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Re: Relocating syncro fuel filter
Historical mailing list - Lawrence Johnson
Wed, 29 Dec 1999 10:24:49 -0500
Alan, the fuel filter is hidden behind the upper spring support (rear left wheel well). The black thing visible in the wheel well is...
Re: AT Problem
Historical mailing list - Evan Mac Donald
Sat, 25 Feb 2006 06:45:57 -0800
<SNIP> BTW, there is a fluid filter in the auto tranny- goes right on the bottom of the valve body, you can't miss...
Re: pre-pump fuel filter
Historical mailing list - marcus
Tue, 2 Jun 1998 12:54:30 -0700
...BTDT db25 wrote: > I have a question concerning the fuel filter in front of the fuel pump. I > understand that there was either a...
Re: Knecht oil filter Beck Arnley p/n
Historical mailing list - John McLean
Mon, 13 May 2002 21:23:02 -0700
...This is the larger diesel filter and required bending the aluminum cylinder shroud slightly for clearance. They have a larger filter element, have a...
Re: location of fuel filter 85 vanagon
Historical mailing list - Robert Williams
Tue, 2 Jun 1998 12:12:30 -0700
Leo, On my 85 Westy, the fuel filter is visable from under the van. There is only about 20 inches of fuel line between...
oil filter for 2.1 l WBX?
Historical mailing list - Keith Adams
Thu, 16 Mar 2000 12:41:55 -0700
What is the proper Bosch oil filter for the 2.1 l WBX? Reason I ask, is I got one from my local favourite...
Re: Bypass oil filter
Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:54:52 -0700
...Using a bypass filter in addition to the full-flow filter provides a way to filter much smaller particles from the oil. The stock...
Re: Need help
Historical mailing list - Jere Hawn
Mon, 9 May 2005 01:09:47 -0700
Then why did the problem go away when I changed the oil filter to a Mahle? And its has been running fine for the...
Re: Subject: Fuel filter
Historical mailing list - Clint Kolda
Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:12:37 -0700
On a similar note, my 86 has the large round filter. When I replaced the fuel lines this spring, I planned to replace the...
leak near oil filter
Historical mailing list - Paula Lazeski
Sun, 13 Feb 2000 21:54:21 -0500
People, My friend Russel, seems to be having problems with an oil leak from around his filter. 86 Westf, does anyone else have this...
Re: Oil Light Discovery-Fram Filters
Historical mailing list - Rob
Mon, 5 Jan 2004 11:11:32 -0800
At 1/5/2004 10:32 AM, Wes Ullrich wrote: >So is there a definitive answer as to the best oil filter?? Mann? Mahle...
Re: Oil Filter Options??
Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:59:41 -0700
...Wix made filters are the only American filter I will use if I can't source a Mann or Mahle. Mucho better than any...
Re: Mann Oil Filter and lifters Was:Engine Starting Problem
Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
Wed, 26 Feb 2014 19:48:44 -0800
...Jim On Feb 26, 2014, at 12:51 PM, Mike Riley <mkriley@FUSE.NET> wrote: > the real reason the mann filter stops the red...
Mahle fuel filter?
Historical mailing list - Gerald Masar
Tue, 24 Jul 2001 17:53:50 -0700
...The Mahle filter is a little longer than the stock one, but the end fittings appear the same size. WILL THIS FILTER WORK ON...
Re: Syncro air filter
Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:17:54 -0500
> Can you tell us the differences between the standard and the syncro air > filters you sell? > Are they both paper? > Do they both fit...
Changing fuel filter- what am I missing here?
Historical mailing list - Marshall Ruskin
Sun, 25 Jun 2000 15:33:43 -0500
...Today was my first crack ever at changing a fuel filter on my 84 Westy 1.9. Both Haynes and Bentley show the fuel...
Re: Fuel Filter Question
Historical mailing list - Jere Hawn
Wed, 18 Jul 2001 19:01:07 -0700
Hi Steve, I changed my fuel filter a day or so ago in my 90 GL (system layout: tank, pump, filter, engine) and the...
'85 1.9 Fuel Filter/Tank/ Fuel Pump Mystery
Historical mailing list - Jeff Lincoln
Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:36:11 -0400
...Old filter, new filter, blah blah - until finally I end up witht he old filter and everything seems fine. Thinking the new filter might...
Re: Oil Filter
Historical mailing list - Jeff Schwaia
Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:55:12 -0700
Paul, Use the Wix filter from O'Reillys (#51342). Just as good as the Mann or Mahle. Some people also like the Mobil 1...
Re: oil filter for 2.1 l WBX?
Historical mailing list - Christopher Irvin
Thu, 16 Mar 2000 15:21:15 -0900
...Ever since the filter the deal sold me (I posted it was a VW filter -- but I'm not too bright it was probably...
Re: Fuel filter??
