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• Re: To waterboxer or not to waterboxer
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 4 Jan 2000 11:58:13 -0500
  ...To waterboxer or not to waterboxer > That is the question. To find the answer, most people seeking it find > themselves asking the wisdom of...
• repost of Waterboxer vs transplants engine weights
  Historical mailing list - Mark Keller
  Tue, 5 Jun 2001 22:29:14 -0800
  ...Kennedy shows the 2.2 Subaru at 260 Kennedy states the Waterboxer 210 lb. David Beierl send these numbers >1985 1.9 Waterboxer 190...
• Re: Waterboxer rebuild survey Update! (more data please!)
  Historical mailing list - Janette & Dick Smith
  Tue, 7 Sep 1999 11:55:14 -0400
  ...Waterboxer rebuild survey Update! (more data please!) > Thanks for all the folks who have participated in the waterboxer rebuild > survey so far around 19...
• Re: Long Block Advice
  Historical mailing list - Rich Burdick
  Sun, 02 Feb 1997 10:22:32 -0500
  ...Year Model Description AVP Part Number With Core Core Fee Outright 83-85 1.9 Waterboxer Vanagon 770 1750.99 600.99 2351.98...
• Re: Waterboxer assembly detail sought
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:24:11 -0700
  ...on the waterboxer block case there are 10mm studs external to > and > internal to the water jacket casting. These are the studs that clamp...
• why no ridge in waterboxer cylinders?
  Historical mailing list - William Dummitt
  Fri, 10 Jul 1998 17:44:56 -0400
  ...The exception is the one and only waterboxer engine I've rebuilt- it had no ridge at all despite 120k mi. After cleaning and...
• Re: Vanagon carb needed, with waterboxer manifolds
  Historical mailing list - Marc Sayer
  Wed, 24 Aug 2005 22:46:15 -0700
  ...If anyone has or knows where to get a carb setup for the > waterboxer please let me know. Please don't steer me to...
• Oil Temp Guage for Waterboxer
  Historical mailing list - Bill Knight
  Mon, 29 Sep 1997 10:26:03 -0400
  ...Does anyone know a good place to put the VDO sender on a Waterboxer??? Does VDO make a sender that fits in the drain...
• leaky head gasket question again
  Historical mailing list - Daniel Curran
  Tue, 2 Apr 2002 14:01:43 -0500
  Hello all; I am searching for a waterboxer Westy, having owned a 72 and a 75 previously, and have been thoroughly frightened off by...
• Re: Reconditioned rods-necessary for diesel, too?
  Historical mailing list - Al and Sue Brase
  Tue, 28 Dec 2004 01:14:16 -0600
  ...ALL waterboxer rods will very likely be out of spec. I can't really speak to the diesels. I only rebuilt one totally and...
• Re: Need input on radiator problem
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Wed, 7 Feb 2007 07:44:57 EST
  ...Don't forget, Waterboxers and Type IV pancake air cooled engines were never sold new in Mexico... While Mexican mechanics can work on Type...
• Re: Remanufactured waterboxers?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 23 Jun 1999 22:37:40 -0400
  ...Remanufactured waterboxers? >I've now heard sufficient horror stories about both GEX *and* AVP to be >disinclined towards purchasing reman'd 2.1L waterboxers...
• Re: VW Camper Cooling problems
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 11 Nov 1996 07:19:59 -0800
  ...With the amount of discussion on this list about Vanagon waterboxer head problems, it is probably a required diagnostic tool. That said, I have...
• (no subject)
  Historical mailing list - Dan Hall
  Tue, 9 Sep 2008 21:26:10 -0500
  Search "waterboxer" and "lifespan" in VANAGON
• Re: Looking for a CA smog legal conversion/extremists
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Tue, 5 Mar 2002 17:51:07 -0800
  ...In the SoCal junkyards I visit the air-cooled Vanagons outnumbered the waterboxer models by at least 3 to 1 in at least 100...
