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• Re: rebuilding your own heads
  Historical mailing list - ROBERT DONALDS
  Mon, 29 Dec 2003 15:28:53 -0500
  ...Next I install a much harder valve seats like the ones I use in the propane engines and my big valve heads because I...
• heater leak?
  Historical mailing list - Carol Sussman
  Tue, 29 Jun 1999 10:57:13 EDT
  The heat exchanger under the rear bench seat in my '89 Westfalia emits heat even eith the valve turned off. Is this normal or...
• RE: lead & valves
  Historical mailing list - Will Wood
  Sat, 23 Nov 1996 00:11:12 -0700
  ...Lead lubricates and quiets the valves where the valve contacts the seat. = The issue is when using leaded gas, the lubrication will somewhat = buffer...
• New AMC heads - all the same?
  Historical mailing list - MissVeeDub
  Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:57:19 -0700
  ...http://busdepot.com/view.jsp?model=42&category=15&group=9&prodgroup=61 doesnt say anything about different valves/seats any ideas? BTW update...
• Re: Meltdown temp?
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:46:52 -0500
  ...The valve seats often don't drop at high temp... they drop when the engine cools down and the seats shrink. When my bus...
• Re: AMC heads (part 2)
  Historical mailing list - Steve Williams
  Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:46:49 -0700
  ...The final test of the proper seat was to >> remove the valve, wash of all grit, re-insert the valve in to the >> valve...
• Re: 82 won't start when hot
  Historical mailing list - Higginbotham, David A.
  Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:42:25 -0400
  ...Eventually the seat will drop out and hang under a valve, causing a piston to hit the valve and get nicked. This doesn't...
• =?US-ASCII?Q?Re:_Recent_Trip_-_FWIW?=
  Historical mailing list - Warren Lail
  Wed, 23 Mar 2005 08:07:08 -0600
  Jbrush wrote: >>If I could get past the phobia of the dropped valve seat that has been threatened many times here, I would certainly...
• Re: 2.1 WBX Push Rods. Make Sure They're Seated! Was: 2.1 wbx rocker, pushrods
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Mon, 22 May 2017 18:43:55 -0700
  ...seated properly. Then do a proper valve adjustment. And you will know they > are as they should be. One point is that the valve...
• Re: Front heater never shuts off
  Historical mailing list - Richard Koerner
  Sat, 25 May 2024 17:40:16 +0000
  ...I used to stop, run back to rear seat, shut off valve; electric motorized valve works way easier, makes me feel like a Rocket...
• Re: (compression problems)
  Historical mailing list - Ian Cameron
  Wed, 6 Jan 1999 14:35:34 -0800
  ...failure for valves, particularly exhaust valves is burning. >A valve burns when it doesn't spend enough time on the seat, or just >because...
• Re: rebuilding your own heads
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Mon, 29 Dec 2003 10:34:08 -0600
  ...put on the face of the valve and seat to ensure a very close seal when the valve is closed. Have this hand lapped...
• Re: Hydraulic Valve Lifters
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 22 Mar 1996 01:02:56 -0500
  ...this) - that when I adjusted the valves as per >instructions, that the valve was lifted from its seat - no compression on >cylinder 1. No...
• Re: Replacing Fuel Valve Cable
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 20 Jul 1995 13:44:51 -0400
  ...pull cable located in >front of the seat to operate the reserve fuel valve. This valve >is a work around for not having a...
• Cracks in cylinder heads
  Historical mailing list - Walter E. Stephens
  Wed, 8 Jul 1998 16:57:52 -0700
  ...I have have found a crack that runs from the intake valve seat to the exhaust valve seat, in narrow portion. All four cylinders...
• Rear bench seat heater, joint leaks.
  Historical mailing list - VWNut Hawk
  Sun, 3 Aug 2003 08:21:45 -0500
  The joint next to the heater right after the valve leaks if you move the hose at all. (Don't move the hose, I...
• FS- AFM, idle control unit, stabilizer, throttle valve, computer
  Historical mailing list - Road Camper
  Tue, 3 Apr 2001 10:33:24 -0700
  ...Stuff for sale- Idle stabilizer, idle control unit alternator, AFM Full aircleaner (box snorkel etc.) Throttle valve, computer under the seat. Basically if it...
• head temps gauges and seats falling out
  Historical mailing list - Bob Donalds
  Sun, 5 Dec 1999 14:26:04 -0500
  Samuel Chimento wrote: > > Question?? > > Since the valve seats drop out by over heating the air cooled engines in the > Vanagons then > what heat gauge...
• Re: rebuilding your own heads
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Mon, 29 Dec 2003 08:43:51 -0600
  ...If the seats and valves are good, then you will know how everything must go back. If they need replacing, knowing which seats and...
