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• Re: 73 Safare update - curtains/cabinets/carpet/CB/cool!
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 16 May 95 16:17:58 EDT
  ...600) paper, coat ends with dielectric grease or just a little petroleum jelly (just a bit mind you) then reinstall, all sorts of electrrical...
• Re: Film of oil all over back hatch
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Tue, 8 Nov 2005 18:04:25 -0600
  ...only those splotches you > > think > > are petroleum based. > > > > Stan Wilder > > Engine Ceramics > > 214-352-4931 > > www.engineceramics.com > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "George Thorburn" <thorgk...
• Re: Synthetic Oil(s) YES!
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Thu, 9 Oct 1997 22:15:54 -0400
  ...Magee wrote: > > Any petroleum engineers out there?? > > Volks, > I am not a Petrochem Eng, but converse frequently with same. I and > others covered this...
• Re: Gas went up $0.13 a gal overnight what's up?
  Historical mailing list - MDC Vanagon
  Wed, 20 Mar 2002 10:18:35 -0800
  ...conversion and storage" [6]. "Replacing the ICE (internal combustion engine) with a non-petroleum-based alternative system will, therefore, have at least two beneficial...
• Re:
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Thu, 19 Dec 2002 18:10:28 -0500
  On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Lois Luckovich wrote: > > Today, I received this. > > > > The Petroleum Equipment Institute is working on a campaign to try and...
• Re: NVC-Prices Fuel A Rebellion
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Mon, 8 Aug 2005 16:35:52 +1200
  >Even the petroleum people will tell you that 80 percent of vehicles using >the higher octane don't need it. Very few auto mfr...
• Re: Ford Galaxy Friday
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:25:38 -0600
  ---- Tom Hargrave <thargrav@HIWAAY.NET> wrote: > Diesels engines don't have to burn diesel fuel. A diesel engine can just as > easily be designed...
• diesel (fwd)
  Historical mailing list - Sean Bartnik
  Sun, 4 May 97 16:04:06 EDT
  ...passat engine to pre '79 bus trans > adapter, however they don't say anything about a vanagon diesel engine. > The CT petrol case fits...
• Re: clamps for cv boots, ridged washers for cv bolts
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:56:07 -0700
  ...re ........"over-sized tires that the VW engineers were too stupid to put on? " over-sized tires are 'good' ? what fer ? it depends of...
• Re: Motor Oil (Synthetic)
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:34:48 -0500
  ...miles. My change interval seems economic to me. Oil is cheap. Engines are expensive. On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Allan...
• Fwd: : End the hegemony of the US auto makers
  Historical mailing list - mordo
  Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:16:12 -0400
  ...family vans and I've seen it > with three different engine options: petrol and two sizes of diesel. They > are well-styled with various...
• Re: Flickering oil light on idle.
  Historical mailing list - James
  Tue, 25 Aug 2015 11:32:34 -0400
  ...Just Castrol or other good petroleum. The most mileage people > have ever gotten out of them that I can recall have run petro. In...
• Re: Castrol and BP
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Sat, 22 May 2010 12:30:35 -0700
  ...Vanagon GL Campmobile with > stock 2.1 waterboxer engine is Castrol 20W - 50, from British > Petroleum. Some may find it foolish, but I no...
• Re: petrol consumption
  Historical mailing list - wb6otg
  Wed, 6 Sep 2000 07:43:25 -0400
  ...There are probably other fuel formula differences that explain why modern gas doesn't work well in air cooled engines. Bill ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From...
• VW '78 2ltr experts, figure this?
  Historical mailing list - Ian Corner
  Tue, 11 Jun 1996 12:27:54 +0200
  ...Having posted messages to this mailing list previously it was evident that I had to drop the engine. Here is what we found: Having...
• GDI
  Historical mailing list - Don Gibbons
  Wed, 17 Jun 1998 15:20:10 -0400
  ...Conventional petrol engines mix fuel and air outside the combustion chamber; this air/fuel mixture is always injected at the same moment in the...
• Advice on buying a 1980 Westy
  Historical mailing list - '80 Westy Pokey
  Mon, 30 Apr 2001 16:57:40 -0700
  ...caracteristics are as follows: - 99800 miles - air cooled obviously... - engine in excellent condition, - pop-up tent good, - some spots of rust but nothing major...
• Re: Running on Tap Water (was Re: Attention California Vanagonites)
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Wed, 17 Jul 2002 09:15:42 -0400
  ...Producer gas in industrial quantities made from coke or coal was used for operating large stationary engines, heating boilers and other industrial uses, and...
• SYNCRO AUX FUEL TANK
  Historical mailing list - adam grove
  Mon, 3 Nov 1997 10:46:48 PST
  ...The aux petrol tank fills through a stock 2wd filler located in the normal place. The hose then passes through the fender wall into...
• Haynes Manual for Vanagon available from UK for water cooled to '91
  Historical mailing list - Howard Allen
  Fri, 2 Jun 2006 11:18:09 -0400
  Hi Dave; Thanks for the in-depth index! But it does not appear to list a water pump under "engine", "cooling", "pump", or "water...
