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• Re: Oil Splatters in Engine Compartment
  Historical mailing list - Erik Soule
  Tue, 1 Aug 1995 13:51:05 -0700
  ...BTW, is that what you guys are seeing....misting? My entire engine compartment gets coated, not just the pulley area. I have noticed that...
• Re: strange Clicking Noise from engine compartment (??)
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:33:02 -0600
  ...It's a loud clicking sound, that, as far as we can tell, seems to > be > coming from the engine compartment area. > > >
• Re: Power to the air conditioning switch
  Historical mailing list - A. Hurley
  Thu, 4 Aug 2005 21:34:56 -0400
  I took some images of the fuses and the engine compartment and put them here: http://onwatersports.com/Westy/ According to this nice diagram...
• Re: Spare 1.9 cooling system part?
  Historical mailing list - Jim
  Mon, 17 May 2010 18:13:38 -0700
  Jim Arnott wrote: > Not the "H" piece, but the other one. > > Does anyone have a spare engine compartment bleeder H piece? (025 121 > 085...
• Another Battery Solution was Comments wanted on this portable fridge
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Tue, 7 Aug 2007 08:33:42 -0700
  ...Add a THIRD battery in the battery compartment/space in the engine compartment. the compartment/space that was/is used for the diesels. I...
• Re: Dirty vs. clean
  Historical mailing list - joel walker
  Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:51:17 -0500
  > Where do you fit on the continuum? > > I always try to keep my engine compartment clean, because I hate > working on a car and...
• Re: Parts needed
  Historical mailing list - Jamie Fitterer
  Fri, 4 May 2012 17:22:48 +0000
  ...wiring harness complete for the engine compartment. > 2. two rear topside vent covers. > 3. hoses and plastic for the engine compartment. > 4. engine cover...
• Re: Firestop where would you place these in the engine compartment ?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:08:08 -0800
  ...Firestop where would you place these in the engine compartment ? > And how are they going to stick to the fiberglass engine compartment lid? > Jerry...
• low temp and howling
  Historical mailing list - Gerald Skerbitz
  Sun, 16 Oct 1994 14:17:38 -0500 (CDT)
  ...I've got a strange howling in my engine compartment that I can't hear when I open the engine compartment. I only hear...
• Re: Bleeding Cooling system per Bentley
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Fri, 15 Jan 1999 08:44:07 -0800
  They changed the system between 83.5 (which I have) and 84? My 83.5 has the engine compartment bleeder. Gotta use it. It...
• Re: gas smell
  Historical mailing list - phil cain
  Sun, 16 May 2004 18:07:57 -0700
  First check all your gas lines inside the engine compartment, then follow the gas lines out of the engine compartment back to the gas...
• Engine compartment reservoir
  Historical mailing list - Neil
  Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:50:39 -0700
  ...In the engine compartment I see the AFreeze reservoir at 2 o'clock. There's also an opaque reservoir at 7 o'clock. Unsure...
• Re: engine quits, oil sprayed on engine/compartment...smoke...oh my
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:03:14 -0400
  how about a blown o ring on the oil cooler?
• Re: Further Information
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Wed, 3 Aug 2011 19:00:30 -0700
  ...Batteries The stock location for the starting battery in the diesel is in the engine compartment, based on what I've seen. Shorter wire...
• Cleaning engine compartment/Grounding Points - 91 Westfalia
  Historical mailing list - Steve Williams
  Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:01:26 -0600
  Hi, I am doing some cleaning of the engine compartment in conjunction with general maintenance (plugs/wires/fuel lines, etc). I read a thread...
• Re: Another Vanagon Burns Up
  Historical mailing list - Budd Premack
  Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:01:45 -0600
  ...The metal firewall behind the rear seat kept the conflagration away from the passenger compartment. After the engine wiring and all engine compartment plastic...
• Looking for drivers side engine tin
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 4 Feb 2023 15:16:19 +0000
  Need the tin piece for 2.1L left side engine compartment. Anyone have? Thank you, Dennis
• Re: Air Flow
  Historical mailing list - Chris Stann
  Thu, 22 Jun 2000 12:25:25 -0500
  ...The air cooled motor was sealed against the engine compartment where the fan would suck the 'cool' air from the top and force it...
• Re: WANTED: Pictures of Syncro engine compartment
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:58:46 -0700
  ...Pictures of Syncro engine compartment > DJ-code is a European WBX with 112 hp and a DIGIJET ECU. The engine code > is > at the...
• Re: Proper adhesive for engine compartment seal
  Historical mailing list - HotelWestfalia
  Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:15:20 -0700
  ...Proper adhesive for engine compartment seal > On Jun 24, 2011, at 7:23 AM, David Beierl wrote: > >> I think the water-cooled must be...
• plug w/o mate engine compartment!?