• Re: 82 won't start when hot
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Mon, 26 Sep 2005 14:19:07 -0500
  ...Eventually the seat will drop out and hang under a valve, causing a piston to hit the valve and get nicked. This doesn't...
• Re: Rear Seat Heater Core Control Valve needed
  Historical mailing list - Greg S
  Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:22:52 -0400
  ...just need the valve. thanksI can get a new valve for 70$C and will do that if I cant find a used one...
• Re: Replacing Fuel Valve Cable
  Historical mailing list - Larry Montgomery
  Thu, 20 Jul 1995 21:27:46 -0700 (PDT)
  ...pull cable located in front > of the seat to operate the reserve fuel valve. This valve is a work > around for not having a...
• Re: Oil pressure light and buzzer
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:01:21 -0400
  At 09:49 AM 8/21/2012, Gabriel Hourtouat wrote: >(...caused by a pressure relief valve that didn't seat properly when >coming off...
• Re: Stock Seats & Lumbar Support
  Historical mailing list - Chris brown
  Mon, 11 Mar 2002 09:24:55 EST
  ...a single valve model with a single, pleated air chamber and one with three seperate chambers, each with their own release valve, for "optimizing...
• Re: Erosion between valves
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:40:23 -0500
  ...Next to the valves. Between the valves, cutting under the valve seat. Only three cylinders had it. The heads had to be junked. Deep...
• Re: Exhaust valves
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Tue, 7 Mar 2006 23:03:25 -0800
  ...Grind the seats and lap the valves to match; it provides the most gas-tight fit that way. On 3/7/06, pronks <john...
• Re: Rebuild Question...
  Historical mailing list - GMBulley
  Thu, 12 Mar 1998 15:44:53 EST
  ...AOL.COM writes: << As I am pulling out the valves one of the valve seats well out like a loose ring on a skinny...
• H2O Head Cracks
  Historical mailing list - John Sealy
  Thu, 27 Feb 1997 17:58:12 -0800
  ...The mechanic says when the crack gets worse, and the valve seat drops, the piston crunches the seat and you buy a new engine...
• Re: how does this work?
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:16:27 -0800
  ...side seats in the center of the big side of the valve and the black thing sits on top of the valve spring? Is...
• Re: nasty AMC exhaust valve, photos here
  Historical mailing list - Doug Noganav
  Sun, 24 May 2009 10:01:36 -0700
  ...of the valve hitting the seat? The greatest load on the valve head is at the highest rpm before the valve floats? ----- Original Message...
• Forensic Files: overheating cured on 2.1
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Sun, 27 Mar 2011 12:50:04 -0500
  ...I pulled up the rear seat to its raised position and saw coolant dripping from the heater valve. Pulling the seat to get the...
• Re: Does the WBX suck valves?
  Historical mailing list - Zeitgeist
  Sun, 9 Sep 2012 12:30:48 -0700
  ...I can't say as I've ever seen one drop a valve or seat. I think it would be pretty nifty to put...
• Re: Recent Trip - FWIW
  Historical mailing list - Anonymous Digest
  Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:17:42 -0700
  >>>If I could get past the phobia of the dropped valve seat that has been >threatened many times here, I would certainly sleep better...
• Re: Replacing Fuel Valve Cable
  Historical mailing list
  20 Jul 95 15:44:00 +1700
  >> On busses to about 63 or so, there was a pull cable located in front >> of the seat to operate the reserve fuel valve...
• Worst of all Vanagon Jobs
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sun, 3 Mar 2013 13:40:45 -0800
  ...heater core if the valve is kept at least partially open at all times. , all year round. re rear seat .. inconveniently VW made the...
• Re: rebuild your EGR valve?
  Historical mailing list - Tom Young
  Tue, 1 Feb 2005 21:41:38 -0800
  ...Too, I think the 2 seats inside the valve that shut off exhaust flow into the air distribution chamber wear and pit over time...
• Re: AMC heads (part 2)
  Historical mailing list - Joseph Fortino
  Wed, 1 Nov 2006 05:37:36 -0800
  ...grinding the valves and seats. Heat >transfer is the key to long-lasting heads, and the grind and rotation >of the valves are the...
• Re: New AMC heads - all the same?
  Historical mailing list - ROBERT DONALDS
  Sat, 29 Apr 2006 08:35:01 -0400
  ...can > get - or does the BusDepot one come with better > valves/valve seats? > the busdepot heads: > http://busdepot.com/view.jsp?model=42&category...
• Replacing Fuel Valve Cable
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 19 Jul 1995 21:41:28 -0700 (PDT)
  ...seat to operate the reserve fuel valve. This valve is a work around for not having a gas tank. The way the valve works...