• 2.1 waterboxer weight
  Historical mailing list - jbange
  Sun, 20 Feb 2005 14:23:53 -0800
  ...how much does the 2.1 waterboxer engine weigh? I'm getting ready to put one in and I need to know how many...
• Re: waterboxer turbo
  Historical mailing list - PAT
  Sun, 31 May 1998 01:08:00 -0400
  ...COM> Date: Sunday, May 31, 1998 12:37 AM Subject: Re: waterboxer turbo >In a message dated 98-05-30 04:08:41 EDT...
• Re: More 5-speed answers
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 27 Nov 1998 11:11:41 EST
  ...If you were putting one of these in a waterboxer you could sell your waterboxer tranny (for $600-800) and the 5-cylinder bellhousing...
• removing piston pins from 2.1L waterboxer
  Historical mailing list - Tom and Deb Runyon
  Sun, 28 Sep 2003 15:46:56 -0700
  I am having trouble removing the piston (wrist) pins on the flywheel side (cyclinders 1 and 3) of a 2.1 L waterboxer. Last...
• Re: Form Jay Leno's Garage
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Thu, 5 Apr 2012 15:33:16 -0700
  ...the outer rubber water gaskets on waterboxer cylinder heads do corrode 'very nicely'. they addressed steel and aluminum, ..but nothing about seals. I wonder...
• Carrier Bars?
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Sun, 4 Dec 2011 10:59:46 -0800
  Inline replacing a waterboxer. I keep getting ambiguous answers. Question: '84 wasserboxer. I have diesel bellhousing. Plan is a 2.0 cross flow gas...
• Vanaru / Subagon XT6...
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 11 May 1997 13:05:08 -0400 (EDT)
  ...Has anyone else attempted this swap to a flat 6?? this seems like the only economically feasable way to put a waterboxer 6 into...
• Final drive ratios for AC Vanagons trannys?
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 7 Oct 1999 17:55:39 EDT
  Anyone know the final drive ratio for the Aircooled Vanagon manual trannys? Bentley only shows me final drive ratio for the waterboxer 091 tranny...
• Re: W.B. Turbo?
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 3 Nov 1999 21:14:35 EST
  ...It seems that a dune buggy racing team had a waterboxer with a supercharger on it. I would love to try to find that...
• 84 waterboxer overheating
  Historical mailing list - Tim Spotted Wolf
  Tue, 7 May 2002 15:58:59 -0400
  ok, My 84 vanagon waterboxer 1.9 is over heating when I take it up through the gears... It boils!! I have checked the...
• Re: Limping home from GA... 1982 Tranny needed.
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 3 Mar 2005 02:25:55 EST
  ...is on this list. > > aircooled vanagons need aircooled vanagon transmissions, waterboxer vanagons need waterboxer transmissions. you cant swap them.. i have both available. chris
• the vw waterboxer...and why it sucks..
  Historical mailing list - JordanVw
  Fri, 13 Mar 1998 21:27:31 EST
  ...the vw waterboxer barely does either. why do you think they don't even offer the waterboxer in the new "Vanagons" being made in...
• Looking for waterboxer autotrans governor
  Historical mailing list - kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
  Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:50:21 -0400
  ...The van is an 83 1.9l waterboxer. The governor is under the round cover that has a clip over it which is on...
• Question to those who've done the Tiico conversion
  Historical mailing list - Joachim Beek
  Thu, 18 Jan 2001 03:40:17 -0600
  ...For those of you who have gone the Tiico route, what did you do with the old waterboxer... sell it to defray the cost...
• Re: Eberspacher BA6 gas heaters on canadian waterboxer vanagons...
  Historical mailing list - Roy Nicholl
  Mon, 9 Feb 2015 12:26:25 -0400
  ...On 09-Feb-2015, at 06:13, JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote: > ok a few canadian listers have said their waterboxer vanagons have > eberspacher BA6...
