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• TireRack tire search tip
  Historical mailing list - Doug Fitz-Randolph
  Mon, 7 May 2007 15:16:33 -0400
  ...For example, after you do the initial search, change ..Compare1.jsp?width=215%2F&ratio=75&diameter=15&startIndex=0... to ..Compare1.jsp?width...
• Re: Eberspaecher (?) heater stops too soon ('86 Caravelle C)
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Drahzal
  Mon, 27 Jan 97 07:55:44 PST
  ...The quotes he got from VWUsa were over $600 for both of them... ...Any ideas? matthew ------------------------------------- Matthew Drahzal - mattd@rational.com Product Manager Rational...
• Re: Syncro Gear ratios
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Wed, 5 Apr 2000 03:27:58 +0200
  ...Does anyone know all the gear ratios for a Syncro? > > G: > 1st: > 2nd: > 3rd: > 4th: > "differential" or final drive: > > The Bentley says something like...
• Re: 5 SPEED TRANS'
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Mon, 8 Dec 2003 22:27:51 -0800
  ...As delivered the final drive is the same as the 4speed, so you have to change the 5th gear ration to truly take advantage...
• Was: ...talk me out of buying diesel Vanagon?.... Now: gear ratios
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:53:47 -0800
  ...Final drive 38:7 = 5.428 Does this mean 38 teeth to 7 teeth = a gear ratio of 5.428:1 ? My questions spawn...
• Re: Tires - Syncro (frequently discussed)
  Historical mailing list - Todd Francis
  Sun, 29 Dec 1996 21:19:40 -0800
  ...t be more than 6% > > different in diameter? Or would gear ratios play a part in the equasion? > > If it is just Tire diameters...
• Re: Power loss with 15" wheels
  Historical mailing list - Pensioner
  Sat, 4 Mar 2006 11:51:52 -0800
  ...This torque is multiplied by the gear train (transmission gear x ring and pinion ratio) and appears as a twisting force or torque at...
• Shuddering Returns--Gas
  Historical mailing list - Steve Johnson
  Sun, 22 Jan 1995 20:07:46 -0800 (PST)
  ...I had something in mind about how rational > you can be when reading an e-mail reader in the comfort of your home/office...
• Re: On Transmission Ratios, Diesels, Conversions and Fish
  Historical mailing list - Hector Zapata
  Thu, 25 Oct 2001 17:14:43 -0400
  How about chunching some numbers with the auto transmission gears, so a few of us won't feel left out? Hector
• Re: Engine fires, urine, now Vanagon Butterfly Camping
  Historical mailing list - Wognacious
  Wed, 4 Aug 2004 16:24:50 -0700
  What's the ratio of watermellon juice to pee? And how in the heck did someone figure this out? Butterfly lover
• I need help with selecting a transaxle ratio, rim and tire
  Historical mailing list - Bergin, Richard
  Mon, 18 Mar 2002 09:56:17 -0800
  ...I am considering aproaching this issue by either changine by tire/rim size and/or by changing the transaxle ratio. I recently learned that...
• 914 trans in a bus?
  Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
  Sun, 7 May 1995 10:21:47 -0700 (PDT)
  ...It sure would be nice to have a 5th gear, and closer ratios (I'm assuming with 5 gears the ratios would be closer...
• RE: 12 volt heaters?
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 27 Sep 95 12:20:29 PDT
  ...Drahzal Rational Software Corporation One Tower Bridge, Suite 225 West Conshohocken, PA 19428 (610)940-2105 E-mail: mattd@rational.com Date: 09/27...
• Re: Ratio Rockers
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Tue, 8 Oct 2013 04:38:14 +0000
  I have a 2.1 and got the set from a group purchase long ago.<br /><br />Sent from my iPhone. <br />Sorry for...
• gear conversion
  Historical mailing list - JAnet Andersen
  Wed, 17 Sep 1997 20:48:06 -0700
  Does anyone have the address of the site that allows you to plug in tire size and gear ratios to compare speed and rpms...
