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• Re: Radiator Fan
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Fri, 28 Jun 2013 16:55:42 -0700
  ...The fan shroud is also different to match the motor size. The fan blades are the same diameter, the motor is different and the...
• '79 into an '80, was Re: '80 engine into a '79... doable?
  Historical mailing list - Sam Scholten
  Mon, 29 Jun 1998 10:15:02 -0700
  ...i know > > all the tin and fan shroud and alternator placement is different > > between bus > > and vanagon, but how hard is it to do...
• Re: In the Dog House
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Holser
  Sun, 12 Oct 1997 13:01:36 -0700
  ...The doghouse engines move the oil cooler something like 8cm forward, and out of the fan shroud. There is a larger fan, and the...
• Hottest cylinder? - Temp gauge for wasserboxer
  Historical mailing list - Laurence Fahrney
  Sun, 9 Jun 2002 23:05:11 -0700
  ...On the A/C I always put it on #3, which ran hottest due to the fan shroud design. On the waserboxer, is any...
• Why this type IV engine caught fire, spun the mains and ruined everything.
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Thu, 8 Aug 2002 12:22:59 -0500
  ...All of this heat was enraged but firemen hosing down the burning magnesium fan shroud before they identified the enhanced fuel source. It is...
• Re: AC fan vrs non AC fan
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:23:11 -0800
  ...This larger motor needs different fan wiring and different metal shroud. The wiring diagram in the Bentley for A/C has the wrong colors...
• Re: LED to tell when fan is on.
  Historical mailing list - Dave Brune
  Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:10:20 -0800
  ...bolts my fan was mounted. This fan tucks perfectly under the shroud tunnel. The next step was controlling the fan. I went with a...
• Matt's Screaching
  Historical mailing list - Joseph F. Fournier II
  Tue, 30 Apr 1996 09:59:50 -0500 (CDT)
  ...metal in the fan housing. It wore the metal away and screeches no more. I have a spare doghouse shroud, so I didn't...
• 70 single cab progress
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 27 Feb 1995 15:12:36 -0800
  ...We idly speculated whether old fans and new shrouds would work effectivly- would the different width of the fan mean that air could get...
• Re: afordable alternatives RE: Radiator fan resistor
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sat, 27 Jul 2013 16:37:56 -0700
  ...They had the resistor mounted to the fan shroud in the flow of air. The best match that I know of the mid+ 80s...
• Re: I really hate CPOs.
  Historical mailing list - Mike S
  Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:20:29 -0400
  ...Thanks, but it's an AC, so all those screwed up threads are in the alloy fan shroud. BIG-SERT time.
• Re: LED to tell when fan is on.
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:21:47 -0800
  ...bolts my > fan was mounted. This fan tucks perfectly under the shroud tunnel. > The next step was controlling the fan. I went with a...
• Re: LED to tell when fan is on.
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:03:41 -0800
  ...bolts my fan was mounted. This fan tucks perfectly under the shroud tunnel. > The next step was controlling the fan. I went with a...
• Re: Effectiveness of cooling system flush and clean products?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Ohana
  Thu, 6 Jun 2013 23:02:44 -0700
  ...The front hoses, rad fan and shroud, work fine etc. with the later type rad. You need the radiator mounting brackets too.
• Re: Wasserboxer Engine Codes
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 27 Jan 1997 23:39:44 +0100
  ...1584 34 PICT-3 the old beetle engine with an new Fan Shroud in front like the CU Motor watercooled SS 89>92 68...
• Re: Testing Generator and Volt. Reg.
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 11 Apr 95 19:51:22 MST
  ...under the manifolds holding the shroud and block up the shroud a coulple of inches to get the fan over the generator stand. Helps...
• Re: Radiator fan shock
  Historical mailing list - Anthony Egeln
  Fri, 29 Mar 2013 10:18:14 -0700
  ...Radiator fan shock Dear List, Despite installing a nearly new fan shroud in my 91 GL - the fan makes a LOT of noise when...
• Re: Heat Baffle For Automatics
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Tue, 21 Jul 2015 16:57:29 +0000
  ...and look up into the "box" for the fan, the area that the fan and shroud fit into. Drop the spare tire tray, of...
• Re: Berg short-shift for Vgon
  Historical mailing list - William R. Kennedy, NJIT CIAT, 201-596-5648
  Sat, 26 Nov 1994 18:23:31 EST
  ...Alternator comes with the engine; stock VW alternator would not fit. (Porsche alternator sits inside the fan shroud, belt driven along with the fan...
• Re: radiators
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:50:57 -0700
  ...You need a small motor metal fan shroud, common in 83-85, less so in 86+. The fan motor from the 82 can be...
• Re: How to R/R radiator fan in 83 diesel?
