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• Re: Airbox
  Historical mailing list - Benjamin Tan
  Wed, 4 Jul 2001 14:20:31 EDT
  ...ones are easier to provide for because you can ru the intake pipe under the area where the rear lip of the eingine lid...
• Re: Propane tank filling
  Historical mailing list - Richard A. Jones
  Fri, 13 Sep 2002 10:28:43 -0600
  ...In the Autostop case, it shuts off the intake. In the manual case, the guy wakes up and shuts off his pump, surprised that...
• Re: Driving with AFM unplugged
  Historical mailing list - VWNut Hawk
  Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:54:52 -0500
  The air flow meter measures the amount of air entering the throttle body and intake manifold. The fuel injection, it's timing and amount...
• FS '85 Vanagon Psgr Van
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Thu, 24 Jun 2004 22:00:42 -0600
  ...panels at about "D" pillar -some sort of leak in the intake rubber boot which has been siliconed and is working Owner says he...
• Re: Conversions-16v?
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Sun, 13 Mar 2005 13:19:33 -0800
  ...seems a shame that > it sits there. > Al Brase > Al, Just imagine that pretty intake manifold tilted due to mounting position caused by diesel...
• transmission change: how to turn a/c engine to get at bolts???
  Historical mailing list - al sinclair
  Sat, 3 Dec 2005 12:22:13 -0800
  ...It's mounted on the black part of the intake air distributor, and has a aprox 1cm dia metal tube going through the front...
• I did it.. i just bought my first (NVC)
  Historical mailing list - C B
  Sat, 19 May 2007 22:32:49 -0700
  ...Will not fit unless someone invents a 90 degree plus centering transmission adapter, a way to mount most of the intake tract on the...
• Re: Cam timing
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Mon, 20 Aug 2007 02:18:01 -0700
  ...Measured in degrees. > > Overlap is the degree (Degrees/360) of total rotation where both the > intake > and the exhaust valves are open at the...
• Re: '85 Engine hesitation help
  Historical mailing list - Thomas Kitts
  Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:39:29 -0700
  ...Thomas On Sep 10, 2008, at 2:12PM, Mike Collum wrote: > The AFM is the Air Flow Meter and is between the intake air...
• Re: The Value Of a Mechanic That Knows the Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:05:10 -0700
  ...What is the technical term for 'air leaks in' that occur between the throttle plate and the air flow meter ? un measured intake air...
• Re: My first 09 subi conversion and some body work stuff.
  Historical mailing list - Jonathan Poole
  Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:19:40 -0400
  ...I can't wait. > > The engine itself is the same, intake and sub harness have some small but > important difference. I will tell you...
• Re: Head gasket
  Historical mailing list - R. Hotchkiss
  Mon, 16 Jun 2003 16:40:53 -0400
  ...I can leave the injectors/fuel rail attached to the manifold, No? > It looks like the fuel rail is bolted onto the intake and...
• No Vanagons, still have parts in Portland.
  Historical mailing list - Brendan Slevin
  Mon, 29 Nov 2010 08:47:34 -0800
  ...2.1 airbox with AFM intake boot for a 2.1 used clutch and pressure plate, no idea of any life left coil plug...
• Re: Dometic 182 B Fridge- Ad Nauseum
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:46:32 -0400
  ...Got some sort of anti-flashback setup, everything is shrouded, air intake through a mesh "filter," pilot only (faintly) visible through a little glass...
• reduced mileage '71
  Historical mailing list - Steve Tokar
  Thu, 11 Jul 1996 10:50:45 -0700
  ...Seems like it began after I had a whole bunch of work done, including replacing the intake boots and the engine seal (i.e...
• 1995 Eurobago
  Historical mailing list - Stan Dur
  Mon, 29 Sep 1997 06:42:19 +0400
  ...Air intake system was a work of ingenuity, with a massive filter housed in an accessible canister. The Winnebago conversion, while rugged and including...
• Re: air box hose
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Tue, 30 Oct 2001 03:04:32 -0600
  Most Auto Zones have a variety of air intake hoses tha should fit your reach and diameter needs. Anything ove $10 for that CA...
• 1985 Digijet misfire
  Historical mailing list - Ignace Speybrouck
  Thu, 30 May 2002 00:06:09 -0400
  Tonight I changed the intake gasket on both side. To do so, I disconnected the plug wires. Those wires are about a year old...
• Re: spark plug blow out
  Historical mailing list - Zoran Mladen
  Fri, 31 May 2002 07:34:40 -0700
  ...cylinder, open the inlet valve > and apply shop air to the intake. Back out the tap > frequently. Also, for > all I know, a spiral...
• Re: Problem with running rich when motor warm......90 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Michael Vickey
  Mon, 30 Dec 2002 15:28:50 -0500
  ...On non-Syncro Vanagons, the ground point for this wire is on the left engine head, under the intakes. On my '91 Syncro, it...
• Re: Looks like Chevy built the first mini-van Syncro!!!!
