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• Need contact for sparepart near Toulon, France. Stranded Dane on vacation
  Historical mailing list - Andersen
  Fri, 14 Apr 2006 10:25:25 +0200
  ...He needs a seal for the crankshaft - clutch-end seal. 2.1 WBX. He is near TOulon, France - so any contactinfo that can lead...
• Re: New engine won't turn - 2.1 WBX
  Historical mailing list - Zoran Mladen
  Thu, 31 Dec 2015 07:28:07 -0700
  ...When testing for >> crankshaft >> shim thickness it is easy to add not enough shims because we don't >> tighten the >> the flywheel fully during...
• Re: Pilot Bearing in crankshaft from Automatic...
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Sun, 6 Mar 2005 21:50:13 -0600
  ...Pilot Bearing in crankshaft from Automatic... > > >> Hi, >> >> >> I'm putting a 2.1 WBX from a donor van with an automatic >> transmission into my...
• Re: Pulley End - Crankshaft Oil Seals
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Tue, 23 Oct 2012 18:25:39 -0700
  ...Pulley End - Crankshaft Oil Seals If the pulley is dry the crank pulley seal and o-ring is not the problem. The o-ring...
• Re: Failed Crankshaft seal - 2nd time!
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:17:34 -0500
  Did anyone check the crankshaft endplay at any time? I assume the answer is no, but excessive endplay will destroy a seal. If there...
• In praise of VW inline fours
  Historical mailing list - Alex Towner
  Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:45:44 -0400
  ...The forged crankshaft, piston oil sprayers, and double valve springs were eliminated. Get an early one if you intend to put it in your...
• Re: Oil Buzzer advice
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Thu, 1 Oct 2015 12:37:14 -0700
  ...4 on the dipstick is best) - too little oil in the engine - worn crankshaft bearing(s) (errr.. engine rebuild on agenda) anything else guys?
• Re: Bad Experience With Bus Depot (long)
  Historical mailing list - Ken Korn
  Thu, 12 Nov 1998 20:49:47 -0600
  ...the difference in the price for the > crankshaft from The Bus Depot and from Custom Crankshaft Repair? The CCR crank was about $400. The...
• Engine Swappers - Look at this!
  Historical mailing list - John-Reed Maffeo
  Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:30:24 -0700
  ...The proprietary parts consist of our custom crankshaft, #4 main bearings, propeller hub/flange, various brackets and our low-rpm, high-torque camshaft. This...
• valve lash adjustments
  Historical mailing list - Andy
  Thu, 3 Feb 2000 20:34:55 -0800
  ...To me number three should be number one since it is the first to connect the crankshaft. Now most engines out there you can...
• Re: Question about pulley-crank end reassembly 2.1
  Historical mailing list - Benoit Huot
  Sun, 3 Aug 2008 11:21:57 -0400
  ...1-Steel washer 2-Rubber ring 3-crankshaft seal 4-woodruff key 5-Pulley 6-Bolt Ben http://www.benplace.com/vw2.htm >1...
• Re: How to get top half of main bearing out? (AARRGH!!)
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 14 May 2001 18:16:36 -0400
  Place a cotter pin in the oiling hole of the crankshaft, then turn the crank to take the bearing out. Dennis -----Original Message----- From...
• Re: AHU MTDI vs. ABA?
  Historical mailing list - Karl Mullendore
  Wed, 2 Oct 2019 14:41:13 -0400
  Nope, no longer available, turns out the crankshafts explode on those, LOL! On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 12:58:17 -0300, Roy Nicholl <RNicholl...
• Re: Checking crankshaft end play
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sat, 13 Oct 2012 14:45:51 -0700
  ...posted a video of the late and great Boston > Bob showing crankshaft end play check adjust etc. > > I don't see it on thesamba...
• Parts question... (RE: Main crank pulley problem 85 Vanagon (Solution and thanks))
  Historical mailing list - Lon Bordin
  Sat, 17 Jun 2006 10:31:52 -0400
  ...What parts are there from the end of the crankshaft to the bolt and am I missing something? It looked like everything was ok...
