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• Timing
  Historical mailing list - Peter Zendzian
  Wed, 10 Jun 1998 21:46:23 -1000
  ...I have an 83.5 Vanagon with 1.9 water-cooled engine code "DH". According to the Bentley manual, (my engine code is not...
• Re: Pulling the engine.
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Olson
  Fri, 10 Nov 1995 08:41:26 -0800 (PST)
  After reading Bob's post on pulling VW engines, and that there are two kinds of VW owners, those who have pulled their engines...
• Re: 82 VW Vanagon oil spray
  Historical mailing list - Martin Jagersand
  Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:16:11 -0600
  ...james healey <jamesrphealey@yahoo.ca> How critical is it that a 82 diesel engine have the oil squirter system. I have a very good...
• Re: Other engine conversion options?
  Historical mailing list - Tom Sinclair
  Fri, 7 Jan 2005 19:48:48 -0800
  Interesting idea though is if the engine spins the opposite direction, it would allow the use of something like an Audi Quattro powertrain in...
• Re: vw industrial aircooled motors (was: Re: better blog, good vehicle on ice (LVC)
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:51:17 -0600
  ...They did have a single port industrial >engine in the late sixties and the early seventies.The next step was to go >to the...
• '86 Vanagon Syncro Engine ForSale
  Historical mailing list - Hair Club President
  Wed, 19 Oct 94 19:02 EDT
  ...It is a...: '86 Vanagon Syncro Engine (comes with exhaust, etc...everything not needed with the porsche engine) 95,000 miles Oil Changed every...
• Re: Ramona Rests (fwd)
  Historical mailing list - Gerald Skerbitz
  Mon, 17 Apr 1995 10:49:03 -0500 (CDT)
  ...Ramona Rests Rachel, It is easier to remove the engine from a van than it is from a bug. You will need a scissors...
• AVP for engines
  Historical mailing list - bill
  Fri, 11 Apr 1997 19:11:57 -0700
  As I continue to look for the best deal on the best engine to put into my '81, I have come across a company...
• Re: Engine needed
  Historical mailing list - Gary McEachern
  Sun, 9 Jan 2000 09:00:08 EST
  Bob Donalds @ Boston Engine in Wayland Mass is the way to go in my opinion. Bob specializes on the AC and Waterboxer Bus/Vanagon...
• Re: [Syncro] Relocating syncro fuel filter
  Historical mailing list - Lawrence Johnson
  Fri, 14 Jan 2000 09:18:20 -0500
  ...in the engine compartment. > > ... > > The new filter sits above the engine near the firewall where the fuel lines > > enter the engine compartment. > > I really...
• Re: 88 Vanagon Wolfsburg Edition for parts
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 4 Nov 2000 02:04:46 EST
  ...I cannot guarantee engine parts to be functional, but the main reason for the engine trouble is a water leak somewhere. So base your...
• Re: FOR SALE: '82 Vanagon w/'98 Jetta TDI Engine
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:35:48 -0700
  ...Is this engine/pump/turbo combination still considered a TDI? I wouldn't consder it so. Gary You are absolutely correct, Gary. It is...
• Re: Recall on 91 engine. Fact or Fiction?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:02:23 -0400
  I don't know about an engine recall but I do know some number of engines was replaced under "goodwill". Dennis -----Original Message----- From...
• Re: From 2.0L ABA to TDI
  Historical mailing list - Jason Brand
  Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:25:35 -0400
  ...The ALH and newer engines (1999.5 or higher, or 1998 Beetle) will not fit, as the oil filter bracket will hit the engine...
• Boston Bob engines - Use caution
  Historical mailing list - -- Dan Roberts
  Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:09:26 EST
  I relied on recommendations from this List and chose Boston Bob when I needed a rebuilt engine. Unfortunately, the results were disappointing.� The Boston...
• Re: Oil pressure light and buzzer Checking engine grounding1
  Historical mailing list - James
  Wed, 11 Nov 2015 17:00:43 -0500
  ...Oil pressure light and buzzer Checking engine > grounding1 > Sent by: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com> > > > > about engine grounds... anyone has a list...
• Re: Any Used Valagon 2.1L engines available
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:11:52 -0800
  ...4356 Quesnel-Hixon Road Quesnel BC Canada V2J 6Z3 Internet http://www.fastforward.ca Email sales@fastforward.ca - Engine Conversions and Accessories for classic...
• Re: seeking Air Cooled info/advice (82 Westy)
  Historical mailing list - G. Matthew Bulley
  Wed, 18 Sep 2002 17:58:32 -0400
  Tim-- How does an engine hoist help eliminate the jacks? The only way the air-cooled comes out is DOWN*, so??? *unless you spend...
• Re: Update on Cracked Heads
  Historical mailing list - Ken Wilford
  Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:24:00 -0500
  ...That is the worst place you could possibly get your engine from. I mean Bubba at Sunoco could do a better rebuild. Please cancel...
• Re: Dirty vs. clean
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:11:37 -0700
  ...I am not fastidious about keeping an engine clean, but when cleaning one would like to see some improvement. Stephen --- Todd Last <rubatoguy@COMCAST...