• Re: Megasquirt on Waterboxer?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sat, 5 Sep 2009 19:07:51 -0400
  ...this >as a little "project" in preparation for maybe another little >waterboxer project that I'm going to want the Gee, John, have you...
• Re: Are New Bentley's "Knock Offs"?
  Historical mailing list - Kent Christensen
  Thu, 14 Jan 1999 19:32:01 -0700
  ...The pages you list include 15 on diesels as well as 46 for waterboxers, including Digijet 1983, 1984; Digijet 1985; Digifant 1986. I assume...
• Re: propane valve -- manual or autostop?
  Historical mailing list - Mike Rouby
  Wed, 2 Aug 2006 13:26:50 -0700
  All early Westfalias (air cooled) use the manual one. (Yeah for me! 1981) Latter waterboxers use the dangerous 'auto-stop'!! I believe some mid...
• Re: Rebuilt Waterboxer Longevity?(Please read)
  Historical mailing list - bmn
  Fri, 3 Sep 1999 08:53:37 -0400
  ...At least we already know the problems for the waterboxer. Thus far to me, it's been like voting...the lesser of the two...
• Re: Transmission upgrade
  Historical mailing list - Michael Snow
  Wed, 15 Aug 2012 05:32:11 -0400
  ...I switched to the later (stronger) waterboxer transmission because I like the overall gearing better with 215/75R15 tires. With the stock 185R14 tires...
• Re: A "metallurgical" 2L engine rebuild Q
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 18 Jan 1999 08:39:52 EST
  ...I have seen motors that got hot enough to drop valve seats in the waterboxer but they didn't get hot enough to damage...
• Re: to rebuild or not, 89 vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Paul Guzyk
  Mon, 6 Jun 2005 07:43:44 -0700
  The bottom ends of waterboxers are pretty good. Most will go 150,000 to 200,000 miles or more, easily. Just do the heads...
• Fwd: Re: Comtemplating buying my first Waterboxer...
  Historical mailing list - Bill Urban
  Fri, 18 Sep 1998 22:02:44 -0500
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• Looking for a lower mileage 2.1l Waterboxer
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Wilford
  Fri, 20 Jun 2003 17:45:05 -0400
  I am looking for a lower mileage 2.1l Waterboxer. I would like it to be 100k miles or less. It can have leaky...
• Re: Gas heaters...was Re: Heater
  Historical mailing list - Roy Nicholl
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:40:30 -0400
  ...You can add a BA6 > to a waterboxer vanagon is you do some custom ducting, but vw never used > them on the waterboxers. the...
• Re: Waterboxer Head Studs
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 26 Jun 1996 01:46:12 -0300 (ADT)
  ...the number fo a place called Raceware? They make studs >fo waterboxer engines with a special anti-corrosion coating. Any help >would be appreciated...
• Fwd: the vw waterboxer...and why it sucks..
  Historical mailing list - Unkaducky
  Tue, 24 Mar 1998 12:31:31 EST
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• Looking for a 1.9l waterboxer distributor
  Historical mailing list - kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
  Wed, 13 Nov 2013 12:19:25 -0500
  I am in need of a 1.9l Vanagon waterboxer distributor. This is the one that has the vacuum advance/retard unit on it...
• Re: New question..Waterboxer rebuild
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Thu, 9 Sep 1999 12:24:31 -0700
  There is a production rebuild shop in Seattle that has been doing VW engines, including waterboxers, for years. Some list members have had good...
• Re: The writings of Gene Berg and ETC.
  Historical mailing list - Filcoff, David M.
  Fri, 21 Jul 2000 11:50:59 -0500
  I had my 2.1l waterboxer (main pulley, crank (micro polished), rods, flywheel, clutch and pressure plate) dynamically balanced and the rods matched by...
• Re: Porsche engine mounting ring work on waterboxer?
  Historical mailing list - Al and Sue Brase
  Thu, 23 Dec 2004 02:54:36 -0600
  ...Porsche engine mounting ring work on waterboxer? > > >> Does anyone know if this rather sturdy looking engine mount ring for a >> universal engine stand will...
