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• Re: Coolant Problems - Texaco Extended Life Coolant
  Historical mailing list - Dana E Hager
  Sat, 21 Aug 1999 17:32:05 -0700
  ...Is this stuff safe to use on our waterboxer engines? I hate to pay the price for Autobahn coolant but I don't want...
• Re: Rebuilt Engines
  Historical mailing list - KENWILFY
  Tue, 9 Dec 1997 17:21:46 EST
  If I were you I would replace me Waterboxer with a nice 4.3 liter V6 Chevy. The motor, parts and labor would be...
• Vanagons in Africa
  Historical mailing list - Renier Marais
  Mon, 20 Apr 1998 08:23:31 +0200
  ...Are the waterboxers bigger now, like maybe 2.3 ltr. If >so, I WANT ONE. In South-Africa we have three engines available: 1781cc...
• Re: Maple syrup
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Fri, 22 Dec 2000 01:20:37 EST
  ...The reason maple syrup is an effective agent for Vanagon waterboxer engines is they are essentially a pancake engine. If you use the wrong...
• Re: Engine Tin's Needed
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sat, 23 May 2009 14:53:03 -0700
  ...didn't you !!!? I have lots of 'engine tin' for waterboxer vanagon engines. And diesel. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Stewart" <robertmstewart@MAC.COM> To...
• Re: Is it reasonable to expect a rebuilt waterboxer to be bone dry underneath?
  Historical mailing list - MICHAEL H
  Fri, 1 Jul 2016 15:57:36 +0000
  ...Is it reasonable to expect a rebuilt waterboxer to be bone dry underneath? I want to see what other folks are experiencing on this...
• Re: clutch chatter
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Thu, 27 Mar 2014 20:25:50 -0700
  In many other engines that seal rides on the spinning crankshaft but in waterboxers it rides on the spinning flywheel or flexplate. Mark JRodgers...
• Re: Long block air cooled for vanagon 2.0 L
  Historical mailing list - Robert Stevens
  Fri, 3 May 2013 14:19:46 -0600
  ...Any other places with good reputations? Waterboxer Engines? , Glen in Florida The old Bob Donalds shop is here: http://www.suburbanengine.com/index.htm...
• Re: Hoover "Sermons" off-line
  Historical mailing list - marcus
  Wed, 19 Aug 1998 08:56:35 -0700
  ...or not, his predictions about the 1.9l and 2.1l waterboxer > > engines may come to pass some day. > > > > Mark. > > I have read a...
• Re: longivity of coversion engines
  Historical mailing list - DaveC
  Mon, 25 Mar 2002 17:29:25 -0800
  ...But in response to Ken about why >they stopped making the air cooled engines, I think they just did >not want to bother to...
• Re: 2.1 heads
  Historical mailing list - John Anderson
  Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:19:08 -0700
  ...management and electronics- wise, that those engines, and all the subaru engines after that have, that the waterboxer engine management doesn't have, and...
• Re: No Start Cause: Relay Failure. PICS, Thoughts.
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Wed, 6 Feb 2013 14:19:15 -0800
  ...http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines
• Re: 1988 Rebuilt Engine Stumbling at various RPM levels2100-2300, 3400- 4000rpms
  Historical mailing list - Paul Guzyk
  Sun, 9 Aug 2009 13:39:35 -0400
  I'm not a big fan of VW Waterboxers, crappy power, crappy water pump and cooling system plumbing, crappy head gasket design, hard to...
• Re: EB2007 Vanaru Test Drive
  Historical mailing list - Paul Guzyk
  Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:24:02 -0700
  There is a known problem with factory head gaskets on certain later year Subaru engines, especially DOHC 2.5's,...however, once you install...
• Re: new VW model has rear engine "waterboxer"
  Historical mailing list - Chris S.
  Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:24:30 -0700
  ...learned a thing or two by now about water cooled boxer engines. --------------------------------- Tonight's top picks. What will you watch tonight? Preview the hottest...
