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• Re: 1.9 Head replacement (was lifter collapse / smog issue)
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:02:10 -0400
  ...gaskets for the good side? The engine does not currently > leak > anything, the water jacket is fine. > > Also, I'm wondering how to tell...
• Re: Rear Brake set up-The spacers
  Historical mailing list - Finn Runyon
  Tue, 20 Mar 2012 07:36:44 -0600
  ...If the > cables appear to be binding or the outer jackets are collapsed or distorted > the cables need to be replaced. > > After this is...
• Re: 2.1 ring recommendations
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 27 May 2009 15:59:07 -0700
  ...It looks like >> a >> very well taken care of motor, the water jacket and head studs show ZERO >> signs of corrosion. I was told...
• Re: Head leak again.... What next?
  Historical mailing list - Courtney Hook
  Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:51:19 -0800
  ...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: Remembrance Day/Veteran's Day (NVC)
  Historical mailing list - Al Knoll
  Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:30:20 -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: Chains and whips was Autosock
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:15:36 -0800
  ...You're supposed to head up into the Sierras in the dead of winter wearingnothing but blue jeans, sneakers, and a light jacket, ( because...
• Re: Single Cab FS: North Vancouver B.C.
  Historical mailing list - Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\"
  Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:26:09 -0700
  ...black leather jacket, t-shirt, and black jeans, with disheveled brown hair, standing in the road. He asked what time it was. It was...
• DM: Dead Dynosaures in the form of carbon.
  Historical mailing list - T.P. Stephens
  Mon, 25 Oct 1999 08:44:20 -0700
  ...Back the bike, I pulled out my Ross Langlitz custom tailored goat skin jacket and extracted therefrom my K&E lead holder, K&E...
• Re: Debunking GoWesty!
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Sat, 2 Sep 2006 22:41:30 -0700
  ...TDI) > instead of redesigning a bug motor with kludgy > seals and jackets and > hoses. Having pedaled a '68 with a 1641cc > through the Colorado...
• Oil pressure explain!
  Historical mailing list - Benny boy
  Mon, 5 Feb 2007 23:32:28 -0500
  ...the engine, so, cylinder are oil cooled and water cooled (water jacket around those = this is why we called them wasser). Heads are water...
• Thigs to do when the fridge it out (long)
  Historical mailing list - Brent Christensen
  Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:30:57 -0800
  ...I used a pre-made bundle that included nice 12 awg wires wrapped in a black PVC jacket. I think it was originally designed...
• Re: Bogus engineering
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Fri, 5 Feb 2021 23:23:18 -0700
  ...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: Exaust system replacement
  Historical mailing list - Craig Cowan
  Tue, 4 Jun 2013 08:29:16 -0400
  ...Beware to not drill the hole deeper than it was originally or you will drill into the water jacket of the head and it...
• Re: need help with engine assembly
  Historical mailing list - Mark Seifert
  Sun, 28 Mar 2004 23:33:16 -0800
  ...Means nothing different on either >side > > but the casting marks, that should mean they can run inside the water >jacket > > at any angle with...
• Re: Code of conduct(LVC)
  Historical mailing list - Mark Tuovinen
  Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:21:59 -0900
  ...of Alaska already! > > I also think we should come up with a cool patch for our leather > jackets,but that's another thread. > > Nathaniel >
• Re: WBX motor rather than ....
  Historical mailing list - Mike
  Fri, 1 Aug 2008 21:41:12 -0400
  ...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: Head leak
  Historical mailing list - Ben
  Mon, 6 Aug 2007 09:54:45 -0400
  ...the metal cooling tube (1.9L) between pump and right water jacket, under the pulley, was clogued with a black stuff, semi solid, the...
• Re: Remembrance Day/Veteran's Day (NVC)
  Historical mailing list - David Milo
  Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:47:05 -0500
  ...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: Headlite wiring & adding Euro style grille & small driving lites to my 84 Westy
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Mon, 5 Dec 2005 16:45:03 -0800
  ...To control the relays I just ran a jacketed 3 pair stranded 18ga signal cable from behind the left front headlight to under the...
• Re: Trip Report & other data Oil temperature
  Historical mailing list - Bruce Todd
  Mon, 5 Jul 2021 10:35:07 -0700
  ...This heat travels to the coolant jacket area and at shut down > once the coolant flow stops this heat soak goes everywhere. This is...