  Historical mailing list - Joachim Preiss
  Sat, 28 Sep 2002 12:27:12 -0400
  ...engine compartment facing front of car, 3 pins male, approx. 3/4" diameter, with metal bracket, gray cable disappearing under the carburetor, turning towards...
• Re: Fwd: Re: gas odor in engine compartment
  Historical mailing list - MICHAEL H
  Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:15:38 -0800
  ...gas odor in engine compartment > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Date: Monday, November 14, 2011, 9:50 AM > 85 1.9 2 wheel drive...
• Mystery Plug 91 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Shannon Mitchell
  Thu, 29 May 2003 15:16:38 -0400
  ...If you were looking in the engine compartment it was on the bottom right of the compartment... What is this plug for? Thanks Shannon...
• Re: Firestop where would you place these in the engine compartment ?
  Historical mailing list - Gerald Masar
  Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:23:07 -0700
  And how are they going to stick to the fiberglass engine compartment lid? Jerry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Fisher" <refisher@MCHSI.COM> To: <vanagon...
• Re: No Start Scenario
  Historical mailing list - John Goubeaux
  Fri, 13 Mar 2015 11:00:43 -0700
  ...ALL looks good in the engine compartment wiring box though. I will inspect the fwd panel this weekend and will No doubt have a...
• Re: Reimo seat hinges
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Sun, 6 Dec 1998 00:54:24 -0800
  ...These two fittings raise the seat face on engine compartment level > (VW old) or engine compartment rope box level (to Bj. 7/90). > > for...
• Re: Engine quit at freeway speed, no re-start
  Historical mailing list - Paul Guzyk
  Wed, 22 Jun 2005 07:12:57 -0700
  ...Could be a wire in the engine compartment got hot, insulation melted and shorted out against ground...or a ground wire broke in the...
• Re: Dirty vs. clean
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:11:37 -0700
  ...which does not seem to > be the norm. > > Where do you fit on the continuum? > > I always try to keep my engine compartment clean...
• Re: Dyno Testing Q's
  Historical mailing list
  06 May 97 12:36:26 PDT
  ...Engine compartment has no holes bigger than a quarter. Well here's what I know. During my downhill travels I freewheel and use my...
• Re: WANTED: Pictures of Syncro engine compartment
  Historical mailing list - Paul Connelly
  Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:12:59 -0600
  ...Any pictures of > the left side of the engine compartment would help. > > Chris. > > > On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Paul Connelly...
• Re: Fuel line replacement
  Historical mailing list - tim vb-o'brien
  Wed, 26 Jan 2000 08:26:47 -0800
  Air Cools have a combination of Hardpipe and 7mm Flex lines in the engine compartment. Actually a rather small amount of flex. lots of...
• Re: Electric vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:47:28 -0800
  ...Electric vanagon >I look at that engine compartment and think how poorly they made use of the >space. They probably could have gotten about...
• IF Fire What Do?
  Historical mailing list - davidson
  Sun, 27 Sep 1998 11:55:29 -0700
  ...gas tank close to engine) Do I risk my body by opening the rear hatch, unloading gear from above the engine compartment, and finally...
• Re: Halon Fire Extinguishers in Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Bill Davidson
  Thu, 9 Nov 2000 08:52:50 -0800
  > Has anyone found a way/location to install a > Halon fire extinguisher in a Westy's engine compartment? > I installed one of these in...
• Re: Battery isolator vs combiner?? Correction
  Historical mailing list - harald_nancy
  Thu, 10 Aug 2000 20:20:08 -0700
  ...Engine compartment: voltage at alternator: 14.84 voltage at battery 1 terminal: 14.14 voltage at battery 2 terminal: 14.14 on the isolator...
• Re: The Thing I Hate the Most About My Vanagon Is..
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Thu, 12 Apr 2001 10:27:49 -0500
  ...It is not uncommon to put 10,000 miles on it without opening the engine compartment. On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 09:43:04...
• 87 van Idling problems
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 07 Aug 1997 11:47:48 -0700
  ...I checked the engine compartment for obvious problems, nothing, everything is tight with nothing dis-connected. Oh, I recently had the engine compartment pressure...
• engine quits, oil sprayed on engine/compartment...smoke...oh my
  Historical mailing list - Charles Laich
  Mon, 17 Apr 2006 00:58:08 EDT
  ...inspecting the engine compartment we see oil all over the front of the engine mostly. i'd just changed the oil earlier this week...
• Re: 2nd Oil Cooler...(Long-ish)
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 21 Jun 1996 12:02:25 -0800
  >> First David wrote: >> >> >> Most people I know who have coolers in their engine compartment have the >> >> hot side of the cooler routed out through...
• Re: Halon Extinguishers, etc.
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Sun, 12 Nov 2000 20:23:17 +1200
  ...Unless you have raw gas pumping into the engine compartment, I can't really see any other scenario for an engine fire.....but that...
