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• Re: 1.6 litre diesel heads - regular vs
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 10 Dec 1996 12:25:59 +0200
  > Since I cannot find a source of the damaged pre-combustion chamber >cap, I now must replace the head on my turbo-diesel vanagon...
• Re: Refrigerator air supply mod
  Historical mailing list - Gerald Masar
  Wed, 17 May 2000 12:04:18 -0700
  ...It helps because it provides a more positive airflow to the combustion chamber. But the easiiest way to start it on propane is still...
• Re: Dometic 182 B Fridge- Ad Nauseum
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sat, 8 Aug 2009 02:38:58 -0400
  ...to exhaust flue to >aid in flow of fresh air into combustion chamber. Just can't see it >making that much of a difference...
• Re: Coolant blowing out of crankcase vent
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 22 May 2001 20:03:29 -0400
  This is a symptom of coolant getting into the combustion chamber. This can be caused by a bad head seal or a cracked head...
• Re: Leaking coolant 1.9L
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Tue, 8 Feb 2011 07:53:29 -0600
  ...White smoke would be due to the gaskets that seal the combustion chamber, not the rubber gaskets that seal the outside perimeter of the...
• Re: Metal shavings under valve covers
  Historical mailing list - Patrick Dooley
  Mon, 9 Mar 1998 21:31:18 -0500
  ...Along with this, divots in the piston and combustion chamber. Too much timing, not enough deck height. Don't really know you managed to...
• Re: Fuel Injection Cleaner
  Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
  Fri, 10 Feb 1995 15:14:48 -0800 (PST)
  ...The cylinder walls are lubricated by oil splashing and spraying on them and at the same time (almost) they are exposed to combustion chamber...
• Re: Hemi powered Vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - Hans Achter
  Sat, 5 Mar 2005 09:33:21 -0500
  Why even brag about producing a "hemi" engine? It was quite a technological advancement to make a hemispherical combustion chamber back in the 50s...
• Re: WHat is this for
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Tue, 3 Jun 2008 10:26:39 -0700
  ...When propane burns in the combustion chamber (when fridge running on propane) moisture is produced. In theory, it should drain out this tube. (these...
• Re: Fiberglass Exhaust Wrap - Cooler engine compartment
  Historical mailing list - Tom Buese
  Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:22:50 -0600
  ...Expansion > causes the > flow to slow down and hinders combustion chamber scavange. Since > our headers > aren't designed with scavange in mind I doubt...
• Re: Dometic fridge question
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Sat, 7 Nov 2015 11:50:00 +0000
  ...There is also a sight glass through the wall of the fridge into the combustion chamber so you can look directly at the flame...
• Re: Silicone in oil analysis
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 6 Jun 2013 12:05:17 -0400
  ...As stuff makes its way into the combustion chambers some of it gets past the rings and into the crankcase oil. The oil filter...
• Re: Why??? pre-heating to light the fridge.
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Fri, 27 Feb 2015 10:14:40 -0600
  My big problem, which was easily solved by taking the combustion chamber apart, was that a screw had come loose and was covering the...
• Re: scratch on heads mating surface for cylinders
  Historical mailing list - David Kao
  Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:41:47 -0700
  ...Any leak into the cooling chamber means replacement of > > the cylinder head unfortunately. Whenever combustion gas is leaked through > > the head gaskets into the...
• Re: fridge problems
  Historical mailing list - Nathaniel Poole
  Sun, 11 Feb 2007 19:38:14 -0800
  ...Nathaniel On 2/11/07, neil <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Nathan. > > As has been said, cleaning out combustion chamber will help. Even if...
• Re: The transitional engine...no more corrosion?
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 23 May 1996 21:52:40 -0800
  ...The transitional engine...no more corrosion? > > >> >>The best idea that I've come up with is Jet Hot Coating for the >>combustion chamber, intake...
• Re: Fridge....should it stay on...
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Thu, 26 May 2005 07:11:47 EDT
  ...The flame is sealed in a combustion chamber at the bottom of the fridge and if that combustion chamber is intact and as designed...
• Re: what to do when you have the fridge out?
  Historical mailing list - craig cowan
  Mon, 2 Mar 2009 16:58:31 -0500
  ...Definately clean out the combustion chamber, but be aware that the > gasket is no longer available from Dometic, so exercise care in separating > the...
• Re: 89 Camper - Smelly fridge
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Tue, 13 Apr 2004 18:59:03 -0400
  Are you sure that you left the combustion chamber properly sealed? There is a gasket there, that can age and get brittle. If it...
• Re: I got my frig to light -- LED change procedure:
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Thu, 5 May 2005 10:58:19 -0400
  ...It is oriented towards a tempered glass window in the side of the combustion chamber. WIth ash on the inside, and dust and such...
• Re: Non-cooling Fridge on Propane
  Historical mailing list - Adam Puzerewski
  Tue, 9 May 2000 13:15:41 -0400
  ...I'd suggest >something along these lines: > >1) open up the combustion chamber and observe the flame in the dark first, >with particular attention...