• Re: Air-cooled Vanagon history
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 6 Jan 2001 13:44:12 EST
  ...I didnt say ALL WATERBOXER engines are sh*tty, just the VW ones. too bad VW didnt steal the blueprints from Subaru, they might...
• Kelley Park
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Holser
  Fri, 3 Apr 1998 15:53:33 -0800
  ...that's *7* now By the way, on the reliability of waterboxers thread on vanagon.com: My waterboxers do better than my airboxer -- they...
• Spark plugs
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Fri, 7 Sep 2012 06:30:16 -0400
  ...Now, here's my question, anyone have any real life experience with these plugs in the 1.9 and 2.1 waterboxer engines ? I...
• Re: Raceware Head Studs
  Historical mailing list - Kyle Wade
  Wed, 18 Dec 96 23:55:20 CST
  ...I do want to add a couple of things; I've seen many Waterboxer engines torn down, many are rusty inside, and the studs...
• Re: any years / models we should avoid
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Tue, 8 Jul 2003 08:41:55 -0700
  ...I've taken 500+ mile trips more than 100 times on both aircooled Type IV engines and waterboxers for combined driving of over a...
• Re: Friday engine conversions
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:33:23 +1300
  ...a true boxer does �not share rods on the same > journal like V engines do. > Our waterboxer 4 cylinder vanagon engines are true boxers...
• Re: EB2007 Vanaru Test Drive
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:37:33 -0400
  Subaru engines are usually quieter than the waterboxer engine (SVX engines excepted.) Now Tiico engines sound a lot like the original engines...cause they...
• Re: Spark plugs
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 7 Sep 2012 07:13:30 -0400
  ...Now, here's my question, anyone have any real life experience with these plugs in the 1.9 and 2.1 waterboxer engines ? I...
• Re: Fw: driving speed vs. engine life
  Historical mailing list - t bill
  Tue, 18 Aug 1998 23:23:38 -0700
  ...Not going to do a waterboxer again. Looking at > Golf engines and Subaru engines. Seems either would be an improvement. > My little 1.9...
• Re: Originally: JLP rebuilt wbxr engines in Denver
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Thu, 10 Feb 2011 11:19:28 -0800
  ...the waterboxer is that ...just the head gasket thing is a joke really .. and Subaru 4 cylinder engines keep that configuration in a Vangon...
• Re: IMO: engine Converting = Ignorance of what is out there...
  Historical mailing list - , Dieter Thiessen
  Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:56:42 EDT
  ...Gene Berg only makes parts for T1 engines . He won't touch a pancake or waterboxer. Do you know why he doesn't like...
• Digijet Fuel Injectors
  Historical mailing list - pete owsianowski
  Sun, 21 Dec 2003 21:51:38 -0500
  ...Can anyone answer the following? Where can you find injectors? Would it be wise to hit a Junk Yard? What other engines have WaterBoxer...
• Re: how to put out engine fire?
  Historical mailing list - Joshua Van Tol
  Fri, 14 May 1999 22:51:38 -0500
  ...Finally, not all vw 4 cylinder engines are magnesium. Most type IV's and all waterboxers are an aluminum alloy. Joshua Van Tol -- jjvantol...
• Oops, inline 4s, was invention of the WBX?
  Historical mailing list - mdrillock
  Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:49:06 -0800
  ...wrote: > VW not only put inline 4 engines into Vanagons, they did so years before > the waterboxer even came out. > > 1981 17,000 inline...
• Re: Secret tune-up / service item on 1.9 waterboxer engines.
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:20:55 -0700
  ...Secret tune-up / service item on 1.9 waterboxer engines. | |Thanks, Michael. I had the feeling that this point -- today's |oils be mo...
• Re: JLP rebuilt wbxr engines in Denver ?