• Re: Rear crankshaft seal (late Vanagon)
  Historical mailing list - Benoit
  Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:32:52 -0400
  ...Rear crankshaft seal (late Vanagon) > > >> Hey guys, late Vanagon 2.1L have a different pulley, well, they have an >> add-on....on the shaft...
• Re: Failed Crankshaft seal - 2nd time!
  Historical mailing list - ROBERT DONALDS
  Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:54:06 -0400
  ...Failed Crankshaft seal - 2nd time! > Although it is not clear from the photos I posted > (http://www.solisearch.net/ims/album.php?u_id...
• Re: Crankshaft Endplay Adjustment Hits Me Flat
  Historical mailing list - Mladen, Zoran
  Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:24:53 -0700
  ...2001 3:19 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: Crankshaft Endplay Adjustment Hits Me Flat Measuring from the outside would be fine...
• How to remove rear pulley on a 2.1
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:28:36 -0600
  ...I have removed this bolt with the crankshaft in a big vise, but not in the car. Bentley calls for a special tool for...
• Re: Clutch - revisited - Shim question
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Sun, 20 Jun 2010 13:43:39 -0700
  ...Has to do with adjusting the end play of the crankshaft. If not there your thrust bearing will become toast, as I understand it...
• Engine installation book times
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 8 Aug 2007 22:09:54 -0400
  ...Includes replace rings, main and rod bearings, crankshaft and cam shaft. Remove cylinder ridge, grind valves and tune engine minor". Air cooled Vanagon, 80...
• Re: Is THIS the "boxer" transplant we've been waiting for?
  Historical mailing list - Raimund Feussner
  Wed, 7 Mar 2018 20:28:02 +0100
  ...If that´s not a boxer, what is? The second crankshaft seems cheaper than a whole valvetrain with its variable controls. Just put the...
• RE: Tune up woes part II
  Historical mailing list - Maher, Steve (SD-MS)
  Mon, 08 Apr 1996 10:42:00 -0700 (PDT)
  ...If you have excessive crankshaft end play, and gave the crank pulley a good whack (don't ask me why anyone would do that...
• Re: '86 Vanagon removing/installing flex plate & torque converter
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Sat, 20 Apr 2013 09:58:14 -0700
  ...read something > about the need for using new bolts and not re-using the old one? > Thanks, > Bob A Check crankshaft end play. Jim
• Re: 1985 Vanagon GL
  Historical mailing list - Marion Lathem
  Sat, 19 Aug 2006 14:30:10 -0500
  ...Right now I'm out trying to get that water pipe back on behind the crankshaft pulley. I will make a bracket like in...
• Re: Supercharger
  Historical mailing list - Angus Gordon
  Mon, 25 Sep 2000 08:30:59 -0400
  ...It was an assembly of 4 banks or 9 cylinders each, bolted together >to a common crankshaft. The exhaust system was a stainless steel...
• Re: Flywheel, crankshaft shims, and seal - was; oil leak between eng & trans
  Historical mailing list - Tyrone Greene
  Sun, 6 Dec 1998 08:02:18 -0500
  ...Please > note that I will also be replacing the crankshaft oil seal, o-ring, needle > bearing, and felt washer. It was running great so...
• RE: What's a Pilot Bearing? ('88)
  Historical mailing list - Gerald Skerbitz
  Tue, 2 Apr 1996 20:29:53 -0600 (CST)
  ...Vanagon? Mine may be different from In the end of the crankshaft. -- Gerry Gerald Skerbitz <gsker@med.umn.edu> U of MN Med School...
• Need Vanagon Dual pulley for Waterpump
  Historical mailing list - Paul A. Cianciolo
  Thu, 9 Sep 1999 19:09:45 -0400
  ...dual pulley and shim arangement that fits on the waterpump and crankshaft. Anyone have one they would part with? Paulc W1VLF Cloudbounce Webpage http...