Historical mailing list - jimt
Tue, 31 May 2005 11:50:39 -0600
...I happen to have one > of the cylindrical metal filters lying around (always keep a spare) from my > last vanagon...Is it okay to...
Re: fuel pump noise
Historical mailing list - Jeff Ensing
Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:43:40 EST
...I have not had to replace the original VW filter yet. I started out with one of those glass hot rod filters with the...
1.9L Fuel Filters
Historical mailing list - Jeff Lincoln
Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:29:26 -0400
...On the 1.9L engines the fuel filter was the small square plastic filter located between the fuel tank outlet and the fuel pump...
Bosch metal fuel filter - made for same or different fuel line diameters?
Historical mailing list - Todd Guttman
Sun, 17 Sep 2000 21:03:28 -0400
...Ordered a new fuel filter from one of our list vendors and received a Bosch metal one - apparently good. The old fuel filter that...
Re: coolant filters, anyone?
Historical mailing list - Michael Snow
Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:41:21 -0700
There have been a bunch of coolant filters marketed my different companies. If you use one at all, make sure that it is a...
Re: Fuel filter question
Historical mailing list - GMBulley
Thu, 16 Apr 1998 07:00:37 EDT
...However, I did not REPLACE my usual filter with it, I augmented the usual filter... To explain: From the factory it was set up...
Re: Relocating syncro fuel filter
Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
Tue, 28 Dec 1999 17:52:22 PST
In the last three years I've been stranded 3 times by vehicles with clogged up fuel filters: a Vanagon, an Audi 100, and...
K&N Filters
Historical mailing list - Barry Armitage
Tue, 5 Oct 1999 08:58:54 -0400
What model number K&N filter fits an '89 Syncro? Also, is it just the filter element or the whole thing that is replaced...
Re: Who makes the good air filter? (1.9l)
Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
Sat, 5 Sep 2015 17:30:24 -0500
...K&N gauze filters use oil but they are not the same as oil bath and their filters pass way too much dirt for...
Re: My First Oil Filter Failure
Historical mailing list - Dominique Cormann
Thu, 20 May 1999 20:50:57 -0400
...Bosch may indeed be making their own filter and selling > it elsewhere in the world, but the U.S.-distributed Bosch Vanagon oil > filters...
Re: different fuel filter #s for 83.5 Vanagon
Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
Wed, 17 May 2006 23:59:11 -0400
The 133-133-511 is the standard filter used on the early tanks with 7,, hose outlets. The 1HO-201-511-A has 11mm...
Re: Relocating syncro fuel filter
Historical mailing list - Alan J. Flint
Wed, 29 Dec 1999 06:30:25 -0800
...Relocating syncro fuel filter > > > > I would consider this a bad move. This fuel filter, is "self cleaning" > > and "never needs changing". Thats why it...
Oil Filter performance
Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
Mon, 5 Nov 2007 23:24:27 -0500
While many folk speculate or are convinced that Mann or Mahle filters are the only way to go, I have always had doubts that...
Re: Oil Filters
Historical mailing list - EMZ
Mon, 18 Oct 1999 20:45:44 -0400
I highly doubt that this filter is your oil pressure trouble. I have have run Purolator filters on all my Vanagons and have never...
Fw: Re: filling the filter?, was: lube guys
Historical mailing list - easoars
Sat, 12 Feb 2000 16:23:08 -0800
In the military we always filled the filter bank completetly with oil. Has anyone tried to fill an oil filter for an Mazda RX7...
Re: Oil Filters-Syncro
Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
Thu, 10 Jul 2003 10:39:53 -0600
...Oil Filters > Not only oil pressure can ruin your engine oil filter. If you > are running a Syncro off road, the filter is in...
Re: Vanagon auto tranny lifespan
Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
Thu, 3 May 2001 18:03:18 -0500
...No problems with transmission. > > John Lauterbach > Macon, GA Filter? What filter? Are you sure there is a filter? Larry A.
Re: Fuel filter
Historical mailing list - David Bohannan
Tue, 15 Aug 2006 06:21:40 -0400
I like the idea of BOTH filters...but I tend to be a king of overkill... Maybe after VW looked at the fact that...
Re: Air Filters Diferences
Historical mailing list - Ron Lussier
Fri, 04 Apr 1997 10:45:44 -0800
...They look like they will last a lifetime and have a lot >more filter surface than regular air filters Yup, I bought three and...
Re: plastic filter before the fuel pump...was moved inside the tank...
Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
Sun, 17 Jun 2001 21:17:25 EDT
The change in the fuel filter might be that VW move the filter INSIDE the tank as a fine mesh screen rather than the...
Re: Placement of Fuel Filter
Historical mailing list - PSavage
Mon, 16 Jul 2001 10:01:12 -0700
My CA registered '85 has only a large, metal filter *fter the pump. Lately, on occassion, I hear a high pitched, tho quiet, humming...
