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• Re: Van-O-Rama: update on Mike Miller's post very long
  Historical mailing list - Tim Fong
  Tue, 22 Oct 2002 16:34:50 EDT
  ...it does have a water cooled boxer engine. peace, tim
• Re: so what's the skinny on water cooled Vanagons?
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:10:26 +1200
  ...If it says "SUBARU" anywhere on the engine, grab it. -- Andrew Grebneff Dunedin New Zealand Fossil preparator <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> Seashell...
• Need new Engine
  Historical mailing list - Randy C
  Thu, 1 Oct 2020 03:04:31 +0000
  I'd love to get some feedback on thoughts regarding my need for an engine. 82 Air cooled, Approx 175,000 miles on engine...
• Re: Japanese style vans! for info
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Sun, 11 Sep 2005 00:10:40 -0600
  ...They now run on water cooled engines. The air cooled vans even had the same number three cylinder problems. jimt On 9/10/05...
• Re: Need TDI conversion info
  Historical mailing list - Helmut Zeidler
  Mon, 7 Aug 2000 17:35:01 +0300
  ...They will come with everything you may need, including water-cooled turbo (where applicable) and water-cooled exhaust manifold! They are basically same as...
• Re: AW: TDI and the Quest for the Diesel Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Mike Catlin
  Tue, 25 Aug 1998 21:25:09 -0700
  ...VW Motoring wrote: "The actual engine modifications consisted of installing a water-cooled intercooler, with an additional radiator fitted behind the main one at...
• Re: Hoo Boy! (1990 - engine transplant)
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 28 May 1996 18:03:26 -0500
  ...what's this about a porsche water cooled six EA> i guess i better start saving now? Might just be cheaper to see if...
• Vanagon syndrome
  Historical mailing list - phil cain
  Wed, 23 Apr 2003 17:45:53 -0700
  Just a question about it, can a 1980 air cooled westy have the same problem as the water cooled engine and can it be...
• Re: RE: shower in a westy!
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 1 Aug 94 11:55:38 bst
  ...air-cooled engine's heater box. This heats water so you can use a heater/demister unit from a water-cooled car or, if...
• buses for sale ... Alabama
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Mon, 04 Mar 96 19:40:46 CST
  ...has 4 cylinder water cooled engine with 86,000 miles. we have thoroughly enjoyed this vehicle. (334) 272-6766
• Re: vanagon questions to the folks that know
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 10 May 1997 02:33:09 -0400 (EDT)
  ...and the first year of the water-cooled engine. In 86 they went to a slightly larger engine (2.1l vs 1.9l) with...
• Re: <no subject> was piston wear, should be conversion issues
  Historical mailing list - Nathaniel Poole
  Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:44:29 -0800
  ...want to remove the 2.0l AC engine and put a Subaru (or > other water-cooled) conversion into your van. > > This discussion of ring...
• Re: request for information, please
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel
  Thu, 12 Sep 2013 11:40:33 -0700
  ...As used engines go I think they're pretty expensivetoo. if going to water-cooled ..it would be handy to have a whole donor...
• Re: 85vanagon overheating (water cooled)
  Historical mailing list - Erin Daniels
  Tue, 1 Jul 2014 05:31:53 -0700
  ...I have a mechanic in LA that I finally just paid off for the engine rebuilt that was done almost a year ago. I...
• Re: Corvair and Porsche 914 Engines (Was: Towing!!!)
  Historical mailing list - John Brush
  Wed, 16 May 2001 14:08:24 -0600
  ...looking because my vanagon is water cooled, so I am not eligible for most of the popular engine swaps. The only up-side to...
• Re: Stainless Steel Head Studs
  Historical mailing list - Ed Mellinger
  Mon, 11 Dec 2000 11:39:50 -0800
  ...I would not think it a good choice for critical fasteners in a water-cooled engine. Stainless is a useful material but has some...
• Re: Cylinder 1 location
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Tue, 4 Sep 2007 15:11:28 -0700
  ...2.1L water cooled digifant Vanagon: > > > (front of van) > > 3 1 > > 4 2 > > (rear of van) > > So, when leaning over the engine thru the...
• Re: Wasserboxer Reputation . long
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Schwaia
  Mon, 9 Dec 2002 23:16:02 -0800
  ...expected on other >water-cooled engines during the course of the engines lifetime. Sure -- it's just that the Japanese engines have lifetimes looking...
• Mod. Fresh air box to recycle cabin air? (did some searching in arch.)
  Historical mailing list - neil
  Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:37:26 -0800
  ...Am rebuilding fresh air box and will install heater core as I will convert to a water cooled engine. I understand how the box...
• Re: I'm thinking about going to gas
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:58:42 -0700
  ...aircooled engine in a water cooled > body...engine bay is quite different. > > or is the 82 gas been converted to water cooled? > > if your...
• Re: Paging Mark Touvinen/Anchorage Van/Craigslist
  Historical mailing list - Paul Guzyk
  Sun, 17 Jun 2007 17:13:07 -0700
  ...Why not find a water cooled Vanagon with blown engine, add a Subie (for power to pull trailer etc) then ship it up north...
