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• Re: First, apologies
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:28:03 -0700
  ...air intake distributor on this 1.9L WBX. I want > to replace the boot. So what's the rough idea: remove the air filter...
• Re: Name That Part - Bonus Round
  Historical mailing list - Mike
  Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:36:17 -0400
  ...Any idea what this thing is? Can't > even get close to a guess using a Bentley. > > For tech sepcs - 1980 West Vanagon, Air...
• VW parts for sale
  Historical mailing list - Roger Lippman
  Mon, 5 Feb 1996 21:08:09 GMT
  ...good condiiton 111 905 261 2 Distributor o-ring 111 905 449 11 Spark plug wire air seals 111 941 037C 1 6 V...
• backfiring?
  Historical mailing list - craig cowan
  Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:30:55 -0400
  ...truely sounds like its coming from inside the intake mainfold/rubber piece coming from the airfilter box. It soudns like the stereotypical backfire! I...
• Re: Aircooled Running Problems
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Thu, 1 Sep 2005 21:07:29 -0500
  ...Cylinder head temp sender under the Driver side intake runner. Thermo Time switch in the same area. You could also have a distributor vacuum...
• Re: what part is this?
  Historical mailing list - Dave C.
  Thu, 28 Dec 2000 02:09:37 -0500
  ...1) the orientation is vertical 2) it has a hose that runs to the air intake boot 3) is located centrally just toward the...
• Re: Distributor Electrical Connections?
  Historical mailing list - HC Carter
  Sun, 22 Jun 2003 10:16:33 -0700
  ...snakes behind the A/C and under the > air intake tubes, and grounds on the left head. > > At 08:18 PM 6/21/2003...
• Re: Won't Start
  Historical mailing list - Raceingcajun
  Tue, 25 Apr 2006 09:28:44 -0500
  ...This can be done by removing the small vacuum hose from the air intake boot, and spraying some flammable (some are not) aerosol carburetor...
• Re: Fw: one year anniv.
  Historical mailing list - Doug Smith
  Thu, 17 Sep 1998 12:51:33 EDT
  ...and brake cylinders, pop top seals, luggage rack seals, used intake air distributor, new upper ball joints, new sink drain P trap and thru...
• Re: quick question: my plastic firewall fitting is made of metal?
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sun, 3 Feb 2008 15:34:54 -0600
  ...on the fuel intake line that runs under the air > distributor stuff to the T-connection, and connects on the other side to > a...
• Re: Vanagon Stalls Out While Driving
  Historical mailing list - Markus Benne
  Thu, 1 May 2025 17:54:08 +0000
  ...4 intake runners and the fuel/air mixture waits in each runner until it gets sucked into the head when the corresponding intake valve...
• Re: 1.9 engine block same as 2.1?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Donalds
  Mon, 18 Dec 2000 08:33:29 -0500
  ...the intake air distributor will also need to be modified because to fit the case. Bob Donalds Boston Engine http://www.bostonengine.com "All...
• VW Parts and equipment for sale (fwd)
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Olson
  Fri, 13 Dec 1996 12:23:22 -0800 (PST)
  ...good condiiton 111 905 261 2 Distributor o-ring 111 905 449 11 Spark plug wire air seals 111 941 037C 1 6 V...
• Re: Gas Milage and the Fuel Pressure Regulator
  Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
  Thu, 10 May 2001 19:38:12 EDT
  ...As it goes through its intake stroke, the intake valve is open and the air is drawn into the cylinder. The position of the...
• Re: does aux air reg affect idele after warm up 1.9
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 10 May 2016 20:26:10 -0400
  ...and no leaks-other than the >small one from base of distributor - were found. I will check >runners but what is the stud that...
• Re: 89 backfires, sputters when warm. MYSTERY problem!!
  Historical mailing list - Tom Young
  Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:54:54 -0700
  ...Just as it gets warm it starts > coughing and backfiring through the air intake when you press on the gas > like > if you would...
• Re: Fuel Pressure Regulators
  Historical mailing list - Tim Hannink
  Thu, 6 Jun 2002 09:26:53 -0400
  Fuel Pressure Regulators - Test Procedure & Specifications AIR COOLED AFC - connect gauge US 1076 to fuel ring main - disconnect hose between intake air distributor and...
• Re: High Idle, Fuel Pressure Test Results and Advice Needed
  Historical mailing list - joe brown
  Mon, 9 Dec 2002 01:23:12 -0800
  ...The 'closed throttle switch' also needs to be operating properly, and intake air leaks need to be checked out. I cleaned all my grounds...
• Re: Need 2.1L Intake runners and air distributor
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Thu, 26 Jun 2003 05:42:02 EDT
  In a message dated 6/25/2003 9:44:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time, LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM writes: > Acquired a northern van in...
• Re: RnR - Air and Vacuum/Coolant - Van Runs Terrible
  Historical mailing list - Ryan Perry
  Thu, 23 Oct 2014 20:10:02 -0400
  ...Air and Vacuum/Coolant - Van Runs Terrible >> > >> >> > >> So, some of you have helped me as I redid my Throttle Body, Air >> Plenum >> > and >> > >> Intake...
