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• Re: VW supplied reman. 2.1
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Sun, 21 Jan 2007 05:41:19 EST
  ...Yes, rod through the case is acceptable. Warranty is 12 months unlimited mileage. Typical parts are new case, reworked crank, rods, new pitons cylinders...
• Re: Knocking Rod arm/B. Bobs
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Tue, 25 Mar 2003 09:19:48 -0600
  ...thrown through the block, ruining any cost recovery by way of saving a core charge. Blocks with holes in them and rods sticking out...
• Re: extra engine... overhaul...
  Historical mailing list - Evan Mac Donald
  Tue, 6 Nov 2007 14:19:46 -0800
  ...I'd have to winch it through a trap door to get it to basement level. There's not a ton of space down...
• Re: Watching Oil Temp (long, as usual)
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:38:49 -0700
  ...The oil cools the cam lobes, lifters and valve tips, pistons, wrist pins, rods, rod bearings, crank, crank bearings and the cylinder walls. So...
• Re: Question on rocker arms...
  Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
  Thu, 20 Jul 2000 22:58:32 EDT
  <<I read through all the info on Gene Berg's website about high-ratio rocker arms. I don't see anything specific to water...
• Re: slack in e-brake cable?
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:45:04 -0600
  ...I think the $50 number stuck in my head from a couple of tie rods purchased there for my kid's Audi CGT. Half...
• Re: Ball joints and steering rack
  Historical mailing list - TC
  Sat, 8 Dec 2007 18:14:22 -0800
  ...un-bolt the 4 hold downs that go through the mount bushings 5. remove from the vehicle 6. lay out the old & new racks...
• Re: Lubing a stiff steering rack (manual) with the wrong grease??
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Tue, 12 Jul 2005 19:42:13 -0400
  ...Today, to > isolate the problem, I unhooked the tie rods. Since the problem was coming from the steering rack, > I pushed a bunch of...
• Re: driving without sway bar? (was: Re: stabilizer link hitting coil? (WAS: Re: sway bar wiggling))
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Sat, 18 Mar 2006 23:00:08 -0800
  ...the passenger side > > (the same side where the stabilizer bar sticks through this bushing by a > > good 3/4 of an inch). On the...
• Re: Filling the transmission
  Historical mailing list - TJ Hannink
  Fri, 8 Apr 2005 10:49:22 -0700
  ...Then I push a funnel into the end of the hose and route the other end through the wheelwell into the tranny filler hole...
• Re: Antifreeze Removal
  Historical mailing list - Stan Harrison
  Thu, 6 Nov 2003 14:51:38 -0500
  ...But I did get my left shroud off, and found I could holesaw a 1-1/2" hole through it for future use. The...
• Franz The '87 Westy Lives and Breathes!!!
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Steele
  Tue, 16 Apr 2002 01:50:30 -0400
  ...Back off the rockers and make sure that > the rods are all centered in the depressions of the lifters; kind of a PITA. > You...
• Re: Rebuild is done, Van is running, now what?
  Historical mailing list - Dustin Jones
  Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:00:17 -0500
  ...What oil filter are you using? The right answers are > important. > > Have you read up the information about bearings, rods, and stretching > rodcap bolts...
• Re: radius arm hole looks awefully wonky.
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:35:03 -0500
  ...I have the rods worn more than half through. Dennis, And I still can't type on this Windows 8 Phone! ________________________________ From: OlRivrRat<mailto...
• Re: Clutch Slave Cylinder replaced Finally!!! - One other question though.
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Tue, 15 May 2012 17:36:19 -0700
  ...the other is at this splined junction in the middle of the shift rods under the van .. normally that is never touched ... it affects...
• Re: Watching Oil Temp (long, as usual)
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:24:07 -0700
  ...cools the cam lobes, lifters and valve tips, pistons, wrist > pins, rods, rod bearings, crank, crank bearings and the cylinder > walls. > > So you can...
• Re: GEX Vanagon Engines
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Sat, 21 Mar 2015 12:22:21 -0500
  ...After it failed > under warranty he disassembled it to discover it had used con rods from > three different vendors. He took them to small...
• Re: off with her heads
  Historical mailing list - Craig Cowan
  Sun, 6 Oct 2013 17:17:43 -0400
  Pour some ATF into the cylinders through the spark plug holes. That helps loosten the cylinders. The , with the head about a half inch...
• Engine update
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 26 Feb 1995 10:15:11 +0500
  ...Looks like a bent conn rod, so next time I'm going to get some blueprinted rods from Pauter or Berg. To many hassles...
• Re: 4 speed/5 speed shifter
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Wed, 19 May 2010 21:52:20 -0700
  ...If you go > from reverse to first, directly, it just glides through, the way my van's > shifter works.(since it is already pushed...
