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• Re: Packing for a trip, anyone harness the power of vacuum?
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:41:16 -0500
  I have no experience with the bags you speak of, but, I use a "Foodsaver" vacuum sealer for small things. Some items like underwear...
• Re: WTB rear differential lock externals
  Historical mailing list - Christopher Gronski
  Tue, 21 Mar 2006 09:56:10 -0500
  ...I have > one from a 4000 Quattro that has double vacuum switch for 2 lockers, > indicators, and as a bonus a volt meter and...
• Re: no power in 4th
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Fri, 6 Oct 1995 10:05:56 -0700 (PDT)
  On Thu, 5 Oct 1995, David Schwarze wrote: > Alistair Bell writes: > > > > Isn't there a vacuum line(s) running from the distributer up to...
• Vacuum Advance/retard Dist. connections?
  Historical mailing list - David
  Fri, 5 May 2000 09:24:31 -0400
  I have been told that I have a Vacuum advance/retard distributor on my engine which was used on the 76 Bus and some...
• vacuum advance/retard control unit
  Historical mailing list - Bradley Flubacher
  Mon, 2 Oct 2000 22:14:28 -0400
  ...He said that if I disconnect the vacuum hose from the throttle valve that runs to the vacuum unit on the distributor, and suck...
• Charcoal canister vacuum valve help
  Historical mailing list - Clint Kolda
  Sat, 14 Apr 2007 18:20:17 -0700
  How is the vacuum valve for the fuel system charcoal canister supposed to mount? Mine is hanging freely by the vacuum lines. It slaps...
• Re: cruise control troubleshooting
  Historical mailing list - Richard Golen
  Wed, 6 Feb 2008 15:05:18 -0500
  Gregory, Besides the vacuum lines in the engine compartment, there is a long rubber line that goes to the driver's compartment to switches...
• Re: Audiovox Cruise Control
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Tue, 2 Jan 2007 12:25:14 -0800
  ...Cruise control intermittent problem You might try adding an accumulator to the vacuum line, a vacuum reservoir so to speak. I ordered on from...
• Re: type 1 engine in t2 (and vacuum assist)
  Historical mailing list - Chris Venama
  Thu, 18 Aug 94 08:42:52 CDT
  ...Bowling said: > >large intake manifold the old engine (never ran) was from a '68 beetle and >a place for the vacuum assist brakes. This...
• Looking for differential lock parts(from Syncro)
  Historical mailing list - John Clemens
  Sun, 9 Jun 2002 19:58:41 -0700
  I'm looking for the entire vacuum control system for the locking differential system on a Syncro vanagon.. There is a control valve(with...
• Where do I hook up my vacuum guage?
  Historical mailing list - Steve Elfelt
  Tue, 14 Sep 1999 08:17:15 -0400
  ...I have a vacuum guage. Can anyone tell me where to hook it up and other instructions for hunting vacuum leaks? Thanks! Steve 84...
• Re: do we have a vacuum leak?
  Historical mailing list - Scott G. Terry
  Mon, 20 Aug 2001 10:30:04 -0700
  Jay, OK, 15" of vacuum at idle! Your Westy is now King/Queen of manifold vacuum until someone can top that. How many miles...
• Re: Vacuum pump
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:43:54 -0400
  ...Since your clever like that, what do you think is the most common cause for a sinking brake pedal? I figure vacuum as I...
• Re: diesel vacuum pumps (little VC)
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Thu, 8 Aug 2002 22:05:45 -0400
  ...Can someone tell me why they need > vacuum pumps. Isn't there enough vacuum at the intake to run power > brakes etc.? Diesels have...
• Vacuum hose & throttle assembly
  Historical mailing list - John Schaper
  Mon, 17 Mar 2003 07:28:24 -0800
  ...This weekend I noticed that there are 2 vacuum hose connections to the throttle body--one in front and one in back. The back...
• Re: Manifold measuring - is this right?
  Historical mailing list - Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\" Elliott
  Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:34:44 -0700
  Should the engine be idling, or what, when measuring vacuum? Could be doing this wrong. -- Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott 71 Type 2: the...
• Re: Plugging leaks in intake manifold
  Historical mailing list - Jake Beaulieu
  Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:40:54 -0400
  >> Mike, >> >> I believe a good test of the air intake system is to measure the manifold vacuum you are generating. I combed the archives...
• Re: Gas Milage and the Fuel Pressure Regulator
  Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
  Thu, 10 May 2001 19:38:12 EDT
  ...The vacuum>produced by the engine also affects fuel regulator pressure, because the>strength of the vacuum is what keeps the fuel pressure LOW...
• Syncro "factory" vacuum source
  Historical mailing list - John
  Thu, 18 Jan 2001 05:33:03 -0500
  ...Can someone explain exactly where the intake manifold vacuum source is "supposed to be" for the Syncro locking differential vacuum system? The Bentley doesn...
• Re: Cruise Control Question
  Historical mailing list - BRENT CHRISTENSEN
  Mon, 31 Jan 2000 16:36:41 -0800
  ...I was having a similar problem recently, and thanks to several list members, I think I narrowed the problem down to a leaky vacuum...
