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• Re: Air Cooled Crate Engines
  Historical mailing list - J Stewart
  Wed, 16 Jul 2014 10:26:33 +0000
  ...A crate engine is > one of the things I am pondering. Google returns a number of places > one can buy a crate engine, GEX...
• Re: internal EngineCleanerUpperStuff ?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Ohana
  Fri, 21 Jun 2013 13:52:26 -0700
  engine fully assembled or apart ? if it's a running engine .. I don't recommend going 'too nutty' with cleaner additives at all. Sometimes...
• '72 Bus Engine
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 30 Sep 95 14:36:45 EDT
  I know that the '72-'73 buses had the 1679cc engine (the same was used in the VW 411,411 and Porsche 914). It...
• For all you Porsche engine wannabees...
  Historical mailing list - Jack Reed
  Wed, 13 Dec 1995 14:57:26 -0600 (MDT)
  ...Keep in mind that oftentimes when someone says they have a Porsche engine it's from a 914, which was really just a VW...
• Re: TDI engines availability
  Historical mailing list - Scot Douglas
  Fri, 27 Feb 1998 20:21:59 -0500
  ...In fact, I'd wager that a complete > engine with electronics, harnes, etc. would cost at least $5k. I agree. When our EV engine...
• engine year???
  Historical mailing list - Bill
  Sat, 28 Feb 1998 23:00:32 -0700
  ...Now he is wondering if the engine was swapped also. How can this be determined? Does the engine # give this info? His engine number...
• Re: Ceramic Engines
  Historical mailing list - Chris S.
  Thu, 22 Aug 2002 19:40:09 -0500
  > I seem to recall some research into ceramic-coating the tops of pistons, > too, to protect them from damage in lean-burn engines. I...
• Anyone w/ a cheap engine?
  Historical mailing list - Blake Thornton
  Thu, 4 Dec 2003 13:54:09 -0600
  A friend of mine just fried his new engine and is looking around for a cheap replacement (he needs a 1.9 l). I...
• Re: State of the Art in Engine Swaps is....?(Immortal Topic)
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Thu, 8 Apr 2004 12:18:12 EDT
  In a message dated 4/7/04 1:27:44 PM, warmerwagen@HOTMAIL.COM writes: << If you go to Fast Forward's engine conversion...
• Re: engineering nightmares vehicles was: cruise control speedometer sensor
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:53:29 +1300
  >I'm suprized at the trouble you subaru people will go >thru, (like making these circuits), to fit a cross bread >engine. IF a...
• Purpose of "Voltage Stabilizer" in Instrument cluster?
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Sat, 5 Jul 2008 12:18:04 -0700
  ...Does the voltage stabilizer work in conjunction with the engine coolant temp gauge? i.e. if one took the engine temp gauge out of...
• Re: Compression test - cold engine or warm engine?
  Historical mailing list - Dan Andrews
  Sun, 2 Jun 2013 15:25:03 +1000
  ...Todd Last <Rubatoguy@COMCAST.NET> wrote: > What is the consensus on taking a compression test? With the engine cold > or warm? > > Todd > '88 Westy
• My "new" WBX 2.1
  Historical mailing list - A PETER MARSH
  Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:07:55 -0500
  Here is the number off the engine block that I just purchased to replace the "shattered lifter engine" in my' 91 GL. Can anyone...
• engine and trans mounts
  Historical mailing list - William Greenamyer
  Mon, 7 Sep 2009 08:07:00 -0400
  It has come time to replace the motor mounts (exhaust pipe hitting engine support bar sometimes when start engine). The question I have is...
• Another Bob Hoover Sermon
  Historical mailing list - Angus Gordon
  Sat, 6 Jun 2009 17:46:08 -0700
  For those who may not follow Bob Hoover's blog, his latest post involves some aspects of engine overhaul. His niche is of course...
• 2.1 Wasserboxer engine needed
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 12 Jun 1996 20:18:17 PST
  Hey listers, I'm looking for a 2.1 engine in good condition prferably located in the Mid-Atlantic (Virginia). Any leads would be...
• engine for 73 bus.
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 21 Jun 1995 15:02:13 -0800 (PST)
  Dear bus fanatics, I have a 73 bus with the 1700cc engine. Runs fine, but I was wondering if I can fit the big...
• "Extraordinarily bad engines"
  Historical mailing list - Frank LaHorgue
  Sat, 28 Mar 1998 21:44:28 -0000
  Hey guys, Thanks for telling me how bad the waterboxer engine in my 1986 GL is. I guess that is why I had to...
• Re: Roadhaus - 2.2L Engine Install , Prelimanary Report
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Pollard
  Tue, 15 Oct 2002 13:38:00 -0700
  ...John Rodgers wrote: > > What was done to make it a 2.2L WBX? > Larry Chase wrote: > > Euro Cars web page on the engine: > > http...
• looking for Late Model Westy with bad engine.
  Historical mailing list - Clay Moore
  Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:40:47 -0700
  I've found a good deal on a Subaru Legacy engine, if anyone in the SW comes across a later model Westfalia with a...