• Re: 2.2 Rebuild Questions
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:28:02 -0600
  ...Since then, I've gone through an 82 > Scirocco that I swapped a later engine into, and did a bunch of bolt-ons > to...
• Re: GEX Vanagon Engines
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Sat, 21 Mar 2015 14:45:32 -0500
  ...This was a bad casting that was allowed through production anyway. Jim On Saturday, March 21, 2015, Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@hotmail.com> wrote: > So...
• Re: vanagon with ticco engine/vibrations
  Historical mailing list - Joachim Beek
  Wed, 26 Feb 2003 19:13:35 -0600
  ...I was able to minimise the rpm range over which the vibrations came through the shifter by rotating the shift rods a little. Unfortunately...
• Re: 1600 Rebuild Notes...
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 4 Mar 1996 03:24:23 -0500
  ...I know bearing material (in the rods, in this case) is deliberately soft, and I can't see how it can withstand being levered...
• Re: 1.9L exhaust system comments
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Bell
  Sat, 27 Apr 2002 19:06:56 -0500
  ...I have seen dozens of broken VW cases where the rod/piston, whatever fails and explodes through the side of the block. Why? What...
• Re: Engine Rebuild
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:51:32 -0800
  ...at least to rebuild the rods and do head work, polish the crank .........even balance it all if you like. Finding a good machine...
• hydraulic problem
  Historical mailing list - David White
  Sun, 25 Nov 2001 09:13:02 -0800
  ...it still runs but there is a problem with cylinder #1 and it kicks alot of oil through the tailpipe. i haven't even...
• Re: Crashed T2 Westy Sighting in movie Bad Boys 2
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:00:40 -0800
  ...through the byways of Miami surroundings. I just > flipped on the right moment when the car-hauler semi going around a > turn ram-rods...
• Re: Saga of the missing oil was Re: Dipstick readability tip (getting kinda long)
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 26 Sep 2002 01:37:12 -0400
  ...It's meant to tell you that there's been a failure in the system that pressurizes the oil to pump it through the...
• Re: Finally, Things Actually Happen
  Historical mailing list - John Pronk
  Tue, 17 Apr 2001 05:16:00 -0000
  ...A friend suggested I see another friend, who builds high-dollar > bicycles, since he can get rods of titanium, and has the facilities to...
• Re: '82 diesel 1.8 conversion
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Sat, 18 Aug 2007 08:57:31 -0700
  ...The 1.8's are underpowered in a Westfalia and the strian is too much for the rods . I have had two engines burn...
• Re: To Buy or Not to Buy?
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 24 Oct 94 11:21:43 MDT
  ...The sleeves the links run through rust to the lower arm and the links themselves will rust to the sleeves. If this happens, the...
• Re: Trouble getting WBX piston out
  Historical mailing list - pickle vanagon
  Wed, 3 Oct 2012 19:07:32 -0400
  ...but I think I may have already had a nut on that end that was small enough to go through the pin, but then...
• Re: [WetWesties] VW Van & Camping Stuff For Sale
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Mon, 25 Nov 2002 15:21:29 -0600
  ...I want you to come down through Texas and blow off that 'Great North American Road Trip'. You won't find anything but Yankees...
• Re: Filling the transmission
  Historical mailing list - Jonathan Farrugia
  Sat, 9 Apr 2005 03:21:47 -0400
  ...Then I push a funnel into the end of the hose and > route the other end through the wheelwell into the tranny filler hole...
• Re: Head advice
  Historical mailing list - Johan Nyberg
  Mon, 2 Nov 1998 21:49:04 +0100
  ...The really hard part is to get the pistons off the connecting rods. I removed the oil filler tube, the dipstick tube and the...
• Re: Originally: JLP rebuilt wbxr engines in Denver
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:27:08 -0800
  ...that usually leads to increased oil clearance on the rods .. which may lead to rod failure, thus ventilating the case. they say 1.9...
• Re: Northwest Connecting Rod story
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Schwaia
  Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:21:38 -0800
  ...Without any evidence to the contrary, there was no reason to think that the rods were about to go. If it were my van...
• Re: Table leg modification (Loren Bush)
  Historical mailing list - Troy
  Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:43:17 -0800
  ...Dowel rods do not come in that particular diameter, but they do come in 1 1/4". I ran mind through the table saw...
• Re: Ball joints and steering rack
  Historical mailing list - Allan Streib
  Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:24:11 -0500
  ...un-bolt the 4 hold downs that go through the mount bushings > 5. remove from the vehicle > 6. lay out the old & new racks...
• Re: interesting lifter thinking?? 1.9L still a problem child (update)
  Historical mailing list - pronks
  Tue, 13 Sep 2005 20:32:10 +1200
  ...The oil that goes through them, also goes through the > push rods and lubricates the rocker arms. Imagine what went through the > bearings if...
