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• MSDS air intake system (was Re: Air Filters, K & N, extra performance?)
  Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
  Sat, 3 Apr 1999 08:19:34 PST
  Horace, I'm pretty sure K&N makes a filter that will fit in the stock Vanagon airbox. I don't have a part...
• Re: WANTED: air plenum from '85
  Historical mailing list - Skip
  Fri, 30 Mar 2012 03:05:03 +0000
  ...air plenum from '85 Hi everyone, I'm wondering if anyone has a good air plenum from an '85 vanagon. This is the year...
• Re: aircraft engine NVC
  Historical mailing list - Charles Nighbor
  Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:24:58 -0700
  ...Piston type aircraft engines don't typically have > torque curves useful in automotive applications. Still, there may be > interesting possibilities. > > John Rodgers > 88 GL...
• re: List Split Announcement [IMPORTANT]
  Historical mailing list - Gerald Skerbitz
  Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:22:18 -0500 (CDT)
  On Wed, 10 Jul 1996, Matt Goike wrote: > gerry wrote: > > AirrCooled bus owners will end up on the new list (called > type2@primenet.com...
• Vanagon aircooled - too high idle speed
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 21 May 1996 23:55:24 -0600
  My neighbour's 82 aircooled Westy has an elevated idle speed (~1000 rpm) but otherwise runs perfectly. The idle is not affected by the...
• K&N air filters worth the extra money?
  Historical mailing list - Steve Macaulay
  Wed, 17 Mar 1999 13:59:06 -0800
  ...Are they worth the extra money, or should one stick with a normal one like the Bosch air filter that Bus Depot sells for...
• Re: Purging Cooling System of Air / Where Would We Be Without This Topic?
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Thu, 4 Mar 2004 16:25:23 -0500
  ...Usually the first drive after I bleed the system a tiny bit of air comes out. I've never seen any air come out...
• Re: removing air conditioner without spilling the Freon
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Thu, 10 Mar 2016 11:45:35 -0800
  one more vote from me for NOT removing the air conditioner... :-)
• Re: Who makes the good air filter? (1.9l)
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Sat, 5 Sep 2015 18:04:28 -0500
  ...Who makes the good air filter? (1.9l) I have used a K&N cleanable air filter in my '84 1.9 for too...
• Air in the cooling system...
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:15:10 -0700
  When my cooling system had air in it (this is an 84) all kinds of strange symptoms resulted. The temp gauge would run up...
• F/Re: Motor Theory For Dummies: Air Force Ejections/Navy Landings
  Historical mailing list - Mark B. Magee
  Mon, 8 Dec 1997 09:01:07 -0600
  ...You have to do your > troubleshooting quickly and accurately or you have to jettison the > airplane and spend the next six months filling out...
• Re: Heater Refurbished Still Questions
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:04:43 -0700
  of......... > > So my question is: > > After all this I still have cold air blowing in from the outside through the > dash vents, what gives...
• Re: Engine Transplant Possible in an Air-Cooled?
  Historical mailing list - pdooley
  Sun, 6 Dec 2009 09:23:51 -0500
  ...Engine Transplant Possible in an Air-Cooled? My wife and I own an '82 Air-Cooled Gasoline-powered Westfalia Vanagon. It currently has a...
• '79 Fuel Injection Airflow Meter Adjustment
  Historical mailing list - R.D. Robertson
  Wed, 29 May 1996 09:36:38 -0500
  All, While messing aroung with a used airflow meter I just bought, I discovered a way to boost horsepower dramatically. First, I cleaned the...
• Re: Air Powered Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Jack R.
  Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:36:19 -0400
  ...To "air" is human! Think about if we could harness the front end resistance of the Vanagon, and have it compress that air into...
• FS: 4speed vanagon transmissions, wbx and aircooled engines FS too
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 9 Nov 2001 12:12:29 EST
  ...he has quite a few 4 speed vanagon transmissions, for waterboxer, or aircooled. he also has a few motors for sale, some aircooled 2...
• Re: Air Cooled Syncro?
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Mon, 25 Feb 2002 20:03:28 -0500
  ...VW's first experimental Syncro was aircooled - pre-Vanagon, in fact, as I recall. But no aircooled Syncros were actually produced. - Ron Salmon The...
• Re: Purging Cooling System of Air
  Historical mailing list - Daniel Stevens
  Thu, 4 Mar 2004 14:07:35 -0500
  ...Purging Cooling System of Air
• Re: Best placement for outside air temperature sender?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Cardo
  Sat, 3 Sep 2005 12:10:28 -0500
  << I was thinking maybe in the forward section of the rear intake tunnel for the engine air>>... Good thinking. This is where I mounted...
• Re: Air Scoops - How do you Make them?
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Tue, 4 Nov 2008 06:08:49 +0000
  ...Robert Stewart <robertmstewart@MAC.COM> > I see these air scoops on ebay selling for $200! ( which just seems > silly!) > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors...