• Re: numbers (was subaru conversions) - It's Fryeday, isn't it?
  Historical mailing list - Joy Hecht
  Sat, 11 Mar 2006 01:01:45 -0500
  ...None of us could afford to drive any more, if that were the case - but if petroleum-based wars had to be funded that...
• Re: OIL, What do you use?
  Historical mailing list - Brent Christensen
  Wed, 20 Oct 1999 17:19:50 -0700
  ...in petroleum and chemical engineering, and had worked a 25 career for Standard Oil/Chevron. He basically told me that Synthetic oils were a...
• Re: What will you all be driving 15 years from now
  Historical mailing list - Michael Stieber
  Thu, 11 Dec 2003 21:06:54 -0800
  The Sprinter does have some serious room AND a very fine diesel engine that should be good for half a million km. Fifteen years...
• Why Fuel Level Might Affect Performance
  Historical mailing list - Justin Pentecost
  Tue, 18 May 1999 01:17:31 +0100
  ...I filled it up with petrol ... ran sweet as a nut ... At 13:18 17/05/99 -0700, Steven X. Schwenk wrote: >Before heading...
• Re: Fuel and Oil for a Vanagon?
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 25 Apr 1995 19:39:35 -0700
  ...engine ages (it has in my wife's Honda, now at 123,000 miles). Any- >thing more is a waste of money and petroleum...
• Re: Flickering oil light on idle.
  Historical mailing list - Tyler Hardison
  Thu, 13 Aug 2015 12:55:30 -0700
  ...Just Castrol or other good petroleum. The most mileage people > have ever gotten out of them that I can recall have run petro. In...
• To Eugene re: Kombi Problems.
  Historical mailing list - Tracey Knight
  Sun, 7 May 1995 22:55:03 +1000 (EST)
  ...BTW, do you know if it is true that I should be able to use unleaded petrol? Thanks Tracey > >I have a 72 Kombi...
• Re: GMC Motorhomes - but wait, there's more!
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:36:57 -0700
  ...Mine is an 88 "petrol engine." 4 cylinder, 2.2 Litres . They made the Diesel and TD until 87. Makes our 90 MV seem...
• Re: Motor Oil (Synthetic)
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:45:24 -0800
  I'm a Rotella fella too - Shell Rotella T 15W40 is my engine oil of choice. I've been using it for, well, for...
• Re: OIL, What do you use?
  Historical mailing list - Bob Donalds
  Thu, 21 Oct 1999 09:41:38 -0400
  ...the way that petroleum based oils do and thats a problem for both the air cooled and the water cooled engines hotter heads make...
• Re: Rear Cushion over Engine
  Historical mailing list - Jonce Fancher
  Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:48:33 -0500
  ...It is a Petroleum product and everytime fuel prices go up so does the foam. Always something. C-ya Jonce Thanks, Jonce... I remembered...
• Re: A message from White House Spokesperson Scott McLellan: CAUTION POLITICAL CONTENT
  Historical mailing list - Marc Perdue
  Sat, 5 Mar 2005 17:27:16 -0500
  ...Back in the 70s and 80s, there were a number of new and different carburetion and fuel delivery systems developed for engines to improve...
• Re: Another Synthetic Oil Question
  Historical mailing list - Joel VanderKwaak
  Thu, 2 Jun 2005 13:01:16 -0700
  ...I recently changed from 20-50 Petroleum Engineers natural oil to 20-50 Amsoil synthetic. With the natural I had a slow leak from...
• : Re: [Syncro] duel fuel, gas or LPG / propane
  Historical mailing list - Gary
  Fri, 25 Aug 2000 23:03:44 -0600
  ...petrol goes through the roof, then propane conversions would be all the more attractive, especially if you can use them on gas engines... >>> Propane...
• Re: Additives oops
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Wed, 14 Jul 2004 08:19:04 -0500
  Russel, I have forgotten what engine yu have in your vehicle. If it is a 1.9L or 2.1L WBX, multi grade oils...
• Re: Disappearing Coolant - Head Leak?-Engine Oil Viscosity!
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 15 Sep 2004 21:12:24 -0400
  ...worn engine 2) petroleum 5W30 used in hot climate and driven hard 3) faulty pressure sensor. I recognize Vanagon's flat engine does have...
• Re: Engine Cutting Out at Highway Speed
  Historical mailing list - Ray Hunnam
  Mon, 11 Jun 2001 20:33:42 +1000
  ...all the Subaru sensors governing the engine performance. All within specs. Next I cleaned and flushed the petrol tank and checked the pressure from...
• Re: 5-cyls in a Vanagon? Which ones?
  Historical mailing list - William Warburton
  Wed, 6 Apr 94 15:42:55 GMT
  ...I wouldn't expect there to be any backward compatibility with the waterboxer engines. Is there a five cylinder petrol engine available in the...
• The VW MPV - press cutting.
  Historical mailing list - P.J. Kenny
  Sun, 26 Feb 1995 14:17:17 GMT
  ...It has room for seven people and their luggage. 'Engines include Ford's two litre petrol four cylinder, VW's much-praised 1.9...