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Martin
  Sun, 6 Feb 2011 20:25:16 -0800
  ...deal with or hear anything about this company ? > > http://www.waterboxer.com/engines/vw-vanagon-21l-engine > > a 2.1 is $ 1,865 US...
• Re: South African Engines
  Historical mailing list - David Brandfass
  Sun, 13 Feb 2000 18:13:53 -0500
  Bart, I've also ordered a "South African Conversion" kit to go from a 2.1 waterboxer to a Golf engine. So far my...
• Re: Was engle 100 cam in a waterboxer Now more than you ever wanted to know about WBX cams
  Historical mailing list - John Connolly, Aircooled.Net
  Sun, 11 Apr 2004 11:51:04 -0600
  I have used the Web 107i successfully on 2.1 digifant engines. This cam has 0.430" lift with 1.1 rockers, and has...
• Re: Worst vanagon change
  Historical mailing list - Allan Streib
  Fri, 1 Aug 2008 10:10:12 -0400
  ...I guess I'd question why they created the Waterboxer when they already had perfectly usable, reliable, proven I4 water cooled engines. Allan -- 1991...
• NEW 1.9 TDI and TD engines for sale COMPLETE!!
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 14 Sep 1999 14:27:26 EDT
  I just got word that we have some factory NEW 1.9l Turbo Diesel engines and 1.9l TDI engines COMPLETE offered for sale...
• Re: Altitude Sickness and Buzzing alarm.
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:28:56 -0700
  ...I got some of their Hot Rod 15W50 to run in one of my waterboxer engines .. it's for non-OBD-II engines with...
• Re: Timing belt replacement and valve timing in VW gas and Diesel engines
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Tue, 27 Sep 2011 06:55:02 -0700
  ...It uses a timing belt but VW wbx engines don't. The wbx engine is a push-rod engine and the cam is adjacent...
• Audi Engine specs
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Sat, 12 Dec 1998 18:40:21 -0800
  Just FYI - Here are the specs on the Audi 5-cyl engines vs the Waterboxer (1998 used): AUDI AUDI VW Engine Specifications 2.2L...
• Re: All engines have issues...
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sat, 22 May 2010 15:05:03 -0700
  ...and a robust simple design with cast iron block a real head gasket ( waterboxers do not have 'real' headgaskets, like all other engines do...
• More powerful waterboxer
  Historical mailing list - Mark Keller
  Tue, 1 Feb 2005 23:54:54 -0800
  How much more power? I can suggest that the heads that on fixed on the waterboxer, ie new AMC heads or just JB weld...
• Re: disaster
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Mon, 13 Aug 2007 06:26:51 EDT
  ...There are no more rebuilt waterboxers engines available from VW. Cheers, Frank Condelli Almonte, Ontario, Canada '87 Westy & Lionel Trains (_Collection for sale_ (http...
• Re: To rebuild or not to Rebuild-
  Historical mailing list - Michael Brenner
  Sat, 11 Jan 2003 11:31:17 -0800
  ...Listerines, I need opinions on whether to rebuild a recently purchased 1.9ltr waterboxer with 86K on it. My original intent was to just...
• engine stand types
  Historical mailing list - Craig Oda
  Fri, 28 Mar 2003 15:52:34 -0800
  ...a waterboxer? I see a lot of VW engine stands out there that say there are specifically made for VW air-cooled engines, but...
• Re: 85 Vanagon low compression in 2 cylinders. Suggestions?
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:09:35 -0700
  ...http://vwvanagons.blogspot.com/2013/03/san-diego-vw-vanagon-19l-complete_25.html Used running waterboxer engines are often offered in the $500...
• WBX and EJ22, same "feel"?
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:25:43 -0700
  ...Subaru engines are usually quieter than the waterboxer engine (SVX > engines excepted.) > > Now Tiico engines sound a lot like the original engines...cause they...
• Re: [Bulk] Re: Secret tune-up / service item on 1.9 waterboxer engines.
