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2.2 Rebuild Questions
Historical mailing list - Greg Baxter
Sun, 9 Nov 2008 18:42:57 -0800
...On the last leg of the trips, he was pushing exhaust gases into the coolant, suggesting (at the least) that one of the green...
Re: I shared "Oil Cooler Vanagon Air Cooled" with you in OneDrive
Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
Sun, 16 Apr 2017 21:50:22 +0000
...At 50 psi highway the relief valve is almost being used. > > One thing about the air cooled engine original oil cooler, It gets the...
More on the VW inline 4 (Long post in reply to numerous digests)
Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:56:05 -0700
...The little 1.8 liter 8 valve is pretty strong...you have to keep the revs up some for best performance, but with my...
Re: Engine Puzzlememt
Historical mailing list - Tom Stone
Sat, 23 Jun 2018 10:49:28 -0400
...Going >>>>>>> to remove some exhaust pieces to verify. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Since the last change made to the engine was the installation of >>>>>>> the starter long bolt...
Re: Interesting MPG numbers
Historical mailing list - Richard Koerner
Wed, 25 Mar 2020 23:12:44 +0000
...Except for heads @168K and an exhaust valve with rings at 248K this is also an original engine. For subie conversions without gearing changes...
Fw: Re: Essential Tools
Historical mailing list - Roy Olynick
Wed, 16 Apr 2003 11:59:21 -0500
...If you spend all your time under | the hood looking for a frendle pin that caromed off the peedle | valve when you knocked both...
Re: SERIOUS FUEL PROBLEM - I NEED HELP!!!!!!!!!!!
Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:48:22 -0500
...Be sure that the flapper valve is working properly in your AFM and the fuel switch is over-riding properly at full rest position...
Re: I-4 owner experrience
Historical mailing list - David Bjorkman
Wed, 15 May 2013 08:40:41 -0500
...SPAN class=misspelled>gasket</SPAN> and the valve cover <SPAN class=misspelled>gasket</SPAN>. The original exhaust header broke and had<BR>> to...
Re: Vanagon? Really? Gasoline vs. Diesel-again.
Historical mailing list - Chris S.
Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:04:17 -0500
...Many Diesel vehicles > 2007 and newer also require the use of a special Diesel Exhaust Fluid, > (DEF). This is a urea based fluid used...
Re: Purging Cooling System of Air
Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
Wed, 3 Mar 2004 21:24:45 -0500
...The Syncro does have a check valve to keep oil in the low gear housing for these uphill adventures but eventually it will come...
Re: idea?
Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
Sun, 27 Oct 2013 09:08:20 -0400
...The > > > >> condenser and it's fan still must be mounted outside or be able > > > >> to exhaust it's hot air to the outside or...
Re: I need advice..
Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
Sat, 6 Oct 2001 23:56:40 -0500
...check out the exhaust system for leaks, rust, smoke (black or gray). You're doing all this with the engine running to get it...
Re: idea?
Historical mailing list - ANTONY MARSH
Fri, 25 Oct 2013 13:24:06 -0400
...The condenser >>>>>> and >>>>>>>>> it's fan still must be mounted outside or be able to exhaust it's >>>>>> hot >>>>>>>>> air to the outside or...
Re: idea?
Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
Sat, 26 Oct 2013 08:27:15 -0500
...The condenser > > > > >> and it's fan still must be mounted outside or be able to exhaust > > > > >> it's hot air to the outside or...
Re: update: goin camping only on 2 cylinders help
Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
Thu, 21 Jul 2005 23:32:00 -0400
...may need to check valve adjustment * sprayed carb cleaner looking for air leaks * reseated injectors and checked for leaks * am i correct in thinking...
regarding tire repairs etc- was trip contin.. etc
Historical mailing list - Roger Whittaker
Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:10:42 -0700
...minor exhaust leak, automatic transmission leaks a > bit but works fine. The transmission is my only major worry, as it's > more or less...
Re: Garage Cleanup Sale - Making Room for a New Project
Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:00:45 -0500
...Includes ac compressor brackets and bolts, Intake and > > exhaust manifolds, injector hoses, etc. No wiring harness.This engine > > would run good if coolant leak...
Re: HOT HEAT in an air-cooled van, (VERY long) was: 12 volt heater suggestions
Historical mailing list - JeanneMaly
Sun, 10 Oct 1999 14:09:51 -0700
...Leaky seams around heat riser tubes (run from boxes to heat valves > 'flapper boxes'). > 6. **un-insulated heat riser tubes > 7. Un-adjusted, leaky...
Re: Purging Cooling System of Air
Historical mailing list - vanagon
Tue, 2 Mar 2004 21:12:32 -0800
...There is a valve > on the top of the t-stat housing to get the return loop primed. > > Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vanagon Mailing...
Re: Who Sells the Coolant Pipe Repair Kit?
Historical mailing list - Vanagon man
Tue, 5 Nov 2002 09:17:45 -0500
...A lot of the use depended on what was going to flow thru the pipes valves at the factory. I am no chemist, metallurgist...
