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• Re: Lifespan of Platinum plugs in 2.1L?
  Historical mailing list - Jorge Osorio
  Sat, 28 Jun 2003 22:08:13 -0400
  ...Replaced plugs for Platinum +4 Cap & Rotor ,and wires. My old plugs were also the regular vanilla bosch. My plugs were not brown but...
• Re: Broken Spark Plug Electrode/Tip
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 9 Jan 2005 22:47:10 -0500
  ...Broken spark plug tips and loose plugs are both indicative of an engine pinging itself to death. The W7DTC plugs are too long. They...
• Re: vanagon single electrode plugs
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Fri, 11 Jun 2004 15:07:04 -0400
  ...I put spark plug theories in the same catagory as DOT3/4 > musings, holed cat superstitions, .91 Octane beliefs, etc., etc. Well, yes. But...
• Re: glow plugs
  Historical mailing list - Dan Stevens
  Wed, 26 Jul 2000 00:50:03 -0400
  ...Need Diesel, Glow Plug Advice I have just sent a customer some Bosch glow plugs. The boxes all looked the same so I just...
• Re: Triple Electrode Spark Plug Available For 1.9L Motor
  Historical mailing list - Smola, Tony
  Tue, 26 Feb 2002 21:50:10 -0600
  ...Triple Electrode Spark Plug Available For 1.9L Motor I received a set of platinum 4 plugs from the local VW shop when I...
• Re: Coils and Platinum Plugs!
  Historical mailing list - EMZ
  Sat, 9 Jan 1999 01:42:36 -0500
  ...Coils and Platinum Plugs! > > > >>> EMZ <vw4x4@FYI.NET> 01/08 10:50 AM >>> > My bet is that you have platimun plug in the engine...
• Re: Spark plug gap
  Historical mailing list - Chris S.
  Thu, 8 Mar 2012 20:30:26 -0500
  Ditto on Bosch 4477 plugs. They are listed at FLAPS as Volvo plugs. Chris. Wysłane z iPhone'a Dnia Mar 8, 2012 o godz...
• help powered trailer converter
  Historical mailing list - Spencer Allen
  Sat, 11 Jul 2015 13:26:48 -0400
  ...I want to wire up a flat 4 plug pig tail for towing a trailer on my 85 Westy. Should I use a powered...
• Re: Door panel plugs
  Historical mailing list - David Etter
  Fri, 4 May 2007 10:07:06 -0600
  The rear door takes 19 plugs. I went to the VW dealer to get a pack and they wanted $18.00 for 16 plugs...
• Re: stripped oil drain plug
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 1 Jun 1999 22:59:54 -0400
  14 X 1.5 oversize plug is easiest fix. Double oversize if really needed. After that, Heli-coil. Dennis -----Original Message----- From: ncdragonfly <ncdragonfly...
• Re: Glow Plug Flicker Indicates H2O in Fuel?
  Historical mailing list - Mike Moery
  Thu, 13 Dec 2001 20:25:38 -0900
  ...Any ideas how water in the fuel would cause the glow plug light to flicker? Some kind of resistance reading across the plug? I...
• Re: exact foot pounds for the oil plug?
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Fri, 17 Jun 2016 11:16:01 -0700
  ...A Vanagon specialty shop found that the drain plug hole on my 2.1 WBX was damaged. Unbeknownst to me at that time, their...
• Re: Oil plug
  Historical mailing list - Aristotle Sagan
  Tue, 9 Jul 2013 23:33:48 -0700
  ...In a short while they came and told me that when they went to >> replace the oil plug, the plug stripped out in the...
• Re: Bosch Three Pronged Spark plugs
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Diebolt
  Mon, 13 Jan 1997 19:12:56 -0500
  ...Not having owned an >gasoline powered car since 1980, its been a while since I purchased >spark plugs! Now that we own a wasserboxer...
• Re: Recommended spark plugs for WBX?
