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• Re: Gaskelet leak and overheating
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Tue, 9 Jul 2024 08:48:46 -0700
  ...That worked and the > engine is still running today powering a friends now water cooled Bay > window. > But, this was some air in the...
• Re: vanagon syndrome plus poor gass economy
  Historical mailing list - Allan Streib
  Tue, 4 Aug 2009 10:56:35 -0400
  Before you buy all that try disconnecting the oxygen sensor (engine off, ignition off while you do this) and see if that improves the...
• Re: Lunch with Bentley
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 21 Nov 1994 14:41:25 -0800
  ...Air cooled engines need a richer mixture than water cooled, but any emissions controlled motor will be run slightly rich anyway, to control NOx...
• Air Cooled to Subaru Conversion.
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Wed, 8 May 2002 23:28:24 -0500
  ...I spent about three hours stripping out the entire engine cooling system from a donor 85 Waser Boxer. I was very pessimistic about this...
• Emissions, engine swaps, full-flow filters, 76 balls
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 8 Mar 1996 18:13:18 -0800
  Someone said the catalyst accounts for .1% HC, someone else said 50% of their engine's actual output. both could be right- .1% HC...
• how about a v-6
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 19 Nov 1995 22:10:06 -0500
  ...I know I know :( So anyway, I bought a rebuilt engine for it from ATK (never again, I'd do it myself) and about...
• Re: 85 Venango; To keep or not to keep...
  Historical mailing list - Ben McCafferty
  Tue, 26 Feb 2002 07:50:02 -0800
  My 90 westy has 215,000, I have just done tranny and engine, and I fully expect her to go another 200K. It's...
• Re: AC and engine temps
  Historical mailing list - Christopher M. Smith
  Fri, 24 Jul 1998 09:17:59 -0700
  ...was replaced > about 500 miles ago!!) Is it dangerous to the engine to run it that hot? I'm very intersted in seeing what...
• overheating weirdness - expansion tank temporarily going empty
  Historical mailing list - Paul Guzyk
  Tue, 10 Aug 2004 08:58:37 -0700
  ...84,000 miles and it appears no major engine work has been done. Drove it from San Francisco to Vancouver last week, every couple...
• Re: [1984 Vanagon (water-cooled) woes.]
  Historical mailing list - john schaper
  Mon, 12 Jul 1999 19:35:43 PDT
  ...i > also think that the seal between the two halves of the engine block needs to > be replaced. i was wondering if anyone might...
• Re: Need Advice Buying a Westy
  Historical mailing list - TBill
  Mon, 1 Sep 1997 21:29:27 -0700
  ...Walsh wrote: > > I'm new to this and know almost nothing about the world of Vanagon > Westys except that after 1985 they are water...
• Re: 84 Vanagon Bursting Coolant Hoses
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Fri, 9 Mar 2007 05:55:17 EST
  ...Hi all, I have an 84 water-cooled gas engine Vanagon that has been blowing coolant hoses one after another. First it was the...
• Re: Ebay:90 Syncro Crew Cab
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Mon, 16 Jan 2006 18:09:30 -0800
  ...http://www.fastforward.ca Email sales@fastforward.ca - Engine Conversions and Accessories for classic water-cooled Volkswagens - Electrical harness fabrication and customization Due to...
• Re: Oil Capacity, 1985 Westy
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
  Thu, 4 Oct 2001 15:08:33 -0700
  I assume you have run the engine after the oil change? If not, you should run it, then wait 5-10 minutes & check again...
• Re: Muffler Parts
  Historical mailing list - Blake C. Thornton
  Fri, 24 May 2002 13:41:46 -0600
  ...so, should we be putting on two gaskets on the water cooled engine too? My guess is that they should get two if the...
• Re: 112HP @ 4800RPM on a stock WBX?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
  Fri, 24 Mar 2000 22:46:19 EST
  ...The compression rule for air-cooled is 7:1 for a street engine that will live past 25 to 50K (sometimes less) The water...
• Re: A serious plea for help.
  Historical mailing list - Douglas
  Tue, 09 Jul 1996 10:58:30 -0700
  ...Why must I drive a front engined, front wheel drive, water > cooled Audi to work every day? Someone out there has to remind me...
• Re: What year vanagon to buy?
  Historical mailing list - SyncroHead
  Fri, 24 Apr 1998 02:37:23 EDT
  ...wasserboxer" engined Vanagons provide, and the air cooleds have even less. >What year did VW change to the wasserboxer water cooled engine? In the...
• Re: Hot Start Problem in H2O cooled
  Historical mailing list - John Klun
  Tue, 4 Sep 2001 13:00:46 -0600
  ...All, > In my 83 Water cooled Vanagon, I have noticed a little problem. If I try to restart the engine after it has been...
• Re: (no subject) Now oil temps
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Fri, 27 Jun 2003 19:08:47 -0700
  ...My Porsche 912e with the type IV engine, 7.6.1 compression ratio runs between 180-200 degrees oil temp. Outside air temp 100...
• Re: Fw: Flashing Coolant light on a diesel van.
