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• Re: Bubble in cooling system? '87 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - W.R. Transue
  Tue, 23 Jul 96 23:36:20 -0500
  ...Sucking should block (not a one-way valve, but the sucking has to > be at 15lbs/sq" or so to release the valve). A...
• Re: Battery dead AGAIN!!!!
  Historical mailing list - PB
  Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:32:29 -0700
  ...I definitely won't be going anywhere - not even around the block until I'm confident the battery situation is stable. I also lost...
• Cleavis pin HELP (and adventure of the day)
  Historical mailing list - A Brandy Psmythe
  Tue, 11 Jun 1996 11:36:19 -0700 (PDT)
  Hey there all, The short of it is, I need a good temporary replacement for the cleavis pin. Will just any screw that fits...
• Re: need help, oil in coolant (bit long)
  Historical mailing list - DAVID MOST
  Mon, 18 Jan 1999 17:56:45 -0800
  ...But that would mean either a cracked block or head, or a bad head > gasket. I assume you checked the oil level, considering the...
• Re: Gas prices
  Historical mailing list - Ben T
  Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:20:49 -0800
  ...If you put "oil stored in tankers today" in the search block of >>>> http://www.news.google.com/ you can find more questions to...
• Eurovan Camper C/D Test
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 25 Jan 1995 13:46:16 CDT
  ...Car & Driver February 1995 Short Take VW EuroVan Camper Playing house with the best bed on wheels By Mary Beth Lewis The 1995 VW...
• Re: Throttle Idle RPM question
  Historical mailing list - Ramon Hill
  Thu, 1 Oct 2009 22:22:35 -0500
  ...A blocked air cleaner will restrict air flow to the engine, and could cause a lack of idle. If the engine is allowed to...
• Re: Head bolts on Air cooleds oil leaks
  Historical mailing list - Dan Johnston
  Tue, 8 Sep 1998 19:39:14 -0400
  ...the > base of the cylinder is a heat transfer surface--it transfers some of the heat > from the jug to the block. the only...
• Fwd: rod knock on ivory '84 westy
  Historical mailing list - James Felder
  Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:09:36 -0600
  ...anyone is interested in purchasing a rebuildable 1.9 waterboxer long > block .. > I have 6 of them. > and ... > I'll even say the LOCATION...
• Re: 1.9 > 2.1 cooling kit?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 1 Sep 2010 18:14:48 -0700
  ...you need about 15 main parts at least, you would need to block off the hoses to the oil cooler if using a 2...
• Re: Internal Debate
  Historical mailing list - aatransaxle
  Sun, 8 Mar 2009 19:25:19 -0700
  ...Internal Debate > damn, I fall short on a few of these ! > there's no one to cook and bring me meals most of the...
• Re: Bus Depot order line?
  Historical mailing list - Ward Smith
  Thu, 2 May 2002 22:18:24 -0700
  ...make it short, sweet, and to the point----and above all else--shoot straight from the hip---- No going around the block to get...
• Re: Mobile1 15/50
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Tue, 6 Feb 2007 13:53:09 -0600
  ...For a daily driver doing >relatively short commutes, The 0w-40 European Formulae or 10w-40 >Extreme performance would be my choice. > >Dennis > >----- Original...
• Re: Vanagon engine noise - collapsed lifter?
  Historical mailing list - James Felder
  Sat, 3 Dec 2011 09:45:32 -0600
  ...not there or used so > long the oil sludge or carbon blocked the pump inlet screen and bearing > passages. > > Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vanagon...
• Re: (LVC) Friday: Wrong Way Driver & Vegi Carnage on Interstate-5 on way home driving new to me VW LT35
  Historical mailing list - Donna Skarloken
  Fri, 1 Aug 2008 09:28:55 -0700
  ...Carp! Carp! I almost hit the damned TOMATO tub sitting > across I-5 completely blocking my lane and part of the left lane. We...
• Re: 1985 Vanagon - Ford Focus Engine alternative
  Historical mailing list - Jim Akiba
  Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:40:56 -0500
  ...A highly modified engine to any gearhead means work on to the shortblock and at least the longblock(little help gearheads?). Bolt-on power...
• Re: With the Westy through Germany, Austria, Slovenia and Croatia
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Mon, 19 May 2014 10:45:16 -0500
  ...Via Michelin has routing options such as cheapest, shortest and "discovery". Many of these would instead of the new motorways and tunnels, take us...
• Re: 2.1 running again, thanks, list!
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:22:25 -0700
  ...They would be omnidirectional--not that it matters once the >>>>> engine is off the ground. >>>>> >>>>> I did use a block and tackle so I...
• Re: off with her heads
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel
  Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:13:14 -0700
  ...have about 6 and don't want much for an assembled short block. >> You can make a 1.9 DH code engine into 2...
