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• Re: why does #3 pist/cyl always go bad first?
  Historical mailing list - John Anderson
  Tue, 25 Aug 1998 13:29:01 -0400
  ...The fact that all Fuel Injected type IV engines have asymetrical (un-equal >path lengths from exhaust valves to tail pipe) exhaust systems can...
• Exhaust cylinder studs & threadlock
  Historical mailing list - Georgios A. Stylianides, PhD
  Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:36:43 -0700
  Hi all, Back to the exhaust system and crossover front and rear pipe attachment to the cylinder heads. Details below. My original question: what...
• Re: exhaust system
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Wed, 23 Sep 1998 20:41:03 -0500
  ...crossover pipe, cat, muffler, and tailpipe. Assuming your Vanagon is not California emissions (that is, the cat faces left to right, not front to...
• Re: Coolant pipes diagram for 1.9 (rusty gas tank/ farphrumuven II)
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 13 Mar 2000 08:36:49 -0500
  ...This pipe then connected to uppermost >hose that runs along the front of the engine compartment. This is opposite of >my notes and labels...
• Hot EGR?
  Historical mailing list - Bulley
  Thu, 22 Jul 1999 07:34:33 -0400
  ...like the flapper valve re-direct exhaust pipes, and the #3 cylinder warm air exit at the front of the tin...). When VW found...
• Re: Exhaust manifold blown - rusted bolts...tips?
  Historical mailing list - chris Moyles
  Fri, 1 Jun 2007 13:13:25 -0400
  ...Of course, however, > my exhaust, although replaced about 4 years ago is all rusty now and > the bolts are basically parts of the pipes...
• FS 85 GL in New Jersey...
  Historical mailing list - Richard Bias
  Thu, 16 May 2002 12:07:53 +0000
  ...front caliper (driver side) and front brake pads. 12. New back brakes with new hardware. 13. New shifter assembly. 14. New exhaust collector pipe...
• Re: removing engine studs: more questions
  Historical mailing list - jbclem1
  Sun, 17 Apr 2005 02:13:51 -0700
  ...the front end of my engine (they are rusted to the point of uselessness) in the process of changing my exhaust pipes. (I've...
• 85 exhaust supports needed
  Historical mailing list - Dart 330
  Sat, 4 Aug 2001 17:40:50 -0500
  ...The pipe coming from the front two cylinders cracked where it bolts to the pipe going to the CAT. Had this welded shut so...
• Re: I4 conversion exhaust - some comments
  Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
  Sun, 9 Mar 2008 01:36:48 EST
  ...The muffler and exhaust pipe was supported by universal heavy duty truck muffler supports. My space limits were given by the propane tank on...
• Re: EUROVAN EXHAUST
  Historical mailing list - Michael Pelikan
  Mon, 25 Nov 1996 09:33:33 -0500 (EST)
  ...ve had only to weld a hole in the exhaust >pipe just in front of the muffler. > >Thanks in advance for your responses, > >Hal...
• Re: Exhaust Gaskets
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Wed, 31 Jul 2002 06:20:03 EDT
  ...Actually, you should remove the header pipe anyways to clean up the surface of the exhaust port gasket surface. If it has been leaking...
• Product recommendation: Permatex Copper Spray-A-Gasket
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:27:00 -0800
  After getting the new exhaust on I was mildly distressed to discover a leak where the two crossover pipes from the engine meet the...
• Re: Ooooo......small blue puddle !
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sun, 27 Oct 2002 16:37:08 -0600
  ...a small blue > puddle under the front of the engine!! > Visions of lots of work, rusty exhaust nuts etc, flash before me !!! > Upon closer...
• Back on heating
  Historical mailing list
  3 Feb 95 16:47
  ...cool air / \ / _________ \__ water in | | | | __/ | |____|____| | | | ---> | | ---> hot engine cooling air \____________ |__| \ hot? water out Two pipes upto the front with a radiator/fan setup and a water...
• Re: replacing flex plate with flywheel
  Historical mailing list - Richard Koller
  Thu, 7 Dec 2023 21:41:35 -0500
  ...j-pipe. > Rear exhaust has some different supports and a heat shield, usually > replaced with 2WD version. > Front pipe different with Syncro pipe often...
• Re: Exhaust Pipe Question
  Historical mailing list - TJ Hannink
  Fri, 17 Sep 2004 08:15:04 -0700
  ...front pipe. S&S will repair the problem as part of their warranty program, unfortunately it will require me to remove the pipe and...
• Re: Exhausting work.... Advice solicited.
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:01:47 -0700
  ...Always paint all the exhaust system parts with hi-temp exhaust paint. it's quick n' easy to clean the pipes with a power...
• Re: My Rusty Exhaust Is No More
  Historical mailing list - Bill Shawley
  Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:18:01 +0000
  ...My Rusty Exhaust Is No More > > > > Embarrassed by the sound! This thing had the worst exhaust leak ever, the > > front pipe was rusted through...
• Re: I4 conversion exhaust
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sat, 8 Mar 2008 20:28:37 -0800
  ...Friend with similar conversion has had many cracked pipes with rubber hangers supporting muffler. I believe having the exhaust system coupled to the engine...
