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• Haynes UK Transporter Manual
  Historical mailing list - Thomas D. Hanlon
  Fri, 10 Apr 1998 16:52:24 -0700
  ...according to the jacket blurb, "Does not cover Diesel models, or Syncro, nor features specific to specialist bodywork/camper conversions. For coverage of air...
• Re: Kroil/penatrating oil
  Historical mailing list - Rico Sapolich
  Sat, 23 Dec 2000 20:17:40 EST
  ...lubricates nearly as well. >> I am wearing a new camel hair jacket so I do not want to go out into the alley and...
• Re: 2.1 ring recommendations
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 27 May 2009 06:19:08 -0400
  ...It looks like a very well taken care of motor, the water jacket and head studs show ZERO signs of corrosion. I was told...
• Re: Heat handling design error help
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 8 Jun 1996 18:45:06 -0700
  >I believe the design weakness in VW water jacketed motor installations >most commonly responsible for failures is their marginal heat rejection >system. Not only...
• Re: Removing head studs
  Historical mailing list - Carroll Smith
  Mon, 23 Nov 1998 15:55:55 GMT
  ...even on those that have broken WAY down in the = water >>jackets. Of course,you'll need to remove the cylinders and pistons for...
• Re: COLD air Leak Solution
  Historical mailing list - Joel Cort
  Fri, 15 Jan 1999 12:51:55 -0800
  ...I used to live in Colorado and Utah and recall driving around with my down sleeping bag wrapped around my legs, big down jacket...
• Infared Thermometer/Radiator temps?
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Mon, 3 Sep 2001 11:33:52 -0500
  ...coolant in the small hose that runs from the #4 water jacket, has never gotten over 208F. Thanks for the help Dimwitted Mose and...
• Re: COLD fresh air leaking (Solutions!)
  Historical mailing list - Joel Cort
  Fri, 15 Jan 1999 12:48:20 -0800
  ...I used to live in Colorado and Utah and recall driving around with my down sleeping bag wrapped around my legs, big down jacket...
• Re: westy - what do you keep in your cupboards?
  Historical mailing list - Nolan Hester
  Mon, 14 Oct 2002 11:17:57 -0700
  ...cross" tape (one never knows..) All colder weather clothes (synchilla jackets, rain & snow jackets); sleeping bags; 2 daypacks always packed with trail first-aid...
• Re: VDO Coolant Temp Gauge Sender...where to put???
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Fri, 11 Jul 2003 14:52:17 -0700
  ...What about using one of the water jacket drain plugs? Todd '88 Westy -------Original Message------- From: kevin obrien <kevindobrien@YAHOO.COM> Sent: 07/11...
• Re: Removing watercooled cyl heads, engine in car
  Historical mailing list - Michael Knight
  Wed, 2 Feb 2005 08:58:52 -0600
  ...I'm on the >#1 & #2 side, I've separated the cylinder head about 3/4" from the >block(water jacket) and I can...
• Re: Head Update (getting worse)
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Sat, 5 Mar 2005 19:11:39 -0600
  ...The o-ring looks like it is good shape???? > > > > Part of the oil ring was in the coolant jacket :-( area > (#$%$$#$) > > > > What to do?????????? > > > > Jere >
• Re: Friday rant: fabric stores and sewing
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Sat, 29 Jan 2011 07:56:08 -0600
  ...What does one's sex have to do with the fundamentals of keeping things working, whether a vehicle or a jacket? mcneely David McNeely
• Re: 2.1 ring recommendations
  Historical mailing list - Angus Gordon
  Wed, 27 May 2009 11:02:01 -0700
  ...It looks like a > very well taken care of motor, the water jacket and head studs show ZERO > signs of corrosion. I was told...
• Re: Wasserboxer into a T1?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
  Sat, 12 Aug 2000 01:32:02 EDT
  ...It is simple, cut the water jackets off and bolt on 94 mm T1 pistons and heads. The stud pattern on the heads needs...
• Re: new VW "minivan"? what a piece of crap
  Historical mailing list - Calle Fallberg
  Sun, 3 Sep 2000 16:00:33 +0200
  ...in Sweden ) with all the guys with the same helmet, leather jacket, jeans, boots, beard, sunglasses, handlebars ( The armpit ventilator is the most popular...
• Re: Removing watercooled cyl heads, engine in car
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Tue, 1 Feb 2005 23:16:57 -0500
  ...I'm on the > #1 & #2 side, I've separated the cylinder head about 3/4" from the > block(water jacket) and I can...
• Re: Bogus engineering
  Historical mailing list - Richard Koerner
  Sun, 7 Feb 2021 01:34:01 +0000
  ...Cooling jacket around motor?  Oddly shaped fuel tank?  Exposed electrical connections?  Byzantine and difficult to bleed cooling system? Why did all these things happen...
• Re: Goofy Coolant Refresh Idea
  Historical mailing list - Robert Steven Fish
  Fri, 4 Apr 2003 13:49:17 +0200
  ...You can even do a case modification on the block so that the water jacket is transparent, and you can see the flow inside...