• Re: Seeing Red
  Historical mailing list - Bruce Todd
  Tue, 7 Jul 2020 12:12:14 -0700
  ...This included repainting the manifold, cleaning the top > of > >> the block, inspecting fuel lines and installing protective sheathing > over > >> the fuel lines which circulate...
• Re: Engine Removal
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:36:05 -0700
  ...To go a few steps further, today i pulled the entire intake, > exhaust, fuel injection, and cooling systems, reducing my engine to a block...
• Re: AT Fluid Burping out of ATF Dip Stick Tube? Causes Trans Malfunction, 88 Auto
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:26:09 -0400
  ...They tend to get blocked with road dirt. As the van is driven, the fluid in the torque converter heats up and expands rapidly...
• Re: Cautions, was: Re: Solar panels are GONE!!!
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Thu, 2 Jan 2003 20:13:18 -0800
  Ben- The panel has a blocking diode or else the battery would turn the panel into a light bulb at night. Robert K 1982...
• Re: 16" alloy wheels on ebay 5x112 (vanagon bolt pattern)
  Historical mailing list - Derek Drew
  Sat, 2 Feb 2002 11:37:07 -0500
  ...publishing more about these when they leave Europe, which should be shortly. Priority will go to those who have already emailed me in the...
• buses for sale in Alabama
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Wed, 06 Nov 96 20:36:02 CST
  ...what it looks like is a rebuilt short block with the old peripherals (which did NOT even have the coolant cleaned off them) put...
• Re: [Fwd: Fwd: Making Tracks In Mexico!] A message from P. Savage...
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Palmer
  Mon, 19 Feb 2001 18:23:38 -0600
  ...Generally > >these folks, by nature less adventurous, arrive > >with short tempers & white knuckles. They find some RV park > >& sit tight, not seeing much, if...
• Re: Only 5V at Temp II sensor?
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Sat, 27 May 2017 17:23:58 -0400
  I have bypassed bad terminals like that when the remaining connections on such a block were still good. Run the "bad" wire past both...
• Re: Some potentially stupid actions
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Fri, 5 Nov 2010 05:45:48 -0500
  ...A special little cement block house ws built, and gas hot water tank placed i a closet in typical installation, and an open 3...
• Re: 5th seat
  Historical mailing list - Steve Arbaugh
  Tue, 11 Jan 2000 06:44:24 -0800
  ...Mine has the older "short" arm rests (whereas >my van has the "long" armrests). > >The box has a door in its front so you...
• Re: I am not alone
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 22 Feb 2014 00:03:38 -0500
  ...No shortage of parts here, thanks > to me! LOL > > > > Plus we have a really good shop here and another in a nearby town. I...
• Re: Vanagon handling.
  Historical mailing list - mike ingle
  Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:56:39 -0700
  ...Vanagon handling. > > > > > > > The steering control arms on the later model power steering arms > > are > > > shorter, IE you'll need to change the spindles. > > > Outer...
• Re: Vanagon running rough
  Historical mailing list - Craig Oda
  Mon, 10 Jan 2005 08:11:33 -0800
  ...in UK), so > managed to get a week off at very short notice and 'did Europe' - > 1350miles in 6 days (couldn't get any...
• Re: Multi Conductor Shielded Automotive Wire Temperature Rating
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Wed, 10 Jan 2018 11:06:39 -0800
  ...So far, it looks like they all terminate at the multi contact connector at engine block. But I'm going to give that more...
• Re: glad to meet you
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Mon, 25 Nov 2002 22:59:02 -0800
  ...To make a long story short is was an air leak in my intake system that caused it to do this. It would buck...
• Re: FS: 2.1 "DJ" code 112 HP WBX New/Rebuilt
  Historical mailing list - Bob Donalds
  Thu, 1 Mar 2007 12:00:11 -0500
  ...I have seen so many instances of ping eating engines in the short term (months not years) that I can asy with conviction that...
• Re: Oil pressure light in 1.9l at idle
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 28 Nov 2011 07:58:28 -0500
  ...I typically run Mobil 1 15w50 in it, but shortly before this drive changed the oil to Castrol Syntec 5w50, hoping to achieve better...
• Re: Get GPS system ditch these Atlas was ..Re: For the Newbies - Vanago
  Historical mailing list - David Bohannan
  Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:51:19 -0400
  ...On the hillside, narrow winding short > > streets, lots of trees, lots of traffic and stop signs. The GPS totally > > failed, only got there when...
• Second battery, the story on relays.
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Mon, 15 Mar 2004 20:06:40 -0600
  ...I see a big difference in the voltage of the aux > battery > after shutting down the van after short runs now. Battery is always...
• Re: With the Westy through Germany, Austria, Slovenia and Croatia
  Historical mailing list - Pete O
  Wed, 23 Apr 2014 09:10:43 -0400
  ...Via Michelin > has routing options such as cheapest, shortest and "discovery". Many of > these would instead of the new motorways and tunnels, take us...