• Re: vw industrial aircooled motors (was: Re: better blog, good vehicle on ice (LVC)
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:51:17 -0600
  ...air and water cooled engines for the >Zambonis mostly propane and some LNG. They did have a single port industrial >engine in the late...
• Re: Help in salt lake
  Historical mailing list - Richard Koerner
  Tue, 19 Mar 2019 22:29:33 +0000
  ...I just broke down off of hwy 15 in Ogden.  Smoke came from the ignition and the engine quit.  Any advice where to tow...
• Re: 2.1L Wasserboxer Power Rebuild
  Historical mailing list - Robert A. Alexander
  Mon, 15 Feb 1999 22:45:31 -0500
  ...engine to 6,000 rpm at the strip! I just have my doubts about a 1.9 or a 2.1 VW water-cooled...
• Re: AFM upgrade using 16 volt tantalum capacitor
  Historical mailing list - Austin
  Sun, 20 Jan 2002 13:26:33 -0800
  ...Digifant, the Service Bulletin from April 30, 1992 says: "All >Water Cooled Engine Vanagons" > >Larry A. I did the 'cap fix' (+ a ground for...
• Re: Tranny swap time
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Tue, 1 Apr 2003 14:49:44 -0600
  Good Grief Bill! You got a water cooled. I should have never risked answering your question. An 82 is supposed to be Air Cooled...
• Re: Friday humour: Top 5 Reasons why you SHOULDN'T try converting an 81 AC Vanagon to water cooled (pic included)
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Fri, 7 Dec 2007 21:30:24 -0800
  I converted a 1980 Westfalia to a water-cooled inline -four and I don't understand what all the chiseling is about. The two...
• Re: porsche engine conversions
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:48:31 +1200
  ...engines - not sure when the change is, but all 911's, Boxsters, >and now the new sports model - they're all water cooled. I...
• FS: $3500 1985 Vanagon Westfalia Weekend Wolfsburg
  Historical mailing list - Dave Neebe
  Sun, 22 Mar 1998 22:11:38 -0600
  For Sale 155,000 Miles Air Conditioned (needs compressor) Power Steering Power Brakes Power Steering Cruise Control Auto Transmission Water Cooled Engine Has poptop...
• Re: VW's rebuilt engine offer?
  Historical mailing list - J. Walker
  Thu, 15 Sep 94 11:29:21 CDT
  ...VW's rebuilt engine offer? >Last month, several folks wrote of a $2500 rebuilt engine offer by VW >covering all water-cooled vanagons. The...
• Re: New to water cooled, temp questions
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Fri, 20 Jul 2001 11:47:05 -0500
  ...This is the first water cooled VW I have ever owned (I have had many air cooleds). The water temp on this new van...
• RE: vanagon longevity?
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 22 Jun 95 21:45:59 EDT
  ...I agree though the price of engine bits really kills an old Vanagon air or water cooled. Hell a diesel is probably the best...
• 1.9L engine on VA CL
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Sun, 7 Jun 2015 01:46:24 +0000
  ...http://richmond.craigslist.org/pts/5055371050.html This is a complete 1.9 water cooled Vw Vanagon motor.This motor has AC and power...
• 84 Vanagon Bursting Coolant Hoses
  Historical mailing list - Jack Loranger
  Wed, 7 Mar 2007 22:37:02 -0800
  Hi all, I have an 84 water-cooled gas engine Vanagon that has been blowing coolant hoses one after another. First it was the...
• Re: '86 Vanagon Syncro Engine ForSale
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 20 Oct 94 8:35:20 EDT
  ...would like to change to a Porsche engine in my Synchro but air cooled versus water cooled has stumped me to date. Thanks Drew...
• Re: Engine carrier question
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 2 Nov 2009 18:28:53 -0500
  ...Engine carrier question Is an air cooled and a water cooled engine carrier (cradle) interchangeable? All of the mounting points appear to line up...
• Ideal oil filter by-pass pressure/oil filters
  Historical mailing list - Edward Duntz
  Mon, 8 Sep 2008 18:07:58 -0400
  ...A good number of people swear by the Mann W719/12 filter for the Vanagon, and the W719/5 for most other water-cooled...
• Alternator mounting bolt loose/broken
  Historical mailing list - Subject: Alternator mounting bolt loose/broken
  August 06, 1987
  ...The increased torque specification requires use of a new bolt on 1.9L water cooled engines. To repair a loose/broken bolt: 1.9L...
• Bentley Manuals and 82 aircooled Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - David Yates
  Thu, 16 May 1996 08:12:20 GMT+1000
  ...That was fine until I read the catalogue which implies the manual covers only the water-cooled engine. Is this the case? I have...
• Re: VW Fires
  Historical mailing list - mac stricklen
  Mon, 10 Aug 1998 19:13:33 -0700
  Marty Wallace <martywallace@rocketmail.com> wrote: > I read somewhere that the incidence of engine fires in water-cooled VWs > is much, much lower (like...