Re: My '84 1.9L has two fuel filters!
Historical mailing list - Erik Valeur
Sat, 2 Feb 2002 15:34:03 +0100
The plastic filter between the fueltank & the fuel pump was put there by a PO who had to buy a new (expensive) pump ruined...
Eurovan oil filter Warning
Historical mailing list - Don Gibbons
Tue, 2 Sep 1997 12:47:00 -0500
Like all good EV owners I spent last friday nite under it changing the oil and filter. I saw something that I had seen...
Re: location of fuel filter 85 vanagon
Historical mailing list - BILL
Tue, 2 Jun 1998 19:48:21 -0600
> > On my 85 Westy, the fuel filter is visable from under the van. There is > >only about 20 inches of fuel line between the...
Re: Syncro Air Filter
Historical mailing list - Subject: Re: Syncro Air Filter
Thu, 20 Apr 1995 15:21:12 -0400
>I have been using the big air filter (part # 25129620B) which goes >for $136 CDN (just phoned for the latest price). My dealer, who...
Re: Was Motor Oil (Synthetic), now Ail Filters
Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:21:25 -0500
...I immediately suspected the air filters I was running - I had "upgraded" to K&N filters which are oil soaked gauze filters that are...
Re: AH...why didn't i check the air filter? (and others...)
Historical mailing list
Wed, 20 Sep 95 13:27:56 PDT
On Wed, 20 Sep, snuggles@VNET.IBM.COM asks: >IF i can't find a new filter, i can just clean this one of...
Re: Shuddering Returns--Gas
Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
Mon, 23 Jan 1995 12:36:53 -0800 (PST)
I'd second the Joel's suggestion to replace the fuel filter. (is it near due for changing anyway?). Who knows, maybe a wet...
Re: firestone lube special
Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
Fri, 11 Feb 2000 18:04:44 +0100
Davidson wrote: > Per, > are you suggesting that the Mann filters sold by Bus Depot are not the real > stuff??? No, in no such way...
different fuel filter #s for 83.5 Vanagon
Historical mailing list - Jeff Oxroad
Wed, 17 May 2006 21:35:48 EDT
Does anyone know the difference in the in-line fuel filter both listed for the 83.5 watercooled Vanagon? The one in the bus...
Ideal oil filter by-pass pressure/oil filters
Historical mailing list - Edward Duntz
Mon, 8 Sep 2008 18:07:58 -0400
I'm trying to educate myself a little more about oil pressure, especially as it applies to oil filters and by-pass valves in...
Re: Upstream Fuel Filter dissection results
Historical mailing list - Peter DiFalco
Thu, 3 Jun 2010 22:46:36 -0700
...didn't have an upstream filter in it to begin with, I > > put a metal in line filter from WIX in there that had...
Bosch oil filters in US not made by Bosch
Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
Sat, 23 Oct 1999 14:21:33 -0400
...Then after that Fram (they make Canadian tire filters and >some other house brands for other parts stores), and lastly Wix makes >filters for...
Re: Oil Filter performance
Historical mailing list - David Kao
Mon, 5 Nov 2007 23:52:56 -0800
...Perhaps oil filters also has an extended service interval these days too? David --- David Kao <dtkao0205@YAHOO.COM> wrote: > VW OEM oil filter for...
Re: Oil pressure Light and appropriate oil filter
Historical mailing list - Sam Walters
Tue, 6 Feb 2007 11:29:18 -0500
Frank, If the Hengst H14W04 filter you are using, and selling to your customers, is the same as the MAHLE/KNECHT 0C 108, as...
Re: if not one thing its another, fuel pump
Historical mailing list - Doktor Tim
Thu, 21 Aug 2003 07:32:52 -0700
At 06:57 AM 08/21/2003, you wrote: >would a clogged filter be holding to much gas? what do i look for >build...
Re: oil filter for 2.1 l WBX?
Historical mailing list
Thu, 16 Mar 2000 17:05:58 EST
I wouldn't get the Bosch filter as it is a rebadged cheapy filter. Only use the Mann or Mahle filters for the Vanagon...
Re: Oil Filter
Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:11:52 -0500
According to Dennis Haynes' research, the Mobil 1 filter for the Vanagon is vastly superior to the Mahle/Mann/ Knecht filters. I quit buying...
Re: Oil Filter performance
Historical mailing list - Mark Keller
Tue, 6 Nov 2007 05:32:56 -0800
Hi Dennis, If your interested I installed a Gulf Coast Submicronic oil filter about 10 years ago. No anaylsis personally, but the documentaion convinced...
Re: Fuel filter 85 vanagon
Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:46:01 -0500
"Typically" '85s only have the square plastic fuel filter that is between the fuel tank and the fuel pump. Yes, the inlet and outlet...