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• Re: FI to carb
  Historical mailing list - JS Davis
  Sun, 12 Apr 1998 17:42:28 -0500
  ...Anyone make an aftermarket intake manifold(s) so I can put carbs on my 91 Vanagon? PLEASE>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> -----Original Message----- From: JS Davis <ossian99@EMAIL...
• Re: Sing: All I want for Christmas is my Westy back!!
  Historical mailing list - Robert Mendonca
  Sun, 23 Dec 2001 09:36:15 -0800
  ...Turned out to be the air filter assembly connecting to the carburetor intake unit not being connected properly and it would suck in additional...
• Re: WIN a wolfsburg vanagon for just 10 dollars!! RAFFLE!
  Historical mailing list - Ben T
  Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:04:03 EDT
  ...you'll need a syncro snorkle air intake to make the ocean passage thru the Atlantic.. ..i hear BenT would gladly give you the...
• Re: what is this wire...?
  Historical mailing list - Mike S
  Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:03:57 -0500
  ...It leads to a plug or sensor that is below the >intake >manifold, behind the throttle body. It's for engine diagnostics. Your's...
• Re: transplant a 2.1 into an 84? worth it?
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Tue, 13 May 2008 14:43:39 -0400
  ...One is to use your 1.9 throttle body, AFM, and air filter but with a 2.1 plenum and intake runners. The reason...
• Re: '82 diesel 1.8 conversion
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:05:21 -0700
  ...There's porting an polishing the intake man, bigger injectors, cam timing and cam, turbo. Then you have the fuel injection side. If you...
• Re: [VW gas I4 Conversions] AFM ? (as related to the air filter housing)
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sat, 11 Dec 2010 13:24:29 -0800
  ...if you don't mind intake roar ....sure, use your sock type filter. Those don't filter for beans in real dust though, as...
• Re: 2.1L Oil pressure problem: Rods: SYMPTOM NOT CAUSE:UNBALANCED crank the ...
  Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
  Mon, 12 Feb 2001 08:09:45 EST
  ...The WBX is already, with just with a smaller cam and reduced intake with the use of a center airbox and air runners. Simply...
• Re: My turn with the O2 sensor issue.
  Historical mailing list - Chris S.
  Mon, 2 Jan 2012 15:16:16 -0500
  ...This would have me looking for exhaust leaks ahead of the O2 sensor, or even intake leak after AFM. Why? Your MPG is down...
• Re: unknown switch?
  Historical mailing list - Laurence Smith
  Sun, 5 Jan 2003 15:48:06 -0500
  ...The hose with switch is used to recirculate > crankcase fumes back to the intake and combustion chambers. > What does this item do?? > Forgive my...
• Re: Bad intake valve @ 30,000 miles????
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:20:09 -0500
  ...On the low cylinder only I heard obvious >leakage at the intake manifold. So the leak is through the intake valve. I >tried to...
• Re: Video: TVS Test Light Driving. Discovered Whistle Sound? What is it?
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:24:00 -0700
  Thanks Ken and ORR ~ DeanB Will check the intake runners. I had them off for rehab and paint. I applied anti seize to long...
• Re: [VW gas I4 Conversions] Extra Oil cooler?
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Fri, 17 Jun 2011 07:42:59 -0400
  ...I installed a small acrylic air dam at the rear edge of the pillar air intake to increase air pressure over the intake and...
• Re: part number
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Wed, 26 Jul 2000 15:00:42 -0700
  ...wbx engines so I think this is your air intake hose. > > This air intake is available from several vendors, including, I believe, Bus > Depot...
• Re: yet another engine choice - VW "twincharger"
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Wed, 28 Sep 2005 07:58:29 -0500
  ...fan in the intake gas flow, so that when engine RPM is increased, exhaust flow is increased, and therefore intake flow is increased and...
• Finally! Totoro Lives!
  Historical mailing list - Brendan Slevin
  Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:58:21 -0700
  ...No good idle, Oct 13 Remove intake tubes, replace gaskets/injector seals. Repair intake boot. Starts up and purrs! Woo hoo! Tomorrow will be...
• Manifold measuring - is this right?
  Historical mailing list - Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\" Elliott
  Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:15:29 -0700
  Hi, I'm looking for leaks in the intake manifold. Bentley's doesn't give a procedure for checking intake manifold vacuum so I...
• Re: Oil dipstick pushed out of the tube
  Historical mailing list - Allan Streib
  Sat, 4 Oct 2008 23:34:51 -0400
  This afternoon I removed the rubber tubing between the breather tower and the intake. It seemed a little soft, but I didn't have...
• Re: resealing heads - found missing metal on top of valves
  Historical mailing list - John C...
  Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:24:09 +0000
  ...pdooley <psdooley@VERIZON.NET> > Are you talking about the pitting on the intake valve faces? > The material is most likely inferior. > > Question- did you...
• Extra(?) holes in rear engine tin
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 21 Nov 1995 17:52:11 -0800
  I belive one of those extra holes is for the little extra warm-air-pipe that blows warm air on the carb and intake...