• Vacuum advance problems
  Historical mailing list
  21 Nov 94 24:27
  Hi All, (advance apologies if I forgot how to spell VACUUM? ) So I've just run my new bus engine in (1600cc Single port...
• Re: Gas tank vacuum
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Mon, 11 Feb 2002 00:03:48 -0600
  ...Yup, there is enough vacuum to collapse that tank. John Rodgers 88 GL Driver Richard Kunkel wrote: > We always had a big vacuum build...
• Engine codes?
  Historical mailing list - Javier Zavala
  Mon, 11 Jun 2001 00:14:05 -0500
  ...BTDC at 850 +/- 50 rpm vacuum disconnected Code DF 5 degrees +/- 1 degree ATDC at 750 +/- 50 rpm vacuum connected Code DG and SP...
• '80 aircooled power loss cont
  Historical mailing list - Jamie Foust
  Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:36:19 -0500
  ...All vacuum and breather lines have been replaced. I'm going to put the vacuum gauge on tonight to get some readings. So, are...
• Re: Lost Power Breaks..uh-oh HELP!
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 19 Oct 1995 08:23:20 -0700
  You best fix your vacuum leak before travelling in your bus. A vacuum leak will cause your engine to run very lean and could...
• vacuum lines
  Historical mailing list - Cooper, Jonathan R.
  Thu, 28 Jun 2001 15:37:39 -0400
  I am thinking of changing all of my vacuum lines when I change my fuel lines. Are they all the same? Where can I...
• Manifold measuring - is this right?
  Historical mailing list - Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\" Elliott
  Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:15:29 -0700
  ...The vacuum gauge shows around 18psi -- depending on engine rpms. I can open the throttle and the vacuum might drop to 10psi, then climb...
• Re: Vacuum Canisters (was: cruise controll)
  Historical mailing list - Daniel Bey
  Mon, 19 Oct 1998 19:23:41 EDT
  ...Dan In a message dated 10/19/98 8:02:15 PM, you wrote: <<Hello, Vacuum canisters don't make vacuum. If your cruise...
• RE: Cruise control for '80-82 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Maher, Steve (SD-MS)
  Tue, 19 Dec 1995 16:05:00 -0800 (PST)
  >Your post about vacuum came in just after I sent my Zemco post. My two bus >installations were on a '72 and a '84...
• Re: More Syncro DIff-lock Questions
  Historical mailing list - L&A Johnson
  Wed, 2 Dec 1998 17:28:45 -0500
  ...It seems that even a solenoid switch (like the solenoid on the starter) would have been simpler. > 3) the diff-lock vacuum bottles lines...
• help!! diesel brake booster vacuum hose flange broken...
  Historical mailing list - Cetin Seren
  Thu, 13 Feb 1997 10:26:13 -0500 (EST)
  ...The flange that attaches the vacuum hose (that feeds the brake booster) to the vacuum pump in my diesel westy came apart... Oil is...
• Digijet Ditributor Advance/Retard
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Mon, 30 Apr 2001 14:31:23 -0400
  I don't think the vacuum retard would have anything to do with idle emissions. The initial (idle) timing could be set anywhere VW...
• Looking for a 1.9l waterboxer distributor
  Historical mailing list - kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
  Wed, 13 Nov 2013 12:19:25 -0500
  ...This is the one that has the vacuum advance/retard unit on it. That means it has the vacuum unit on the side and...
• Cruise control diagnosis progress
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:58:43 -0600
  ...Removed vacuum pump and put 12V to it. It runs noisily, but doesn't seem to pull any discernible vacuum. Should it pull enough...
• Re: Cruise control diagnosis progress - ambient temp?
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Wed, 1 Nov 2006 13:25:02 -0600
  ...To begin your own diagnosis, pull the tube off the vacuum pump in the back and pull a vacuum in it. You should see...
• brake system vacuum leak
  Historical mailing list - Harry Yates
  Sat, 25 Feb 1995 20:15:28 +0000
  ...I have a Bentley manual for this vehicle, and it mentions that there is a check valve in the vacuum hose that holds vacuum...
• Re: vacuum advance/retard control unit
  Historical mailing list - Mark Ingalls
  Tue, 3 Oct 2000 07:31:53 CDT
  ...I can't move it by myself, I think I would need a vacuum pump along with my vacuum gauge. Then again I could...
• compression/vacuum/fuel pressure/O2 voltage
  Historical mailing list - Gary McEachern
  Mon, 15 Oct 2001 21:46:08 -0400
  ...I monitored fuel pressure 30 w/vacuum, 39 without vacuum. GOOD I measured compression: 160,140,160,155 SO SO? Plugs look pretty sooty...
• Re: 2.1l vacuum readings?
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Thu, 21 May 2009 22:15:02 -0600
  "normal" is 15-20 vacuum inches of mercury .... On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Larry Alofs <lalofs@gmail.com> wrote: > 17...
• IginitionTiming, 87' Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Jack Ck
  Wed, 27 Aug 1997 00:12:40 -0700
  Isn't it true as far as ignition timing goes, hook up a vacuum meter/gauge to any main vacuum lines and turn the...