• Re: Dirty vs. clean
  Historical mailing list - Tom Buese
  Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:13:44 -0600
  ...has the cleanest, and the dirtiest engine > compartments. I'm always surprised at how dirty people's engines > are. I guess I assumed that...
• Cleaning Engine, Do's and Don't
  Historical mailing list - Sidney White
  Wed, 12 Feb 2003 00:46:43 EST
  What is the product of choice to clean up the engine compartment-Gunk?, what needs covering up, protected? This is a 2.1L engine...
• Re: Mexican Watercooleds = Wasserboxers?
  Historical mailing list - Dave Kautz
  Fri, 20 Jan 95 13:47:15 PST
  ...It had a carburetor and air cleaner which were right up by the top of the engine compartment. She told me that they had...
• Re: Add-on Oil Coolers
  Historical mailing list - Ethan Wilson
  Fri, 12 May 1995 10:36:51 -0700 (PDT)
  ...filter under the left rear engine compartment pan (same as the battery area but opposite side of the compartment), added doghouse tin and cooler...
• spare wires in engine compartment box?
  Historical mailing list - Westyman
  Tue, 3 Jun 2003 15:03:18 -0700
  ...In the wiring junction box at the left front area of the engine compartment, there is a 3-wire plug with green/white, brown...
• Re: WANTED: Pictures of Syncro engine compartment
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:09:05 -0400
  ...Pictures of Syncro engine compartment > > > > DJ-code is a European WBX with 112 hp and a DIGIJET ECU. The engine code >> is >> at the...
• engine compartment fire alarm
  Historical mailing list - Davidson
  Sun, 17 Oct 1999 18:56:54 -0700
  ...In installed two 194 degree F heat activated switches in the engine compartment of my 90 Westy Syncro. If the engine compartment gets up...
• Re: Mounting WR-1 relay ?
  Historical mailing list - John Reynolds
  Sun, 17 Feb 2002 19:33:42 -0500
  John, Sounds fine to me - I mounted mine in the engine compartment on the passenger side - front. However, My van is air cooled, so...
• Reducing exhaust heat extends the life of water hoses.
  Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
  Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:58:30 EDT
  ...To reduce engine compartment temps, you can wrap the exhaust pipes with the exhaust wrap from Gene Berg Enterprises and wrap the pipes and...
• Re: High and low pressure zones on a Vanagon - ideas for my intercooler anyon...
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Fri, 8 Jun 2001 03:18:57 EDT
  ...The vents are for equalizing the air pressure for the air-cooled engines, which have a tightly sealed engine compartment. Without these vents, a...
• 98 AHU installed at 50 deg
  Historical mailing list - Gilles Turmel
  Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:41:50 -0400
  Hi, If I install that engine at 50 deg, will I have to modify the engine compartment lid ? Best regards. Gilles Turmel
• Re: engine quits, oil sprayed on engine/compartment...smoke...oh my
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 17 Apr 2006 06:37:59 -0400
  ...engine quits, oil sprayed on engine/compartment...smoke...oh my you have a 2.1 with high mileage i vote for piston and rod...
• gas smell part II
  Historical mailing list - Sean Bartnik
  Sat, 20 Apr 96 18:31:35 EDT
  Hey all, All right, following the advice of list members, I pried off the pie plate in the engine compartment ('78) and didn't...
• Re: Proper adhesive for engine compartment seal
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Fri, 24 Jun 2011 04:28:18 -0700
  ...2011, Cecil Eastman wrote: >> Finally scored a new seal for the engine compartment. One long >> piece of extruded rubber. I have to assume that...
• Re: FIRE!!! (True story from this morning)
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Tue, 25 Jan 2000 19:58:40 -0400
  ...I > wonder how large of a canister of CO2 it would take to reliably knock out a fire > in the engine compartment? Maybe a...
• Re: The Real Starter Problem Found. Now I Need a Wiring Harness
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sun, 13 Jul 2014 17:10:55 -0700
  ...There are other sub-harness sections in the engine compartment but those can be left undisturbed. Just try to get an 87 or newer...
• Re: Battery Location - Rear Behind RR Taillight
  Historical mailing list - Ben T
  Wed, 21 Aug 2002 01:10:24 EDT
  ...If you are inside the engine compartment, then the backside of the taillights would be facing you. Then the outside of the taillight where...
• I need intercooler fan ideas!
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Sat, 20 Mar 2004 20:31:48 -0800
  ...This fan will be wired into the 60C air temp sensor that is present on the TDI motor - when the engine compartment is hotter...
• Swapping ABA for TDI
  Historical mailing list - Gilles Turmel
  Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:16:09 -0400
  Hi, Can I use the AVG engine instead of the AHU and still have no mod to the engine compartment lid? Best regards. Gilles...
• Re: 12 volts in engine compartment
  Historical mailing list - Mark Upton
  Sun, 3 Nov 2002 10:19:13 EST
  Try the battery,That is a good place to start.