  Historical mailing list - Stevie Havoc
  Mon, 28 Jul 2003 09:11:33 -0600
  ...ease the heat a little it I fabbed a mandrel bent intake pipe running down from the carb, out of the engine bay to...
• Re: Small cracks in head (between valves) 2.1 l wbxer
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Mon, 19 Jan 2004 07:53:28 -0500
  ...Do you dare? ERic dgak sdfhkasjfh wrote: >I understand these tiny single hairline cracks at the >shortest distance between intake and exhaust valve are...
• HELP! runs good...dies...good..dies?
  Historical mailing list - John Wallace
  Tue, 21 Jun 2005 08:42:36 -0400
  ...Then I open the engine compartment, and throttle it by hand it seems to "snap/pop" in the air intake...as if something is...
• alternative carburetion of FI 2.0 Liter vanagon engine???
  Historical mailing list - Wil Haslup
  Wed, 7 Sep 2005 20:16:40 -0400
  ...about the kinds of changes folks have made to their fuel intake systems over the years on similar engines. -- Wil -- http://www.charmfx.com...
• Re: snorkel routing ??s
  Historical mailing list - Tom Buese
  Wed, 3 Jan 2007 11:23:06 -0700
  ...box. >> >> > > you know ALL '86-'91 vanagons have the "snorkel" air intake that > runs from > the right rear scoop down to the aircleaner......both...
• Re: Question about testing O2 sensor with digital meter
  Historical mailing list - mdrillock
  Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:11:16 -0700
  ...It injects nothing into the combustion chamber or intake. Called a "commencement of injection valve" in many other documents. Used as a cold starting...
• Re: Engine Carrier installed: The Good Bad, and the ugly! --- ;^)
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:10:02 -0700
  ...TB is on the LH side, at rear of intake in this pic: http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/Aircleanertestfit.jpg/Aircleanertestfit-full ;init:.jpg I...
• Type 4 FI performance questions.
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 6 May 1996 22:16:46 -0500
  ...One more odd question to tag along, on the '79 core I recently picked up from Steve Dolan the No 1 intake had pounded...
• Re: Garcia's Ghost doesn't like gettin' high.
  Historical mailing list - Bill Gibson
  Sat, 21 Aug 2010 21:53:30 -0700
  ...a fat intake leak on a guys' waterboxer engine. > 'just looking' revealed that in a few minutes. > how's your air intake boot ? > those...
• Re: Oil dipstick pushed out of the tube
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Sun, 5 Oct 2008 10:14:17 -0500
  ...Likewise I did not see >any blockage on the intake side. > >Took the van out for a drive; I had received word that gasoline...
• 88GL - Intermittent Failure to Start Continues
  Historical mailing list - JRodgers
  Sun, 8 Jun 2014 16:58:36 -0500
  ...Don't think it was a back fire - that would have been back up through the intake system. But in any case - it would...
• RE: Help: electro magnetic cut off valve
  Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
  Fri, 14 Jun 1996 08:12:26 -0700
  I think you could run without the cutoff valve as long as you plug the hole in the intake header. Otherwise, you have a...
• Re: Car's People Love Most
  Historical mailing list - Richie Chunda
  Tue, 25 Jun 2002 11:29:24 EDT
  ...he raised the intake and exhaust above the waterline, hung a prop to the ass end through the hand crank hole, opened the sunroof...
• Re: 90+ Fox engine @ 54 degrees
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Tue, 24 Sep 2002 21:56:40 -0700
  ...no, the curve of the intake "runners" apex is adjacent to where the sheet metal hits a longitudinal frame member. Almost looks like it...
• Re: Chrome Muffler Bearing?
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:11:03 -0700
  ...of the bottom > of the idle stabilzer and plugs into the intake > manifold? It also has a vacuum stub. > > Well, I found a CV...
• Re: aircooled intake elbow
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:38:01 -0600
  On 10/5/04 9:37 AM, "The Bus Depot" <vanagon@BUSDEPOT.COM> wrote: >> I am also looking for a good speedometer >> cable, the...
• Re: Vacuum from Brake Booster?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 13 Jun 2005 23:16:45 -0400
  ...it comes out of the throttle body just behind (rear is rear) the #4 cylinder's intake manifold, then swings forward and through the...
• Re: Vacuum from Brake Booster?
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Tue, 14 Jun 2005 08:19:48 -0700
  The intake manifold seems to be just a big hollow can, so theoretically the brake booster's as good as any other spot. The...
• Re: Custom Scoop Update - Should you care!
  Historical mailing list - 80 Westy Pokey
  Thu, 22 Aug 2002 20:00:40 -0400
  ...Not flush intakes - but then they ARE big >suckers! > >Clive > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "G. Matthew Bulley" <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM> >To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON...
• Re: [Syncro] Re: hi-lift rockers
  Historical mailing list - Mick Kalber
  Thu, 3 May 2001 08:39:40 -1000
  ...I drove Ray Hunnam's Subaru > conversion and my van is upgraded with the ECU chip, MSDS intake, and Stebro > turbo muffler. No ratio...