• Re: Side Air Intake Engine Cooling Question (searched)
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:48:46 -0700
  ...http://tinyurl.com/23sdnyc I know nothing of air >>> flow, etc. stuff so.... >>> >>> Theory: install ducting on cold air outlet to direct cooler air...
• Re: Arduino and Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Sun, 17 Nov 2013 12:03:06 -0800
  ...I suspect not on Difijet and Digifant. > > The ECU *could* calculate rate of change of *airflow,* but I don't > know whether it does...
• Re: 89 + Rear window vents transplanted in an 85 Westy
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:07:53 -0800
  ...absolutally > noticeably, to release the air--or try to release the air. > > Is there anywhere for the air to escape on a Westy with...
• Re: Air in Brake Circuit
  Historical mailing list - Mark Hudgik
  Sun, 14 Dec 1997 09:39:27 -0500
  ...Bleeding gets the air out, leaving only non-compressible brake fluid. Air can enter lines when the system is opened for repairs. Air can...
• Re: In praise of aircooled vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Joseph Fortino
  Wed, 4 Apr 2007 06:30:25 -0700
  ...Air-cooled engines acumulate heat over time >depending on load and abient air temp. As I like to say the air-cooled >engine has...
• Re: Where's that air coming from?
  Historical mailing list - Budd Premack
  Wed, 8 Mar 2006 03:33:11 -0600
  ...and there's still a strong breeze. > > Where's the usual suspect for the offending inlet? Outside air enters through the air intake housing...
• Re: airbag rant
  Historical mailing list - Michael Townsend
  Thu, 7 Jan 1999 15:35:19 -0500
  ...airbag rant >Bill wrote: >> >> I just have to point out that while some children have been injured and >> killed by airbags (in many cases...
• Re: Front radiator hoses
  Historical mailing list - Evan Mac Donald
  Thu, 15 Jul 2004 09:00:36 -0700
  Squeezing the hoses when the van's engine is cold is not going to tell you anything about whether or not there is air...
• Re: Air intake "scoops"
  Historical mailing list - Kent Christensen
  Tue, 14 Dec 1999 11:40:45 -0700
  ...Are these really functional as air scoops or are they merely cosmetic? I've always questioned whether any horsepower gained by air scoop ram...
• Air Lift Update
  Historical mailing list - Terry Kay
  Wed, 11 Oct 2000 09:59:14 -0500
  ...Slip (force) the air bag inside the spring, route the air lines, inflate. That`s it. So, I'll be getting them tomorrow morning...
• Re: Aircooled engine in Watercooled vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:27:59 -0400
  ...Eric Mike Noble wrote: > What is required to convert a watercooled vanagon to aircooled > (assuming the > running aircooled engine is available). It seems a...
• Re: Air vs Water ; OR Water to Air?
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Tue, 8 Jan 2002 16:56:15 -0600
  Its about the same trouble as installing an Inline Engine, except you get less HP with the air cooled. You should be shipping rebuilt...
• Re: Just wondering
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Sun, 28 Jul 2002 01:05:12 -0400
  ...Similarly, > for moving motor vehicles, air always flows from the back to the front and > this is the basic principle upon which all vehicle...
• Re: SUV Roll Overs = Death Patch = lack of free air?
  Historical mailing list - Ari Ollikainen
  Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:59:41 -0700
  At 1:26 PM -0700 9/17/00, Chuck & Lillian wrote: >I strongly agree! Free air is also rare to nonexistant in the So...
• Back home, back on the list and an airbox Q:.
  Historical mailing list - Banks
  Thu, 30 May 1996 16:08:22 -0400 (EDT)
  ...The shop said it was the air box so we took it home and threw my airbox in, no change. What probably went wrong...
• Re: Vngns ARE junk!
  Historical mailing list - jbange
  Wed, 9 Mar 2005 15:20:36 -0800
  At 12:26 PM 3/9/2005, you wrote: >Fact 1. >Original aircooled Engine was designed by Hans Edlinka of Tatra(former >Chechoslovakia)in...
• Vanagon Intermittent Misfire
  Historical mailing list - Subject: Vanagon Intermittent Misfire
  February 29, 1992
  ...Some air-flow meters may experience a vibration resonance of the metering potentiometer wiper during extended constant driving. This resonance causes the air-flow...
• Re: more on engine braking
  Historical mailing list - Joshua Van Tol
  Wed, 14 Oct 1998 18:27:13 -0500
  ...This is a big problem with air cooled aircraft engines. Some planes even have air brakes to help alleviate it. Joshua Van Tol -- jjvantol...
• 80-83 Tranny / engine / Fuel Injection FS
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Mon, 20 May 2002 19:23:41 -0500
  The great Air Cooled Vanagon parts dumping continues. The several last items that I am liquidating are. One Air Cooled DK Vanagon transmission, both...
• Re: Hesitation while driving (manual)
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott )
  Fri, 16 Oct 2015 17:04:18 -1000
  ...basicallly the ECU 'reads' the air the engine gulps.. measures 'how much' via the AFM. Senses air intake temperature, ( and coolant temp ) there can...