• Re: 81 CA air cooled won't idle...
  Historical mailing list - Daniel L. Katz
  Sat, 22 Jan 2005 23:39:52 -0500
  ...familiar with '81 air cooled - if there is a positive crankcase ventilation system, too much flow from crankcase into air intake would have similar...
• Re: no spark, no gas, no love
  Historical mailing list - Chris DeLong
  Tue, 3 Dec 2002 20:07:57 +0000
  ...distributor >and operate the air plate by hand and the injectors spray. I'm thinking >that >the hose I'm running from the intake...
• Re: 85 Vanagon GL slow starting when engine is warm
  Historical mailing list - Gerry Rafferty
  Tue, 15 Jul 2003 23:16:28 -0700
  ...filter, pressure regulator - replaced Not air leaks - replaced intake boot and a few hoses Not the timing or distributor - check, cleaned and adjusted Have...
• FS: 71 VW Bus $400
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 17 Mar 1996 09:57:52 GMT
  ...I had modified parts on it (centrifigal advance distributor, 2 BBL carb, smoother intake manifold) but The Man (State of California) says I need...
• Re: Oettinger Prepped Vanagon from German Car Mag
  Historical mailing list - Raymond Hunnam
  Tue, 16 Mar 1999 16:22:32 +1000
  ...Or, is the intake manifold from a different >vehicle? It is for sure, that the long black >tube from fuel distributor to the throttle...
• Re: '85 fuel probs
  Historical mailing list - Tom Altman
  Mon, 13 Sep 2004 04:34:01 -0500
  ...It so - it is starving for air; disconnect the air intake from the other side of the air box and see if that fixes...
• Re: RnR - Air and Vacuum/Coolant - Van Runs Terrible
  Historical mailing list - Ryan Perry
  Thu, 23 Oct 2014 17:07:49 -0400
  ...Air and Vacuum/Coolant - Van Runs Terrible > > So, some of you have helped me as I redid my Throttle Body, Air Plenum and > Intake...
• Re: Possible Distributor Drive Shaft issue - Timing
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Mon, 4 Jun 2012 19:49:56 -0700
  ...The first rule about the distributor drive gear in an air-cooled or waterboxer engine is never, ever turn the engine ( particularily clockwise I...
• Re: stumped
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:20:16 -0800
  ...every time things don't make sense............go back and check the basics, timing belt alignment, compression, intake leaks, intake air boot, wiring and...
• Feeling a little sluggish
  Historical mailing list - (Donna Cassano)
  Tue, 25 Jul 2000 07:56:51 -0400
  ...distributor, rotor, plugs and wires, air filter, fuel filter, O2 sensor, oil and filter, AutoBahn coolant, air intake boot. I also reconnected some vacuum...
• Re: Vanagon Flat Spot Woes (84, 1.9)
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Mon, 20 Apr 2015 10:19:48 -0700
  ...have replaced relays, fuel pump, all intake gaskets, refurbished the idle air valve, vacuum can on the distributor, every vacuum hose, and there's...
• Re: Cuts off on startup
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott )
  Fri, 11 Mar 2016 23:09:31 -1000
  ...Air Intake Boot .those last super well. On a rare occasion one will crack and leak air and result in very poor and uneven...
• Re: ECU Digital
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Mon, 16 May 2022 14:15:28 -0400
  ...some combination of incorrect basic settings, excess or unmetered air getting into the intake. In addition having a 2.3L which also has a...
• Re: 81 won't start in Colorado
  Historical mailing list - Dylan Spurgin
  Mon, 17 Feb 2003 18:45:27 -0600
  ...new(er) distributor cap on. >> >> Can we try to prime the van by adding a little gas in the air intake? What should I...
• Re: Parts For Sale
  Historical mailing list - al brase
  Tue, 13 Oct 1998 10:37:58 -0500
  ...airbox, distributor, > injectors, exhaust, cat, intake, hoses, everything. $450 > > -A/C compressor $35 > > -Bumper > front, has small hairline crack in center, hard to see...
• Re: Carburetor in a Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Mike Rouby
  Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:08:39 -0800
  ...air > intake manifold from Europe. after that a Weber DFAV and jet kit and adapter plate and low > pressure fuel pump and 009 distributor...
• Re: Running rich, O2 sensor says lean, exhaust leak?
  Historical mailing list - Laurence Smith
  Tue, 13 Jul 2004 14:08:34 -0400
  ...regulator, fuel pump, fuel filter > - took apart entire air intake system, changed the air intake > distributor box, and most rubber hoses. > - changed temp sensor...
• Re: Intermittent poor performance at light throttle ('84 1.9L automatic transmission)
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Fri, 27 May 2011 11:26:41 -0700
  ...He > looked for smoke coming out of air intake system. > > alistair > > > On 27-May-11, at 10:08 AM, neil n wrote: > >> Assuming this...
• Re: rough idle, gas guzzling, oil dripping van
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:37:05 -0500
  ...The throttle body may haved worked loose and is allowing unmetered air in. Just 2 phillips screws here that may need attention.The intake...