Re: Garage Cleanup Sale - Making Room for a New Project
Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:10:56 -0700
...Includes ac compressor brackets and bolts, Intake and >> exhaust manifolds, injector hoses, etc. No wiring harness.This engine >> would run good if coolant leak...
Re: Problem with 1991 Vanagon cooling system
Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
Sat, 10 Sep 2011 11:31:31 -0700
...I have not kept coolant in it >>> recently long enough to tell exhaust gases are dirtying the coolant and I >>> have not done the...
Re: Smoking @ Gas Stations (was Re: Fridge....) NVC
Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
Thu, 26 May 2005 17:00:06 -0700
I spent the last two nights cleaning the exhaust system in a restaurant/bar that probably hasn't been cleaned in twenty years. I...
Re: On Conversion Engine Reliability
Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
Sun, 21 Apr 2002 19:18:38 -0700
...Visible cracks on the connecting rods, scored cylinder walls, burnt valves, warped head with extensive cracking between intake and exhaust valves. Mechanic said that...
Re: Re-introduction & Dash Removal Question
Historical mailing list - JRodgers
Tue, 25 Feb 2014 16:26:50 -0600
...will have too much trouble. > > My question is what is the exhaustive list of things that need to be > replaced while the dash is...
Re: Replacing the master cylider
Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
Sat, 10 May 2008 12:10:05 -0700
...I have never see a bad pressure limiting valve however, regardless of age, but EACH part needs to be considered, especially in a critical...
Re: Dodged a bullet -- blowed the oil filter right off
Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
Wed, 30 Dec 2015 00:07:11 -0600
...turns out my exhaust pipe bracket let loose n whacked my oil filter. Huge white plume of smoke, work loss, a freeze to the...
Re: Still Friday, sort of OT...why I like BMWs
Historical mailing list - Jason
Fri, 19 Oct 2012 23:56:00 -0400
...The BMW has electrical gremlins, usually > ground issues, and leaky sunroofs, and faulty heater valves, and cracked > dashes. The Vanagon exhaust is a leaking...
Re: fuel pump fuel filter-stupid engineering
Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:28:19 -0800
...Of course diaphragm pumps only had to be protected from the bug stuff that could jam a valve or actually bloc a line. That...
Re: Takes a darn long time for the heater to come up to speed
Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:35:32 -0700
...the exhaust pipe, and it's easy >> to replace the t-stat. >> On some engines it won't quite clear the exhaust pipe. On...
Re: Interesting MPG numbers
Historical mailing list - vw_van_fan_Mark
Wed, 25 Mar 2020 17:00:28 -0700
...Except for heads @168K and an exhaust valve with rings at 248K this is also an original engine. > > For subie conversions without gearing changes...
Re: Buying a Van
Historical mailing list - DAN ROTBLATT
Thu, 14 Apr 2011 22:17:19 -0700
...2.0 block, 1.8 head. >>> When I find time I will get my DOHC 16 valve 87 jetta 1.8 inline >>> four going...
Re: Plat Cat Heater Installation Update
Historical mailing list - Scott G. Terry
Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:15:49 -0800
...It has a shut-off valve next >to the heater. The thermostat was mounted on the piller behind the drivers >seat, close to the...
Re: Moral qestion--Now diagnostics
Historical mailing list - Geza Polony
Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:07:29 -0500
...Then adjust the >valves to zero lash (just touching the ends of the valves). > >It is probably not a fuel injection harness problem (just...
Re: Milestone
Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
Sat, 26 Jan 2019 15:07:01 +0000
...Regardless of coolant temp many parts such as pistons valves, exhaust ports, etc. operate at temps much higher than the coolant bulk temp. On...
Re: hesitation/bucking (was: Re: tested Oxygen Sensor, and...)
Historical mailing list - pickle vanagon
Sat, 17 May 2008 12:56:22 -0400
...just ran 5 AFM's back to back on a fresh valve job 1.9 ........they were > all dodgy or weak or ........UNEVEN - especially...
Re: AVP rebuilds and core charges?
Historical mailing list - John Anderson
Tue, 13 Oct 1998 12:50:08 -0400
...The wear pattern on one exhaust valve tip is only up and down, NO ROTATION, whatsoever, this exhaust valve is not turning, later inspection...
Re: towing
Historical mailing list
Wed, 26 Apr 1995 12:43:17 -0700
...Broke an exhaust valve at 75 mph, pulled over in seconds. Hitched to the nearest town, got a ride to the airport. Took a...
My Turbo Audi 2.0 Project (not short)
Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
Wed, 20 Jun 2001 05:24:17 EDT
...Originally, I wanted to take the exhaust, intake and turbo from a 1.6L TD Quantum engine, adjust the waste gate to 4 psi...
Re: idea?
Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
Sat, 26 Oct 2013 06:55:24 -0700
...The condenser > > > >> and it's fan still must be mounted outside or be able to exhaust > > > >> it's hot air to the outside or...
