 19 Aug 1997 10:38:42 +0000
  The LiMBO newsletter always has ads and sometimes discussion of the Tornado air intake system. Has anyone actually tried this or heard any more...
• Adjusting for too rich injection
  Historical mailing list - George Averill
  Mon, 23 Dec 2002 12:09:56 -0500
  Can the screw in the intake air sensor or a Digijet (84 Vanagon Camper) be used to decrease the mixture? I am getting carbon...
• Re: A kinky Subi picture
  Historical mailing list - Ben
  Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:26:28 -0400
  ...more sexy, bare metal, those shinny intake, that "dirty" big manifold /4 in 1.... :-) Ben Sudhir Desai wrote: >That's so clean!!!! I'm...
• Re: Vanagon on Steroids
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Sat, 8 Dec 2007 18:20:01 -0800
  ...Shazam <scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote: > What's that white thing that looks like a street light on the air intake > snorkel, near the top ? >
• Re: Air mass meters Go Westy
  Historical mailing list - Jim Akiba
  Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:40:07 -0500
  ...We lucked out and stumbled across an intake design that kills the hum... I welded up an aluminum intake piece just to get the...
• Re: K&N air filters
  Historical mailing list - Karl Mullendore
  Tue, 17 Nov 2020 02:34:25 -0500
  ...pull the intake boot off the throttle body and look inside - what do you see? These filters only offer a tiny amount of 'better...
• Re: Hot Foot Mods -- what's the best?
  Historical mailing list - Keith Ovregaard
  Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:39:43 -0700
  ...Meanwhile, I tried sealing up the front air intake to block the hot air from coming in. It worked, but when the AC was...
• Re: Intake manifold hose
  Historical mailing list - Bruce Todd
  Fri, 26 Jun 2020 10:27:11 -0700
  ...Intake manifold hose > > The four hose pieces which connect the air intake distributor to the > manifold pipes - I purchased under part VWC-039-133...
• Re: No idle/odd running.
  Historical mailing list - Brendan Slevin
  Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:26:44 -0700
  ...I went through and took the whole intake boot/aircleaner and all the vac. lines off and started fresh with the diagram in front...
• Re: Need AFM adapter so different aircleaner or cold air intake can be used- to cone or no!
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:32:51 -0800
  ...makes a nigh perfect air filter and air intake noise silencer set up. I have one btw......or very similar, round can style......... just...
• Re: turbo?
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Mon, 3 Apr 2006 13:27:23 -0700
  ...I can't tell how you've piped the output of the turbo > to the intake of your fuel system though...??? > > Did this require...
• Re: Dem ole Vanagon blues
  Historical mailing list - Sean Garrett
  Sat, 25 Feb 2017 10:11:49 -0700
  Or vacuum issue, or intake manifold leak at gasket. I had an 81 that acted like this. Find a mechanic that has a smoker...
• CB Radio antenna mounting
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 10 May 1995 14:04:12 -0400
  ...The first antenna was gutter mounted near the rear air intakes and I snaked the coax down the air intake opening through the undercarriage...
• Westy A/C Drip CURED!!
  Historical mailing list - Richard Golen
  Thu, 4 Aug 2005 13:16:11 -0400
  ...air intakes blows the water up the drain tubes instead of down (the drain tubes are located behind the rear air intake grilles).... If...
• FREE syncro waterboxer core engine. NY
  Historical mailing list - Dylan Friedman
  Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:48:32 +0000
  ...Flywheel and clutch still attached intake usable syncro headers rockers lifters......FREE. pmail me to line up pickup. I will hold it one week...
• bolt on cooler
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 21 Sep 94 20:41:51 EDT
  The cooler can be easily bolted to the left side of the van below the intake. That's where we had ours before moving...
• 3 part numbers needed
  Historical mailing list - Bradley Flubacher
  Fri, 30 Mar 2001 20:22:25 -0500
  ...the gasket between the head and the coolant-intake flange 3. the gasket between the head and the coolant-out flange Thanks for any...
• Re: 85' low idle, loss of power/compression, surging-UPDATE
  Historical mailing list - joe brown
  Tue, 26 Nov 2002 13:54:13 -0800
  People have written about the fuel pressure regulator diaphraghm failing and letting fuel be sucked into the intake manifold.... Also have you checked your...
• Re: Runaway Starter Saga Continues
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Tue, 5 Nov 2013 10:42:44 -0800
  ...Mark JRodgers wrote: > > I tried a couple of shots of starter ether into the intake and it won't > fire on that either - indicating...
• Re: Stealth camping spot and tick warning(LVC)
  Historical mailing list - jon
  Tue, 23 May 2006 15:04:38 -0700
  And they don't run on AvGas...they have a big fuel intake mounted fore of the cockpit. They can really drain those red...
• Re: FREE: Steering/Dash Plastic + Engine Intake bellow (elbow)
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:39:55 -0800
  On 3/15/10, neil n <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all. Oops. Forgot. Parts located in Vancouver B.C. You pick up. Neil...
• Re: Some Info & a Question
  Historical mailing list - Craig Oda - Personal email
  Sat, 13 Jul 2002 08:44:55 -0700
  ...Last night when I changed my intake manifold gasket, I took off the injectors from the intake manifold and loosened the manifold a bit...
• Re: Never brag (and please help get my van started...)
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 10 Apr 2012 06:22:32 -0400
  ...Spray it on various intake/vacuum junctions between throttle body and intake and listen for a change in idle. Just be careful and don...
• Re: Cold Air Intake
  Historical mailing list - Raymond Markett
  Sun, 29 Mar 2015 18:31:11 -0700
  ...Eyeballing the WBX intake tract makes me think the throttle body is the choke point. Raymond Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 29, 2015...