• Re: '80 aircooled power loss cont
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:47:04 -0400
  ...clockwise on scale). >Distributor is single vac advance. > >Last night, I replaced fuel injector seals - large and small >replaced intake manifold boots - 4 >checked...
• Re: Technical question re: Injector firing signal
  Historical mailing list - James Bradley
  Wed, 8 Oct 2008 12:26:06 -0400
  ...then AFM#39 takes over ONLY when there is air being drawn in the intake (safety shutoff, or fuel would pump in an accident...
• Re: 89 backfires, sputters when warm. MYSTERY problem!!
  Historical mailing list - Tabe Johnson
  Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:28:53 -0400
  ...Just as it gets warm it starts > coughing and backfiring through the air intake when you press on the gas like > if you would...
• Re: Vanagon Stalls Out While Driving
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 2 May 2025 11:16:41 +0000
  ...4 intake runners and the fuel/air mixture waits in each runner until it gets sucked into the head when the corresponding intake valve...
• Re: [Syncro] Help needed with engine running poorly
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:36:51 -0800
  ...re Air intake boot – swap - sucks plenty of air just fine it's not that they don't suck air right ....they always do...
• Re: Idle stabilizer question--1.9
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:26:16 -0400
  ...has an air-bypass valve that opens when either of those systems is loaded, and allows extra air into the intake. The 2.1l...
• Re: Vanagon Stalls Out While Driving
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Sat, 10 May 2025 09:48:58 -0600
  ...4 intake runners and the fuel/air mixture waits in each runner until it gets sucked into the head when the corresponding intake valve...
• Re: 85 Vanagon GL slow starting when engine is warm
  Historical mailing list - Owen
  Tue, 15 Jul 2003 16:35:23 -0500
  ...filter, pressure regulator - replaced Not air leaks - replaced intake boot and a few hoses Not the timing or distributor - check, cleaned and adjusted Have...
• Idle stabilization control question
  Historical mailing list - Tim Marciniak
  Fri, 9 Mar 2007 17:03:26 -0600
  ...fuel pressure--ok -no vacuum leaks -checked air intake system, verified that I had no false air issues -replaced idle stabilization control unit (this...
• Re: leaking fuel pressure regulator?
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Wed, 5 Dec 2007 12:15:15 -0800
  What about the vacuum line from reg to air intake distributor? Fuel pressure regulator diphragms do fail. If yours is failing/failed, and the...
• Re: Engine Interrupted. Any Ideas, Please?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:26:01 -0700
  ...Check everywhere for air leaks ... cracked air intake boot , vacuum hoses etc. if it has points ignition instead of pure electronic ... look into the...
• 2.1 Vanagon Parts for Sale South Central Pennsylvania
  Historical mailing list - jesse johnson
  Sun, 20 Feb 2005 19:41:12 -0500
  ...trans: $25.00 Various 2.1 liter bolt on parts... intake runners.. air distributor... oil filler tube... bunch of other stuff.. see the pics...
• Re: Cuts off on startup
  Historical mailing list - Rick Cooper
  Sun, 13 Mar 2016 14:04:42 -0700
  ...Air Intake Boot .those last super well. On a rare occasion one will > crack and leak air and result in very poor and uneven...
• Re: Runaway Starter Saga Continues
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel
  Tue, 5 Nov 2013 11:56:00 -0800
  It would be very handy to have a spare distributor to try. you might check for wet-fouled spark plugs first thing. After that...
• Re: Engine cut out.
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:55:37 -0700
  ...I have seen such things as a 2.1 Air Intake Boot used on a 1.9 engine throttle body with a piece of...
• Re: Running rich, O2 sensor says lean, exhaust leak?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 13 Jul 2004 17:58:00 -0400
  ...regulator, fuel pump, fuel filter - took apart entire air intake system, changed the air intake distributor box, and most rubber hoses. - changed temp sensor...
• Re: New High Power Subaru Boxer Engines
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Mon, 24 Apr 2000 15:58:32 -0700
  ...supercharging effect, allowing each cylinder to catch high-pressure waves of intake air bouncing off the opposite side of the manifold. A mechanical valve...
• Re: Cuts off on startup
  Historical mailing list - PB
  Sat, 12 Mar 2016 10:10:21 -0800
  ...Air Intake Boot .those last super well. On a rare occasion one will > crack and leak air and result in very poor and uneven...
• FS: 2.1L engine & trans (as-is)
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Sun, 8 Oct 2006 22:01:02 -0400
  ...The engine is relatively complete, intake to exhaust. No distributor or air flow meter. 4 speed trans from same vehicle; worked fine when pulled...
• Re: Won't Start
  Historical mailing list - Stu Schwartz
  Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:55:09 -0400
  ...This can be done by >removing the small vacuum hose from the air intake boot, and spraying some >flammable (some are not) aerosol carburetor...
• Re: Bluestar project progress-small problems
  Historical mailing list - Steve Cotsford
  Thu, 2 May 2013 22:37:31 -0400
  ...The other side >>> of the barbed fitting plugs into the second hole in the air intake >>> boot coming from the air cleaner to the...