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  • Re: Pdx Jackstand Help?
    Historical mailing list - David Kao
    Sun, 20 May 2007 22:20:09 -0700
    ...I did not have to remove the tin, crank pully, nor anything else. I removed the pump and the thermostat housing all together. But...
  • Re: Was-Still got the Drips-Now Oil pressure switch?
    Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
    Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:45:08 EDT
    ...extension by removing the muffler and bending the tin around the pully a little. It was tight, but it can be done.<<<<< Cheers, Frank...
  • Wasserleaker Head Job - What am I getting myself in for
    Historical mailing list - Art Beutler
    Sat, 20 Nov 1999 15:16:47 -0800
    ...called out in Bentley really required (in particular removal of the pully)? 3) What is the consequence of not replacing the cylendar sleeve seal...
  • Re: aligning distributor
    Historical mailing list - Tom Brunson
    Wed, 27 Aug 1997 02:49:04 UT
    ...If you just lined up the pully timing mark and pulled the distributor wihtout checking you could be at either cam position - so assume...
  • Re: Electric window problem!
    Historical mailing list - kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
    Sat, 22 Oct 2016 15:51:53 +0000
    ...The cable could also be fouled in the gear and pully > arrangement driven by the motor. In any case you must pull the regulator...
  • Re: Behold, another AC question. Compressor or clutch to blame, and how do I tell?
    Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
    Tue, 12 Jul 2005 15:26:45 -0400
    ...Oil will be thrown up by the compressor in the pully area.Check the compressor mounts to see that they are tight. All four...
  • Euro: 86 VW Transporter
    Historical mailing list
    Thu, 20 Jun 1996 21:08:48 -0700
    ...and they seem to think we have to >remove the crankshaft pully to accomplish this..hmmmm. > >thanks again group! >Norm and STeve >Norm Peterson...
  • Was: very loud Screeching noise on very cold days - turns heads - now: teenagers in engine compartment
    Historical mailing list - Marshall
    Wed, 6 Mar 2002 23:54:22 -0600
    ...For a temporary fix, hold a block of parafin > > against the sides > > of the belt that ride in the "V" of the pully. will...
  • Re: Alternator pully #%%$#@
    Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
    Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:41:55 -0600
    Sounds like somebody took a steel hammer to the face of the shaft and spread it. Pictures would help. How close to coming off...
  • try again: Re: '64 Deluxe Engine #?
    Historical mailing list
    Wed, 26 Jun 1996 21:50:25 -0400
    ...cable (handle mounted to the parcel shelf) along with the double pully and slot for the belt up through the floor. It also has...
  • Re: Miss at idle?
    Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
    Fri, 13 May 2016 17:13:16 -0400
    ...had marked the main pully with white > paint. > > Yes, I lubricated the felt. :-) > > Temp 2 sensor is < 1 year old > > Probably easier to start...
  • Re: V-Belt Pully Bolt
    Historical mailing list - Craig Oda
    Mon, 27 Dec 2004 14:38:57 -0800
    I seem to remember getting the main pulley bolt off with a 6 ft piece of jack handle over a 1/2" socket drive...
  • Re: V-Belt Pully Bolt
    Historical mailing list - Al and Sue Brase
    Mon, 27 Dec 2004 01:26:06 -0600
    Jim: Many years ago, I worked in an automotive machine shop that specialized in high performance work. Most engines need their rods rebuilt to...
  • Re: 3149 Tool for Crank Pulley Removal - What was I thinking?
    Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
    Fri, 5 Aug 2016 11:39:29 -0700
    ...It will clear the pully just fine. Just remove the cross-under coolant hose. On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Dennis...
  • Truoble Tuning Mixed up engine! (long)
    Historical mailing list
    Mon, 11 Apr 1994 12:37:50 EDT
    ...When I timed the distributor, I put it right on the notch on the pully. But Looking at the book, it lists this notch...
  • Gland Nut Overtorque
    Historical mailing list - Gerald Skerbitz
    Mon, 2 Jan 1995 10:59:33 -0600 (CST)
    ...The thing ran a couple hundred miles before the fore-and-aft play on the crank broke the weld on the crank pully, and...
  • Re: [tiico] Re: vibrating tiico engine
    Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
    Fri, 7 Nov 2003 14:34:22 -0800
    ...I had to put in a different alternator (well, just the pulley is different), different crank pully and different ps pump and ps pump...
  • Re: 3149 Tool for Crank Pulley Removal - What was I thinking?
    Historical mailing list - kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
    Fri, 5 Aug 2016 13:57:47 -0400
    ...It will > clear the pully just fine. Just remove the cross-under coolant hose. > > On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Dennis...
  • Re: 007 smoke screen / battery light - TROUBLE!
    Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
    Sun, 22 Jun 2003 18:02:36 -0700
    My water pump belt jumped off once due to something getting caught in there and the heat expanded it and it jumped the pully...