• Interesting info: gear ratio & performance chart
  Historical mailing list - robertmstewart
  Mon, 2 Jan 2006 03:05:46 -0500
  Check this out, not sure how accurate it is. Found it on the web. http://www.goshen.edu/physics/horsepower/1998_LabReport-87Vanagon.gif
• Re: Silly idea?
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Mon, 10 Feb 2014 12:13:52 -0800
  ...I am planning on having my >>>>>> diesel >>>>>> ratio transaxle rebuilt with a 1st and second ratio change to a 4.13 >>>>>> and >>>>>> 2.25...
• Re: Heyyyyy JB Weld people... (Resolved, I think)
  Historical mailing list - tabe johnson
  Thu, 31 Mar 2005 23:25:50 -0500
  ...Just wanted to follow up to the numerous replies -- thanks all! I got replies in three groups (1) watch the mixing ratios (2) watch...
• Re: Installing a TD harmonic dampner on Vanagon diesel
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Pollard
  Fri, 23 Feb 2001 15:30:17 -0800
  ...smaller? You may want to check out their ratios and if your new pulley's ratio is much different than the old you may...
• Ratio Rockers & Oil Consumption
  Historical mailing list - Steve Schwenk
  Mon, 8 Jul 2002 14:04:48 -0700
  As part of my recent WBX project, i installed 1.25 ratio rockers from fast german auto. It seems that the rockers are causing...
• Re: New electric power option?
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Sat, 5 Jan 2008 11:33:48 -0800
  ...compound, similar to the Mg-Fe packs in military field rations' Flameless > Ration Heaters <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRH>. The magnesium strips > the...
• Re: New tranny for a 1.6l TD westy...
  Historical mailing list - Michael Snow
  Thu, 12 Oct 2000 18:32:21 -0700
  ...The ABH transmission is listed as having 0.78 4th gear and 5.50 ring & pinion for a 4.29 overall ratio. The AAS...
• Re: What's the richest air fuel ration you can still make run?
  Historical mailing list - pat
  Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:44:07 -0400
  ...What's the richest air fuel ration you can still make run? you should magasqirt your vanagon Don.. that would be interesting .. and you...
• Re: Stocking and Preparing your Westy - This is not spam
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sun, 7 Nov 2004 23:24:45 -0600
  Fortunately I only had to eat C-rations twice. And that was because I only had two cans to eat. Went through the Air...
• Re: Flywheel Lightening
  Historical mailing list - Steve Tew
  Sat, 6 Mar 1999 19:27:14 -0600
  ...lower profile tires could give a bit snappier acceleration out of the hole cuz of the increase of the vitual final drive ratio. Respectfully...
• Re: [Q] Decreasing gear ratio
  Historical mailing list - Dave Kautz
  Mon, 23 Jan 95 9:46:32 PST
  ...VW Bus Relative Wear Index Year | Top Gear | Final Drive | Engine Revs | Stroke | Piston Travel | Ratio | Ratio | /Mile | | /Mile ________________________________________________________________________ Micro | | | | | 1200 | 0.82 | 4...
• Re: Transmission
  Historical mailing list - Martin Jagersand
  Sun, 27 Feb 2000 13:00:32 -0500
  ...Also, someone suggested changing 4th to a lower gear ratio?? Thanks Mike Brooks Victoria BC Yes, you can put in a 5sp. Two issues...
• Re: Click & Clack: " ...Bus handles like a vertical pizza box on a skateboard.
  Historical mailing list - Mike S
  Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:15:34 -0400
  ...And since your tires are all the correct diameter (they have the same inner opening, 14, which is the wheel size, and aspect ratio...
• Re: Time for new tires!
  Historical mailing list - Stacy Schneider
  Fri, 17 Apr 2015 21:00:12 -0700
  ...Stacy On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 8:48 PM, KIM BRENNAN <kimbrennan@mac.com> wrote: > ??? Aspect ratio of 185R14 is 82% as I...
• Re: compression data
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 20 Jan 95 21:01:12 EST
  ...The engine I have has a compression ratio of 145 psi(air-cooled). The engine that I junked had cylinders with a compression ratio...
