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• Re: 2 Deep cycle batterys & move starter to rear right engine compartment ??
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Wed, 8 Nov 2006 07:56:20 -0800
  ...Mark TC wrote: > Has anybody moved a starter battery to that area in the > right rear of the engine compartment just in front of...
• Re: Remote starter switch
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:32:16 -0400
  Alfred, I have a remote starter button in the engine compartment of my '85 Westy. It does come in handy. I picked up the...
• Re: Relocating syncro fuel filter
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 28 Dec 1999 19:10:36 -0500
  ...Putting the filter in the engine compartment has the added benefit of maximizing fire potential and creating all types of vapor lock problems. Fuel...
• Re: Sound Recording of my Mystery Noise
  Historical mailing list - pickle vanagon
  Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:05:48 -0400
  ...The noise isn't accessible from the interior and isn't coming from the top of the engine compartment. In fact, it was harder...
• Re: Fan Belt Woes
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 28 Apr 1995 17:50:11 -0700
  ...I >opened the engine compartment and lo and behold the fan belt had a big ole >gasher in it. Below that, there was some...
• Re: Fox (VW, but not vanagon)
  Historical mailing list - Patrick Dooley
  Fri, 3 Apr 1998 11:13:49 -0500
  The fox is a good car, however the accessory drive is difficult to service due to the short engine compartment. At least you won...
• Re: Fan belt tightening-- When to do it?
  Historical mailing list - wb6otg
  Thu, 29 Nov 2001 15:46:05 -0500
  ...it matter? I don't think it matters much, except if its too hot, its hard to touch anything in the engine compartment! Bill
• Re: [WetWesties] Friday Stuff
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Fri, 31 Aug 2012 21:10:29 -0700
  ...When looking into the engine compartment of the F-350 I remarked "what ever happened to the old Slant 6?" and we both laughed.
• Throttle cable replacement- from which end?
  Historical mailing list - Don Spence
  Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:09:50 -0600
  ...Foot-well or engine compartment? 83.5 1.9 wbx manual trans. TIA Don
• Re: Intake Questions on a '74
  Historical mailing list - Steve Johnson
  Sun, 4 Feb 1996 06:37:00 -0800 (PST)
  ...There seems to be some metal tubing that comes > up out of the engine, bends and heads back down into the engine > compartment. This...
• Re: really... how tough IS a full engine rebuild?
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Tue, 4 Feb 2003 23:25:13 EST
  ...thing i know this engine didn't come with is . . . >> Damon, If you did not get all the engine compartment coolant plumbing with the...
• Re: VANAGON digest 426
  Historical mailing list - Isabel Mergulhao
  Tue, 18 Apr 1995 22:08:32 -0700 (PDT)
  ...Upon inspection of the engine compartment we found oil had spattered the inside of the compartment. The only obvious belt, the fan belt, is...
• Re: '81 Vanagon: 12V source in engine compartment?
  Historical mailing list - Mark Ingalls
  Mon, 18 Sep 2000 17:18:26 CDT
  ...12V source in engine compartment? >Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 07:58:49 -0700 > >Hey, y'all! When you're hooking up your timing...
• melted oxygen sensor wires and no start fun
  Historical mailing list - Roger Reynolds
  Tue, 3 Sep 2002 17:46:34 EDT
  ...When I tried to restart, it wouldn't and there was a small bit of smoke from the engine compartment. I pushed it over...
• Re: Westy with 4.3L V6 and Audi 5k trans in Victoria..
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Sun, 9 Feb 2003 22:11:11 -0800
  ...The under-bed storage chest was made into an engine compartment and the engine compartment was made into an under-bed storage compartment! More...
• Third battery?
  Historical mailing list - ID Workshop
  Thu, 8 Nov 2001 10:52:47 -0800
  ...I was considering adding another Optima to the system back in the engine compartment in the space formerly occupied by my air intake. I...
• FS: '82 Vanagon, burned engine
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 15 Feb 1997 03:06:38 -0500 (EST)
  ...The van was running when the engine caught fire. Top of the engine and engine compartment burned. Only one spot near rear license plate...
• Re: Re(2): Re(2): Rough running when Hot
  Historical mailing list - ERIC ZENO
  Tue, 7 Jan 1997 23:07:15 -0500 (EST)
  ...I simply traced out every wire in the engine compartment from the computer to the engine. Found the temperature sensor not making a connection...
• Radiator hoses in air cooled?
  Historical mailing list - Sean Garrett
  Thu, 13 Jan 2000 11:20:35 -0700
  ...I traced the hoses back to the engine compartment where the have fittings that are taped over with electrical tape. What is going on...
• Re: So about changing these fuel lines...
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 20 Dec 2003 00:21:09 EST
  ...fire extinguishers you can buy for > 20$ a piece around the engine compartment, theyre under pressure. they'd explode from the engine heat.. chris
• Re: how to put out engine fire?