  • Re: main seal seating (was Boston Bob Engine)
    Historical mailing list - Tolga Morawski
    Thu, 29 Apr 2004 10:38:38 -0400
    ...if the pully-side seal has been replaced >multiple times, it has to be the case causing the problem, right (unless >all those seals...
  • Re: Help Me, Volks!
    Historical mailing list - Mike
    Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:35:36 -0400
    ...The > thing has a motor that by way of belts drives a sheave (big pully) on > the end of ahorizontal shaft about four feet...
  • Re: winch on bus?
    Historical mailing list
    Sun, 10 Sep 1995 12:36:27 -0400
    ...In really bad mud I always double the winch line back to the vehicle via a pully and so get 8,000 lbs of...
  • Re: First try at a trannie only pull - questions
    Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
    Fri, 8 Apr 2005 20:47:04 -0500
    ...If they don't, you will have to >>turn the engine just a bit (grab a pully, etc, and tug on it) to get...
  • Re: One Step Forward, One Step Back
    Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
    Tue, 29 Jun 2004 14:28:23 -0500
    ...switch located at the end of the case by the crank pully. You will get all kinds of flashing lights anf buzzers. Happened to...
  • Re: OIL warning light up
    Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
    Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:13:53 -0400
    ...It is located sort > > of under the crank pully, kinda tricky to get at. > > > > It's not unheard of for the wrong sensor to...
  • how to sink a vanagon
    Historical mailing list
    Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:02:07 EST
    ...and the vanagon had the propellor welded to the main crank pully.. they all had hulls grafted onto them.. the vanagon looked like a...
  • OOoooo, ouch. re: firing order and plugs.
    Historical mailing list - Carl Hansen
    Mon, 21 Jun 1999 22:05:41 -0600
    ...ummm Pully/ the cam belt #1 #2 #3 #4 Flywheel end end Sorry, I don't know the 6's, I suppose the 5...
  • Re: thermostat mods
    Historical mailing list - Chris Renz
    Mon, 3 Oct 2005 15:17:00 -0700
    ...It wasn't until it was received by me today that I realized they left out the pully and sealing for the cable, so...
  • Summer coming , and your a/c compressor is shot? read on
    Historical mailing list - roger sisler
    Wed, 18 May 2005 10:00:34 -0700
    ...Each with a different clutch/pully assembly, or rear "head".The main body(with the drain plug) remains the same throught.These compresors are...
  • Re: 88 Vanagon oil pressure problem question part II
    Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
    Fri, 7 Nov 2003 12:55:31 -0600
    ...engine below and slightly to the left of the main crankshaft pully. When standing at the bumper looking down, you should just barely be...
  • Re: 3149 Tool for Crank Pulley Removal - What was I thinking?
    Historical mailing list - Tyler Hardison
    Fri, 5 Aug 2016 11:39:48 -0700
    ...It will > clear the pully just fine. Just remove the cross-under coolant hose. > > On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Dennis...
  • Re: Fan Belt Squeal
    Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
    Thu, 30 Jan 2003 08:35:09 -0600
    ...long sleeved shirts, etc ---- press a block of parafin against the pully side of the belt and hold it there for several revolutions. The...
  • Re: age of listees?
    Historical mailing list - Bruce Todd
    Fri, 7 Oct 2011 17:24:48 -0700
    ...Turnpike in 1986. > Left > > it. > > 81 Scirrocco - Nicest VW until the pully fell off the end of the > crankshaft > > on the interstate going into...
  • Re: Belt Noise
    Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
    Sun, 19 Dec 2010 16:36:48 -0600
    ...Let the pully side of the belt >> run against the parafin for a few morments - works on belts, works on >> seat slides. >> >> John Rodgers...
  • Cracked Syncro Clutch Housing
    Historical mailing list - W.R. Transue
    Mon, 12 Aug 96 13:36:16 -0500
    ...All other seals appear to be OK (rear oil seal in 3 way pully probably should be replaced. Some minor oil leakage). Thanks in...
  • Re: Ca�ro Report: P�lgr�m's Progress
    Historical mailing list - Mark Rokus
    Wed, 13 Jun 2001 21:30:17 -0700
    ...I found that the water pump > pully was wobbly, therefore leak�ng. I'll hold the full story t�ll later - > but after deal...
  • Re: Electric window problem!
    Historical mailing list - Gordon Mah
    Sat, 22 Oct 2016 12:03:30 -0700
    ...The cable could also be fouled in the gear and pully >> arrangement driven by the motor. In any case you must pull the regulator...
  • Re: Valve clearance not at tdc?
    Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
    Fri, 15 Apr 2005 17:00:34 -0500
    ...but the > odd thing is that when I zero passenger rear (I go by the rotor > location, coupled with the marks on the pully...
  • Re: Wasserleaker Head Job - What am I getting myself in for
    Historical mailing list - Marshall Ruskin
    Sat, 20 Nov 1999 16:36:29 -0600
    ...called out in Bentley really required >(in particular removal of the pully)? >3) What is the consequence of not replacing the cylendar sleeve seal...