• Re: Long-term Camping Food
  Historical mailing list - Tim
  Sat, 13 Apr 2002 15:23:48 -0700
  In-Flight rations were to best during the Vietnam era. > What about "C-Rations" ??? Load up on that. I found the ham and lima...
• 185R14
  Historical mailing list - Karl Ploessl
  Mon, 18 Nov 2019 21:31:59 -0500
  ...I thought 185R14 has an aspect ratio of 82 but he maintains that it is 80! Who is right?! Any source material? Karl.
• Power steering
  Historical mailing list - Robie Pierce
  Thu, 13 Apr 2000 21:08:15 -0400
  Is there a means to increase the power steering ratio of 91 Vanagon. Increase pulley diameter. Releaf valve aperture size? I am disabled and...
• Re: Engine/Compressor
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 04 Jun 1996 23:52:28 -0700
  ...Now, when you start taking about optimizing swept volume ratios, things get really interesting, but there was no lag time on these, unlike the...
• Interesting article on "Connecting rod Ratios" for those tweeking the WBX
  Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
  Fri, 11 Apr 2003 16:09:46 EDT
  <A HREF="http://www.victorylibrary.com/mopar/rod-tech-c.htm">http://www.victorylibrary.com/mopar/rod-tech-c.htm</A> Robert
• Re: Re: [Syncro] synrco trans swap into a non-syncro vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Chris Weddle
  Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:08:33 -0700
  ...Upgrading the ring & pinion to the 4.57 ratio would be $145 extra. The taller 3rd or 4th gear ratios are $195 each. We...
• Re: help! overheating with maple syrup smell
  Historical mailing list - Bill Davidson
  Fri, 22 Dec 2000 19:34:08 -0800
  ...specifically states 50/50 ratio summer and winter.... ALSO.... at 70 water/30 coolant there's a good chance the coolant level sensor will...
• 5 speed for vanagon w/ overdrive
  Historical mailing list - Smola, Tony
  Sat, 17 Feb 2001 22:03:51 -0600
  Europe and Canada and everywhere except the US got the close ratio 5-speed transmissions. (the 094) while in the us we got the...
• Re: Prepared foods
  Historical mailing list - marcus
  Sun, 9 Aug 1998 09:48:06 -0700
  ...Tyrone & Marilyn Greene wrote: > > marcus wrote: > > > > When I was > > in the Army and we were out in the field, we got C rations or...
• Vanagon Trans Ratio calculator
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
  Fri, 31 Dec 2004 10:32:58 -0800
  I was getting tired of crunching numbers while looking up various Vanagon transmission ratios, so I put together an Excel spreadsheet which allows me...
• Re: Hydrogen help for the Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:39:33 -0800
  ...Allow you to run compression ratios that ought not work? Yup. Higher compression ratio make more horsepower? Yup. Semantics. Jim
• Fast German Auto chip and rockers
  Historical mailing list - Kyle Gardella
  Thu, 13 Jan 2000 14:29:43 -0800
  I just received an ad from Fast German Auto claiming that using their 1.25 ratio rockers and power chip will give a 49...
• Re: Towing a Vanagon with a Vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - Tim Demarest
  Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:42:23 -0400
  ...A good >>weight-to-horsepower ratio is about 35:1, 35 lbs. of Gross Combined >>Weight >>(GCW) for every horsepower your engine develops. Multiply...
• c-rations
  Historical mailing list - patrick
  Mon, 8 Nov 2004 05:49:01 -0600
  ...My father would bring home c-rations all the time for us and we were quite exited about the chocolates. When I was in...
• Re: Was: ...talk me out of buying diesel Vanagon?.... Now: gear ratios
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:44:28 -0800
  ...That's your "rear end ratio". :) > > > > On Jan 19, 2008 7:49 PM, neil N < musomuso@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks Shawn. > > > > I thought 5th...
• Re: User friendly fuels (was you fixed it..)