• genuine VW rebuilt engines available
  Historical mailing list - Peter B
  Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:25:33 -0800
  ...2.1 Waterboxer $1850.00 exchange or $1995.00 outright 1.9 Waterboxer ditto The rebuilt Waterboxer includes a new waterpump and thermostat installed...
• Re: Waterboxer headset
  Historical mailing list - Pat Dooley
  Fri, 4 Jan 1980 21:07:40 -0600
  ...Waterboxer headset >Jim - Am I understanding this correctly? New head + gasket set for $70? >1.9/2.1L? Max > >Jim DiGennaro wrote: > >> Hi Gang...
• Waterboxer engined Vanagon, T3, thermostat problem.
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Wed, 18 Jul 2012 19:46:34 -0400
  These photos <https://picasaweb.google.com/102449862149336184707/WaterboxerEnginedVanagonT3Thermostat> show a correct waterboxer engined Vanagon, T3, thermostat on the right and an incorrect one on...
• Re: '84 waterboxer won't idle, Bosch probs
  Historical mailing list - Bill Knight
  Mon, 16 Mar 1998 13:55:40 -0500
  ...Monday, March 16, 1998 1:07 PM Subject: '84 waterboxer won't idle, Bosch probs >I am putting this 84 waterboxer engine together, it...
• Re: Looking for a CA smog legal conversion/extremists
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Tue, 5 Mar 2002 20:39:41 -0600
  In the SoCal junkyards I visit the air-cooled Vanagons > outnumbered the waterboxer models by at least 3 to 1 in at least > 100...
• Re: Reflections on working on a waterboxer. :-)
  Historical mailing list - Ken Wilford
  Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:51:31 -0400
  ...The waterboxer version is the easiest to work on even though you will have to put a pan under it for many jobs that...
• On House Sitters & Mexican Mechanics
  Historical mailing list - PSavage
  Mon, 27 Nov 2000 21:36:36 -0800
  ...more replys coming in from my post to www.mexconnect.com re waterboxer mechanics. Seems there are plenty of foreigners driving waterboxers in Mexico...
• Re: what the vw waterboxer offers?? wasRe: 85 Westfalia beeping
  Historical mailing list - Zoltan
  Fri, 1 Jun 2001 09:12:48 -0700
  ...what the vw waterboxer offers?? wasRe: 85 Westfalia beeping > Alright---Alright, Mr. school teacher. > > So I got A's in history, and flunked spelling...
• Re: Upholstery Fabric not "BOOGIE WOOGIE"
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:48:17 -0800
  Good point, I can't recall any waterboxer vans in that color. Diesel and aircooled, sure. I don't know if there are any...
• Re: overflow tank always empties..
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Mon, 14 Jun 1999 10:41:49 -0700
  ...How do I know what type of vanagon I have?? '85 GL" is enough to satisfy people?? > 2).What is a waterboxer..i think...
• Re: gas prices..
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Fox
  Wed, 25 Feb 2004 12:02:46 -0700
  ...You might as well have said "If your that brain dead to by a Vanagon with Waterboxer, thats the only way your going to...
• Re: Engine Replacement or Gasket Fix?
  Historical mailing list - Richard A Jones
  Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:21:12 -0600
  > I would not want anyone who dislikes waterboxers and wants to charge 80 an > hour touching it. I'm in Glenwood Spring, Colorado, and...
• Correction-Vw dealer engine conversions
  Historical mailing list - harald_nancy
  Tue, 28 Aug 2001 14:13:15 -0700
  ...Had a conversation with the parts manager, and he said VWoA can't get enough good waterboxer cores, and they don't want to...
• Re: Upholstery Fabric not "BOOGIE WOOGIE"
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:07:32 EST
  ...as far as i know, there were no medium blue aka "smurf blue" waterboxer westys sold in the USA.. all the US medium blue...