Re: ECU optimization -- one quick question
Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
Mon, 4 Aug 2008 14:19:32 -0700
...as though the Air idle Valve isnt' doing it's thing, or the control unit. Did you consider and test for vaccuum leaks !!? those...
Re: Engine Puzzlememt
Historical mailing list - Tom Stone
Sat, 23 Jun 2018 16:15:27 -0400
...Going >>>>>>>> to remove some exhaust pieces to verify. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Since the last change made to the engine was the installation of >>>>>>>> the starter long bolt...
Re: Engine Puzzlememt
Historical mailing list - Tom Stone
Sun, 24 Jun 2018 13:47:52 -0400
...Going >>>>>>>> to remove some exhaust pieces to verify. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Since the last change made to the engine was the installation of >>>>>>>> the starter long bolt...
Re: update on overheating issues (by request)
Historical mailing list - turbodieseltrooper
Thu, 8 Sep 2005 22:08:56 -0700
There is a tester on the market that can detect the presence of exhaust gases in the cooling system. These gases are an indicator...
Re: Water Injection
Historical mailing list - Zoltan Kuthy
Sat, 24 May 2008 22:44:39 -0700
...the carbon > loose which in turn is carried out with the exhaust, thus clean pistons > and cylinder heads. > > John Rodgers > 88 GL driver > > > Greg...
Re: nuts vs head gasket job
Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel
Wed, 4 Sep 2013 21:10:07 -0700
...com/articles/waterboxes.html > ). > I've previously done a test for exhaust gasses, but no CO2 detected. I > have wanted to plumb a pressure...
roadhouse. NVC - TYrue To Form
Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
Fri, 7 May 2004 15:59:47 -0500
...In reality his noise and loss of power could be something quite simple like bad ignition timing, dropped valve seat, bent pushrod, backed off...
Re: Re-introduction & Dash Removal Question
Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
Tue, 25 Feb 2014 16:16:47 -0500
...will have too much trouble. > > My question is what is the exhaustive list of things that need to be > replaced while the dash is...
Re: idea?
Historical mailing list - ralph meyermann
Fri, 25 Oct 2013 12:36:51 -0500
...The condenser > >>>>>> and > >>>>>>>>> it's fan still must be mounted outside or be able to exhaust it's > >>>>>> hot > >>>>>>>>> air to the outside or...
Re: What Mini-Projects are going on?
Historical mailing list - Max/Joyce Wellhouse
Mon, 28 Jun 1999 18:46:43 -0700
...Had a sheetmetal shop build an exhaust box out the bottom where I cut the hole for the air to escape out of the...
Re: 2.2 Rebuild Questions
Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:28:02 -0600
...On the last leg of the > trips, he was pushing exhaust gases into the coolant, suggesting (at the > least) that one of the green...
Re: Moral qestion--Now diagnostics
Historical mailing list - jon
Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:45:30 -0800
...Then adjust the > >valves to zero lash (just touching the ends of the valves). > > > >It is probably not a fuel injection harness problem (just...
Conversions and common sense observations
Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
Thu, 7 Sep 2000 09:04:39 -0700
...These vibrations can also be problematic for the compact exhaust system the Vanagon requires. This may or may not be a concern to you...
Hello Everyone, I am back on the list and Need your Help....
Historical mailing list - robertmstewart
Sat, 1 May 2004 12:28:53 -0400
...Rebuilt Engine 114K New Exhaust New Water Pump New Master Brake Cylinder The bad: Rust: It has some very rust around rear hatch, paint...
Re: Problem with 1991 Vanagon cooling system
Historical mailing list - Angus Gordon
Sat, 10 Sep 2011 12:32:50 -0700
...I have not kept coolant in it > >> recently long enough to tell exhaust gases are dirtying the coolant and > I > >> have not done the...
Re: Just how far in over my head am I? (long)
Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
Fri, 7 Jul 2006 08:50:37 -0500
...The notorious Autostop propane fill valve had >> failed and been converted to manual operation before my sister got >> it. Exhaust was near replacement time...
Re: Eric's van is running again
Historical mailing list - kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
Tue, 3 Nov 2020 09:39:50 -0500
...I like the new GW EFI setup juxtaposed with the well worn idle > control valve...the new and the old. Lastly I was kind...
Re: hesitation from a stop and replacing afm
Historical mailing list - Steve Delanty
Thu, 27 Mar 2003 13:15:28 -0800
...But I always felt I could trust them, and only once did one let me down. (sucked exhaust valve) And I knew that was...
Re: air cooled engine alternatives
Historical mailing list - Chris Mills
Fri, 13 Dec 2002 09:48:13 -0600
...You are taking a serious step backwards in technology in some categories (carbs, exhaust, generator - all things commonly improved upon). The engine is probably...
Owners Survey ... why not? :)
Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
Fri, 28 Dec 2001 00:50:17 -0600
...exhaust system (including muffler/tailpipe) g. fuel injection h. fuel pump i. head gaskets j. oil pump k. pistons l. piston rings m. valves...