• Re: Sequential vs batch RE: digifant injection
  Historical mailing list - Zeitgeist
  Mon, 6 Apr 2009 21:15:21 -0700
  ...intake valve opening events happen so > fast that by 2-3k rpm the injector is spraying part of the fuel on closed > intake valves...
• Re: Van idle over winter
  Historical mailing list - Bruce Todd
  Sun, 22 May 2011 08:38:34 -0700
  ...At the bottom of the air intake - (the suction pipe which draws air in toward the filter), there is a clear plastic fitting which...
• Re: Air intake
  Historical mailing list - Keith Ovregaard
  Wed, 21 May 2008 10:44:57 -0700
  ...off the snorkel cavity from >> the engine compartment? Then run the intake through this flange, with >> the filter at the base of the cavity...
• 89 backfires, sputters when warm. MYSTERY problem!!
  Historical mailing list - vanagon
  Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:02:06 -0400
  ...Just as it gets warm it starts coughing and backfiring through the air intake when you press on the gas like if you would...
• Anyone else have this problem (CO too high)?
  Historical mailing list - Jack Reed
  Wed, 11 Oct 1995 10:27:16 -0600 (MDT)
  ...Bentley suggests looking for intake manifold leaks, injectors, etc. Could leaky intakes cause a high CO and if so, how? Thanks in advance, Jack
• Re: Who is MSDS?
  Historical mailing list - Peter Cassidy
  Tue, 25 Apr 2000 08:48:05 +0100
  ...I bought his MSDS Clean Air Act intake filter and adaptor for my '88 Wolfie. One of the reasons I picked it up was...
• Re: WIN a wolfsburg vanagon for just 10 dollars!! RAFFLE!
  Historical mailing list - Robert Steven Fish
  Tue, 23 Sep 2003 19:23:46 +0200
  ...And I think BenT is actually doing something else these days with his snorkel intake. I cannot say what though, because what he is...
• Re: Alternator hum or whine
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Lewis
  Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:25:00 -0400
  ...Turned out to be a vacuum whistle from the intake manifold behind the alternator. A quarter of a turn on the big bolt fixed...
• Rustproofing/Painting air-intake on Aircooled.
  Historical mailing list - Jens Dominik Muller
  Tue, 19 Jul 1994 16:19:33 -0400
  I'm about to give my '77 camper a well deserved paint-job. What I'm still wondering about is how to get the...
• Re: Westfalia refrigerator lighting
  Historical mailing list - John Brown
  Fri, 30 Jun 1995 11:01:46 -0700 (PDT)
  ...I think that the vent hole that is closer to the inside of the vehicle is the intake and the one on the outside...
• Re: ..Leaking head gasket-diesel, etc.
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 5 Dec 1996 00:11:25 -0500
  ...Turbo diesel questions How are you measuring boost - a vacuum line runs fr boost sense port on intake manifold (normally runs to inj pump...
• Re: Removing clip from Hall unit
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Tue, 6 Sep 2005 17:53:09 -0400
  ...I would spray a bit of starter fluid into the air intake. This will bypass the fuel injectors and fuel system. If the engine...
• AW: 90+ Fox engine @ 54 degrees
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Tue, 24 Sep 2002 23:28:13 -0700
  ...You can route the intake duct to the right side where the air-cleaner is on the WBX. But as others have said already...
• #2 fuel tank nipples
  Historical mailing list - Austin Becker
  Fri, 22 Jan 1999 08:10:12 -0500
  ...You think it's OK to reduce the hose size even though the Fuel pump itself has a 1/2" intake? And, I think...
• Odds and Ends
  Historical mailing list - Terry K.
  Sun, 3 Feb 2002 11:25:02 -0600
  ...rear bumper end (1) L/H side air intake grill (1) R/H side air intake grill (1) Kenwood AM/FM/ cassette radio (1...
• Re: Blower fan and motor, front heater, 8100, 251 819 015 � � � � � � � � � � �
  Historical mailing list - Robert Cardo
  Sun, 19 Jun 2005 09:11:44 -0500
  ...I have two questions; Should I remove the grill before spraying the bar oil into the heater intake vent, or just leave it on...
• Subject: Re: I'm thinking about going to gas
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:44:38 -0700
  ...If you decide to go that route, I can send pics of how mine was done..give you some ideas on the intake plumbing...
• Re: Rich on side, lean the other?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 16 Sep 2007 09:15:37 -0400
  ...I disided to use little hi tack in both side of the intake gaskets just to see what happens. This would be a great...
• used engine parts for Sale
  Historical mailing list - Bob Donalds
  Sat, 28 Apr 2007 23:34:47 -0400
  I have a large stock of good used type 2 and vanagon engine externals parts and tin work intake exhasut and much in between...
• FI systems query
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Fri, 19 Aug 94 20:44:56 CDT
  ...the same time and inject fuel directly into the intake manifold near the intake valve. Injection quantity is controlled by the amount of time...
• Re: '89 Auto 2.1 Digijet stalling when pulling away (sometimes).
  Historical mailing list - Chuck Mathis
  Mon, 9 Sep 2002 14:03:22 -0400
  Check all the vacuum hoses and the intake boot. Check the throttle position switch adjustment. Also check the Temp II sensor and fuel pressure...
• Re: ? for our mechanical wizards
  Historical mailing list - Henry Luhrs
  Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:46:12 -0400
  ...Henry On 23 Jun 2006 at 13:56, John Rodgers wrote: > Can anyone tell me what the flow rate of intake air - cubic feet...
• Re: Weak..... so weak
  Historical mailing list - mdrillock
  Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:05:53 -0700
  ...Is there a damaged pin in the harness connector for the AFM? There are 2 things in the AFM, an intake air temp sender...