• Re: Thinking about Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Steven Cu
  Mon, 31 May 1999 06:12:47 -0700
  Chris, I have an aircooled 82 Westy and it has dual airconditioning (two evaporators) It is a custom built unit. I live in the...
• Re: Correct Tranny?
  Historical mailing list - dieselwesty
  Fri, 5 Oct 2001 11:58:48 -0400
  ...I know mine is from an 82 Air Cooled Vanagon transporter. Bryan Belman Pt. Pleasant, NJ 1990 Audi 200 Turbo (Money Pit) 1982 Westy...
• Re: AC compressor Gurus needed!!!
  Historical mailing list - Fredrich Hesterberg
  Tue, 25 Feb 2003 09:49:59 -0600
  ...Or I have seen the engine used as an air compressor. Pull a plug and hook a hose to any cylinder turn the engine...
• Re: TiiCo in an aircooled van?
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Tue, 3 Jul 2007 19:31:54 -0600
  ...bob> > Has anyone out there in Vanagon land put a TiiCo in an aircooled van? If not, is there anyone that's done any...
• Re: Silly-sounding question
  Historical mailing list - Robert Rountree
  Sat, 21 Nov 1998 19:44:12 -0500
  I think it's the same thing as factory air... not as clean as country air...thinner than L.A. air... but no where...
• Re: The Vanagon Syndrome and Outside Air Temperature
  Historical mailing list - Bill Kasper
  Mon, 10 Feb 2003 09:12:44 -0800
  ...Is > the "Syndrome" outside air temperature dependent? >
• Fiberboard "wall" at air intake snorkle missing
  Historical mailing list - Mark Carrig
  Thu, 29 Apr 2004 09:24:55 -0400
  ...What I'm missing is the fiberboard "wall" that seems to seal off the air intake channel / vent area and has the hole in...
• NVC - Bendix Fluxgate Compass System parts needed
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Wed, 22 Mar 2017 08:30:55 -0500
  ...If you know of any possible source, airplane grave yard, aircraft scrap yard, any possibility, I would appreciate hearing from you. Please relpy off...
• Re: Simply Stunning....
  Historical mailing list - Richard Jones
  Sat, 25 Sep 2010 20:40:02 -0600
  No one has mentioned, probably partly because there are almost no air-cooled Vanagon folks here, but my observations, owning both an air-cooled...
• Re: defeat
  Historical mailing list - Steve Cotsford
  Fri, 10 Sep 1999 21:10:09 EDT
  ...Also there is an auxilliary air regulator fitted below the air intake bellows which increases the amount of air entering the engine when it...
• Re: Aircooled vs watercooled
  Historical mailing list - Edward Maglott
  Tue, 26 Mar 2002 12:05:13 -0500
  ...The figure was that the air cooling fan used about 4 times the HP as the water pump. Maybe even more. It was a...
• WTB: Aircooled V'gon brain and FI harness
  Historical mailing list - Sean B.
  Mon, 15 Aug 2005 18:51:59 -0700
  I am putting my old Vanagon motor (Type 4 aircooled) into my girlfriend's Squareback. I need an aircooled brain and associated Fuel Injection...
• air conditioning
  Historical mailing list - Stan Shapiro
  Tue, 11 Aug 2015 11:26:40 -0700
  Has anyone used any of the aerosol Air Conditioning kits like AC Pro? Any suggestions? Stan 90 Westy
• and bulb for air control knobs?
  Historical mailing list - Davidson
  Wed, 17 Nov 1999 16:22:40 -0800
  .... Annnnnd Are there bulbs behind the air conditioning control knobs? Bill 90 Westy Syncro
• Air flow meter
  Historical mailing list - Justin Wolfe
  Fri, 27 Jul 2001 09:43:10 -0400
  Anyone have any luck with an air flow meter. Did it fix your bucking? justin 84' Westy
• Air Lift Company
  Historical mailing list - Fredrich Hesterberg
  Thu, 2 Jan 2003 23:23:52 -0600
  Mr.Todd, This the way I found worked well,and very adjustable Fred http://www.airliftcompany.com/
• Re: oil drain plug
  Historical mailing list - John Connolly, Aircooled.Net
  Wed, 6 Jun 2007 18:42:47 -0600
  better yet; http://www.aircooled.net/new-bin/viewproductdetail.php?keyword2=tze0025 John Aircooled.Net Inc.
• Re: Understanding AFC fuel injection--question
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Sun, 30 Dec 2001 18:29:41 -0600
  ...Now, there is no > sensor, or anything on the throttle body, so how does this auxillary > air regulator do anything? The air still ends...
• Re: subaru head leaks - more info from subaruvanagon list
  Historical mailing list - Sam Walters
  Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:06:48 -0500
  ...This is different than purging air from your radiator or from your heater core. Air in the engine causes head warp. Air in other...
• Re: Defroster vents always open?
  Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
  Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:15:06 -0800
  Thanks, Neil -- I had a feeling that the ominous black air distribution box's vents were losing their seals. A rolled up towel over...