• Re: Advice needed for replacing front and rear header pipes and hardware
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Tue, 19 May 2009 18:39:09 -0700
  ...Advice needed for replacing front and rear header pipes and hardware >I want to thank all of you for your responses. The images are...
• Bentley and Parts For Sale
  Historical mailing list - CARY CHIANG
  Fri, 14 Jan 2000 14:17:00 MST
  ...Other items (glass, tail & turn signal lens, exhaust pipes, interior bits, etc. from '84-85 passenger and Westy vans (no appliances/tank). E-mail...
• Re: diesel gas conversion - which header?
  Historical mailing list - selten
  Mon, 6 May 2002 14:14:02 -0500
  ...It points toward the front of the van so that a competent muffler shop should be able to bend a pipe to sweep around...
• Fwd: 1988 Vanagon Parts for Sale
  Historical mailing list - David Milo
  Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:34:31 -0400
  ...The oil filler pipe and dipstick have been removed for storage purposes. All 4 front exhaust manifold studs are broken almost flush with the...
• Re: 5-/6-cyl in VW vans, bell housing numbers
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 5 Aug 1996 09:51:07 +0200
  ...the exhaust pipe. The (standard audi looking) manifold feeds two downpipes, which then goes to the rear of the audi, or the front of...
• Re: hydraulic lifter article
  Historical mailing list - ROBERT DONALDS
  Sun, 21 Mar 2004 10:42:10 -0500
  Hi Bob, > > I've noticed a popping or clicking sound coming > from near the left front of the engine, near > where the exhaust connects...
• FS: 1985 GL, 94k, $1500 obo in WV
  Historical mailing list - John Anderson
  Tue, 23 Sep 1997 18:57:13 +0000
  ...by me, new Dansk exhaust 1 yr old, new steel coolant pipes, new P/S pipes, new fuel lines, new front rotors, bearings, pads...
• Re: Exhaust Mounting question PLEASE HELP!
  Historical mailing list - Rico Sapolich
  Tue, 23 Apr 2002 23:21:45 EDT
  ...the head) and it will not fit in front of the motor mount (the pipe needs to be in the same physical location as...
• Re: Stock v.s. S&S exhaust?
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Thu, 22 May 2003 06:43:07 EDT
  ...I can provide front and rear DANSK stainless Steel Headers, Cast Iron Collector, STEBRO/Vanagon Stainless J-pipe, EMICO stainless CAT with new BOSCH...
• Re: Advice needed for replacing front and rear header pipes and hardware
  Historical mailing list - Mike
  Sun, 17 May 2009 08:25:41 -0400
  ...Advice needed for replacing front and rear header pipes and hardware What I have found is that many times it looks worse than it...
• Re: exhaust leak, header tubes to collector on 2.1 engine
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Wed, 24 Jul 2013 08:56:40 -0700
  ...installed Dansk front and rear, plus collector, pipe on my syncro. Terrible fit where the flanges meet at the collector. The pipe flanges are...
• Re: Big Brake options...Front Brakes do 80%
  Historical mailing list - Gene P
  Fri, 11 Jun 2021 11:45:01 -0700
  ...Those rear brakes keep the exhaust pipe behind you where it belongs. From: Richard Koerner Sent: Friday, June 11, 2021 10:59 AM To...
• 85 For Sale
  Historical mailing list - Daivd Janzen
  Mon, 1 Oct 2001 22:05:54 EDT
  ...What it needs Front heater blower motor, drivers seat bottom worn out, Long coolant pipes they don't leak but have been patched up...
• 80 vanagon heat duct
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 21 Dec 1995 00:51:54 -0700
  ...IN fact I still have a printout of the parts in front of me: diagram #37 piece #17 - name: heater pipe, right; VW part...
• Re: The herky-jerky (a new dance step?)
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 15 Jul 1996 00:08:20 -0700
  ...My biggest suprise so far on a Vanagon was just how badly they run with a small hole in the exhaust pipe. I blew...
• Re: Info needed re: Audi 5-cyl conversion certification in California
  Historical mailing list - Paul Guzyk
  Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:04:58 -0700
  ...SVX exhaust system until after the cat(s) which places the exhaust in the middle of the vehicle, then add on pipe to make...
• FS Parting '86 Van, 2.1L Eng &exhaust parts
  Historical mailing list - Ray Brubaker
  Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:09:38 -0400
  ...Almost new muffler, some usable exhaust header pipes, two good cats. Need anything, make me an offer, before it goes to scrap. I am...
• <No subject>
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Tue, 1 May 2001 07:19:29 -0700
  ...When I started it specks of water flew out of > the exhaust pipe. A mechanic I phoned told me this > means either: bad headgaskets...
• Transmission Oil Change
  Historical mailing list - Dave
  Sun, 15 Jun 1997 22:21:11 -0500
  ...front crossover pipe on the drain = and the shift linkage on the filler. Please don't tell me I have to = take the exhaust...
• Re: [Diesel-Vanagon] Re: Diesel Vanagon Exhaust Design
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 21 Dec 2012 13:59:00 -0800
  ...a front engine Renualt 16 ( fantastic car ) and some muffler shop had welded a tab to the back end of the exh pipe..thatscrewed...