• Heat handling design error help
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 06 Jun 1996 06:39:20 -0700
  I believe the design weakness in VW water jacketed motor installations most commonly responsible for failures is their marginal heat rejection system. Not only...
• Re: still running hot - need your wisdom
  Historical mailing list - kenneth d lewis
  Wed, 10 Nov 1999 20:02:24 EST
  ...so you may have combustion gasses being forced into the coolant jacket. This causes a bubble inside the engine exposing the top of the...
• Re: Engine stalling at high speed
  Historical mailing list - Tyler Hardison
  Sat, 16 Apr 2016 14:37:20 -0700
  ...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: 87 Wolfsburg???
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Fri, 13 Apr 2001 19:39:23 -0500
  ...These are symptoms of bad gaskets/corrosion between the cooling jackets and the heads. This is generally repairable but a significant job. Learn more...
• Re: compressing piston rings in engine
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel
  Mon, 9 Dec 2013 13:12:14 -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: road rage...my first experience tonite.. LOCK YOUR DOORS!!!
  Historical mailing list - MF
  Sat, 10 Feb 2001 10:20:11 -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: Proper recovery from coolant loss while driving
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sun, 29 May 2011 15:11:07 -0700
  ...I think based on Ben's handy coolant flow > diagram, that water flows form there into the water jackets, so > filling cold water there...
• Re: Code of conduct(LVC)
  Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
  Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:49:50 -0800
  ...of Alaska already! > >> >> I also think we should come up with a cool patch for our leather >> jackets,but that's another thread. >> >> Nathaniel >> > >
• Re: 1.9 Head replacement (was lifter collapse / smog issue)
  Historical mailing list - craig cowan
  Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:08:42 -0400
  ...gaskets for the good side? The engine does not currently > > leak > > anything, the water jacket is fine. > > > > Also, I'm wondering how to tell...
• Re: Form Jay Leno's Garage
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Fri, 6 Apr 2012 12:16:16 -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: WBX bashing
  Historical mailing list - Clive Smith
  Wed, 31 Jul 2002 16:01:08 +0100
  Well we all know it was just the aircooled engine with a water jacket wrapped around it, hence all the pipes. Try doing that...
• oil in coolant... a strange event!
  Historical mailing list - chris Moyles
  Tue, 22 Nov 2005 17:50:34 -0500
  ...oil without creating a bigger mess? Something internal in the water jacket obviously, but what... Now to make the slow move from shade tree...
• Re: On with its head! (Replacing right head on an '87 2.1 l)
  Historical mailing list - Benny boy
  Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:54:13 -0400
  ...just enough to remove that O-RIng, about 1/2 in out of the water jacket, move it out slowly... watch that piston pin...
• Re: Vanagon Head Leaking Around The Head Nut(S)
  Historical mailing list - Mike B
  Tue, 15 Apr 2014 04:16:54 -0400
  ...Also, pulling pistons and cylinders on the WBX is a difficult job due to the case water-jacketing enclosing the entire area, which necessitates...
• Re: Rear Brake set up-The spacers
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:29:49 -0700
  ...If the >> cables appear to be binding or the outer jackets are collapsed or distorted >> the cables need to be replaced. >> >> After this is...
• Re: Engine question just curious (long winded reply)
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Wed, 25 Oct 2017 18:21:23 -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: Engine stalling at high speed
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Schwaia
  Sat, 16 Apr 2016 15:00:29 -0700
  ...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: 130MPH - Live To Die In My Vanagon!
  Historical mailing list - Calle
  Thu, 9 Dec 2004 11:38:31 +0100
  ...I always wear proper > boots, jeans or leather pants, heavy leather jacket with back pad/elbow > pads/shoulder pads, full length gloves with hard...
• Re: Expensive Syncro for sale
  Historical mailing list - Zoltan
  Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:49:45 -0700
  ...But what about the water jacket side, who'm most of the time it's > as pitted as the heads?????? tell me about that...
• Re: da trip
  Historical mailing list - Steve Johnson
  Thu, 21 Jul 94 7:47:12 PDT
  ...walk. hat - Keeps the rain or sun off when your walking. Jacket - It gets cold sometimes. Spare belts - You won't have to wait...
• Re: nuts vs head gasket job
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Wed, 4 Sep 2013 18:37:26 -0500
  ...The other thing that is going on is that the head also squeezes a rubber gasket between the head and the water jacket on...
