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• Re: 71 Westy and Door Handles
  Historical mailing list - Maher, Steve (SD-MS)
  Thu, 28 Sep 1995 09:38:00 -0700 (PDT)
  ...Unfortunately, the torque >generated from this puts a strain on the pot metal lock barrel, and I broke >the barrel on one door--it...
• RE: 71 WESTY AND DOOR HANDLES
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 28 Sep 1995 12:41:21 GMT
  ...Unfortunately, the torque > generated from this puts a strain on the pot metal lock barrel, and I broke > the barrel on one door--it...
• Re: What has happened to gasoline prices?
  Historical mailing list - Joachim Beek
  Thu, 18 Apr 1996 15:09:02 -0500 (CDT)
  ...of > the crude oil was expected to DECREASE from $21/barrel to $16/barrel by the > end of June. > > gee ... do i feel a...
• Engine Rebuild at Last!!
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sat, 18 Dec 1999 19:24:30 -0600
  ...The cylinder barrel was in excellent condition, with no evidence of barrel ware. All the crosshatching in the barrel was intact with no evidence...
• Re: The Cost of a Quart.. friday Trivia
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:59:16 -0800
  Yup greed! One barrel of oil has something like 170L of oil - so about (assuming $40 a barrel) so about $0.24 per liter...
• Re: Is it about time for Sandblasting?
  Historical mailing list - Tom Stone
  Tue, 31 Oct 2000 21:00:55 EST
  ...I had a used 55 gallon plastic barrel. It is white and I highly recommend the color. I cut one end out and made...
• OT: how to check Bug engine is a 1.3 or 1.6 externally
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Tue, 6 Dec 2005 23:23:23 +1300
  ...Also need to know what the barrel heights are when fitted, so we can measure them and see... as a 1.3 could have...
• Re: CIGARETTE LIGHTER REMOVAL
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Mon, 6 Dec 1999 10:29:51 -0800
  ...It slips over the barrel of the lighter, held on by two tabs on the barrel that "click into" corresponding recesses on the aforementioned...
• Re: Bench Testing an L-jetronic Fuel Injected engine
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:37:46 -0500
  ...This was done to allow for better heat transfer from the aluminum head to the steel barrels. I had tried to implement the tech...
• 78 VAN , ALSO 2 BARREL WEBER (NEW) FOR SALE
  Historical mailing list - Michael Beggs
  Thu, 20 Jun 1996 01:19:23 +0500
  ...Two Barrel Weber with manifold/air filter for upright engine - it's got about 40 miles on it. (engine blew). Like new paid 269...
• 1.9L WBX to 2.1L WBX -
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:46:24 -0600
  ...Can the 1.9L engine be upgraded to an essentially 2.1L engine simply by changing a few parts......like cylinder barrels, pistons, etc...
• Boring cylinder to oversize
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Tue, 19 Mar 2002 09:03:56 -0600
  ...I have three good cylinder barrels and would like to get a fourth --- IF I cna find a good used one that is in...
• Re: Is there such a too?
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:25:40 -0500
  ...Not the double stepped mandrel types for crimping "Open Barrel" connectors. The open barrel connectors have two sets of tangs which are open (the...
• Re: Carbs & MPG report
  Historical mailing list - Sudhir Desai
  Thu, 11 Jun 1998 15:46:10 -0400
  On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Malcolm Stebbins wrote: > for a 91 Syncro Westfalia running Webber two barrel progressive > Carbs, and premium pertrol: > > Overall: 12...
• Re: Chrome Barrels-Iron Rings
  Historical mailing list - Allan Bagley
  Tue, 7 May 2002 08:10:36 -0700
  Moto Guzzi motorcycles have had chrome sylinder bores for many years. Allan Bagley 86 westy 69 Moto Guzzi Ambassador
• 2.1L Cylinder barrel rebore
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Tue, 21 Dec 1999 19:58:20 -0600
  ...Can the barrels be bored to oversize? Are there suitable pistons for such a rebore? Where and made by whom? I know there has...
• rekey sliding door handle?
  Historical mailing list - pickle vanagon
  Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:48:45 -0400
  Is it possible to transfer lock barrels between exterior sliding door handles? (early 80-84 style, if it matters.) Thanks, Wes
• Re: Question about barrel spacers
  Historical mailing list - Tom Young
  Mon, 17 Feb 2003 21:36:55 -0800
  ...Question about barrel spacers > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.dolphinsci.com/techbull.html > > > > > Read this .............. blow off the barrel spacers unless > > you > > > > can get > > > > > the .010 aluninum...
• Good AND inexpensive tire pump, where to
  Historical mailing list - Charles \"luke\" Lukey
  23 Nov 96 07:53:43 EST
  ...This foot pump has a brass barrel and bottom cap that will last a lifetime. The accurate air pressure gauge is calibrated in Foot...
• Re: oem open barrel style connectors
  Historical mailing list - Stacy Schneider
  Fri, 24 Aug 2018 13:51:48 -0700
  Look on Samba, the same guy that sells the headlight and starters relay kits can supply you any of the open barrel connectors you...