  Historical mailing list - Robert Downes
  Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:43:07 -0400
  ...Secret tune-up / service item on 1.9 waterboxer > engines. > > Not easy to find the Shell rotella. Only places I've found are oil...
• Re: Secret tune-up / service item on 1.9 waterboxer engines.
  Historical mailing list - ralph meyermann
  Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:48:01 -0600
  ...Secret tune-up / service item on 1.9 waterboxer engines. | |Thanks, Michael. I had the feeling that this point -- today's |oils be mo...
• Re: Oops, inline 4s, was invention of the WBX?
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:42:14 -0800
  ...wrote: >> VW not only put inline 4 engines into Vanagons, they did so years before >> the waterboxer even came out. >> >> 1981 17,000 inline...
• Re: Some points on why the Wasserboxer was the way for me...
  Historical mailing list - Karl F. Bloss
  Thu, 13 Jan 2000 09:34:16 -0500
  ...Also, with all these folks going to other engines, waterboxer cores should be cheap and Bob Donalds will keep us going for some time...
• Re: Anyone seen Gowesty's Digifiant replacement?
  Historical mailing list - kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
  Tue, 17 Jul 2018 17:17:04 -0400
  ...I personally think they came up with this because they were having failures with their high compression engines due to the fact that the...
• Re: engine change
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 25 Nov 1996 16:30:01 +0000
  ...I have dropped air-cooled engines but this is my first waterboxer. Does anybody know what gaskets and sealants that I will need for...
• RE:Re: Well oh ya?
  Historical mailing list - Arnold Schultz
  Mon, 24 Jun 1996 21:07:28 -0700
  ...This pounding even happens to Waterboxers. >>> >>>Dennis H. > >Why then do so many aircraft engines have horizontaly opposed engines? They >run at that rpm...
• Re: Question about testing O2 sensor with digital meter
  Historical mailing list - Mike S
  Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:26:28 -0400
  At 05:27 PM 9/26/2008, Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote... >there is no Cold Start injector on a waterboxer vanagon of course. Tnx...
• Re: Bus Depot Rebuilt 2.1L - opinions?
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Tue, 26 Jul 2005 05:53:44 EDT
  ...I do not sell my rebuild engines, _VW Waterboxer Engine Rebuilding_ (http://members.aol.com/Fkc43/engines.htm) , to ANYONE unless I do the...
• Re: Porsche engine mounting ring work on waterboxer?
  Historical mailing list - Al and Sue Brase
  Thu, 23 Dec 2004 02:54:36 -0600
  ...a >> universal engine stand will fit on a waterboxer? >> >> http://www.mainelycustombydesign.com/enginecomponents.htm#enginestand >> >> The description says it will work on Porsche...
• Re: Spark plugs
  Historical mailing list - J Stewart
  Fri, 7 Sep 2012 11:20:11 +0000
  ...1 waterboxer engines ? I seem to recall > having bad experience with them here. Seems to me the ignition system > on the waterboxer engined Vanagon...
• Re: The real story about the invention of the WBX?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:28:00 -0800
  ...the waterboxer is really a water-jacketed bored and stroked 1600 air cooled engine. about whether waterboxer engines are 'good' or not........ I like...
• Re: [Syncro] stuck syncro = seized engine
  Historical mailing list - Westyman
  Mon, 19 May 2003 11:31:50 -0700
  ...also noticed that GoWesty.com is selling much higher HP vanagon Waterboxer engines now too. Up to 135 HP -- or something in that area...
• Re: Spark plugs
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Fri, 7 Sep 2012 07:52:29 -0400
  ...Now, here's my question, anyone have any real life experience with these plugs in the 1.9 and 2.1 waterboxer engines ? I...
• Re: � � � Re: Syn oil in Converted S/A Inline 4
  Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
  Fri, 6 Sep 2002 23:02:46 -0700
  ...The tiico engine (NOT the waterboxer). >