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Wed, 17 Mar 2004 22:57:46 -0500
  ...You don't see a lot of water-cooled prop aircraft either. ;) Aircraft powerplants need high power to weight ratio. This is more important...
• Re: Was: ...talk me out of buying diesel Vanagon?.... Now: gear ratios
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:49:22 -0800
  ...Yah I find the reverse gear ratio on my air cooled could stand to be lower. But in regards to the figures in Bentley...
• Re: understanding tire sizes
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 17 Jul 2011 10:02:21 -0400
  ...205/70R14. > > Does this ratio somehow become unimportant in the 185s? Or is there > only one ratio offered and that's why the shorthand...
• Re: Silly idea?
  Historical mailing list - Ralph Meyermann
  Mon, 10 Feb 2014 19:15:31 -0600
  ...I am planning on > having > >>>>>>>> my > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> diesel > >>>>>>>>> ratio transaxle rebuilt with a 1st and second ratio change to a > >>>>>>>>> 4.13 > >>>>>>>>> and > >>>>>>>>> 2.25...
• Re: gears for syncro 16--tall tires
  Historical mailing list - Derek Drew
  Thu, 07 Aug 1997 17:13:40 -0400
  ...At 04:39 PM 8/7/97 -0700, you wrote: >Hi Derek, > >straight ratio 6.13/4.86 x 25" = 31.5" yeeehaw! that...
• Re: Was: ...talk me out of buying diesel Vanagon?.... Now: gear ratios
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
  Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:28:28 -0800
  ...The gear ratio chart is on my website (see my sig). It's an Excel file. With a 1.9TD, or a non-Westy...
• Re: DJ Compression Ratio
  Historical mailing list - Kim Springer
  Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:04:12 -0700
  ...DJ Compression Ratio > So how does it run compared to the stock MV WBX? > > I'm asking because I have a complete DJ WBX...
• TDIs and Automatic -- Custom Gears?
  Historical mailing list - Michael Diehr
  Thu, 13 Oct 2005 08:31:06 -0700
  ...of the automatic transmission :-) and the apparent mismatch of final drive ratio with the TDI engine: I'm wondering if there is some critical...
• Re: Pickup
  Historical mailing list - Jean & Steve Kammerer
  Mon, 24 Aug 1998 09:04:30 -0400
  ...PU got about 30-33 mpg due to lower 4th gear ratio. Rabbit car had an overdrive for the top gear. Loved both cars...
• Re: What is a replacement value? (86 Westfalia)
  Historical mailing list - Anthony L. Mourkas
  Fri, 20 Nov 1998 23:21:28 -0500
  >purely rational claims adjuster! An oxymoron if I ever heard one........... Tony Anthony L. Mourkas Hampden, Maine, USA 1984 Vanagon Westfalia 1990 Passat GL...
• Re: Thinking about adding Ratio rockers, checkout Pauter's Roller tip rockers...
  Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
  Mon, 28 Aug 2000 22:03:46 EDT
  They also make pistons. For those looking for new pistons to go with a stroker crank and longer rods might check them out. Robert
• Manual Transmissions
  Historical mailing list - John P
  Fri, 22 Dec 2000 04:59:38 -0000
  Does anyone know if the ring and pinion from the late model Loafs ('76-79') are the same (apart from the ratio's) as...
• Re: Some Questions about the ECU Chip Upgrades- Answered....
  Historical mailing list - Mark Dorm
  Sun, 6 Aug 2000 23:36:12 PDT
  ...ratio, as VW does, the Australian company, starts the >mixture rich and use the sensors to correct the mixture to achieve the >proper >ratio...
• Re: Engine Rebuild
  Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
  Fri, 9 Oct 1998 07:13:03 -0700
  ...I plan to set up the rockers with the proper ratio. The use of the swivel feet will reduce the side loading of the...
• Re: Loss of power at altitude
  Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
  Mon, 11 Mar 2002 17:51:58 EST
  ...The EFI computer keeps the proper air/fuel ratio and the developed power drops proportionately. Only one device eliminates this problem - a turbocharger. With...