• Re: Diesel vs Gas Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Allan Streib
  Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:00:16 -0500
  ...On the other hand with todays manufacturing technology an engine should EASILY go well over 100,000 miles with normal care. Even the 1...
• Fuel Questions & Miscellany.....
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 29 Jun 1995 23:33:28 -0400
  ...My thoughts being I can do this at work - who cares if I blow THAT up?!?!? I pop the engine cover, look inside - fuel...
• Re: oil additive to clean engine
  Historical mailing list - tom ring
  Thu, 19 May 2011 21:18:19 -0500
  ...mixture of one of the good alcohols as well as some petroleum solvents and maybe more. Whatever is in it it does well in...
• Re: Vanagon Newbie
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wohlfarth (aka.
  Thu, 3 Oct 2002 09:46:55 -0400
  ...It covers the Volkswagen Transporter carburettor and fuel injection 1.9L and 2.1L petrol (gasoline) engines. The one I have does not cover...
• Re: Diesel Fuel vs. Gasoline
  Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
  Wed, 27 Apr 2005 13:16:33 -0700
  ...can't beat the petroleum companies > with the gasoline engines.
• Re: clamps for cv boots, ridged washers for cv bolts
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:07:12 -0700
  ...petroleum products rot it. >> the answer is obvious get OEM ones, not ones from our great trading >> partner from across the sea. >> I am...
• Re: Diesel vs Gas Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:54:54 -0800
  Hey, that gave me a smile ! - 'we have arrived at the disposable engine.' ! -----Original Message----- From: Allan Streib [mailto:streib@cs.indiana.edu] Sent...
• Re: Fair price for a Joker?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sat, 7 Jul 2012 21:45:42 -0700
  ...hash=item231f63f66e it's only an 83 with 1.9 petrol waterboxer engine. 3,000 Pounds is about $ 4,860 US apparently .. pretty low...
• Re: Diesels on NPR this morning
  Historical mailing list - tmiller
  Sat, 15 May 2004 10:53:53 -0400
  ...Diesel cycle engines produce CO2 as an >> exhaust >> component in approximately the same quantity per stroke regardless of >> the >> fuel source D1,D2, McDooDoo...
• Re: Awesome new Westfalia
  Historical mailing list - Anthony Egeln
  Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:39:56 -0800
  ...cabs) plus the choice of 128kW TDI or 3.2L V6 petrol engine in the various versions of the multivan...the new name for...
• Re: 5-/6-cyl in VW vans, bell housing numbers
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 5 Aug 1996 09:51:07 +0200
  ...can still sell it to someone who wants to use the petrol engine. Helmut asked about the exhaust pipe. The (standard audi looking) manifold...
• Re: GoWesty2.3--how do you like it?
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:47:11 -0800
  ...There are some definate perks to putting an inline 4 engine > in a vanagon, whether it be Diesel, Petrol, Volkswagen, Ford, Volvo, or any...
• Re: Power Loss When Wet Problem SOLVED!
  Historical mailing list - Ken Wilford
  Wed, 7 Nov 2007 14:47:29 -0500
  ...and to leave a coating (petroleum based) > on the wires. So I sprayed all the connectors in the engine > compartment, the plug wires, and...
• Re: unclas gas prices.. and what they'll be this summer -ethanol
  Historical mailing list - don spence
  Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:05:16 -0700
  ...Ethanol production is currently a petroleum based process. More petro fuel energy is used to produce ethanol than the energy derived from ethanol. (numbers...
• Re: emission ethics
  Historical mailing list - tmiller
  Tue, 31 Aug 2004 22:00:20 -0400
  ...I for one would like to know if advancing the engine or retarding the engine will decrease NOX? I thought an engine runs hotter...
• Re: All the wires are brown!
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sat, 25 Aug 2012 16:34:42 -0700
  ...have fouled > the wiring and converted the engine into a useless inert lump of metals > and petroleum-based fluids. But it's idling away...
• Re: Natural Gas Conversion Kit
  Historical mailing list - Martin Jagersand
  Tue, 31 Mar 1998 22:31:01 -0500
  ...For diesel nuts like me there is a technology called "fumigation", in which a CI diesel engine is run partially on a gasenous fuel...
• Re: Replace Hydraulic lifters with solid lifters?
  Historical mailing list - d spence
  Thu, 9 Nov 2006 22:50:27 -0700
  ...It�s today�s �modern� API (American Petroleum Industry)�approved oils that are killing our engines. Next call: To another major camshaft supplier, both...
• Re: best lube for sliding door
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:51:24 -0700
  ...especially on an engine that is not really new .. it hardly matters at all ....just that it's 'engine oil' . Same on the lubes...
• Re: 5-cyls in a Vanagon? Which ones? (fwd)
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 11 Apr 94 15:23:13 CDT
  ...I wouldn't expect there to be any backward compatibility with > the waterboxer engines. Is there a five cylinder petrol engine available > in the...
• Re: Fryeday - Bio-Diesel Exhaust/Emissions
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Fri, 25 Sep 2015 14:32:18 -0500
  ...They are produced because the diesel engines operate at temperatures high enough to burn atmospheric nitrogen. They are removed from exhaust flow by catalytic...