• Re: Cleaning Engine, Do's and Don't
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Wed, 12 Feb 2003 22:05:09 -0800
  ...Todd '88 Westy Sidney White wrote: >What is the product of choice to clean up the engine compartment-Gunk?, what >needs covering up, protected...
• 82 Vanagon GL FS: PRICE REDUCED
  Historical mailing list - Paul Wies
  Fri, 5 Dec 2003 20:41:46 EST
  1982 Vanagon GL automatic 2.0L air cooled engine Daily Driver New Paint in 2001 No rust $2900 spent on engine overhaul in 2001...
• FS 1.9 engine
  Historical mailing list - Christensen
  Tue, 13 Apr 2004 21:26:11 -0500
  ...CONTACT THE FOLLOWING--NOT ME. ______________________________________________________________ I happen to have a complete 1.9 engine here with AC bracket. Looking to get rid of the...
• Re: running cold, high idle
  Historical mailing list - Robert Cardo
  Thu, 11 Nov 2004 23:44:09 -0600
  ...The thermostat is not allowing the engine to warm up and causing the coolant temp sensor not to signal the engine to come off...
• Re: Subaru engine FS (Re: Forsale
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 6 Feb 2005 12:18:09 EST
  In a message dated 2/6/05 7:29:16 AM Eastern Standard Time, vwghost@TRIAD.RR.COM writes: > 1993 Subaru legacy engine and...
• TiiCo engine conversions.
  Historical mailing list - Jurgen E. Pichler
  Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:40:38 -0800
  What's the most common thing to do if one converts to the TiiCo inline 4 engine in regards to the tachometer? The original...
• Re: Easy to remove engines
  Historical mailing list - Jake Beaulieu
  Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:07:31 -0400
  You can get one of those engines out in what 20 minutes? Hmm,, maybe I should switch back to a split westy?? Jonathan Poole...
• Re: 1.9L VW Remanufactured engines
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sun, 14 Apr 2002 11:58:18 -0500
  ...If you go to an outside source for the engine, then the engine supplier is responsible for the warrenty on the engine itself, while...
• Re: Which Engine To Install and by Whom
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Tue, 15 May 2012 13:55:09 -0700
  ...there are other fine four cylinder subaru engines too , not just that one. now about FAS ..( Tiico engine ) have I got a deal for...
• Re: Do waterboxers have core plugs (freeze plugs)?
  Historical mailing list - Vanagon
  Wed, 25 Dec 2013 08:31:38 -0800
  ...The engine was > left wrapped up for the night, and a catalytic heater was lit off and > placed inside the engine cowling. Next morning...
• Re: 2.1 heads
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:12:13 -0700
  I would hope that before someone goes asking about how to lower compression ratio on a GW engine....( due to detonation ) they would have...
• Heip!! New engine won't start (longish)
  Historical mailing list - Tom Young
  Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:43:51 -0700
  ...Relieved, I swapped over to the known-good air distribution box and throttle body off my old engine (a real PITA with the engine...
• Re: Rings? New engine?
  Historical mailing list - Zoran Mladen
  Sun, 27 Jun 2004 09:38:25 -0700
  ...since other parts of the engine were questionable, I bought a complete used engine on the ebay for $150. I installed that and have...
• Re: VW Canada 2.1 Reman Engine
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:14:21 -0700
  ...And everything on top of the engine replaced and restored....... that engine sounds darn tight and smooth ! But I think they 'try hard' to...
• Re: Oil leak since rebuilt 2.1l installed
  Historical mailing list - Ry
  Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:59:55 -0500
  when i say rear of engine i mean where it mates up with the transmission, oil pump is on the "front" of the engine...
• Installing heads -- what to do?
  Historical mailing list - Linda Bartnik
  Sun, 28 Jun 1998 23:43:07 -0400
  ...I have a spare 2.0L engine that I got when I bought my van. The engine is from a parts Vanagon. Unknown history...
• all the hoopla about engines
  Historical mailing list - Keith Adams
  Wed, 6 Sep 2000 10:54:27 -0600
  I have been reading all the posts about engines and I will relate my perspective on things... I have a 1986 Vanagon GL Westfalia...
• Re: Engine Conversion Idea...
  Historical mailing list - Michael Snow
  Sun, 16 Oct 2011 13:00:27 -0400
  ...I never saw the van with the engine installed, but related stories about passing cars going uphill in the SoCal mountains, engine revving well...
• Re: Ignition turned "off", engine stays on. Pull up handbrake engine goes off??
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Wed, 6 Aug 2008 07:33:32 -0700
  ...Ignition turned "off", engine stays on. Pull up handbrake engine >>> goes off?? >>> >>> Trust me to have such a strange thing happen. >>> >>> Earlier I posted...
• Re: 2.1L Oil pressure problem: Rods: SYMPTOM NOT CAUSE: UNBALANCED crank the Problem
  Historical mailing list - Robert Donalds
  Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:00:06 -0500
  I disagree the 2.1 cranks dont flex and in the hundreds wbx of engines I have dissasembled and rebuilt (unlike the bug crank...