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Sun, 31 Aug 2014 10:03:14 -0500
  ...little to get the shroud assembly off. > The hoses can remain connected. > > If you have the complete larger fan harness then it should have...
• Re: Oil Splatters in Engine Compartment
  Historical mailing list - Erik Soule
  Tue, 1 Aug 1995 13:51:05 -0700
  ...I figure somehow oil is getting inside the fan shroud before it gets blown everywhere. I also suspected the stock oil cooler seals, thinking...
• Re: Looking for some radiator parts
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 10 Jun 2016 18:12:33 -0400
  ...hardware (bolts and captured nut mounts) Radiator fan plug (cut from harness is fine) Radiator fan shroud for 84-85 Vanagon If anyone can...
• Re: speaking of fridges... a mod
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Thu, 26 May 2005 07:34:12 -0700
  ...stock fan with one of them shiny silver Volterras the last time I was behind mine. I studied the idea of shrouding the fins...
• Re: afordable alternatives RE: Radiator fan resistor
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sat, 27 Jul 2013 18:49:54 -0400
  ...Every cooling fan system is engineered to fit its own circumstances, its own design of motor, fan blade, shrouding, engine compartment, philosophy of the...
• help on 65
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 03 Jun 1996 22:37:03 -0400
  ...The idiot's guide and bentley manual say raise the fan shroud. Ok, but one of the screws I'm supposed to unscrew is...
• 85 westy at local pick and pull
  Historical mailing list - Tony Dowell
  Sun, 19 Nov 2000 12:02:43 EST
  ...front one mint 1.9 wasser(90%complete longblock intact).radiator,fan shroud,all doors and glass,windshield cracked,rotors, calipers etc.all the...
• Re: Radiator Fan
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Fri, 28 Jun 2013 17:45:35 -0700
  ...The fan shroud is also different to > match the motor size. The fan blades are the same diameter, the motor is > different and the...
• Re: Westy fridge fan--look around
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Wed, 1 Sep 2004 17:37:15 -0500
  ...make any shrouding as it would likely cause the > fridge fan to run more often than otherwise. > > The best replacement fridge fan I have...
• Re: Cooling issues?
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Tue, 27 Aug 2013 09:38:37 -0700
  ...the much more powerful fan system fitted to many of the US 86+ models. The larger motor and matching shroud are simple bolt-in...
• Re: '79 Cooling System
  Historical mailing list - T.P. Stephens
  Wed, 20 Oct 1999 20:38:21 -0700
  ...I am having >>difficulty removing the fan and the fan shroud. My manual (which covers >>1972-1979 Type-2) says to "remove three bolts...
• Re: Finding TDC (dumb question?)
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Wed, 6 Feb 2002 09:54:12 -0600
  ...If you want to be precise you can mark your fan shroud at the notch on your fan and rotate the engine backwards until...
• speaking of fridges... a mod
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Wed, 25 May 2005 21:31:45 -0700
  ...shroud to cover the fins and create a better chimney back there, to create better convective air flow and to direct the fan airflow...
• Re: '85 Vanagon Sunroofy 1.9L - Coolant BLeeding/Thermostat/FanSwitch
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:16:13 -0700
  ...use different fan temp switches (2 separate ones, mounted high sadly), have a brake style bleeder valve, use a different fan shroud, and are...
• Re: Cooling Fan info discrepancies
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:14:11 -0700
  ...fan motor and shroud? Mark dylan friedman wrote: > Thanks Mark. > > I have a 86 without AC and no PS and had the small fan...
• Re: Looking for some radiator parts
  Historical mailing list - kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
  Fri, 10 Jun 2016 22:17:19 +0000
  ...hardware (bolts and captured nut > mounts) Radiator fan plug (cut from harness is fine) Radiator fan shroud > for 84-85 Vanagon > > If anyone can...
• Re: Voltage Question
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Sat, 5 Mar 2016 00:03:08 +0000
  ...The stock westy came with a very "non-muffin" fan as there was no shroud to actually direct the airflow, just a fan blade...
• Re: Rear under seat heater problem
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sat, 15 May 2010 10:16:47 -0400
  ...To check, take off the shroud (if it's the plastic one, cutting off the bar across the bottom will let you remove it...
• Re: Rad Fan Bearing (bushing?) Question. With pics.
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:26:00 -0800
  If you have run the fan on each speed for 15 minutes mounted up complete to the radiator and the bearing sounds ok then...
• Re: Bus for sale....(which year is best)
  Historical mailing list - Dana Morphew
  Mon, 13 May 2002 17:22:08 -0700
  It's also called the "doghouse" fan shrouded engine. Last year for it in the "loaf" was '71. It's the engine found in...
• Re: 2 more questions to complete my 1.9l NA install, I hope
  Historical mailing list - Ken Hunter
  Mon, 20 Aug 2001 23:03:43 EDT
  ...He might have used the later fan shroud too? If he doesn't reply check back in the archives under authors for his name...