• Re: Help needed with engine running poorly
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:49:56 -0500
  ...After a while I noticed the intake runner for that cylinder was warm while the other three were cooled by the air going through...
• Mann Oil Filter and lifters Was:Engine Starting Problem
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Tue, 25 Feb 2014 18:28:59 -0500
  ...I've gone over it with a stethoscope and it seems to be >> loudest at the driver's side of the intake air distributor...
• Cooking rice in a Vanagon.
  Historical mailing list - Rob S.
  Wed, 8 Oct 2003 18:12:59 -0400
  ...Also had a free-flow intake and larger exhaust. It > would > frikkin' scream. As of late I have put the normal intake and exhaust...
• Dometic fridge works out of the van, but not in it.
  Historical mailing list - Michael Snow
  Mon, 1 Aug 2011 15:02:36 -0400
  ...I have cleaned a bit of accumulated dust from the combustion chamber and blown compressed air through the fridge intake/exhaust tubing. Does yellow...
• Re: spark plug orientation affects performance?
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 3 Apr 1996 21:02:37 +0000
  Sami Dakhlia writes: > > I read somewhere that it may be advantageous to install spark plugs > so that their open end faces the intake valve...
• Re: '80 non-L two tone sighting
  Historical mailing list - JordanVw
  Fri, 27 Feb 1998 13:44:32 EST
  In a message dated 98-02-27 08:16:33 EST, Jeffrey.Carver@AEROJET.COM writes: << An '80 Vanagon (no plastic intake) with two...
• Re: 2.1 Upgrade for '85 Westy?
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:48:56 EST
  ...These are actually larger in inside diameter and would give you some more intake air flow while still plugging into your digijet harness. Just...
• Re: Just wondering
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Sun, 28 Jul 2002 01:05:12 -0400
  ...I think it's a ram-air effect, since the intakes are on the cowl. _ _ __ _ _ _| | | | David M. Brodbeck (N8SRE) Ypsilanti, MI / _` | | | | | | +----------------------------------------------------- | (_| | |_| | | | @ cyberspace.org \__, |\__,_|_|_| "Geekdom...
• <no subject>
  Historical mailing list - Nathaniel Poole
  Sat, 4 Nov 2006 20:09:07 -0800
  ...the head I glanced at the valves and damned if the intake valve wasn't receded into the head. Not as bad as his...
• Re: Made the mistake of checking compression
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 6 Sep 2012 19:45:16 -0400
  ...Extreme failure can result in a flame front going into the intake tract burning up the intake boots and even getting past the throttle...
• Re: Alternator continuous-duty rating? K+N air filter
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 23 Sep 2012 22:24:36 -0400
  ...that ran to the base of the driver's side air intake. >>>> >>>> you can see a pic here on my old neglected website >>>> http...
• Re: Fire! (a sob story)
  Historical mailing list - Dan Hall
  Tue, 4 Aug 1998 01:57:02 EDT
  ...Stupid thing is I smelled gas fumes whenever I got out and walked past the driver's side air intake near the rear of...
• Ullage, Oil Temps etc.
  Historical mailing list - pensioner
  Fri, 9 Feb 2001 19:24:27 -0800
  ...The self correcting 77 will simply dump it out the crankcase breather into the intake until it has a stable equilibrium regarding oil quantity...
• Re: Legal swaps - My experience
  Historical mailing list - YauMan Chan
  Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:14:10 -0800
  ...I kept all the oem air intake and fuel injectrion system and most importantly the exhaust system. I took it ot the CAB "Referee...
• Re: Hesitation while driving (manual)
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott )
  Fri, 16 Oct 2015 17:04:18 -1000
  ...Senses air intake temperature, ( and coolant temp ) there can't be ANY air leaks anywhere..downstream of the throttle and between throttle plate and...
• Re: 1.9 to 2.1 conversion question
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:36:04 -0400
  ...use the 1.9 harness/FI system with the 2.1 intake > or gut the entire 1.9 harness/FI and install the 2...
• Need Advice - New Motor in '76 Won't Run
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 08 Jun 1996 11:48:21
  ...It backfires _badly_ through the intake (we're talking flames here!), and through the exhaust, and won't start. Triple checked timing, tried a...
• Re: How long does it take your Vanagon to warm up
  Historical mailing list - Warren Lail
  Sun, 15 May 2005 08:25:20 -0500
  ...Is it likely to have carbon build-up on the intake valves so soon? I am reluctant to introduce additives of any kind to...
• Re: Part search request for assistance, 81 - 83 air coolled Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:37:13 -0800
  Leslie - The first item you're describing sound a lot like the Air Intake Elbow that goes between the AFM on the Air Cleaner...
• Re: Air scoops
  Historical mailing list - Robert Stevens
  Sun, 14 Apr 2013 12:31:16 -0600
  ...All of the factory snorkel intakes pointed toward the rear of the vehicle. I'm sure the main concern is water entry. That sounds...