• Re: Go with the split
  Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
  Wed, 10 Jul 1996 15:28:03 -0700 (PDT)
  ...engine or two and I'm not about to stop at > the Wasserboxer either. Nor are all of us just into water cooleds either...
• Re: new beetle
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 11 Jul 1998 00:44:32 EDT
  ...The new ones are Water (Cooled) Bugs! > And the old bug was GERMAN and the new one is MEXICAN. >> And the old bug engine...
• Re: vw diesel engine in old type 2
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Tue, 11 May 1999 03:33:18 +0200
  ...So, does VWBrazil make water-cooled buses for Mexico while still making air-cooled buses for Brazil? Inquiring minds wanna know PerL 88 Syncro
• Re: Larger or additional radiator?
  Historical mailing list - Terry Kay
  Mon, 30 Jul 2001 22:48:57 -0500
  Ron, The Cat, Detroit, Cummins engines in those mountain climbing busses also have a 5 to 10 gallon coolant capacity, plus a water cooled...
• Water Cooled Head Question
  Historical mailing list - Michael Knight
  Mon, 17 Jan 2005 08:49:49 -0600
  ...Maybe an engine swap is in the future if the rebuild is just as expensive. Thanks, Michael Knight '77 Westy Deluxe, "el Verde" '85...
• Re: pre-83 vanagon engine swaps: gas vs. diesel
  Historical mailing list - Gary Shea
  Tue, 17 Mar 1998 12:40:11 -0700
  ...You had an air cooled '80 -- '83 1/2 vanagon as the recipient; you had a water-cooled diesel vanagon as a donor, also...
• Re: compression data
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 20 Jan 95 21:01:12 EST
  ...A difference of 44 psi seems far too great, usually 10 % is the norm...DC > > for water-cooled vanagon engines (1.9 and 2...
• Fwd: 81 Air cooled... Engine conversion options??
  Historical mailing list - Mr.mds
  Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:32:43 -0500
  ...Engine conversion options?? > > Hello all! > Thanks for all the replys and information. > > I am thinking of going water cooled, going to stay with Vw...
• Re: 1985 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Gerald Masar
  Thu, 5 Apr 2001 12:11:36 -0700
  ...She is an water cooled engine with an automatic trans. Right now she's up on blocks needing brake parts that fit her. She...
• Re: Longevity of Conversion Engines
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Mon, 25 Mar 2002 12:00:38 -0600
  ...Any body got a hint how much the Water Cooled 1983 Westys sold for? The PO told me that the 83 Water Cooled were...
• Re: 85vanagon overheating (water cooled)
  Historical mailing list - Raymond Markett
  Tue, 1 Jul 2014 00:07:58 -0700
  ...The back of the van is hot. > Any advice is much appreciated. > > > Erin Daniels > 85 water cooled Vanagon
• Re: open your eyes
  Historical mailing list - Steven Johnson
  Thu, 11 Jul 1996 14:02:39 -0700 (PDT)
  > The water-cooled horizontally opposed four cylinder engine designed by > Volkswagen has a fatal design flaw as numerous posting to the Vanagon list I...
• Re: Car Talk
  Historical mailing list - J. Walker
  Thu, 22 Sep 94 20:44:57 CDT
  ...the folks who built the 6-cylinder engine for the vanagon) did exactly that: put the 4-cylinder wasserboxer (vanagon water-cooled) engine into...
• Re: Engine Fires - A/C vs. W/C - Any Difference?
  Historical mailing list - Mike Jones
  Fri, 25 Sep 1998 23:06:20 EDT
  ...engine fires have primarily been a problem with air cooled VW buses/vans/Vanagons. Is the problem equally prevalent in later water-cooled models...
• OE Vanagon Diesel engine mounting hardware on eBay
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Tue, 2 May 2006 20:31:01 -0700
  ...http://www.fastforward.ca Email sales@fastforward.ca - Engine Conversions and Accessories for classic water-cooled Volkswagens - Electrical harness fabrication and customization Due to...
• FS Behind the Dash Air Conditioning System
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Mon, 11 Nov 2002 12:36:59 -0600
  ...It fits 80-91 Vanagons, Air Cooled or Water Cooled. (Water cooled will need compressor bracket) It comes with the parts you see in...
• Re: Air intake boot
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:49:32 -0700
  ...ones for the water cooled. But please, when looking for that elusive part, give the year, model and perhaps the engine series you have...
• Re: Engine Advice (Overheating?)
  Historical mailing list - Don Gibbons
  Mon, 2 Mar 1998 13:09:25 -0500
  ...Unfortunately the air cooled engine has no direct way of providing any extra cooling after it is at operating temp and full load. Water...
• Re: The real story about the invention of the WBX?
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:48:59 -0800
  ...flat six and water cooled.� Many people will argue that the sole left the 911 a long time ago, but this is the true...
• Re: My Vanagon's gone, and so am I!!
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Mon, 18 Feb 2002 00:07:59 -0800
  ...Golf engine has never given me the trouble common to the WBX. If you switch back someday to fuel injection, and water cooled, perhaps...