• Re: Heat Baffle For Automatics
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Tue, 21 Jul 2015 16:58:03 +0000
  ...and > look up into the "box" for the fan, the area that the fan and shroud fit > into. Drop the spare tire tray, of...
• Re: All 2 Speed Radiator Fans Use Internal Resistor?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 10 Feb 2013 17:24:17 -0500
  ...If changing from one fan type to the other, you also have to change the fan shroud (as well as the wiring of course...
• Parting out 87 Syncro Passenger van
  Historical mailing list - Ken Wilford
  Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:14:33 -0400
  ...Transmission Center Bench Seat Speedometer Radiator Fan and shroud The outside is grey in color and the interior is also grey (late model) with...
• Re: Head temp > 230F + Is this critically bad?
  Historical mailing list - raceingcajun
  Tue, 4 Jun 2013 21:44:09 -0500
  ...The redesigned fan shroud and a fan with more volume cured that, by putting the oil cooler out side the fan housing. Also a...
• BN-2 glowplug?
  Historical mailing list - Jens Jakob Andersen
  Thu, 8 Jul 2004 11:44:07 +0200
  ...2 yesterday, unpacked it, opened it, fixed the fan (so it didnt hit the shroud), worked on the fuel-pump; stuck and dirty breakers...
• Radiator Fan R&R
  Historical mailing list - TJ Hannink
  Mon, 21 Apr 2003 07:16:28 -0700
  ...the radiator about 1 foot to access the center and lower fan shroud bolts. You can access the top bolts through the grill opening...
• Re: LED to tell when fan is on.
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:26:43 -0800
  ...bolts my fan was mounted. This fan tucks perfectly under the shroud tunnel. > The next step was controlling the fan. I went with a...
• Interior heat should be independent of the thermostat ??
  Historical mailing list - courtney hook
  Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:08:33 -0800
  ...My auxiliary fan mounted above the engine in the engine shroud blows great air up to the front of the van, but it is...
• How do I put a Vanagon mtr in a late Bus?
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 02 Jun 1996 01:48:23
  ...I expected to do a lot of changing over - fan shroud, alternator, etc. - but one thing I did not expect is that the bus...
• Re: Cut you sparkplugs
  Historical mailing list - Chris Stann
  Thu, 27 Dec 2001 13:29:19 -0600
  ...fancy spark plugs for our Vanagons (content) when well maintained OEM plugs will do just the same. <<<SNIP Yes... BUT The un-shrouding of...
• Re: Effectiveness of cooling system flush and clean products?
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Fri, 7 Jun 2013 05:18:32 -0700
  ...The front hoses, rad > fan and shroud, work fine etc. with the later type rad. > You need the radiator mounting brackets too. >
• Re: Fridges ,rust and a paintjob (91 GL)
  Historical mailing list - Crawford Smith
  Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:23:16 -0700
  ...my upcoming task? ie fibreglass insulation or not, shrouding the flu, POR or ?, exhast fans , etc.etc. I am not too picky about asthetics...
• Re: Horrendous Noise - Radiator Fan
  Historical mailing list - Ryan Miller
  Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:11:15 -0600
  ...I just covered my fan shroud with Dynamat. Haven't had the engine hot enough to kick the fan up to high yet, but...
• Re: LED to tell when fan is on.
  Historical mailing list - Dave Brune
  Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:36:32 -0800
  ...bolts my fan was mounted. This fan tucks perfectly under the shroud tunnel. > The next step was controlling the fan. I went with a...
• Re: Firing order for 2.0 air-cooled
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Wed, 19 May 2004 12:20:25 -0500
  I guess if you got a air cooled you should look at the sheet metal right next to the left side fan shroud. The...
• radiator replacement
  Historical mailing list - Patrick Larsen
  Thu, 4 Dec 1997 14:33:14 -0600
  ...When you drop the radiator, the shroud, fan, and ac condensor all come down with it. I drained the radiator before dropping as it...
• Re: Radiator fan shock
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Sat, 30 Mar 2013 06:41:59 -0400
  ...wrote: > Dear List, > > Despite installing a nearly new fan shroud in my 91 GL - the fan makes a = > LOT of noise when it's...
• Re: vanagon Digest - 25 Jun 2007 - Special issue (#2007-641)
  Historical mailing list - Crawford Smith
  Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:02:06 -0700
  ...resource for my upcoming task? ie fibreglass or not, shrouding the flu,POR,exhast fans,etc.etc. I am not too picky about asthetics...
• Re: After Market Radiator Fan?
  Historical mailing list - Timothy Hannink
  Sun, 27 May 2001 15:06:15 -0400
  ...Also, it is possible to lower the condenser and radiator enough to remove the fan and shrouding without disconnecting any hoses. I didn't...