• Re: Aircooled vanagon acceptable oil temperature / timing problem?
  Historical mailing list - wb6otg
  Mon, 8 Jul 2002 13:51:35 -0400
  ...On the Vanagon the fan is on the crankshaft, so the belt doesn't effect cooling. Bill --------------------------------- One thing I noticed about aircooleds while...
• Re: Crankshaft Endplay Adjustment Hits Me Flat
  Historical mailing list - Derek Drew
  Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:03:22 -0500
  ...Generally, unless you have had oil >starvation or excessive end loads on the crankshaft (which is hard to >do), your endplay should not have...
• Crankcase breather sludge?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Maurer
  Mon, 30 Dec 1996 17:14:57 +0000
  ...When I dismantled the engine, it had uncirculated new oil near the oil filler that could not reach the crankshaft because of excessive sludge...
• 85 GL 1.9L Engine Rebuild Qs?
  Historical mailing list - Curt Lewis
  Sun, 22 Sep 2002 10:36:41 -0400
  ...I am planning on buying all new or rebuilt parts, everything except crankshaft and crankcase....that is if they check out okay. That being...
• Re: Spring Maintenance...(long)
  Historical mailing list - SyncroHead
  Wed, 18 Mar 1998 01:09:49 EST
  ...One is under the cooling > tin under the left head, and the other is a ground located somewhere > by the crankshaft pulley. What are...
• Oil leak between tranny and engine.
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 28 Mar 1999 23:03:08 -0500
  ...Is there anything back there other than the crankshaft oil seal that could be leaking? Any insight would be helpful. The leak is right...
• VW '78 2ltr experts, figure this?
  Historical mailing list - Ian Corner
  Tue, 11 Jun 1996 12:27:54 +0200
  ...The crankshaft will not move in and out by just pulling and pushing it, but as you turn it. I wondered if this was...
• Re: Mutilated woodruff key at crankshaft
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 12 Sep 2011 01:33:20 -0400
  ...Mutilated woodruff key at crankshaft My girlfriend has been driving my vanagon pretty much daily. Recently she said that she thought something wasn't...
• Re: Boycott the malls
  Historical mailing list - John Fleming
  Sun, 11 Feb 2001 00:56:18 -0500
  ...Where's the justice? J ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Gibson" <crankshaft@ADELPHIA.NET> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 7...
• head repair and water pump
  Historical mailing list - Dan Erlandson
  Wed, 18 Jun 2003 22:12:28 -0400
  ...You mean I have to disassemble the pulley? If so how do I hold the engine/crankshaft still while undoing the big nut on...
• Re: Success! (Getting a broken ez-out out of my crankshaft)
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:41:05 -0600
  ...Success! (Getting a broken ez-out out of my crankshaft) Two things I'm going to try to get the hollowed out bolt out...
• Bad Experience With Bus Depot (long)
  Historical mailing list - Ken Korn
  Thu, 12 Nov 1998 18:10:04 -0600
  ...After waiting over a week before he could start work, we determined that we needed another crankshaft as well as Ps&Cs. A remanufactured...
• Re: Manual Transmission Input Shaft...?
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:54:57 -0700
  ...That end of the shaft rides in a bearing in the end of the crankshaft so it is held more firmly once mated to...
• engine rebuild
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Gilbert
  Mon, 8 Mar 1999 09:55:57 -0800
  Hi, Well, after a new tranny in December, my crankshaft is now tweaked...and since my heads are leaking too, I think its time...
• ignition timing
  Historical mailing list - Bob Gourley
  Tue, 2 May 2000 16:56:15 -0700
  ...Could someone please tell me if the notch on the crankshaft pulley is at TDC or at 5 degrees before TDC. Bentley, on page...
• Pulling and replacing pilot bearing in crankshaft
  Historical mailing list - puzerewski
  Wed, 30 May 2001 06:47:19 -0400
  Volks, Just got overcharged to replace the pilot bearing in the end of my crank at the machine shop. I think that if I...