• Re: Question about barrel spacers
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Mon, 17 Feb 2003 21:14:57 -0600
  I'm going to install .020" barrel spacers in place of the .030" ones that are there. Since I cc'd the heads and...
• Watercooled cylinder liner (barrel?) to cylinder head seal modification
  Historical mailing list - Mohammed Ghalayini
  Mon, 12 Sep 2016 10:35:18 +0100
  Hello, I want to modify the sealing set-up between the cylinder head and cylinder liner (barrel?) to make a more reliable seal. I...
• Re: What has happened to gasoline prices?
  Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
  Thu, 18 Apr 1996 14:09:11 -0500 (CDT)
  ...If anyone has been keeping track, the price of a gallon of crude oil has skyrocketed lately, from about $19/barrel to $25/barrel...
• Hydraulic lifters
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 1 Jul 94 10:21:08 CDT
  ...There is a spring inside the tappets that causes them to extend to take up any slack if they can. <-- Pushrod end * ####### * Key: * Barrel...
• Re: Will be worth less or more?
  Historical mailing list - Bernie
  Wed, 4 Jun 2008 09:36:12 -0700
  ...At 30 dollars a barrel they said it would dip, at 60 it was not sustainable, at 100 dollars a barrel it's overpriced...
• Re: Issue with door lock
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:58:02 -0700
  ...still good idea to pull lock barrel, but it may be a problem outside of the barrel, in the part that "interfaces' with latch...
• Re: 1981 Accelerator Cable: Barrel Clamp Failure. How?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 26 Apr 2018 19:29:25 -0400
  > > yellow coloured metal That's chromated zinc plating against corrosion, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromate_conversion_coating#Steel Yrs, d
• Re: Is it about time for Sandblasting?
  Historical mailing list - Joe Romas
  Tue, 31 Oct 2000 21:22:53 -0500
  ...I had a used 55 gallon plastic barrel. It is white > and I highly recommend the color. I cut one end out and made...
• 1986 Vangon Cylinder head leaks - repair / Vanagon parts
  Historical mailing list - Michael Harris
  Tue, 22 Oct 1996 00:41:11 -0700
  ...Last question - when I removed the heads, the barrels were stuck to the head, so came out of the case somewhat when I removed...
• Re: Question about barrel spacers
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Mon, 17 Feb 2003 20:40:58 -0600
  ...Question about barrel spacers > > > > > > > > > > http://www.dolphinsci.com/techbull.html > > > > Read this .............. blow off the barrel spacers unless > you > > > can get > > > > the .010 aluninum...
• Re: valve spring compressor tool advice?
  Historical mailing list - Michael Tevis
  Wed, 8 Apr 2009 00:07:26 -0400
  ...unless ive lent it out, I use a motorcycle style compressor that uses a hollow barrel to push on the spring retainer instead of...
• Carb problem solved
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Tue, 20 May 2003 14:55:20 -0700
  I asked the list about a problem with my carb'ed van stumbling except when the second barrel opened up. After chasing the timing...
• Re: 2.1 ring recommendations
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 27 May 2009 15:59:07 -0700
  if the main goal is to replace the black o-rings at the bottom of the cylinder barrels..... those can be replaced without taking...
• <No subject>
  Historical mailing list
  30 Mar 96 14:34:00 -0600
  ...On one side it has numbers stamped into the barrels, on the front(fif) is the number 27, and on the back barrel is...
• Chrome Barrels - Iron Rings
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sat, 4 May 2002 10:57:12 -0500
  ...cylinder back into round, and then cromeplated to bring the cylinder barrel back to standard diameter. Aluminum pistons are the mated with grey-iron...
• Re: Question about barrel spacers
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Mon, 17 Feb 2003 14:20:34 -0600
  ...blow off the barrel spacers unless you can get the .010 aluninum shims or paper from VW dealer. Stan Wilder. On Mon, 17 Feb...
• '75 top-end rebuild (cont'd)
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 3 Nov 1995 12:27:25 -0600 (CST)
  Howdy! Finally picked up the two rebuilt 2 liter heads from the machine shop, as well as the rehoned, painted barrels and cleaned pistons...
• Re: Engine Rebuild at Last!!
  Historical mailing list - Kent Christensen
  Sat, 18 Dec 1999 20:14:26 -0700
  ...The cylinder barrels were marked with what I took to be Audi markings. Most VW parts are marked with both VW and Audi symbols...
• Re: 1985 Vanagon - small job getting bigger - please advise as to rings, valves, etc.
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Sun, 6 Apr 2008 21:12:44 -0700
  ...Oh, the pistons and barrels are not the weak part, Especially the barrels. The pistons - check the ring grooves carefully etc...... But 'mostly' it...
• head stuck to cylinders
  Historical mailing list - Scott W.
  Thu, 25 Dec 2003 14:29:30 -0800
  ...I have used a 2x4 and a hammer to try and break the rusty barrels loose by taping around the head, tried prying on...