• Re: Erosion between valves
  Historical mailing list - HotelWestfalia
  Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:23:26 -0800
  ...Next > to the valves. Between the valves, cutting under the valve seat. Only > three cylinders had it. The heads had to be junked. Deep...
• Re: compression
  Historical mailing list - Patrick Dooley
  Sun, 22 Mar 1998 22:24:33 -0500
  ...A slightly warped valve will kill your compression. If you pull the heads, be sure to lap the valves and check the valve/seat...
• Re: Engine Replacement Options
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:37:12 -0500
  ...That's not how it works...... >> >>> To me, if a valve is seating well and sealing well, it means that the >>> guide must be...
• Re: Help!, Something funny with Valve adjustment
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Strickrott
  Wed, 6 Nov 2002 23:31:03 -0500
  ...This event means you need to readjust > the valves again. > It often takes ten minutes for the lifters and valve train to quieten > after...
• Re: head temps gauges and seats falling out
  Historical mailing list - Pabst Michael
  Mon, 6 Dec 1999 10:03:33 +0100
  ...head temps gauges and seats falling out Samuel Chimento wrote: > > Question?? > > Since the valve seats drop out by over heating the air cooled engines...
• rear heater control valve?
  Historical mailing list - jesse johnson
  Mon, 11 Oct 2004 20:15:23 -0400
  Hey All, Do the rear heater control valves go bad as far as leaking? or is it always the seal that goes bad? going...
• Re: Westy RV sink water supply system
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 30 May 1996 17:25:36 -0400
  ...This clearly precludes the use of many common valve >designs. But most good gate valves I've seen are too ugly. This must >work...
• Re: [vanagon] Re: Common problems with Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - John Tullier
  Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:32:50 -0800
  ...heh John --- John Tullier <elefntkpr@YAHOO.COM> wrote: > For those of us with air cooled power plants, there > is > the valve seat issue. Personally...
• Re: heater leak?
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Tue, 29 Jun 1999 12:12:34 -0300
  ...Carol wrote: > The heat exchanger under the rear bench seat in my '89 Westfalia emits > heat even eith the valve turned off. Is this...
• Erosion between valves
  Historical mailing list - HotelWestfalia
  Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:55:34 -0800
  ...Next to the valves. Between the valves, cutting under the valve seat. Only three cylinders had it. The heads had to be junked. Deep...
• Re: Leaky Valve? 85 1.9L Waterboxer
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 31 Jan 2015 09:58:34 -0500
  ...Often when heads are rebuilt the seats and/or valves get cut and the springs are not shimmed to match so low seat pressure...
• Re: Air cooled vanagon
  Historical mailing list - David Johnson
  Thu, 6 Jul 2006 21:24:23 -0600
  ...If you are really, really lucky, it is just a valve seat that has come undone, and can be repaired. But for the amount...
• Re: Cause of broken valve?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 2 Aug 2003 13:40:26 -0400
  It could be either a broken valve or a collapsed/sunken valve seat. If the valve broke and the head fell off, you have...
• Re: Forensic Files: overheating cured on 2.1
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:51:31 -0400
  ...pulled up the rear seat to its raised position and saw coolant > dripping > from the heater valve. Pulling the seat to get the heater...
• Re: Rear Seat Heater Core Control Valve needed
  Historical mailing list - Allan Streib
  Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:14:44 -0400
  ...sorkilmo@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > Hi All, > I took apart my rear seat heater to replace the leaking core and this is > what I found...
• Re: High Idle Solved!
  Historical mailing list - Geza Polony
  Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:54:24 -0400
  ...I found that even after replacing my throttle cable, the butterfly valve didn't quite seat right, leading to high idle. A telltale sign...
• '80 No Compression #3 Update
  Historical mailing list - CARVER, JEFFREY D
  Mon, 10 Nov 1997 05:40:12 -0800
  ...Intake valve #3, valve seat is mashed INTO the head. I guess it makes up for the valve seat that worked itself OUT last...
• Re: Hot Foot Mods -- what's the best?
  Historical mailing list - mdrillock
  Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:48:59 -0700
  ...The stock valve can be opened or closed at will from the front seats while under way. Mark Michael Diehr wrote: > Re: hot-foot...
• Re: First timer Valve job
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Fri, 8 Oct 2004 08:14:14 -0500
  ...A three cut is best for valves so you'll be needing three stones to cut the seats but you can get by with...
• Re: driving w/ bad valve,+ Death in the Valley for the engine
  Historical mailing list - -------------
  Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:46:05 -0500
  ...I got a hold of an engine that dropped a valve seat. This in turn broke the valve off. The valve in turn got...
• Valve adjustment
  Historical mailing list - Shortlidge D Joel
  Sun, 19 Dec 1999 21:25:39 -0500
  What is the easiest way to adjust the valves of the wasser leaker? What should I do if they still will not seat right...