• Re: The fridge fired up! YES!!! (and I tell you how... ;-)
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Sun, 20 May 2001 00:43:03 -0500
  ...I haven't been able to figure out which pipe you could be putting compressed air into. The only pipe on the front side...
• Re: Remember those converter thieves?
  Historical mailing list - John Meeks
  Sat, 1 Oct 2011 16:29:44 -0400
  ...I had isolated my exhaust leak to > the collector where the front crossover pipe joins it. Began the task of > removing the old system...
• Re: It's back together and it runs.
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 9 Nov 2011 21:21:28 -0800
  ...and guess what ......I have *never* purschased a new aftermarket vanagon waterboxer front or rear pipe ( lots of mufflers and tail pipes, yes of...
• Various repair reportings
  Historical mailing list - Jarrett Anthony Kupcinski
  Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:45:05 -0600
  ...due to a hole somewhere in the exhaust system. Also was running like complete crap. The pipes were in pretty bad shape, so I...
• STAINLESS STEEL mufflers for $104! Stainless systems $599! (RE: Muffler question)
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:03:50 -0400
  ...You can also use these mufflers in conjunction with my STAINLESS STEEL crossover (header) pipes to get a nearly 100% stainless exhaust system for...
• Update, including rear wiper controller
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sat, 21 Mar 2020 09:24:49 -0700
  ...front springs , I’m wondering if I have them powder coated that bilstein blue to compliment the yellow shocks :-) 4. J pipe on exhaust...
• Re: why pre-heat, explained was: Refrigerator Problems
  Historical mailing list - Bulley
  Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:38:55 -0400
  ...When the exhaust pipe is | cool, it can't exhaust very well, and it chokes. | | Think about the density of air for a moment...
• Re: 5-/6-cyl in VW vans, bell housing numbers
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 04 Jun 1996 16:31:53 -0700
  ...Thanks for all your help, John Wakefield After that a single pipe runs to the front of the kombi and> does a U turn...
• Propex: Starting the Installation
  Historical mailing list - Tom Forhan
  Tue, 26 Nov 1996 12:15:29 -0500
  ...I examined the exhaust pipe, and it is not double walled. So to insulate the wall of the exhaust pipe from the wood, I...
• Re: FISH water in my gas tank? or maybe water from gas?
  Historical mailing list - Joseph Fortino
  Wed, 7 May 2003 07:57:06 -0700
  ...on the HWY dripping water from the tail pipe after the jump on it in front of me I just smile, one thing forsure...
• Re: one more '66 question (dog-house fan shroud)
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 6 May 1996 23:18:03 -0500
  ...and the duct on the *front* of the shroud for the oil >cooler exhaust. What is this pipe used for? (I guess this is...
• Re: Exahust Pipes
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Fri, 24 Aug 2001 06:23:52 EDT
  ...your Vanagon 2.1 liter exhaust system bulletproof for life. The Syncro will be missing the front header pipe in stainless. Maybe someday we...
• Re: Remember those converter thieves?
  Historical mailing list - ralph meyermann
  Sat, 1 Oct 2011 13:57:37 -0600
  ...I had isolated my exhaust leak to the collector where the front crossover pipe joins it. Began the task of removing the old system...
• Re: S&S Exhaust system, how bad????
  Historical mailing list - dylan friedman
  Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:58:15 -0800
  ...If you are a good enough mechanic to replace your exhaust pipes then you are good enough to install this system. If you should...
• 89 (was 90) Wheelchair Vanagon for sale
  Historical mailing list - Tony Gould
  Tue, 1 May 2001 00:56:10 -0700
  ...When I started it specks of water flew out of the exhaust pipe. A mechanic I phoned told me this means either: bad headgaskets...
• Re: coolant pipe replacement
  Historical mailing list - Chris Geiser
  Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:12:30 -0500
  ...and keep them from leaking - all the exhaust spreaders are too big for 1 1/4 pipe... Ended up a plumber friend had a...
• Re: S&S Exhaust system, how bad????
  Historical mailing list - Ken Wilford
  Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:12:00 -0500
  ...If you are a good enough mechanic to replace your exhaust pipes then you are good enough to install this system. If you should...
• coolant leaking from exhaust/cylinder head connection
  Historical mailing list - Craig Oda - Personal email
  Sun, 23 Jun 2002 11:50:24 -0700
  ...It is really rough and there is aggressive coolant leaking from the place where the exhaust pipe connects to the cylinder head by cylinder...
• Re: Wanted: Syncro camper body, no rust
  Historical mailing list - zolo
  Tue, 8 Jun 2004 23:18:03 -0700
  I happen to have a complete synchro engine with all the exhaust pipes and stuff on it. There maybe an interest, I assume. Zoltan...
• Trailer hitch and other Parts for Sale
  Historical mailing list - CC
  Fri, 29 Jun 2001 01:06:47 CDT
  ...Reese trailer hitch; bolts to tow loops. $80 Waterboxer flywheel $50 Exhaust parts-- 1.9 crossover pipes and collector $125, catalytic converter for above...