• FS: '82 Vanagon, burned engine
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 15 Feb 1997 03:06:38 -0500 (EST)
  ...One air intake vent is also melted. The owner is asking $550. If interested, call (309) 728-2682. Tom '77 bus '85 Westie '87...
• Re: Oil in intake air distributor (2.1L)
  Historical mailing list - JLDilworth
  Sat, 6 Dec 1997 16:17:40 EST
  Ken Lewis, thanks for the idea about looking for oil in the rubber boot that connects the throttle body and the air flow sensor...
• Re: Tornado Air Management System
  Historical mailing list - SyncroHead
  Mon, 8 Dec 1997 03:13:50 EST
  ...It's a gadget that sits in the intake air tube and is supposed to "swirl" the air around for more power, better milage...
• Re: Air intake "scoops"
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 16 Dec 1999 10:33:04 EST
  Thanks for all of the buzz about the air scoops but at this point it is moot because I have sold the set I...
• FS: Vanagon Parts
  Historical mailing list - J. Harvey
  Sun, 21 Mar 2004 22:19:09 -0800
  ...1.9L WBX distributor, injectors, fuel rails, air intake runners. http://tinyurl.com/yqvzz -John '85 Silver Sunroof '91 GTi 2.0 8v '76...
• Re: fuel line kits -NAPA is junk
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:01:20 EST
  ...i put some NAPA fuel line from the fuel pump to intake tube in my dad's chevy caprice, and 6 months later it...
• name that model year
  Historical mailing list - Daniel Stevens
  Thu, 26 May 2005 15:14:35 -0400
  ...it has the early 1980 metal rear intake louvers. but the front lower grill doesn't look 'hacked' but looks like the metal is...
• Re: Cant accelerate
  Historical mailing list - --------
  Mon, 8 Oct 2007 10:16:13 -0400
  ...down and you can here it popping back thru the air intake. > >What should I be checking to fix this? > >Ed > > >--------------------------------- >Catch up on...
• Re: info needed on crancase ventilation systems (mostly I4)
  Historical mailing list - Sam Payne
  Thu, 3 Dec 2009 02:50:26 -0500
  ...I would prefer to use the VW system, actually, because it's simpler for my intake plumbing, and the VW pcv valve will help...
• Re: 74 valve clearance?
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 8 Jun 95 12:24:33 PDT
  ...Good idea to go looser than tighter. >the problem is that my sticker on my engine says >.008 for exhaust and .006 for intake...
• Re: Custom Scoop Update - Should you care!
  Historical mailing list - Clive Smith
  Fri, 23 Aug 2002 02:25:41 +0100
  >Some guy on the Internet put a ram air intake behind the grille of >his Geo Storm and found that if he pushed in...
• Re: Why plug the dash air intake screen?
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Wed, 6 Aug 2008 08:14:30 -0700
  ...Is this > something to do with non-functioning vents? Cold air in winter? Bees/ > Insects getting in? The cloth in the parts van intake...
• Bent Valve Part II
  Historical mailing list - James Wagner
  Sun, 9 Aug 1998 18:30:59 -0400
  Thanks to those who sent me advice on the first part of my stuck intake valve episode. Now I've removed the head and...
• MAF was Re: Update on AFM testing procedure
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sat, 5 Jul 2014 16:36:42 -0400
  ...9 (and OBD2 as >well), there is an intake air sensor mounted post MAF in intake >plenum. You've actually had your hands on...
• Re: discolored injector
  Historical mailing list - Benny boy
  Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:58:11 -0400
  ...The reason is simply heat! With time, all those "fuel flooding" and back fire cause this, heat gos back into the intake plenum. Intake...
• Speaking of Animals in yer Bus!
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 14 Sep 95 13:07:05 EDT
  ...least an old wasp's nest in my rear right air intake....big one too. just noticed it yesterday. guess they came there when...
• Weber carbs for VW bus (fwd)
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Olson
  Wed, 30 Oct 1996 21:59:55 -0800 (PST)
  ...Weber carbs for VW bus I have a pair of Weber 34 ICT carburators for sale, with linkage and intake manifolds for Volkswagen buses...
• Re: I love my Audi 2.0L engine AND now all I need is someone to install it
  Historical mailing list - Robert A. Alexander
  Wed, 26 Aug 1998 09:40:01 -0400
  ...like mine - Blown, alcohol-burning, 454 sitting midship with the air intake on the roof. If I can find it, I'll post some...
• run away deisels
  Historical mailing list - Jonc
  Thu, 7 Sep 2000 23:29:19 -0400
  ...stopped by stalling the engine or jamming a rag into the intake air... in expensive marine diesel installations there is often an air shut...
• Re: Cooking the Roll----
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 1 Mar 2002 02:21:18 EST
  ...drove--- > > no but once i put some aluminum foil over the intake manifold of my Audi turbo and grilled a cheese sandwich and baked...
• Vanagon carbs FS - fit others?
