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• Re: Jetta fires and Mexico specials
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Mon, 19 May 2008 16:46:37 -0700
  ...base [ H ] > Engine: Petrol [ D ] > Restraint: Active w/ dual air bags [ 8 ] > Model: Golf Mk 3 / Vento [ 1H ] > Year: 1996 [ T ] > Assembly Plant: Puebla...
• Re: WAS: Starter Motor... Failure: NOW: 50 Circuit Weirdness. ECU Related?
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:58:00 -0800
  ...On the forward edge of the engine compartment double relay box is a 2 wire connector. One of the 2 wires is that starter...
• Re: front brake job -how to do a bad job
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:22:20 -0700
  ...vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines >> >> > > -- > Neil n > > 65 kb image Myford Ready For Assembly http://tinyurl.com/64sx4rp > > '88 Slate Blue...
• Re: General engine bolt/nut sizes
  Historical mailing list - Joe Luther
  Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:16:50 -0500
  ...It is really unlikely that it will be good just based on re-assembly. The cases on these engines twist and turn and go...
• Re: Ring and pinion - 1991 Carat
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Fri, 18 Nov 2022 13:22:11 -0600
  ...This > assembly is stout except for when run without oil, oversize engines and > tires are used, or overheated by excessive high-speed driving. It...
• Re: Was fuel leak? Now: appropriate route for fuel lines
  Historical mailing list - T Collins
  Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:31:50 -0500
  ...gmail.com> wrote: > > > Niel i love to see picture of your engine bay.... I really dont like > running > > my lines under the runners. > > > > Thanks...
• Re: Should I opt for ALL new water lines?
  Historical mailing list - Tom L. Salicos
  Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:37:57 -0800
  ...Should I opt for ALL new water lines? > Hi guys, > > Many of you know that I'm replacing the engine, clutch assembly, and tranny...
• Re: LED backup lights update
  Historical mailing list - Richard Koerner
  Sun, 19 Feb 2023 01:18:46 +0000
  ...the taillight assembly. There are 2 parts - the black plastic bulb holder, the colored plastic assembly with the reflector glued to it. I can...
• Re: "Gene Berg Declines" Thread (from 10/28)
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Wed, 10 Nov 1999 18:47:15 -0600
  ...assembly. > > I spoke with Clyde Berg (Gene's son) but also got the unfortunate > response, "We don't do any work on wasserboxer engines...
• Vacuum Debris (bugs etc) from Front of Radiator Helps Cooling?
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Fri, 25 May 2012 09:49:41 -0700
  ...http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines
• Was: PSA: ... rear brake .... Now: Brake Pressure Regulator @ CIP
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Thu, 17 May 2012 18:05:36 -0700
  ...Ordered a > lifetime supply for myself, cheaper than even rebuild kits. > > -- Neil n 65 kb image Myford Ready For Assembly http://tinyurl.com/64sx4rp...
• Re: Stock 2.1 in NC
  Historical mailing list - Steve Cotsford
  Sun, 14 Apr 2013 17:17:51 -0400
  ...Does it attach to the muffler or engine? >> >> I think I have a syncro engine mount assembly ( the part that bolts to the front...
• Re: Removing A/C high pressure hose from Westy Camper
  Historical mailing list - Joel Cort
  Thu, 8 Jun 2000 10:48:48 -0700
  ...The low pressure hose had rubbed against the engine compartment and worn a hole through. It needed a full replacement and new chemicals. I...
• Re: Anyone here with a Nissan Maxima Vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:57:30 -0800
  ...Nissan engines are usually incredible durable .. on the level of Honda or Mercedes ...........like super good tough engines. ----- Original Message ----- From: "neil n" <musomuso...
• Re: Brake Pedal Pulse Questions
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:09:43 -0700
  ...vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines > > > -- Neil n 65 kb image Myford Ready For Assembly http://tinyurl.com/64sx4rp '88 Slate Blue...
• update:another gremlin (throttle position switch)
  Historical mailing list - matt greenwell
  Thu, 18 Feb 1999 08:41:33 -0500
  ...Look at the throttle assembly and find the throttle cable > coming from the front. With the engine off, move the throttle as if you...
• Re: 82 rebuild advice sough
  Historical mailing list - Steve Johnson
  Mon, 26 Jun 1995 16:02:24 -0700 (PDT)
  ...How many rebuilds on this type of engine > does the local guy do, and when was the last one done? If the GEX blows...
• Re: Subaru Boxer TURBO Diesel
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Fri, 9 Nov 2007 01:05:55 -0800
  As I understand it, it will be an opposed four, like all 'regular' subaru engines, and thus I would expect, would fit in a...
• more reverse lights woes
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 21 Mar 1990 09:39:28 -0500
  ...i have a flash of inspiration and unscrew the left rear taillight assembly and pull it around the corner so i can see the...