• Re: scratch on heads mating surface for cylinders
  Historical mailing list - David Kao
  Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:14:04 -0700
  ...Any leak into the cooling chamber means replacement of the cylinder head unfortunately. Whenever combustion gas is leaked through the head gaskets into the...
• Re: Better Mileage Anyone? (without going ala Lilley)
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Libby & Denise DeWolfe
  Sun, 27 Aug 2000 18:08:02 -0500
  ...This does not leave enough unburned fuel to cool > >things inside the combustion chamber. So the plug that gives you hotter > >heads may actually...
• Re: Dometic fridge works out of the van, but not in it.
  Historical mailing list - Michael Snow
  Fri, 5 Aug 2011 11:25:52 -0400
  ...Condensation drain is closed. > > I have cleaned a bit of accumulated dust from the combustion chamber and > blown compressed air through the fridge intake...
• Re: Dometic fridge works out of the van, but not in it.
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Mon, 1 Aug 2011 14:27:42 -0500
  ...Condensation drain is closed. > > I have cleaned a bit of accumulated dust from the combustion chamber and > blown compressed air through the fridge intake...
• Re: question before I remove the fridge
  Historical mailing list - Harold Teer
  Thu, 19 May 2005 09:55:24 -0400
  ...I believe the issue was material in the combustion chamber and perhaps on the ignitor since I didn't get the flashing bulb. I...
• Re: '79 westy For Sale/ vw 411-412
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 20 Nov 1998 21:18:56 EST
  ...the BA6 used in Busses and Vanagons (same electronics, differently shaped combustion chamber, many interchangeable parts). The commercial failure of the Type 4 was...
• Fridge sparker
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Mon, 7 Nov 2005 20:46:31 -0500
  ...fire in my Westy, the cable to the sparker in the combustion chamber of the fridge, caught fire. Fortunately I extingushed this very quickly...
• Re: fridge wont stay lit
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:18:38 -0400
  ...Usual causes of it blowing out are dirt in the combustion chamber, the jet, or a leak somewhere in the intake or exhaust system...
• Watercooled cylinder liner (barrel?) to cylinder head seal modification
  Historical mailing list - Mohammed Ghalayini
  Mon, 12 Sep 2016 10:35:18 +0100
  ...machining would be on order to maintain the geometry of the combustion chamber and to maintain the correct seal between water jacket and rubber...
• Re: e15
  Historical mailing list - James Flournoy
  Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:41:23 -0800
  Alcohol can be more than for emissions cleaning the combustion chamber winterizing and absorbing water cutting detonation allowing more compression or boost did you...
• Re: 84 Westy strange compression readings
  Historical mailing list - Ben huot
  Mon, 11 Mar 2002 12:16:52 -0500
  ...if there is an increase amount of carbon is in the combustion chamber it is accompanied by the same problem on the exhaust valve...
• Re: ugh!! fridge still blowing out!!FOLLOWUP RESULTS
  Historical mailing list - Jason Willenbrock
  Wed, 9 Jun 2004 00:41:48 -0400
  ...first i cleaned and resealed the combustion chamber then reinstalled to see if that did the trick. nope, first 55 mile blew her out...
• Re: Trying to light fridge!
  Historical mailing list - Brent Christensen
  Tue, 16 Apr 2002 09:58:14 -0700
  ...If so, then your problems is with the column of air sitting in the flue literally "smothering" the combustion chamber. The solution to this...
• Re: cooling system diagnostic help? Long, lots of info about whats been done so far.
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:11:31 -0400
  Compression testing will not detect a small combustion chamber leak into the cooling system. Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry...
• Re: On Longevity, Displacement, Efficiency and Technology in Conversions
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Wed, 27 Mar 2002 23:30:47 +1200
  ...This is largely established >by combustion chamber design and the efficiency of hot air generation >(combustion and heat transfer to the compressed air charge...
• Re: Vanagon Flooded
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:54:41 -0700
  ...I'd also pull the plugs and crank it a few times to make sure it spits out any water in the combustion chambers...
• black smoke + more
  Historical mailing list - Blake Thornton
  Sun, 2 Sep 2001 14:27:33 -0600
  ...Now, I thought black smoke meant oil in the combustion chamber, is that right? My only other ideas on the hesitation are vacuum leak...
• Re: stupid refig. question-newbie on the frig
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Mon, 2 May 2005 17:19:37 -0400
  ...Clean the combustion chamber. Take a look at the igniter (the wire with the braided covering). It might need it's end cleaned and...
• Re: AC Compressor to inflate tires, etc?
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Schwaia
  Mon, 8 Jan 2007 14:14:23 -0800
  ...AC Compressor to inflate tires, etc? What's the likely hood, of hot flaming gasses (your combustion chamber) coming thru the hose and causing...
• Re: Fixed Propane Fridge
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
  Thu, 28 Aug 2003 06:53:21 -0700
  ...My van's fridge not > lights on ONE click (at least with the combustion > chamber apart). Malcolm I may have to do this if...