• Re: Westy Power Cord
  Historical mailing list - S Sittservl
  Thu, 13 Apr 2000 23:16:45 EDT
  ...I got one made by a > company called Yellow Jacket that has the end that you would plug into your > Westy light up... I...
• 87 Synchro for $6K
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 6 Oct 1996 02:23:47 -0400
  ...for with the Westy's (well, I have heard some water jacket horror stories) and especially Syncho's. Is six grand a fair price...
• Hella Headlights and Such
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 11 Dec 1998 20:51:40 EST
  ...Also thought you might be interested in some nice fleece jackets that RMMW is offering. They come in two colors; blue or gray and...
• Re: Eurovan vs end 80's west
  Historical mailing list - Dale Goodvin
  Fri, 14 Nov 2003 19:04:00 -0800
  ...Don't be a wimp, > just wear a jacket. > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Aristotle Sagan" <killer_jupiter@HOTMAIL.COM> > To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> > Sent...
• Re: Dreaded water jacket head gasket leak strikes
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Mon, 21 Dec 2015 09:50:51 -0600
  ...Dreaded water jacket head gasket leak strikes > > Oh by the way you have to rotate the piston until the pin lines up with > the...
• Re: Need help diagnosing a coolant issue
  Historical mailing list - tmiller
  Wed, 1 Sep 2004 20:39:07 -0400
  ...have cracks that are allowing exhaust to enter the cooling water jacket in the heads. Tom Miller Zoran Mladen wrote: >Hey folks, > >Have a...
• Re: Coolant flow question
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Sun, 22 May 2005 21:22:39 -0700
  ...water through left side jacket flows INTO the water pump, not out as marked). On 5/22/05, Don in North Carolina <Don_Dixon...
• Re: Westy Winter Camping Suggestions..
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Tue, 17 Oct 2006 08:23:57 -0700
  ...That nice warm down or Thinsulate lined jacket you put on in the evening? Throw it over your feet at night, trap some heat...
• Re: WBX motor rather than ....
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Fri, 1 Aug 2008 17:40:44 -0700
  ...it's really an air > cooled 911 cobbled up with water jackets around. Is not the WBX similar > (or > vica/versa) with the WBX...
• Re: Ford Galaxy Friday-Emissions-Hydrogen
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:16:43 -0500
  ...You haven’t seen a vacuum tube until you've seen one with water jackets for cooling. Anyway for heat treating the metal parts...
• energy
  Historical mailing list - Scott G. Terry
  Fri, 13 Apr 2001 10:07:57 -0700
  ...They create radioactive "by-products." So-called fusion weapons utilize fission "jackets" to increase their explosive yield and will thus produce significant radioactive fallout...
• Re: Coolant leaking at upper head nut
  Historical mailing list - Ken Wilford
  Tue, 4 Mar 2008 08:19:32 -0500
  ...I've never heard this mentioned and didn't find anything in the > archives. > > I know the head studs are in the cooolant jacket...
• Waterboxer head gaskets
  Historical mailing list - Brendan Irwin
  Sun, 7 Dec 1997 14:26:08 +0000
  ...This is the thick grommet that seals the outer aluminum cylinder jacket to the outside edge of the aluminum cylinder head. Made of some...
• Re: Coolant Overflowing
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Sun, 28 Dec 2003 12:44:08 -0500
  ...There was a recent case on the list where someone had a combustion gas leak to the water jacket, but it only opened under...
• Re: Boston Bob engines - Use caution
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:38:47 -0800
  ...head gaskets---one on each side of the engine to keep coolant inside the water jackets The rubber head gaskets have no contact with...
• What I carry in my Westy - Friday
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Fri, 27 Dec 2002 13:01:42 -0600
  ...Portable TV/VCR, Holmes 120v cube heater, 2 man tent with KD poles, two small Coleman Lanterns, can Coleman Fuel, Denim Jacket, Down Jacket...
• Re: Baja Whale Trip....incredible
  Historical mailing list - Ralph Meyermann
  Sun, 7 Jan 2018 14:37:31 -0600
  ...feature=youtu.be >>>> >>>> FYI....I'm the guy in the blue jacket and blue baseball cap...I was >>>> pretty talkative! >>>> >>>> All you've got...
• Re: Syntheic Oil
  Historical mailing list - Sam Scholten
  Thu, 8 Aug 2002 10:39:52 -0700
  ...besides blowing a head gasket and cracking a water-jacket-laden head, neither of which apply to you, the main danger of running hot...
• Re: [T2] Ponderous motor thoughts...
  Historical mailing list - William Alan Killian
  Mon, 11 Mar 1996 12:50:22 -0500 (EST)
  ...Added water jacket after a couple years in a Vanagon. Dealers would hype the fact that it was a Porsche engine because it was...
• exhaust header thread repair gone wrong?
  Historical mailing list - Owen
  Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:29:12 -0500
  I think I may have penetrated the water jacket when repairing the stripped exhaust header bolt holes on the head of my 1.9l...