• Re: Manifold measuring - is this right?
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:50:11 -0700
  ...The vacuum gauge shows around 18psi -- depending on > >> engine rpms. I can open the throttle and the vacuum might drop to > 10psi, > >> then climb...
• Digijet Distributor Questions
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Wed, 22 Aug 2001 11:40:26 -0400
  I have an '85 1.9l with the vacuum advance/retard distributor. I realize the two vacuum ports are connected to different sources of...
• Re: Vacuum gauge readings
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 26 Oct 2014 22:36:18 -0400
  ...Vacuum gauge readings Hi all, I just completed an installation of a voltmeter, oil pressure, oil temperature and a vacuum gauge in my stock...
• Re: A/C - what it the purpose of the vacuum check
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Mon, 4 Jul 2011 18:09:19 -0400
  ...Pulling a vacuum not only gets rid of air (which doesn't really work as a refrigerant) but also water (which can be detrimental...
• Gas tank vacuum
  Historical mailing list - Robert Donalds
  Sun, 10 Feb 2002 20:32:28 -0500
  ...I thought to myself he must have one of the only gas tanks in the country that will hold vacuum and that this is...
• Re: cruse control
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Lockwood
  Mon, 25 Sep 2000 20:30:06 EDT
  ...The vacuum tube that runs from the vacuum pump in the engine compartment to the vacuum switch on the brake pedal wore a hole...
• Re: Diesel Vacuum Leak?
  Historical mailing list - Gnarlodious
  Sun, 25 Nov 2001 12:01:13 -0700
  ...The later Diesel(TDI) had a vacuum actuated cruise control diaphragm, that is the only way I can think of. Entity Arthur Sauerhaft spoke...
• Re: [NVC] Vacuum Forming
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Mon, 3 Jan 2005 14:38:34 -0600
  ...Can vacuum form materials up to 1/4 inch > thick. > > Anybody need vacuum forming??? > > Thanks, > > Regards, > > John Rodgers >
• Re: vacuum lines
  Historical mailing list - Chuck Mathis
  Thu, 28 Jun 2001 16:06:16 EDT
  Vacuum hose is vacuum hose. Just for fun you could get some of the new colored silicon stuff to dress things up. If you...
• Re: High Idle on 87
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 22 May 1997 06:44:40 -0400
  ...I checked the vacuum lines, When I disconnected = >>the white or purple vacuum lines, the ones that come from the big = >>canister in the...
• Re: sources for small vacuum tubing and fittings
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 30 May 2011 19:55:05 -0400
  ...My engine has combination of rubber/cloth vacuum tubing and hard plastic vacuum tubing. Can I go with the rubber/cloth vacuum tubing -- looks...
• Vacuum leak
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Tue, 16 Feb 2016 14:16:34 -0600
  ...Dennis Haynes said suspect a vacuum leak. Have just gone over as best I could the vacuum lines in the engine compartment. With the...
• Re: IginitionTiming, 87' Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - John Hung
  Wed, 27 Aug 1997 15:32:39 -0500
  >Isn't it true as far as ignition timing goes, hook up a vacuum >meter/gauge to any main vacuum lines and turn the...
• Re: [subaruvanagon] Why reduce engine speed -- vacuum guage -- small car header
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Sat, 20 Jul 2002 13:50:41 +1200
  ...The vacuum gage measures inlet manifold vacuum. In NO WAY does this reflect economy. It is NOT a consumption gauge, as Australian magazines found...
• idle and vacuum diagnosis
  Historical mailing list - Mark Keller
  Fri, 8 Oct 2004 14:06:04 -0700
  Hi Craig, I'm somwhat familiar with vacuum diagnosis. AT idle, 850 rpm, and a warm, ie no cold enrichment , my van sit about...
• Manifold vacuum specs?
  Historical mailing list - Geza Polony
  Sat, 30 Dec 2006 12:20:02 -0500
  ...I went out and got a vacuum guage and compression tester. However, I can't find the correct specs for vacuum readings ANYWHERE in...
• Re: Help Vacuum Leak Checking
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 5 Oct 1996 23:20:56 -0400
  ...writes: << Is there a home mechanic equivalent to this vacuum leak check? Another vacuum leak technique? A cheap CO meter? >> Carb Cleaner sprayed by...
• Re: Vacuum leak
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott )
  Tue, 16 Feb 2016 12:23:37 -1000
  ...fwiw ...long ago I had 'lack of vacuum assist' on my first vanagon .. like brake booster just was not seeing vacuum. sure enough ....took...
• Re: do we have a vacuum leak?
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Mon, 20 Aug 2001 14:07:21 -0400
  It is original engine as far as I know, ~123K. (I have only had it about two years.) I have replaced all vacuum lines...
• Re: brake system vacuum leak
  Historical mailing list - Harry Yates
  Mon, 27 Feb 1995 10:33:44 +0000
  > there's only so much vacuum volume in your reservoir. You should only > get one or two soft brake applications with the engine stopped...