  Historical mailing list - David Wilhite
  Mon, 29 Jul 2002 03:41:17 -0700
  ...Linkage is included along with the intakes. Appeared to be original equipment, since I had no evidence of a computer/fuel injection. p.s...
• rear air flow vs. scoops
  Historical mailing list - Bill N
  Thu, 22 Aug 2002 11:10:38 -0700
  ...Is it certain that they are intake vents? Which direction is the air supposed to be flowing? If out, scoops would be trying to...
• LVC - Beetle Mod or does this guy have too much time on his hands??
  Historical mailing list - Richard Golen
  Thu, 24 Aug 2006 11:36:21 -0400
  ...engine and popping out the sliding windows and a scoop for intake, and removing the rear hatch for the exhaust! ><http://www.ronpatrickstuff.com...
• VAnaoong and waterboxer engine - was : Exhaust Design - caution longish
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:48:25 -0800
  ...swooping' cast >> > aluminum intake runners.........one nice casting. >> > They squeazed in a little more intake runner length by curving the >> intake >> > runners up some...
• Re: Why??? Many Dometic Pics and Tips
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Fri, 27 Feb 2015 08:32:58 -0800
  ...It should show details on intake-exhaust pipes etc. Some of this info should apply to the 182B. On 2/27/15, Dennis Haynes...
• Re: Audi 5cyl into Vanagon UPDATE
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Fri, 6 Nov 1998 22:14:44 -0800
  ...At 10:36 11/6/98 -0500, David Bogle / Architecture wrote: >JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote: > >> .... >> they will slightly lower the eng, and modify intake...
• Re: Water cooled H fitting. and Intake rubber
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Sat, 24 Nov 2001 11:53:52 -0600
  I also found part # 025.129.967 A, its the intake boot that goes between the AFM and the Throttle body. I'm going...
• project 2: fuel lines done, now on to fan
  Historical mailing list - Brian W.
  Sat, 26 Aug 2006 14:13:10 -0700
  Well the fuel lines project (first project for newbie) went well, aside from needing to pull out part of the intake to get at...
• Re: Removing stuck O2 sensor
  Historical mailing list - James
  Tue, 3 Feb 2015 22:21:05 -0500
  ...Seafoam or other intake valve cleaners will make a big difference in a hurry. VW engines are infamous for carboned intake valves - in the...
• Re: Emissions: Vacuum Leak ID'd 82 aircooled westy
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:39:28 -0700
  ...I've found up to a dozen tiny air leaks between throttle plate and intake ports on vanagon engines. though this one leak may...
• a/c drain
  Historical mailing list - Derek Drew
  Thu, 22 Apr 2021 14:01:19 -0400
  ...intake system will suck water up into the little drain valve hole and this could harm your engine.<br><br> Adding an air intake...
• Re: 2.1 idle adjustment
  Historical mailing list - Tim Demarest
  Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:35:49 -0400
  ...The air intake boot can crack along the seam on the >back side, so be sure to check there first;) > >C.B.
• Re: So thar I was (Engine wouldn't start)
  Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
  Wed, 5 Dec 2007 07:23:32 -0800
  ...as a fine mist, blasted in and down the >> air intake. >> The intake comes out right next to the coil, with nothing actually >> stopping...
• Re: Suburban Type Furnace Install;
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:44:43 -0700
  ...CO2 sensors? Photo shows what appear to be external exhaust, possibly intake, on outside of the van. I shouldn't think that air quality...
• Re: Fuel Filter "Update" Results
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:45:15 -0400
  At 02:08 PM 6/27/2009, neil N wrote: >at higher engine RPM's, (intake) manifold absolute pressure rises, >more vacuum applied to...
• Requested suggestions - cleaning crud (carbon deposits) from valves / ports in cylinder head
  Historical mailing list - Herr Wibo Fichten
  Mon, 29 Mar 2004 23:47:41 -0400
  ...Lots of brownish carbon on exhaust valves / ports and some black creosote type stuff on the very botom flange part of the intake valves...
• Re: R-12 alternatives
  Historical mailing list - Tim Schneider
  Wed, 21 Apr 2004 15:28:06 -0700
  ** 12:36 PM 4/21/2004,Robert Campbell <rcampbell-vanagon6706@MAILBLOCKS.COM> wrote: ** >> Also, I severely restricted the flow of the outside-air intake...
• Re: cutting out bottom of airbox to increase air intake and add HP
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Tue, 23 Dec 2003 10:08:51 -0500
  On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote: > i was thinking of cutting a section out of the bottom of the stock airbox...
• Re: Dometic mystery ....more clues!
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:01:34 -0700
  ...AND/OR it's like the exhaust coming out gathers near intake > tube opening, and prevents oxygen from getting in. I can't explain...
• Re: Do you know that your vanagon air duct may be clogged?
  Historical mailing list - Edward Maglott
  Tue, 28 Oct 2014 16:24:05 -0400
  ...Visually it looks like air would ram into those intakes on the upper sides and cause high pressure and airflow in the plenums but...