• Re: Soft lifters (was: clarify .006 on lifters) and Trasco filters
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Thu, 10 Jan 2002 17:22:09 -0600
  ...I first cleaned out my engine by adding Gunk engine flush and running the engine for 5 minutes as per instructions on the can...
• Re: [Syncro] FS: 2.1L engine in Boston area
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 27 Jul 2002 09:25:34 -0400
  How much are you asking for the engine? I am interested. Thanks, Dennis -----Original Message----- From: glmcen@netscape.net [mailto:glmcen@netscape.net] Sent...
• PRICE REDUCED 80 Westy and 82 Partsmobile - Massachusetts
  Historical mailing list - Richard Golen
  Sat, 23 Aug 2003 07:45:12 -0400
  Hi everyone, My son is reducing the price on his 80 Vanagon Westy (Canadian model) which suffered a catastrophic engine failure and minor engine...
• Re: 91 Vanagon Manual - slow cranking....
  Historical mailing list - brett rueff
  Fri, 3 Dec 2010 17:51:43 +0000
  ...I had found and cleaned the first two grounds - battery and transmission - where in the engine compartment is the engine ground? Date: Thu, 2...
• Re: What's a Barndoor?
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 23 Jun 1995 16:39:31 -0400
  ...The spare tire was even stored in there (above the engine). Not only that, you had to open the engine compartment lid to put...
• V-type engines versus horizontally opposed engines WAS Re: Well oh ya?
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 23 Jun 1996 10:28:10 PST
  On Sun, 23 Jun 1996 01:59:28 -0500 cmoran@cswnet.com (Colin A Moran) writes: > A horizontaly opposed engine is a V with...
• Cut on the dotted line?
  Historical mailing list - Brian Cirulnick
  Wed, 6 Sep 2000 12:06:44 -0400
  Howdy! Whilst cleaning out my Vanagon on Monday between thunderstorms, I had opened the engine hatch to have a look at things. After closing...
• Re: vanagon Digest - 9 Mar 2003 (#2003-281)
  Historical mailing list - gary hradek
  Mon, 10 Mar 2003 19:24:50 -0800
  ...This will set the valve near the middle of the hydralic range? May have to shutdown the engine while I loosen and tighten the...
• Re: Subaru Engines (NVC)
  Historical mailing list - Calle Fallberg
  Sat, 29 May 2004 00:24:34 +0200
  The size of the engine in Europe is based on a few simple things.. The gas is expensive and a small engine often uses...
• Re: engine break in oil?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:30:27 -0400
  If ever there was a subject of myths and legends, it is the concept of break in engines and what oil to use. Since...
• Re: Which Engine To Install and by Whom
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Mon, 14 May 2012 17:59:13 -0700
  ...http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines
• Re: Re.: Synthetic oils
  Historical mailing list - Steve Johnson
  Thu, 18 Aug 94 14:12:30 PDT
  ...How could it not help but remove heat from the engine! Hell, you could run blood through your engine and it would remove heat...
• Diesel to Wasserboxer
  Historical mailing list - Gerald Skerbitz
  Wed, 12 Jun 1996 10:26:36 -0500 (CDT)
  People keep writing to me to say that I'm crazy for trying to mate a wasserboxer engine to a diesel tranny. I clearly...
• Re:[F] Extra large engines
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 1 Feb 1996 11:20:37 -0600
  ...If I'm not mistaken, The crank was bolted to the frame >and the engine rotated, as in the early aircraft. The Julian was...
• Re: Engine Questions
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 12 May 1996 13:57:55 -0400
  I just got my GEX engine. I have all of the accessories from the engine I used to have. NOW what should I do...
• Valve adjust "DONE"
  Historical mailing list - Dead Head
  Thu, 29 May 1997 21:06:47 -0700
  ...filled crankcase with new oil and fired up engine..... "Ta dah!" lifter pumped up no more noise and the engine is running smooth again...
• Syn oil & older engines?
  Historical mailing list - Fred Brittain
  Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:48:41 EST
  ...I've _heard_ that synthetics are best used on new engines. Older engines develop leaks, worn parts require thicker oil, etc. If you've...
• Am I missing something? - Engine tin
  Historical mailing list - (Donna Cassano)
  Tue, 25 Jul 2000 11:53:42 -0400
  Just curious as to how much engine tin there is supposed to be on an '84. ? It looks as though mine might be missing...
• Some questions...on a diesel engine in a vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Steve Delasalle
  Thu, 24 Aug 2000 18:44:47 -0500
  ...If I put a TD engine in my vanagon but run it with a non-td fuel & exhaust system, what power should I expect...
• Re: HELP...any engine builders out there???
  Historical mailing list - westydriver
  Thu, 17 Oct 2002 18:53:39 -0600
  i know of one of those engines on its way to 100k and my own is over 50k of mountain driving which would equate...