• Re: Ignition Switch "Su" Power
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:47:16 -0800
  ...switch? -- Neil n 65 kb image Myford Ready For Assembly http://tinyurl.com/64sx4rp '88 Slate Blue Westy to be named. '81 VanaJetta 2...
• Re: spring/wire in pop top lift handle
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:11:55 -0800
  ...http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines
• Cruise Control Inductive Pickup: sit on hole, or in hole of Speedometer?
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Wed, 7 Sep 2011 15:52:54 -0700
  ...Thanks much, Neil. -- Neil n 65 kb image Myford Ready For Assembly �http://tinyurl.com/64sx4rp '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco" �http://tubaneil.googlepages...
• Re: Alliance Deep Cycle? (Grp. 27) Wire To Alternator?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:12:05 -0400
  ...My motorhome had the alliance group 31 engine starting batteries, (2). I purchased the rig April 2004 and I replaced them in 2012. The...
• Re: Alliance Deep Cycle? (Grp. 27) Wire To Alternator?
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Wed, 13 Mar 2013 21:24:40 -0700
  ...http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines
• can I start/run eng. w/o MAS/air cleaner assemb?
  Historical mailing list - Tabe Johnson
  Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:13:50 -0500
  ...AFM does not have to be installed for this, but does need to be installed if you want to run the engine for more...
• Re: Friday NVC-MGB engine that rebuilds itself
  Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
  Fri, 29 Jun 2012 12:31:05 -0700
  But it still might be an MG B engine. I believe it would bolt right up to a spitfire. Mike On Jun 29, 2012...
• Re: Van Died @ 70 MPH. Why? (Jetta conversion)
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:00:53 -0700
  ...vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines > > -- Neil n 65 kb image Myford Ready For Assembly �http://tinyurl.com/64sx4rp '81 VanaJetta 2...
• Re: Why no bolt-on HP upgrades to the 2.1 WBX?
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Fri, 25 May 2012 23:54:16 -0700
  ...Anyone know if this is Mega Squirt engine management with some variations? As a newcomer to the 2.1 WBX, disregarding coolant jacket to...
• Re: Battery Blankets for Cold Climes?
  Historical mailing list - Marshall Ruskin
  Fri, 1 Jan 1999 14:51:27 -0600
  ...Removed the passenger seat, removed the rotating assembly. This gave me complete access to the battery. Covered the circumference of the battery with the...
• Re: Transmission question GTA Auto Turbo real experience?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 5 Aug 2019 02:26:07 +0000
  ...It just provides more strength in the lower gears to reduce a chance of failure of this assembly it does not make a 4...
• Re: Instrument Cluster Ribbon Repair
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:46:44 -0700
  ...http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines
• Re: Electrical Systems Videos
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Fri, 1 Feb 2013 10:12:13 -0800
  ...http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines
• Re: Wire Damage from Rodent(s)
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:09:27 -0800
  ...http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines
• Re: Canadian Picking up a FedEx'd Vanagon Part in US.
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Palmer
  Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:57:53 -0500
  ...my Westy. > > Neil. > > -- > Neil n > > 65 kb image Myford Ready For Assembly http://tinyurl.com/64sx4rp > > '88 Slate Blue Westy to be named. > > '81...
• Re: PIC. Under Cabinet Flooring: Westfalia OEM?
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:49:36 -0700
  ...http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines
• Re: "Brake Warning Light" grounding question. (searched)
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 7 Aug 2008 21:56:33 -0400
  ...Bentley shows a transistor symbol ("solid state circuitry") in the brake warning light assembly. It appears to work with the brake light switches on...
• Re: Thinking swap? Engine options are only half the story...What ...
  Historical mailing list - Heath Vogt
  Wed, 6 Sep 2000 14:39:53 EDT
  ...The likelyhood of an engine coming off the assembly line bad vs. rebuilt w/ mods, not a favorable ratio. I'm not saying you...
• Re: Bostig Engine Installation 85 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Mon, 28 May 2012 12:29:28 -0700
  ...If I > understood Jim Akiba at the MA shop, they no longer install the engine. > A firm in Seattle does. I can't do...
• Re: vanagon Digest - 4 Aug 2004 - Special issue (#2004-716)
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Thu, 5 Aug 2004 09:00:21 -0500
  If you go back to the 75-78 Bus engines you'll find a switch assembly on the throttle body. In one position it...
• Re: Checking crankshaft end play
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Sat, 13 Oct 2012 12:47:21 -0700
  ...There are two bolt holes on upper portion of engine mounting flange. Bolt indicator there? Or.... This may sound trail park-ish, but what...
• Re: Mixing AMC and VW Heads
  Historical mailing list - Ben huot
  Tue, 2 Jul 2002 19:02:44 -0400
  ...He does some modification to the valve assembly!!!!! Mixing the head company will result in an unbalance engine, in every possible way's (heat...