• Re: off with her heads
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel
  Fri, 18 Oct 2013 21:01:07 -0700
  Hi, I don't think you dad has worked on the pistons, rings and barrels of a waterboxer. The barrels are not just installed...
• Re: Head gasket question...
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sun, 15 Feb 2004 10:13:19 -0600
  ...The principle is the same -- steel cylinder barrel, aluminum head - but on the WBX he heads are separate. On this type cylinder, an aluminum...
• HOW WE MADE GASOLINE (NVC)
  Historical mailing list - Daniel Stevens
  Thu, 25 Mar 2004 10:15:53 -0500
  ...Two fifteen gallon barrels were filled with fresh oil and poured in the barrel. Then we started the fire about it. Before long fumes...
• Re: Cylinder Head Cleaning/Checking Question
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( Scott Daniel Foss )
  Mon, 3 Feb 2014 22:02:09 -0800
  ...getting the barrels unstuck from the heads.. again ..penetrating oil first thing. there are nice nubs on the barrles to facilitate prying the barrels...
• was:NVC Don't Support the Saudi's/Fuel for our beasts
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Tue, 17 May 2005 08:36:18 -0600
  ...consumes barrels of oil that do not exist! We are long past being able to do anything to find our way out of the...
• FW: oil
  Historical mailing list - DaveC
  Wed, 10 Apr 2002 09:47:24 -0700
  ...Shell 205,742,000 barrels Chevron/Texaco 144,332,000 " Exxon/Mobil 130,082,000 " Marathon 117,740,000 " Amoco 62,231,000 " If...
• Re: Is there such a too?
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Sat, 24 Nov 2007 01:07:19 -0500
  The Harbor Freight crimper is not the double step crimper for use with open barrel terminals but rather is for insulated terminals such as...
• Removing Cylinders from head idea!
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Wilford
  Fri, 24 May 2002 09:59:42 -0400
  ...Then I went to the tab on the opposite side of the barrel and tapped a few times until the barrel turned back. Then...
• Re: Cylinder Types
  Historical mailing list - Sean Garrett
  Fri, 12 Dec 2003 13:16:22 -0700
  ...Aircraft cylinders were - operationally > speaking - > SNIP > > Anyway, I have wondered why no one ever came out with a combination > head/cylinder barrel for the...
• Re: off with her heads
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel
  Sun, 6 Oct 2013 14:51:05 -0700
  ...and on one set of Brazilian new 1.9 pistons and barrels.. the top of the barrel was a jam fit into the head...
• Re: Is there such a too?
  Historical mailing list - TJ Hannink
  Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:48:45 -0800
  ...Not the double stepped mandrel types for crimping "Open Barrel" connectors. The open barrel connectors have two sets of tangs which are open (the...
• aircooled runner-rubbers
  Historical mailing list - Allan Kirk
  Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:12:02 -0600
  ...My van was converted to a single 2-barrel Weber using an aftermarket manifold. The rubber stepped sleeves that connect the plenum to the...
• Re: Issue with door lock
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:45:10 -0700
  On 4/16/2010 8:58 AM Alistair Bell wrote: > oh, few more things... > > still good idea to pull lock barrel, but it may...
• Re: Chrome Barrels-Iron Rings
  Historical mailing list - Lloyd McClelland
  Tue, 7 May 2002 21:08:38 -0700
  ...Chrome Barrels-Iron Rings >Allan Bagley wrote: > >> Moto Guzzi motorcycles have had chrome sylinder bores for many years. >> > >Now we are getting somewhere! Any...
• Re: Watercooled cylinder liner (barrel?) to cylinder head seal modification
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 13 Sep 2016 22:11:06 +0000
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• Re: LVC Protective Gloves?
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:18:52 -0800
  > > I've never looked that close at the bleeder on a VW propane tank, is > it one of those standard knurled barrel knobs? Thats...
• Re: Will be worth less or more?
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Lincoln
  Wed, 4 Jun 2008 12:01:57 -0500
  ...As I indicated > before > Mexico's oil supply is drying up and they ship there last barrel in 2014. > The equation is very simple...
• Re: Chrome Barrels - Iron Rings
  Historical mailing list - Miguel Calvin
  Mon, 6 May 2002 23:41:15 -0400
  ...cylinder back into round, and then cromeplated to bring the > cylinder barrel back to standard diameter. Aluminum pistons are the > mated with grey-iron...
• Re: Engine Disassembly, EGR, Air Pump
  Historical mailing list - John Ritchie
  Fri, 4 Nov 1994 16:29:56 -0800 (PST)
  ...I also > am almost positive that you can make a 1.8 into a 2-liter by using 2 liter > pistons, barrels, rods, and...
• Re: Standard Repair Times - Rings / Heads
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Wed, 7 Sep 2005 05:49:44 EDT
  ...Removing the heads does require removal of the cylinder barrels to replace the O-ring at the bottom of the cylinder barrels. That's...