• Re: 1985 Vanagon - Ford Focus Engine alternative
  Historical mailing list - craig cowan
  Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:55:26 -0500
  Isn't that what the bostig guys are up to? I know they use the Ford Zetec engine, but i'm not sure what...
• Re: Ignition turned "off", engine stays on. Pull up handbrake engine goes off??
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Tue, 5 Aug 2008 17:00:09 -0700
  ...But.... > > Today, I pull over to check something and the engine wouldn't shut off. > > Huh? > > Get this. > > With engine running, key turned to...
• Re: Longevity of Conversion Engines
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Thu, 21 Mar 2002 19:44:22 -0800
  ...In my experience with VW > inline fours (in Golfs and Passats) their engines lasted about as long > as a type 1 engine in a...
• Head gasket FIX!!!
  Historical mailing list - Don Gibbons
  Sat, 12 Jul 97 20:29:00 -0500
  ...What it does is circulate coolant thru the engine and radiator after the engine has shut off. This keeps engine and coolant temps from...
• Re: metal engine lids for sale..keeps flames out of your interior in a engine fire
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Schwaia
  Tue, 23 Dec 2003 12:57:58 -0800
  ...metal engine lids for sale..keeps flames out of your interior in a engine fire i have 2 of these left, if anyones interested...
• Re: US Vanagons vs European (Horsepower)
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Thu, 24 Jun 1999 20:57:30 +0200
  ...Second, there is the MV engine, which is the standard US engine. This engine has 95 hp DIN, which should be something like 90...
• Re: Castrol Hypuron 15W-40 Synthetic Blend?
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Mon, 14 May 2012 21:08:04 -0700
  ...on our usually very used engines ..the higher number is the more important one. In summer on most vanagons engines that should be 50...
• Eurocars 2.2L review and Larry Chase BBQ...
  Historical mailing list - Andy Yarnell
  Mon, 7 Apr 2003 10:24:22 -0500
  ...With any new engine there are bound to be small bugs, but Ken is very dedicated to making this engine work, and work well...
• Re: Re[2]: engine cooling non-problem
  Historical mailing list - Frank E. Terhaar-Yonkers
  Thu, 21 Mar 1996 16:34:15 -0500
  ...The guage back in the engine compartment at the thermostat housing. If the temp goes up, and the fan no go on, bleed the...
• Re: Vacuum leak sources
  Historical mailing list - John Lauterbach
  Tue, 16 May 2000 21:35:25 -0400
  ...YOur engine might be "running good" but there could be a leak going on. > > The following are various sources of vacuum leaks. Once a...
• Re: asking for help once more...(bread loafers)
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 20 Sep 1994 12:34:32 -0400
  > > >Barry Nichols writes... > > I have a line on a 1978 bus with a 1974 SUPER BEETLE engine (???!!!). Does > > this raise any hackles? Also the...
• Re: Needs Engine (1.9l) WEST COAST U.S.
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Tue, 3 Mar 2009 18:39:02 -0800
  ...re "extremely cheap running engine that they don't want"........... well, all my engines are valuable to me. but what falls under 'extremely cheap...
• Re: TDI Eurovan
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 4 Jun 1996 14:52:57 -0400
  ...Direct injection refers to engines in which the combustion chamber is not divided. In a majority of passenger car diesel engines, there is a...
• Re: Removing Engine
  Historical mailing list - Dan Snow
  Tue, 19 Mar 2002 10:26:29 -0800
  ...Removing Engine >Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 09:22:23 -0500 > >I am expecting a new engine from Boston Engine this week and am...
• Re: Engine Performance vs Tire Size
  Historical mailing list - Sean Garrett
  Sun, 15 Dec 2002 07:48:05 -0700
  ...Engine Performance vs Tire Size A while back my stock engine was rebuilt (stock 2.1L to a Eurocars 2.2L) After the rebuild...
• Re: Rear? You mean FRONT
  Historical mailing list - Rachel Cogent
  Sun, 22 Jul 2001 09:35:55 -0600
  ...After all, we are talking about the engine not specific make of car. Don't start confusing me now! Entity Joel Walker spoke thus...
• Re: alternative carburetion of FI 2.0 Liter vanagon engine???
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Wed, 7 Sep 2005 20:02:25 -0500
  ...Stan Wilder Engine Ceramics 214-352-4931 www.engineceramics.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wil Haslup" <wil@CHARMFX.COM> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent...
• Re: Subie engine prices
  Historical mailing list - Paul Guzyk
  Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:09:02 -0500
  ...The reason is to pass the California smog test since CARB does not allow any OBD2 Subaru engines to be legally transplanted into Vanagons...
• Re: NOS parts & Old engines.
  Historical mailing list - Jon Christensen
  Wed, 20 Mar 1996 11:24:25 -0600 (CST)
  Brian wrote: (snip) > > While we're on the subject, i went to see another engine a few weeks back, it > was said to be...
• Re: engine compartment temp?