  Historical mailing list - stephen de la salle
  Sun, 8 Apr 2001 20:53:58 -0400
  The Coolant temperature gage has an LED in the middle of it ...the early water cooled vans with diesel engine did not have a...
• aircooled intake elbow
  Historical mailing list - Jamie Foust
  Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:05:57 -0500
  ...Foust Architectural Drafter Civil Engineering Consultants TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR YOUR USE: Civil Engineering Consultants, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as "CEC") is providing data...
• Re: [WetWesties] I want, I want, I want...
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Sun, 22 Jan 2006 11:46:34 -0800
  ...http://www.fastforward.ca > Email sales@fastforward.ca > > - Engine Conversions and Accessories for classic water-cooled Volkswagens > - Electrical harness fabrication and customization > > Due to...
• Re: WBX oil pressure with/without cooler
  Historical mailing list - Paul Dunham
  Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:51:41 -0700
  ...the extent that its flow through the components of the water cooled engine block allows. The crank acts as a cooler until it reaches...
• Re: Audi 5000 turbo motor/ WB transmission
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Fri, 27 Nov 1998 19:20:13 -0800
  The motor to get is the 86 and later 2.2L "MC" as it has a water cooled turbo and can be made to...
• Re: Mechanic needed in No. Va./DC Metro Area
  Historical mailing list - EMZ
  Fri, 4 Apr 2003 22:48:22 -0500
  ...I now have to replace the engine, so its time to bite the bullet, and replace the entire thing. BTW these repairs only last...
• Re: Water cooled AT 1980?
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sun, 26 Feb 2006 07:59:15 -0800
  ...A photo of the engine compartment would answer a lot of questions. Mark Roger Van Till wrote: > I didn't think they got A...
• Re: bashing was: vanagon engine conversions
  Historical mailing list - Vdub Guy
  Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:53:45 +0000
  ...enthusiast, tho she doesn't like the Vanagon because it's water cooled. I won't even let my wife drive the Vanagon (not...
• Re: Seeking Wisdom on Buying a Westy
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Fri, 7 Feb 2003 07:28:52 -0600
  ...wondering whether it is better to get a > water-cooled or an air-cooled engine. i owned a 1970 > poptop some years back and...
• Re: converting an 81 AC Vanagon to water cooled
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Sat, 8 Dec 2007 11:21:48 -0800
  ...False of course, > > > since VW started building > > > diesel engine models in late 81 and these are > > > watercooled. > > > > > > Mark > > > > > > > > > neil N wrote: > > > > Hey Robert. > > > > Thanks...
• Re: Help in salt lake
  Historical mailing list - David Boan
  Tue, 19 Mar 2019 23:39:22 +0000
  ...Smoke came from the ignition and the engine quit. Any advice where to tow to? Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/ghei36>
• Re: Replacement fuel tank question
  Historical mailing list - Michael
  Sun, 20 Jul 2014 20:42:28 -0400
  ...Replacement fuel tank question >> >> All, >> >> Does anyone make a replacement fuel tank for the water-cooled Vanagon w/o >> the cavities/moulded passages for...
• Re: 'Fast' Forward?
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Sun, 2 Apr 2006 20:54:26 -0700
  ...http://www.fastforward.ca Email sales@fastforward.ca - Engine Conversions and Accessories for classic water-cooled Volkswagens - Electrical harness fabrication and customization Due to...
• What is the transformer under my rear seat for?
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Mon, 7 Aug 2006 12:55:52 -0700
  ...Quesnel BC Canada Internet http://www.fastforward.ca Email sales@fastforward.ca - Classic water cooled Volkswagen engine conversions - Electrical harness fabrication and customization Due...
• 1991 Westfalia for sale. $18000 CDN
  Historical mailing list - Marek Czulnowski
  Tue, 5 Dec 2006 19:58:28 -0500
  ...Water cooled 2.1 liter 4 cylinder engine with only 106,000km. It needs only 12-13 liters per 100km of fuel on highway...
• Age of listees?
  Historical mailing list - Tom Stone
  Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:51:45 EST
  ...Had to rebuild the engine in the '67 using a Chilton for the pictures and the then new Idiot book for the procedures. Ran...
• Re: I heard a 'nasty' rumor!
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Mon, 04 Mar 96 07:38:46 CST
  ...vw introduced the golf in 1976 and it took them until 1983 to put a water-cooled engine in the bus and since it...
• Re: now: John Muir Publications was: Death Valley
  Historical mailing list - Leslie H Schwartz
  Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:07:39 -0800
  ...My brother rebuilt the engine...and I used it for a few more years until an engine fire finally put me out of my...
• Re: Nervous about heads
  Historical mailing list - Don Kane
  Wed, 8 Jan 1997 09:49:44 -0800
  ...water-cooled 1.9 and 2.1 engines. >Is it inevitable? > >My 84 GL has done 183,000 miles but a recon engine was...
• '84 Westy air-cooled
  Historical mailing list - Ron Fish
  Tue, 5 Mar 1996 10:25:53 -0500 (EST)
  ...The water-cooled did a number on itself. I'm new to VWs, but I think I *may* be learning fast that there are...