  Historical mailing list - Jerry Granito
  Sun, 16 May 1999 09:18:44 EDT
  ...has anyone thought of installing a race style cable operated extinguisher in the engine compartment? >> Oh nooooooo, not the dreaded fire extinguisher thread again...! :(
• How often to change Fuel Injectors?
  Historical mailing list - Stuart Fedak VE3SMF
  Wed, 24 Jul 2013 13:16:18 -0700
  There was a recent smell of gas which prompted me to replace the engine compartment fuel lines.� � Today, I�am doing the engine compartment...
• Re: TD coolant circulation pump
  Historical mailing list - Juha Koivisto
  Fri, 10 Dec 1999 07:41:11 +0200
  ...There is also a relay enabling this additional cooling in that plastic box (on the wall of the engine compartment). I could check location...
• Re: Van Alarm
  Historical mailing list - The Carters
  Sat, 18 Oct 1997 06:40:56 -0700
  ...kick panel below the dash with the horn part in the engine compartment, left side near the IS. Kit Carter, 85 Westy GL, central...
• Re: 2nd Oil Cooler...
  Historical mailing list - DOUGLAS
  Thu, 20 Jun 1996 00:05:04 -0700
  David Schwarze wrote: > > At 1:36 PM 6/19/96, DOUGLAS wrote: > > >If you put it inside the engine compartment, all you do is...
• Re: 86-91 labeled diagram of engine/engine compartment
  Historical mailing list - Zoltan
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:13:01 -0800
  ...86-91 labeled diagram of engine/engine compartment > Hi everybody, > getting ready to install rebuilt motor in 1991 carat this weekend. i was > out...
• Re: DIY engine hoist?
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sun, 14 Jul 2013 15:26:15 -0700
  ...a bus engine? > Searched the archives and never came across what I remembered -- > something involving 2x4s set across the engine compartment? Any leads > appreciated...
• Re: last minute engine swap questions
  Historical mailing list - John Reynolds
  Sat, 5 May 2012 05:54:57 -0700
  I way that I lowered my air cooled Vanagon engine, was pipe in engine compartment, straps are attached to the engine mounting barwrap around...
• Getting air out of the coolant system
  Historical mailing list - Bill H.
  Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:39:06 -0700
  ...My questions are 1) how do you turn the valve in the engine compartment and 2) do you just turn the valve (bolt) on...
• Re: Another Vanagon Burns Up
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Schwaia
  Wed, 30 Mar 2005 16:33:16 -0800
  ...The metal firewall behind the rear seat kept the conflagration away from the passenger compartment. After the engine wiring and all engine compartment plastic...
• intermitent starting problem, help
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 04 Mar 1996 14:33:00 -0400 (EDT)
  ...is heard from the engine compartment, but no starter selenoid click or starter crank, just silence when the engine is cold, the List seemed...
• Re: 87 van Idling problems
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 07 Aug 1997 15:25:12 EDT
  ...I checked the engine compartment for >obvious >problems, nothing, everything is tight with nothing dis-connected. >Oh, I >recently had the engine compartment pressure...
• Re: Burp tank mounting..?
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Sat, 9 Sep 2006 12:40:57 -0700
  It sounds as though you may be missing the heat shield that goes between the cat/muffler and the engine compartment. That's what...
• Free Vanagon parts - Atlanta
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Sat, 2 May 2009 10:50:34 -0400
  ...This is the pieces in the rear of the engine compartment above the muffler. - '84 engine carrier. This is the aluminium piece engine mounts...
• Re: engine quits, oil sprayed on engine/compartment...smoke...oh my
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:37:21 -0400
  ...Oil will drop directly on the exhaust pipes and make lots of smoke.Dont know about the engine cutting off though? Does a 2...
• Re: Tried this cruise control?
  Historical mailing list - Jason Simpson
  Wed, 7 Jun 2006 09:44:51 -0700
  ...This was a bit awkward to do and required some additional hands to tighten the bolt n the engine compartment while I was underneath...
• Rearview Camera Cable Routing
  Historical mailing list - Steven Johnson
  Mon, 8 Apr 2019 12:36:49 -0400
  ...When I look at the driver's side of the rear engine compartment, I can see the electrical wire bundle going up to the...
• Need a 5-cyl engine hanger?
  Historical mailing list - R.Joseph Murphy
  Sat, 22 May 1999 13:57:21 -0700
  Hello all, The plan is to install a 5-cly Audi engine so that the engine compartment lid will close without modification. I've...
• '84 harness?
  Historical mailing list - jfg69
  Tue, 18 Mar 2003 16:50:38 -0500
  I am looking for a good engine compartment wiring harness to replace my old corroded-spliced-to-death-poor-excuse-for a harness from...
• Re: Boston Bob Big Valve Update? Not really... (LONG)
  Historical mailing list - Tom F.
  Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:12:05 -0500
  ...Just disconnect it, on the driver's side of the engine compartment, and see how it runs. Tom F.
• Re: electronic ignition?