• Re: Fridge blows out while driving....
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Wed, 20 May 2009 05:44:41 EDT
  ...Today I pulled the fridge (again), cleaned out the combustion chamber, intake, and exhaust, installed a muffin fan on the inside, installed a bigger...
• Re: Fridge on propane ...
  Historical mailing list - Alfred Bagdan
  Fri, 10 Dec 2004 13:24:16 -0700
  ...After cleaning the combustion chamber, orifice and sealing everything off properly it now works great. I even figured out the theory of the lighting...
• Re: Coolant Loss- is it that time again?
  Historical mailing list - David
  Thu, 31 Mar 2016 10:26:33 -0400
  ...A clean spark-plug electrode is a sign > of > coolant getting into the combustion chamber. > > Subaru coolant conditioner has worked wonders for a number...
• Need Advice on WB Piston replacement
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 25 May 1999 17:55:05 EDT
  ...I figured that maybe a piece of valve had broken off and banged around in the combustion chamber. So I took the head off...
• Re: fridge exhaust cover
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Sat, 1 May 2004 06:04:59 EDT
  ...SEALED combustion chamber and it has a drain below the fridge door that you are supposed to use to drain the combustion chamber in...
• Re: Thermostat for Dometic Fridge (fan), where to find?
  Historical mailing list - BRENT CHRISTENSEN
  Tue, 13 Jun 2000 09:26:53 -0700
  ...If my memory serves > correct, there is a solid > wire from the combustion chamber to the mechanical thermostat > which conducts > heat from the flame...
• Re: Fridge....should it stay on...
  Historical mailing list - Benoit
  Thu, 26 May 2005 09:51:21 -0400
  ...The flame is sealed in a > combustion chamber at the bottom of the fridge and if that combustion > chamber is intact and as designed...
• =?utf-8?Q?I=E2=80=99m_leaving_the_Dometic_propane_brotherhood?=
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Thu, 9 Sep 2021 19:35:23 -0700
  ...But the recent combustion chamber clog , repeated ( no doubt contaminated propane ) clogging. And I don’t want to pull the fridge while camping again...
• Re: westy fridge combustion chamber sealing
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Sun, 15 Dec 2002 19:42:26 -0600
  Astounding ! I would think muffler sealer might work buy anything close to a flame should be verified safe before you count on it. Stan...
• Re: Diesel head gasket blown?
  Historical mailing list - Gnarlodious
  Fri, 19 Sep 2003 20:32:00 -0600
  ...But if the combustion chamber is cracked and leaking you're shot down and you should find a used head. The process of correctly...
• Fw: Re: Fast German Auto chip and rockers
  Historical mailing list - Andy
  Thu, 13 Jan 2000 19:56:15 -0800
  ...The biggest is that because of more fuel >> injected into the combustion chamber, it will burn hotter. It may not be >> damaging, but it...
• Spark plug heat ranges
  Historical mailing list - Bulley
  Tue, 4 Jan 2000 16:13:57 -0500
  ...The combustion chamber is at times arctic frigid, drippingly humid, desert dry, blazing hot, full of acidic vapor, full of fire, full of exhaust...
• Re: dometic replacement
  Historical mailing list - David McNeely
  Sat, 11 Sep 2021 20:40:57 -0700
  ...The Westy > >>>> Fridge is unique with the sealed combustion chamber and direct to > outside > >>>> connection for combustion air and exhaust. > >>>> > >>>> Dennis > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> -----Original Message----- > >>>> From...
• Dometic high altitude lighting tips
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:37:36 -0700
  ...Maybe it would reduce amount of LP pressure to jet in combustion chamber?? Haven't tried this yet. Will tomorrow. It may simply be...
• Re: Dometic condensation drain
  Historical mailing list - Rob
  Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:05:03 -0700
  ...I believe though that if this >doesn't fix the problem you should try resealing the combustion chamber next >and inspecting for damaged or...
• Re: Cutting tool question...cylinder head pocket
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 10 May 2013 20:34:43 -0700
  ...more specific as to what you > wish to > accomplish? Cutting the combustion chambers or the valve pockets and > ports. > > > Howard > > > Subject: Cutting tool question...
• <No subject>
  Historical mailing list - John Graham
  Wed, 30 Apr 1997 21:56:02 -0400
  ...Once mine was out, it was relatively easy to open up the combustion chamber and verify that the 'sparker' was working. In doing the...
• Re: why did VW ditch the boxer motor?
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Wed, 7 Apr 1999 13:43:34 +0200
  ...The 959 had a aircooled boxer, but with watercooled cylinderheads for even combustion chamber temperatures and better heater output. The Boxter and new 911...
• Will This Ruin an O2 Sensor or Cat Converter?
  Historical mailing list - Cary Chiang
  Wed, 6 Sep 2006 11:40:39 +0200
  ...I'm concerned that I may ruin the O2 sensor or the catalytic converter, while burning off the excess oil in the combustion chambers...