• Re: HELP! Which Westy to buy for engine swap?
  Historical mailing list - Tom Carrington
  Mon, 20 Jul 1998 11:38:58 -0400
  ...If you are installing a Ford or other engine, then I would get any wasserboxer Vanagon. > > 2.. Has anyone done a swap w/ an...
• Re: Seeking Wisdom on Buying a Westy
  Historical mailing list - sleepingmonkey1
  Fri, 7 Feb 2003 22:26:10 -0500
  ...wondering whether it is better to get a > water-cooled or an air-cooled engine. i owned a 1970 > poptop some years back and...
• Re: What does my battery light mean?
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:36:37 -0500
  ...the > > engine", but that sounds pretty typical of every VW > > I've ever owned. Though my experience is limited to > > water-cooled models in...
• Re: Looking for a project?
  Historical mailing list - J Stewart
  Wed, 9 Mar 2016 18:10:02 +0000
  ...Just say'in! > John > On Mar 9, 2016 11:20, "Stuart MacMillan" <stuartmacm@gmail.com> wrote: > > All you need is a water cooled Vanagon...
• Fwd: Re: Columbus OH Vans FS
  Historical mailing list - Bob O'Shaughnessy
  Tue, 14 Oct 1997 12:58:54 -0500
  ...to columbus vans fs I realized my life long dream of owning a westy camper.Problem,I bought a water cooled for $5500.00...
• Re: Adding windshield fluid? Where?
  Historical mailing list - John Lauterbach
  Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:57:05 -0500
  ...http://www.fastforward.ca > Email sales@fastforward.ca > > - Engine Conversions and Accessories for classic water-cooled Volkswagens > - Electrical harness fabrication and customization > > -----Original Message...
• Re: WBX motor rather than ....
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Fri, 1 Aug 2008 17:40:44 -0700
  ...I wonder which German company copied which? When Porsche changed to > water cooled they built a motor kinda like VWs..in that it's...
• Re: Engine Conversions
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mari
  Tue, 4 Mar 2008 04:16:45 -0800
  ...vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com All of this talk about engine conversion options - Tiico, Jetta engines, inline 4's, Subaru engines - yet no one ever...
• The real story about the invention of the WBX? - Anybody want the facts?
  Historical mailing list - frankgrun
  Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:29:28 -0800
  ...It conjures up intriguing images of the inside story, tense discussions in the VW boardroom, a few inner sanctum conspiracies among the engineering staff...
• Re: Subject: Boston Bob Engine
  Historical mailing list - Tolga Morawski
  Wed, 28 Apr 2004 19:47:03 -0400
  ...I also supply the ice rinks with air and water >cooled zamboni engines for the last 15 years. I have learned a lot from...
• Query on 80 Vanagon price
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 16 Sep 1995 17:43:59 -0700
  ...I haven't decided to sell it yet, but I keep test driving water-cooled ones and I'm starting to get used to...
• Re: different exhaust Q? studs or bolts?
  Historical mailing list - Ken Lewis
  Tue, 3 Mar 1998 12:49:50 EST
  ...My relatively new to me 83.5 >Westy had a >rebuilt water cooled engine that was "installed" by a DPOs "mechanic." > >On my bus...
• Re: Dash coming out. Any prev. maint tips?
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:45:47 -0800
  ...If you go water-cooled, you'll need a heater, period. On 1/25/07, neil <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all. > > Dash is...
• '84 GL
  Historical mailing list - MICHAEL D LINCICOME
  Fri, 26 Jan 2001 08:41:06 -0500
  ...I've worked on the VW air cooled engines for almost 20 years now but I'm new to the water cooled Wasserboxer engine...
• Mystery Parts in 83 Westy
  Historical mailing list - Craig Oda - Personal email
  Wed, 20 Mar 2002 08:40:26 -0800
  I recently bought an 1983 water-cooled Westy 3rd hand. There are a number of parts that I'm wondering about. Right now, now...
• Re: cold start problem - 89 GL
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:39:41 -0500
  ...When I crank the engine the rpms go up and then > quickly fall to below 1000 and the engine will not turn over. > However...
• SA's AUDI 5 Cyl. thoughts
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 19 Nov 1996 20:22:40 +0200
  ...Because the different bellhousing is well known, I like to ask for the engine support and give them some information about my almost finished...
• Re: [WetWesties] The Vanagon cooling system.. it's counterintuitive.. (long post)
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott )
  Sun, 6 Sep 2015 19:09:29 -1000
  ...oppossed 4 cylinder aluminum rear mounted engine .. that starts with the very very first VW Buses ...1954 or about there .. and they evolved the...
• Re: Haynes Manual 1982-1990
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Tue, 5 Oct 2004 15:08:50 -0500
  ...Haynes manual for the 1.9L and 2.1L engine vanagons prioced at $24.95 part number HAY3452. plus shipping. No vested interest here...
• Re: water in my exhaust..
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 12 Jun 1997 09:35:10 -0600
  ...burning (from an earlier message), but if I had a water-cooled engine I would have it looked at. ---------- > From: Tony Moore <tony@moorelab...