• Re: folding kayaks (was Traveling lighter)
  Historical mailing list - Edward Maglott
  Sat, 28 May 2005 22:08:38 -0400
  ...paddle, one of those bellows type foot pumps, and a life jacket. This bag fits easily in the Westy luggage rack. It has 5...
• Re: repeatedly blowing head gasket
  Historical mailing list - gary hradek
  Mon, 17 Mar 2003 12:04:03 -0800
  ...I don't remeber how far the first went. > > > > The gaskets are splitting from what would appear > to > be the back, or > water jacket...
• Re: 1-800-Howsmydriving?
  Historical mailing list - Chris S.
  Wed, 5 Dec 2007 14:51:08 -0800
  ...of terms like the air-cooled Beetle motors, but with water jackets. Chris S. ----- Original Message ---- From: Allan Streib <streib@CS.INDIANA.EDU> To...
• Re: Need input on radiator problem
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 7 Feb 2007 23:17:25 -0500
  ...As for the 1.9L coolant circulation in the water jacket, i agree, but i did some test on a 1.9L (brother in...
• Re: Coolant leaking at upper head nut
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 4 Mar 2008 09:02:53 -0500
  ...I've never heard this mentioned and didn't find anything in the >archives. > >I know the head studs are in the cooolant jacket...
• Re: Westy cabinet use
  Historical mailing list - Nolan Hester
  Thu, 6 Mar 2003 14:41:40 -0800
  ...cross" tape (one never knows..) All colder weather clothes (synchilla jackets, rain & snow jackets); sleeping bags; 2 daypacks always packed with trail first-aid...
• Re: difference's between model years
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Sat, 27 Sep 2014 10:57:17 -0700
  ...I felt the need to get a pipe and tweed jacket. ;) Not sure how much weight the PS pump, lines, larger (?) rack add though...
• Re: Bolo tie
  Historical mailing list - John C...
  Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:15:06 -0700
  ...dont know what I'm gardening :o) I wear a camo jacket & they pretty much leave me alone. My motto is; keep em' guessing...
• Re: Cheap Heat Exchangers
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 27 Apr 1995 09:39:44 -0700
  ...On a zero-degree Colorado night, fire the bus up, get on the >freeway, and ten minutes later you could take off your jacket...
• fuel problem
  Historical mailing list - Tonya Pope
  Fri, 3 Oct 1997 11:19:29 -0500
  ...usual, although it was a brisk 70 this morning (kids were putting jackets on :). Thanks all!!! Tonya 87 Vanagon GL Wolfs 74 S. Beetle
• my new job (friday)
  Historical mailing list - Jason Gorfine
  Fri, 1 Mar 2002 12:18:51 -0800
  ...they even gave me my own special captain's hat and jacket (very professional!) and some new shoes. the ship is real fancy, with...
• Re: Winter storage leaking heads seals
  Historical mailing list - Spencer Allen
  Fri, 19 Feb 2016 10:16:07 -0500
  ...There > may be some pitting of the edge of the water jacket on the head. Some > volks fill this with JB weld; others use...
• An interesting idea for block heaters, etc (kinda long)
  Historical mailing list - Marshall Ruskin
  Sun, 10 Dec 2000 21:33:57 -0600
  ...A block heater is an electric device that heats the coolant in the water jacket of the engine. Anyhow - here's the idea: You...
• Re: leaky head gasket question again
  Historical mailing list - Nick L. Meyers
  Tue, 2 Apr 2002 21:47:47 -0500
  ...I used JB Weld to level the pits where the rubber gasket fits between the head and the water jacket. No problems so far...
• Re: 2.1 fits right in
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Tue, 8 Nov 2005 09:48:59 -0800
  Not in this particular design, because the water-jacket sizing between the case and the head(s) is the same. The differences are internal...
• Re: How much damage to engine block, heads, etc., in fire from leaking fuel ines?
  Historical mailing list - Jason
  Sat, 22 Jul 2017 10:55:47 -0400
  ...Crank seal, water jacket/head seal etc. It all would depend how long and how hot. Jason Uberbus On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at...
• Re: Antifreeze smell in the Vanagon (Sorta)
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:06:57 -0400
  ...Can you say "Sticky > Mess"!!! Yuck! Well I guess it is time for a clean up! Now I know why > the Yellow Jackets love...
• Re: Heads, corrosion etc.
  Historical mailing list - Todd Francis
  Mon, 8 Dec 1997 18:56:17 -0800
  ...How do we keep this head area surrounding the water > jacket un-molested by coolant? . So get a good > epoxy coating in there that...
• Re: Splitting A Case
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Wilford
  Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:28:54 -0500
  ...Inside the water jacket and even hidden around the flywheel area. I would bet there is a just one left that is playing hide...
• Re: Code of conduct
  Historical mailing list - mike stainbrook
  Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:14:28 -0800
  ...or stealing property > > I also think we should come up with a cool patch for our leather jackets, > but that's another thread. > > Nathaniel
• Heater pipe insulation
  Historical mailing list - Chris Chubb
  Thu, 12 Jan 1995 08:44:18 -0500
  ...The sealer seals the leaks and keeps the paper and plastic jacket from disintegrating. I have thought of replacing the pipe with PVC, but...