• Re: Diesel vs Gas Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Allan Streib
  Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:00:16 -0500
  ...However if you really can get a long block with under 10K miles for the prices Jim was talking about then you really have...
• Re: Broken New Engine, What is fair resolution?
  Historical mailing list - Bruce Nadig
  Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:31:48 -0500
  ...In a sense, your mechanic got shortchanged on the job because he didn't get his cut of the parts. Here is a simple...
• With the Westy through central Europe, Part 3 Austria: Salzburg and Hallein
  Historical mailing list - Poppie Jagersand
  Mon, 19 May 2014 07:46:50 -0700
  Recall from part 2 that we had cut the Croatia part of the trip short after a front caused heavy downpour along the mountainous...
• cb installation (try # 2)
  Historical mailing list - Linda J. Bartnik
  16 Jun 96 23:12:11 EDT
  ...Considered under dash immediately to left or right of steering wheel, but steering wheel would have blocked my view of cb display and controls...
• No emergencies anymore, (longish) was: emerg. repairs/solutions
  Historical mailing list - Bulley-Hewlett & Associates
  Thu, 22 Oct 1998 21:41:41 -0400
  ...I will have ALL of them replaced simultaneously, along with having the block, radiator and heater core flushed, the expansion tank replaced, and the...
• Re: Stuck Cylinders
  Historical mailing list - Don Preston
  Mon, 23 Oct 2000 07:01:30 -0700
  ...Having a good quarter-inch drive socket set with the shortest wobble-drive extensions works well for hex-driven clamps. As to the seals...
• Re: Drivability fix , I think
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Sat, 22 Apr 2023 14:21:33 -0600
  IMHO it might very well be a good idea to run a ground wire all the way from the ECU to Eng Block & Eng...
• Re: 1.9 > 2.1 cooling kit?
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Wed, 1 Sep 2010 18:34:36 -0700
  ...need about 15 main parts at least, you would need to block off the hoses > to the oil cooler if using a 2.1...
• Re: Paint job pricing-Doing the exhaust right!
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 14 Aug 2013 13:58:39 -0400
  ...A long "wobble" extension and short sockets will make it easy to get those bracket bolts tightened. Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List...
• Re: Always Look Under a Bus!
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:17:09 -0700
  ...very likely you'll smell it right there in that vent. ( the right side is blocked off somewhat of course, but not the left...
• Re: leakdown test
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:02:13 -0700
  ...You should see all > the > coolant trace in that block. I had so much metal at the bottom of the case > that i had...
• Re: bostig kit for VW Vans
  Historical mailing list - craig cowan
  Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:51:43 -0700
  ...My first test drive was in the end of May, so that's a ton of miles in a short time period. I drive...
• Diesel Vanagons and Diesel engines.
  Historical mailing list - Martin Jagersand
  Mon, 25 May 1998 13:48:02 -0400
  ...In case of the VW diesel, it was derived from the gas block, and anyone who have worked on them can attest to that...
• Re: Auto Trans Install - Take Out Engine?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:08:13 -0700
  ...As for the short floor jack under the engine, I've often used a cinder block as a base to set the jack on...
• Re: Parking brake adjustment, '82
  Historical mailing list - Doug Fitz-Randolph
  Wed, 7 May 2008 08:39:34 -0400
  ...2) The biggest stumbling block for me was always how to get the drum off. But, since I finally learned all you have to...
• Re: holes in front wall of battery box.
  Historical mailing list - Roy Nicholl
  Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:27:53 -0300
  ...There is a short piece cardboard flex line on this opening which terminates under the vehicle inside of the passenger wheel well. I presume...
• Re: Opinions from TIICO customers
  Historical mailing list - John Andrew
  Sat, 2 Jun 2001 09:52:31 -0600
  ...I've been around the block a few times, and I don't care to see people in my neighborhood taken advantage of. I...
• Re: '82 diesel 1.8 conversion
  Historical mailing list - pdooley
  Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:46:53 -0400
  ...Any decrease in HP when 1.8 head put on 2.0 , is due to the 1.8 intake manifold shorter runs and at...
• Re: AFM ADJUSTING
  Historical mailing list - Adam H. Behle
  Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:53:20 -0500
  ...Temp II sensor, the wire from the O2 >sensor to the ECU, common short, and a intermittant one at that. The AFM >is a...
• Re: rear brake shims
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:52:21 -0700
  ...In fact, I'm planning on replacing my 2.2 short block with a 2.5 short block and still use my 2.2...
• Re: Which automatic transaxle (A/T) has the best chance of life
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:11:35 -0700
  ...The unit was working fine for about a >> > week, short trips, Then I took a trip to Quakertown (about 300 >> > miles round trip down...