• Re: Boston Bob Engine / Leakers?
  Historical mailing list - ROBERT DONALDS
  Thu, 29 Apr 2004 07:01:16 -0400
  ...I wanna know. > > George George The seals dont sit on the crankshaft they sit on the pulley and the flywheel those seal surfaces dont...
• Re: 2.1L Align bore and main bearings
  Historical mailing list - Zoran Mladen
  Wed, 3 Dec 2003 16:13:34 -0800
  ...So either I need a new crankshaft or get > this one turned down > and/or polished. Turn down or get a new one? I...
• Re: Flying without pilot (bearing)
  Historical mailing list - Steve Frisbee
  Tue, 5 Jan 1999 09:49:18 -0800
  ...I'm wondering if the crankshaft could have somehow destroyed the pilot bearing? -Steve ---LARRY DTIMOTHY <ltim@bellsouth.net> wrote: > > Steve, > I also found...
• Help! - was Failed Crankshaft seal - now low oil pressure
  Historical mailing list - David Shepherdson
  Sun, 30 Oct 2005 19:19:13 -0800
  I spent the last 2 weekends replacing both crankshaft oils seals in my 87 syncro with help from several list members. Thanks again to...
• Engine / Advice wanted
  Historical mailing list - Jim Davis
  Wed, 13 Jul 1994 20:52:43 -0500 (CDT)
  ...My current engine has been diagnosed as having a couple months left (something about the crankshaft moving back and forth the way it shouldn...
• Re: Childish question
  Historical mailing list - Jerry Granito
  Thu, 22 Jul 1999 11:29:53 EDT
  ...I do have 22 hp more than you>> Hmmmm...Will the extra 22hp help with getting half the broken crankshaft into a lunar orbit?... :)
• Re: My near Vanagon disaster(long)
  Historical mailing list - Bill Collins
  Mon, 22 Sep 2003 04:19:56 -0400
  ...On the older inline VW engines, it's the keyway in the crankshaft that wears out when the bolt comes loose! I know of...
• Re: Where is the .9 bar oil pressure sensor located?
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:06:16 -0600
  Center, rear of engine, just below the main crankshaft pulley. The connecting wire often fails right at the terminal. Interesting to remove/install. If...
• Re: How to remover pistons from wasserboxer?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Maurer
  Fri, 20 Dec 1996 17:30:02 +0000
  ...My 1.9L had 2 rods seized (overheated/melted) to the crankshaft, so I could not align the pistons with the pin extraction opening...
• Pilot bearing with seal. First reply was blocked.
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 6 Oct 2021 04:59:56 +0000
  ...To use you need to drill out the stop in the crankshaft which also moves the effective bearing surface out or bore out the...
• Re: 2.5 litre upgrade kit
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 31 Dec 1995 19:46:07 -0500
  FYI, The Water Boxer Crankshaft is actually a likeness of the type 4 crank. The cam and valve train is similar to the type...
• Re: 96mm Jugs for 1700 (f)
  Historical mailing list - Maher, Steve (SD-MS)
  Wed, 01 Nov 1995 09:06:00 -0800 (PST)
  ...The crankshaft would stand still, and the Westy would spin over and over very quickly. :)
• 1.9l Oil pump R&R
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 3 Nov 1998 16:09:21 EST
  ...lovely drawing which assumes that the engine is out and the crankshaft pulley removed... :( thanks, david David Beierl <dbeierl@ibm.net> 401 274-5827...
• Re: Why remove the crankshaft pulley?
  Historical mailing list - Rico Sapolich
  Sun, 23 Apr 2000 22:12:06 EDT
  In a message dated 4/23/00 9:45:37 PM, jstepto@CHESCO.COM writes: << Are the special tools requiered to lock the crank...
• Oil Seals
  Historical mailing list - John Houser
  Fri, 18 Jul 2003 17:14:17 EDT
  Volks, I have a 1984 Westy that is leaking oil around the front crankshaft seal [one nearest the transmission]. Do I have to remove...