• Re: Alternative Vanagon heaters - Zodi's, Tankless Water Heaters
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Fri, 2 Mar 2007 13:49:10 -0800
  There are some automotive designed water jacket heaters made by Ebespacher and Webasto that use the existing engine cooling system to produce heat . Since...
• 1.9L exhaust system comments
  Historical mailing list - SpaceKommander
  Sat, 27 Apr 2002 19:29:28 -0400
  ...You have an aluminum alloy block with water jackets which go up to the head on the outer periphery of the head. Inside you...
• Re: Form Jay Leno's Garage
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Thu, 5 Apr 2012 13:16:42 -0700
  ...Evans coolant after showing them a photo of typical Vanagon water jacket seal corrosion, and asking if using their coolant would help:<br> <br...
• Re: Timing Chains, Belts, Gears, etc
  Historical mailing list - Benny boy
  Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:12:39 -0400
  ...the engine in the "Van", no rusty bolt, no damage water jacket, no bent push-rod, bottom end O-ring replacement, pushrod seal. Now...
• air-cooled heat
  Historical mailing list - Julio T.
  Wed, 21 Apr 1999 00:26:11 -0700
  ...get too hot, and that they had to take off their jacket while driving. So what is the truth about the heat? also how...
• Re: Head leak again.... What next?
  Historical mailing list - Kurt Camealy
  Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:09:05 -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: Multi Conductor Shielded Automotive Wire Temperature Rating
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Wed, 10 Jan 2018 11:06:39 -0800
  ...AWG for the ammeter > shunt. > > Tefzel is a much tougher outer jacket than you can get outside of > aviation. We use it in aircraft...
• Re: Dead 'O Winter Campout going well - long
  Historical mailing list - Horace K. Sawyer
  Sat, 5 Feb 2000 23:22:13 -0500
  ...That was good because being the dumbass that I am, I didn't bother to bring a jacket. Met a nice couple from LaFayette...
• Re: Remembrance Day/Veteran's Day (NVC)
  Historical mailing list - Donna Skarloken
  Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:57:34 -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: 88 GL - Rear Brakes
  Historical mailing list - Joe Fernandez
  Tue, 31 Dec 2013 14:29:40 -0800
  ...If the cables appear to be binding or the outer jackets are collapsed or distorted the cables need to be replaced. After this is...
• Re: Thermostat with a hole?
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Fri, 23 Apr 2021 14:45:45 -0700
  ...Critical on > the Waterboxer since the engine is actually 2 separate cooling jackets, one > for each side. For it to work coolant must always...
• Re: Spare ECU
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:56:45 -0500
  ...has too much leverage; and of course it's gotten a great deal stiffer as the vinyl jacket has hardened over the years. :( d
• Re: compressing piston rings in engine
  Historical mailing list - Derek Burgess
  Mon, 9 Dec 2013 14:37:40 -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...
• Re: corrosion & anodes (long)
  Historical mailing list - YauMan Chan
  Sun, 17 Jan 1999 10:52:27 -0800
  ...Second, it must be immersed in the cooling jacket of the engine itself and be in electrical contact with the aluminum and immersed in...
• Re: VW Trends and Eurospec STILL LACK of power...
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Fri, 21 Jan 2000 16:47:29 -0600
  ...When the cylinders are in place, and the heads bolted on, the assembly forms the water jacket for keeping the cylinders cool. It is...
• Re: GOWESTY AFM no start problem
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 25 Jun 2016 14:57:45 -0400
  ...Check the outer jacket for continuity to ground. Regardless this won't explain the no start. Usually it will start with AFM completely disconnected...
• Baja Whale Trip....incredible
  Historical mailing list - Richard Koerner
  Sun, 7 Jan 2018 02:37:15 +0000
  ...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIZ1Zwv4VuM&feature=youtu.be FYI....I'm the guy in the blue jacket and blue baseball cap...I...
• Re: nuts vs head gasket job
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel
  Wed, 4 Sep 2013 18:25:21 -0700
  ...The other thing that is going on is that > the head also squeezes a rubber gasket between the head and the water > jacket on...
• Re: Head leak, chem sealer experience
  Historical mailing list - dylan friedman
  Mon, 6 Aug 2007 07:12:35 -0700
  ...the metal cooling tube (1.9L) between pump and right water jacket, under the pulley, was clogued with a black stuff, semi solid, the...