  Historical mailing list - Strano Foreign Car
  Thu, 7 Nov 1996 11:36:23 -0500
  ...came with Hall effect >electronic ignition stuff but poking around the engine compartment on my >'81 revealed a regular ol' points and condenser setup...
• Re: engine quits, oil sprayed on engine/compartment...smoke...oh my
  Historical mailing list - Edward Maglott
  Mon, 17 Apr 2006 22:16:38 -0400
  ...inspecting the engine compartment we see >oil all over >the front of the engine mostly. i'd just changed the oil earlier this week...
• Re: engine compartment perimeter coolant rail
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott )
  Fri, 11 Sep 2015 11:29:11 -1000
  ...I saw > Ben's Place mentioning the engine compartment system is "self bleeding". > > http://www.benplace.com/bleeding.htm > > thanks, > Andrew > 87 GL (2...
• Inline Heaters
  Historical mailing list - Chris Chubb
  Thu, 12 Jan 1995 08:36:39 -0500
  ...Then route the tube out, by the gas tank, and into the engine compartment, to hook to the heater boxes. (Mabye even a 'Y...
• Oil Seal Question
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:47:30 -0800
  ...Question is, if the leaks are small (getting some spray in the engine compartment?) can those seals have a sudden, complete failure and really...
• Re: subaru converion question
  Historical mailing list - Brian
  Thu, 6 Nov 2003 07:32:59 -0600
  ...There are issues , though, with routing the exhaust and the space needed for the turbo parts in the vanagon engine compartment. At best it...
• Re: All the wires are brown!
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:42:10 -0700
  So, other than the oil LED thing, you likee the "water hose in the engine compartment" technique of removing road schmutz? -- Jack "Rocket j...
• Re: Wombat/Gerbil update
  Historical mailing list - Dieter Dworkin Muller
  Sun, 19 Nov 1995 10:49:00 -0700
  ...cover them with duct tape, since all they're doing right now is allowing used engine air back into the engine compartment. Thanks. Dworkin
• Re: Westy OEM fire extinguisher/Halon suppressant
  Historical mailing list - Harold Teer
  Wed, 2 Jan 2008 20:22:25 -0500
  ...It'll flood the entire engine compartment > > (temporarily - due to it's not being sealed below and the fact that > halon's > > heavier than...
• <No subject>
  Historical mailing list - Claralw
  95-10-10 12:58:06 EDT
  ...The chassis number is in the engine compartment, to the right of the engine, on the bulkhead. My 58 dealer parts list for type...
• Re: So thar I was (Engine wouldn't start)
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Wed, 5 Dec 2007 09:32:50 -0800
  ...I like the idea of a switch in the engine compartment. IIRC, the pre 75' Honda Civics had them. They "killed" that option quick...
• Re: PS pump switch, engine compartment wiring harness, ECU, starter
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Wed, 10 Feb 2016 14:34:19 -0800
  ...PS pump switch, engine compartment wiring harness, ECU, starter Does anybody know what gauge wire this is? I was thinking of ordering one of...
• Coolent Leaks
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 10 Oct 94 18:15:51 EDT
  Gerry, I had leaks from the coolent reservoir inside the engine compartment (they crack and leak with age) and also from the coolent "T...
• location of bleeder valve
  Historical mailing list - Jeff and Deb
  Wed, 25 Aug 1999 20:59:27 -0700
  My 85 Bentley manual shows a picture of a coolant bleeder valve in the engine compartment. The problem is that I have an 86...
• Re: Burp tank mounting..?
  Historical mailing list - Marion Lathem
  Sat, 9 Sep 2006 12:22:28 -0500
  ...However I see no way to attach the bracket to the engine compartment..? Lyle
• Re: Engine cleaner?
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Tue, 4 Nov 2003 16:23:28 -0500
  ...Seriously, you don't know what a dirty engine compartment is until you deal with an oil film full of diesel soot! ;) I sprayed...
• Re: Alternators correction!
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 9 Apr 2020 18:15:38 -0400
  ...places on engine compartment wall >> 14.23-14.25 >> > There's your half volt drop right there. Alternator to engine, engine to transmission, transmission...
• Re: Proper adhesive for engine compartment seal
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:27:17 -0700
  ...The engine COVER seal. Super Weatherstrip Adhesive. Clean surfaces with lacquer thinner or MEK first. Engine Seal is a whole different ani-mule. Goes...
• Re: 12 volts in engine compartment
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Sun, 3 Nov 2002 14:32:42 -0400
  ...Malcolm > Anyone know a good place to tap 12v from the engine compartment of an > 84. I have a timing light that needs it...
• Re: PS pump switch, engine compartment wiring harness, ECU, starter
  Historical mailing list - Steven Shelton
  Wed, 10 Feb 2016 16:30:53 -0500
  ...m=441390 > > Inside the wiring box at the front of the engine compartment, there is a > fat red wire coming off a post. Snip...