  • improving gas milage and other friday musings
    Historical mailing list - t obrien
    Fri, 10 Dec 1999 18:44:53 GMT
    ...My gas milage should go back up, yes? So the only left is the leaking seal behind the pully. Now there are good points...
  • Re: Tuning Problems
    Historical mailing list
    Thu, 07 Apr 1994 11:49:25 EDT
    ...How high will the progressive with aircleaner sit above the top of the case? Say from the top of the pully. Can you think...
  • Re: Yeah! It's a water pump weekend! (questions of course)
    Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
    Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:27:37 -0700
    ...accomplish that yet, since it is so cramped under the damper pully I just > can't figure a way to twist (turn) it yet...
  • '71 bus progress & questions
    Historical mailing list
    Sat, 22 Jul 1995 20:56:30 -0500 (CDT)
    ...Can the piece of tin behind the crank pulley be removed without removing the pully? I don't have a puller and was going...
  • Re: oil idiot lamp lights&buzzes
    Historical mailing list - Joseph Fortino
    Thu, 1 Jul 2004 08:07:22 -0700
    ...Check the wire that goes to the oil pressure sensor located in the engine case near the bottom of the crankshaft pully. Usually when...
  • Re: Oil pressure light and buzzer.
    Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
    Fri, 18 Dec 2015 21:24:35 -0500
    ...loosen the alternator and pull the belt back out of the way; next remove the coolant pump pully - this provides access - sort of - to...
  • Re: Introduction and knocking problem on a 82 Diesel vanagon
    Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
    Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:01:34 -0400
    ...the engine by hand (clockwise, with a wrench on the crank pully nut -- you'll need to remove the muffler to get access) and...
  • Heater issues - Progress
    Historical mailing list - JRodgers
    Sat, 9 Jun 2012 19:53:20 -0500
    ...And there is and oil leak at the big crankshaft pully, but I can't see where it's coming from. I suspect that...
  • Re: 1.9L Hose Replacement
    Historical mailing list - thewestyman
    Mon, 31 Mar 2014 09:09:26 -0700
    ...It's just enough behind the crankshaft > pully > that I can't get to it. Tom's VW page says use a 12-mm...
  • Re: Overheating
    Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
    Sat, 3 Oct 1998 21:51:57 -0700
    ...I replaced the pully belts, Hoped the new water pump >belt would help. The old one was really in bad shape and loose. But...
  • Re: Removing the top ball joint
    Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
    Thu, 15 Jun 2000 18:38:13 -0400
    ...I tried to heat the joint during the pully attempt, but that did not work either. I tried for several days without success. I...
  • Re: 3149 Tool for Crank Pulley Removal - What was I thinking?
    Historical mailing list - David
    Fri, 5 Aug 2016 14:43:15 -0400
    ...It will > > clear the pully just fine. Just remove the cross-under coolant hose. > > > > On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Dennis...
  • Yeah! It's a water pump weekend! (questions of course)
    Historical mailing list - Roland
    Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:12:50 -0700
    ...accomplish that yet, since it is so cramped under the damper pully I just can't figure a way to twist (turn) it yet...
  • Photos of broken alternator pulley
    Historical mailing list - pickle vanagon
    Mon, 21 May 2012 18:14:17 -0400
    ...It looks to me that the notch on the shaft may actually have been the initial failure point, since both pully halves were chewed...
  • Re: it's cold in MT and my van won't start
    Historical mailing list - Roger Whittaker
    Wed, 2 Nov 2011 09:06:19 -0700
    ...remember only g�tnticht so you do not mess up millwrights carefull line up of pully and engine crank this is your mission jim...
  • My Friday Fun
    Historical mailing list
    Sat, 15 Jul 1995 01:26:45 -0500
    ...Manage to bend the belt pully out of shape at the same time. Not very strong metal, next time I'm doing this with...
  • Re: Waterpump replacement on '88?
    Historical mailing list - James Ruch
    Thu, 16 Sep 1999 05:04:57 PDT
    ...remove either the pipe heading behind the big pulley, OR the pully >itself, in order to get the pump off the studs and clear...
  • Re: 1985 Vanagon GL
    Historical mailing list - Rod Smith
    Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:33:32 -0400
    ...You should be able to get that crossover pipe out without having to mess with the crank pully. I've done this several times...
  • Re: Miss at idle?
    Historical mailing list - Scott
    Fri, 13 May 2016 10:49:21 -1000
    ...had marked the main pully with white >> paint. >> >> Yes, I lubricated the felt. :-) >> >> Temp 2 sensor is < 1 year old >> >> Probably easier to start...
  • how to remove alt/gen. pulley bolt. was: Re: how remove stove top?
    Historical mailing list - Flat Four
    Mon, 25 Sep 2000 19:22:16 -0400
    ...All it did was bend the pully notch where you stick the screwdriver in to keep it from moving. Don't know if that...
  • Replace 1.9 with a 2.1 WBX
    Historical mailing list - David Kao
    Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:11:30 -0800
    ...I could turn the crank pully a full turn without hearing any sound that was suspicious. I believe this is possibly a good core...