• Tie Rod Ends
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 14 Nov 1995 12:04:07 -0800
  ...First measure the end-to-end length of the steering + tie rods. Like, measure from one tie-rod end to the other. When you...
• Re: Syncro Gas/FuelTank material
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Sat, 21 Dec 2013 13:59:02 -0500
  ...The set included some oddly shaped "rods" but no info about what type of plastic they might be. One of my big questions is...
• Re: '82 diesel 1.8 conversion
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:03:47 -0700
  ...drivers could help me > > through > > this process, that would be terrific! > > > > Thanks, > > Byron > > > > '82 Westy 1.6TD (rod through head...) > > '93 Volvo 940T (old...
• 6V -> 12V
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 17 Sep 1994 21:54:52 -0600
  ...Yes, but it's MINE! I'm still running the '72 SuperBeetle motor attached to the cam-n-rods that came stock in my...
• Re: Small Changes to the WBX that add up to a REAL HORSE POWER INCREASE...
  Historical mailing list - Vanagon man
  Sat, 30 Mar 2002 13:34:31 -0500
  ...2 > Add light weight roller tip ratio rockers and stronger push rods adds @ 10 > Change to quad tip plugs adds > You can change only...
• Re: Who makes the good air filter? (1.9l)
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Sat, 5 Sep 2015 17:30:24 -0500
  FYI - Mercedes ran oil bath in the diesel through 1975, and oil bath is far superior to pleated paper. Problem is, an oil bath...
• help! my new tent
  Historical mailing list - Mark Janello
  Tue, 27 Jun 1995 19:39:03 -0400 (EDT)
  ...a star connector made of six short pipes welded together (small pipes fit into) like this: \| -- -- |\ plus two solid rods that fit together (these...
• Re: Engine cover, History
  Historical mailing list - craig cowan
  Thu, 3 Jul 2008 07:05:20 -0400
  ...It makes a BIG difference in the sound that comes through the rear area. This wasn't VW's doing? -Craig '85GL On Thu...
• Norcold altitude kit for 95-97 EVC's
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Mera
  Thu, 25 Sep 1997 12:46:31 -0700
  ...getting in through the air intake/exhaust vents to clog the burn chamber; a simple design fix would be for the exhaust pipe to...
• AVP Engine Update
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Schwaia
  Fri, 1 Aug 2003 15:05:28 -0700
  ...Since I now know that metal particles from the burnt valve have been wandering through this engine, I decide to split the case. The...
• Re: rebuilding shifter linkage
  Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
  Fri, 14 Feb 2025 06:16:14 -0800
  ...I also may try adding some damping to the shifter rods and see if that makes any difference. -Mark > On Jan 31, 2025, at...
• Re: 2.2 Rebuild Questions
  Historical mailing list - aatransaxle
  Sun, 9 Nov 2008 23:23:06 -0800
  ...Since then, I've gone through an 82 >> Scirocco that I swapped a later engine into, and did a bunch of bolt-ons >> to...
• Re: ZSticks and head corrosion
  Historical mailing list - Tom L. Neal
  Fri, 6 Aug 1999 22:38:13 -0700
  ...2.Use of an oversize drain plug that has a screw through it into sacrificial zinc rods that protect head STUD corrosion, which they...
• Re: 1.9L exhaust system comments
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Sat, 27 Apr 2002 19:37:17 -0500
  ...I have seen dozens of broken VW cases where the rod/piston, whatever fails and explodes through the side of the block. Why? What...
• Re: Thermostat for 2.0 aircooled
  Historical mailing list - Bulley
  Tue, 25 Jan 2000 16:51:49 -0500
  ...You can get the thermostat and cable and through list vendors or VW. The cable-end nut, pulley and rotational bolt were NLA at...
• Re: "Sticking"
  Historical mailing list - Tom Miller
  Fri, 20 May 2005 08:29:51 -0400
  ...Rust on the control rods and cables can make them stick and the brake shoes rub on the drums enough to give you the...
• Re: Digifant performance stuff.
  Historical mailing list - Gary Stearns
  Tue, 14 Nov 2000 08:08:10 -0500
  ...Your info made me think this through further. The consensus seems to be that my FI should not be leaning out at WOT as...
• Re: Front Shocks - Help or How Much $? (Portland OR)
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sun, 26 Dec 2010 19:38:47 -0800
  ...if you didn't quite follow that from Dennis about those large rubber donut things on the strut rods ... that is an area that...
• Re: Adding Power Steering
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:44:25 -0700
  ...Adding Power Steering > So that you have full understanding, the steering knuckles for "Factory" > power steering vans have the tie rods attach at a...