  Historical mailing list - Dr. John H. Lauterbach
  Tue, 16 Feb 1999 17:48:18 -0500
  ...engine compartment temp? >Hello Volks, >I'm working on a fire alarm for my engine compartment. >I figure that I will install a heat...
• South African Caravelle engines
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Fri, 3 Mar 2000 22:08:15 +1300
  ...They offered me a complete 2.5 engine/trans kit, ready to fit, for 22000.00 rand last year. There may be smaller VW...
• Re: California law (smog)
  Historical mailing list - Benny boy
  Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:01:02 -0500
  Ok, so let say i have a modified car (engine wise), lets say a Honda Civic SI Tuner... now with a Turbo, Frankinstein engine...
• Scat Enterprises?
  Historical mailing list - Dieter Dworkin Muller
  Tue, 18 Jun 1996 19:19:32 -0600
  ...The final result would be one spare engine (the purchased one) and two properly-built engines. However, if someone knows that these guys have...
• Re: My new 5-min webpage
  Historical mailing list - Tom Carrington
  Tue, 25 May 1999 14:35:13 -0400
  Definitely drop the tranny with the engine still in the car. Much easier. You can support the engine with another jack or span the...
• Re: diesel engine
  Historical mailing list - Ari Ollikainen
  Fri, 16 Apr 1999 20:15:36 -0700
  ...I also have a '84 Volvo that has a Volkswagen diesel engine in it. >It's a 6 cylinder. >I was wondering if this...
• Re: Putting an engineless vanagon on ramps
  Historical mailing list - Tom Young
  Mon, 13 Sep 1999 11:31:15 -0700
  It sounds like if the engine was in you'd jack up the rear by puting your jack under the sump and lifting up...
• (no subject)
  Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
  Wed, 23 Aug 2000 15:53:47 EDT
  ...In T1 engines with noncounterweighted cranks the case pounds out instead the bearing as much. When the T1 engines have the power increased, the...
• Exhaust banging on startup:'87 westy
  Historical mailing list - John W. Parkins
  Mon, 18 Sep 2000 12:48:43 -0400
  ...Sometimes when I start the engine, I hear a thump from the engine compartment. When the engine "catches" the torque causes the engine to...
• Removing Engine
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Tue, 19 Mar 2002 09:22:23 -0500
  I am expecting a new engine from Boston Engine this week and am making plans to remove the old engine this weekend. I am...
• Re: 134 conversion
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Tue, 1 Feb 2005 00:33:55 -0500
  RIGHT!!! NONE (ZERO) of my Vanagon's use a Type IV engine. And further I think you'll find that almost no Vanagon that...
• Re: Porche engine kit available w/ syncro adapted transmission
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Thu, 5 May 2005 21:34:04 -0700
  the engine was in a syncro, I even had a ride in it. ab On 5-May-05, at 9:28 PM, Pensioner wrote...
• Re: Timing belt - Subie engines
  Historical mailing list - Rob
  Fri, 8 Jun 2007 20:42:30 -0700
  ...Can it be >done with the Sube engine in place, or does the engine have to be >dropped? How hard is it to do...
• Re: Timing Chains, Belts, Gears, etc
  Historical mailing list - Evan Mac Donald
  Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:37:13 -0700
  ...Quoting John Rodgers : > Just reading the post about "New Engine Conversion" - and I wonder - > besides cost, is there any reason why engines have not...
• Need Type 1 (Bug) Engine
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Mon, 15 Jan 2018 12:59:02 -0500
  ...It's too rough to justify putting in a brand new engine, but if I could throw a relatively cheap engine in it and...
• engine heaters
  Historical mailing list - Dave Stratton
  Thu, 4 Sep 1997 13:53:16 -0600
  ...I know they existed for the older air cooled engines but I can't seem to locate a heater for my 87GL. Thanks, Dave...
• WTB 2.1L engine in North East
  Historical mailing list - Gary McEachern
  Sat, 12 Feb 2000 03:36:55 EST
  Hi Volks I am looking to find a good engine to put in my 87 Wolfy which is currently sitting in my yard because...
• Vanagon 2.1 Engine > how much does it weigh?
  Historical mailing list - Tony Demille
  Mon, 25 Sep 2000 17:22:44 -0600
  i need to know the weight of the 2.1 vanagon engine (small block ) if anyone out there can help. my local VW service...
• Engine surge
  Historical mailing list - Mark Johnson
  Mon, 10 Feb 2003 14:03:22 -0800
  My wife was driving our 1989 Carat when the engine surged she stopped the van in a parking lot, turned off the engine and...
• Re: 2268cc engine wasserboxer engine 80 stroke and 95mm bore, smog legal and 9.3 to 1 compression and 120HP
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Overmyer
  Mon, 19 May 2003 13:05:03 +1000
  ...2268cc engine wasserboxer engine 80 stroke and 95mm bore, > smog legal and 9.3 to 1 compression and 120HP > >GoWesty is advertising these, I...
• Re: regarding purchase of new engine
  Historical mailing list - Tom Young
  Wed, 22 Sep 2004 08:38:23 -0700
  ...regarding purchase of new engine > Has anyone used theses sources for a new engine. > http://www.car-part.com/ > I would find it valuable...