• Re: FS: 1987 VW Syncro Joker 1.9td
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Fri, 23 Nov 2012 18:39:02 -0800
  ...http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines
• Re: Ok. What's the catch? ('91 Westy Syncro: 14K ?)
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Fri, 2 Sep 2011 17:41:48 -0700
  ...1991 |_15194232 | | |Neil. | |-- |Neil n | |65 kb image Myford Ready For Assembly �http://tinyurl.com/64sx4rp | |'81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco" �http://tubaneil.googlepages...
• Dealer Bid Idea
  Historical mailing list - Jeff
  Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:57:37 -0600
  ...ie, my Coolant Bleeder Assembly. Put the year, model, engine (someone help with what fields I would need to have), the part number and...
• 90 Vanagon For Sale - Massachusetts
  Historical mailing list - Andrew G. Martin
  Mon, 10 Dec 2001 18:41:07 -0800
  ...90 >145K miles on body and trans >engine professionally rebuilt 11/98 at 126K miles >clutch assembly replaced 3/98 at 119K miles >power...
• Re: Hydraulic Valve adjustment - when is "contact"?
  Historical mailing list - Damon Campbell
  Wed, 6 Apr 2005 13:51:33 -0700
  ...cold is for assembly and 0 hot is done > when the van is sorted out > and running > > Bob Donalds > Boston Engine '84 Westy "The...
• Re: At Idle: AFM Flap, CO Screw Relationship. Explanation Found
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Sun, 8 Jul 2012 11:48:01 -0700
  ...Besides; moving the wiper did not change how the engine ran. Sure wish I still had my old $9 Radio Shack analogue meter! Neil...
• Re: what year?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Steven Fish
  Sun, 12 May 2002 23:19:05 +0200
  ...But they DID roll the last of the VW Multivans off of the assembly line in Graz, Austria in early 1993. They are sweet...
• Re: LED backup lights update
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Sat, 18 Feb 2023 18:19:51 -0800
  ...the taillight assembly. There are 2 parts - the black plastic >> bulb >> > holder, the colored plastic assembly with the reflector glued to it. I >> > can...
• Re: I4 Happenings in turbovans land
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:48:23 -0700
  ...assembly procedures..mainly bolting it up without having > things properly straight. And the other part about 'urban myth'...that > "Oh > yes, those engines vibrate...
• Re: Pan
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:01:11 -0700
  ...Same for the last AAZ engine I worked on that came from Europe. pathetically rusted and not maintained at all. Had to re-do...
• Re: FS: Thermostat housing for 1.9 waterboxer engined Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:37:11 -0700
  ...wrote: > $200, eh......Now I know what the NOS 1.9 assembly in my spare stash > must be worth: And no, it's not...
• 90 Vanagon for sale > CHEAP
  Historical mailing list - Tony Demille
  Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:26:45 -0600
  ...in preparation i have cleaned every related engine part except the small block for re-assembly and purchased a complete gasket kit. the heads...
• <No subject>
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sat, 25 Sep 2004 20:48:56 -0700
  ...boxer engine, they tend to drop down out of the deep recess in the lifter as you are installing the rocker assembly. Then the...
• 1st junkyard trip + extra wiper motor
  Historical mailing list - A Brandon Smith
  Tue, 26 Mar 1996 15:06:08 -0800 (PST)
  ...At the first place there were two `69 buses, both pretty well stripped, and no engine or tranny. Both had a wiper motor, neither...
• Re: clutch cylinder - help
  Historical mailing list - Erik C Peterson
  Tue, 1 Apr 1997 16:58:40 -0800 (PST)
  ...I > > Steel rod should have a socket assembly on its end that pushes on the > ball on the lever. Best sign to rebuild, when...
• Re: Fixed my Honda, Thought: Honda 2.4 I-VTEC Engine into Vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:55:57 -0800
  ...I like the engines but when their distributors go, it's usually w/o much warning in my experience. BenT sent from my electronic...
• Re: coolant leak story-using the warning light/gauge.
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:19:11 -0500
  ...Proper operation of the cooling system requires that the engine assembly is always completely filled and pressurized. The coolant being pressurized prevent localized boiling...
• Re: 1988 Vanagon. What is this in my gas? PIC
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Thu, 10 May 2012 23:40:05 -0700
  ...with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engine > s > -- Neil n 65 kb image Myford Ready For Assembly �http://tinyurl.com/64sx4rp '88 Slate Blue...
• Re: Instrument Cluster Ribbon Repair
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:09:01 -0700
  ...Image: -- Neil n 65 kb image Myford Ready For Assembly http://tinyurl.com/64sx4rp '88 Slate Blue Westy to be named. '81 VanaJetta 2...