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Tue, 2 Dec 2008 19:57:24 -0500
  Resistor plugs minimize radio interference. They should be fine. On 12/2/08, Allan Streib <streib@cs.indiana.edu> wrote: > Well the plugs arrived...
• Substitute water tank inlet plug
  Historical mailing list - Mark Hineline
  Thu, 14 Oct 2010 19:47:46 -0700
  I've been searching for a substitute for the plug for my water tank inlet, and finally found it today: it's 7/8...
• Re: Some (Simple!) Diesel Question to do with Glow Plugs
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Fri, 7 Apr 2000 19:39:03 +0200
  Michael Snow wrote: > If you cycle them 2-3 times the plug should be noticeably hot to the > touch. Remove the plug, and hook...
• Re: Cold Starting
  Historical mailing list - Loren A. Busch
  Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:22:29 -0800
  ...Platinum plugs destroy ignition coils OK, I'll bite. How? What does a platinum plug do to destroy a coil? On the surface I...
• westy silver socket - where to get plug?
  Historical mailing list - karen d
  Sat, 8 Jul 2006 07:40:15 -0700
  Where can I get a plug for the silver socket that will convert it to a regular cigarette lighter plug? I heard bmw uses...
• Re: replaced spark plugs now idle and cruise control problems
  Historical mailing list - phil cain
  Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:49:23 -0800
  If you just changed the plugs and got a problem, you better go back and look closley for what you nocked loose when you...
• Re: Heli-Coil an Engine Oil Drain? / From the Real World
  Historical mailing list - J Roth
  Thu, 21 Jul 2005 09:30:43 -0500
  Just for the archival records and any FYI for a useful location of various plugs & oversize plugs. http://www.cgenterprises.com/drain_plugs_oversize...
• Re: Vanagon starting problem
  Historical mailing list - Scott
  Fri, 12 Aug 2016 13:55:04 -1000
  ...fuel being squirted in ...and 'more fuel than spark combined with old plugs and plug gaps ' ..and you have wet-fouled plugs. at least...
• Wiring Harness Plug Repair
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:14:07 -0700
  ...But today, ran into a snag replacing the 4 wires in the coolant temp sensor plug. Even after removing the little silicone plugs 3...
• Re: Lifespan of Platinum plugs in 2.1L?
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
  Sun, 29 Jun 2003 08:01:51 -0700
  ...Lifespan of Platinum plugs in 2.1L? > > > > My Vanagon runs noticeably better on Bosch +4 Platinum plugs than on > > standard Bosch plugs. I got...
• Re: Oil plug
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:47:11 -0600
  ...There is a guy who sells extended length plugs . > Every water boxer engine should have one of these in it. . The > original plug is...
• Re: Universal inline plug?
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Fri, 24 Jan 2014 17:09:14 -0800
  ...I do have one plug with alligator clips, but it is about >> shot. >> So what're those plugs called, or better a link to...
• oil? leak on #3 (but not quite)
  Historical mailing list - Sean Bartnik
  Mon, 22 Apr 96 15:10:34 EDT
  Hey all, I've recently noticed ('78, 2.0L) what seems to be oil appearing on the cooling air duct around the spark plug...
• Re: Cut you spark plugs
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Thu, 27 Dec 2001 12:29:51 -0600
  ...Splitting the plugs, indexing the plugs, using ventilated > point sets > > checking resistance in spark plug wires, different valve > settings, > > magnetos, capacitor discharge ignition etc...
• Re: Spark Plug Wire Shock
  Historical mailing list - David McNeely
  Sun, 17 May 2020 16:56:25 -0700
  Removing a spark plug wire while the engine is running is a very long standing practice to determine if a cylinder is miss firing...
• Re: removing oil drain plug
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:32:42 -0600
  Speaking of oil plugs........... I need a source for a copper crush gasket or washer that goes under the flange on the plug. The...
• Helicoil question?
  Historical mailing list - Craig Charles
  Tue, 10 Nov 1998 21:03:23 EST
  ...I'm thinking this is the OEM drain plug and that the helicoil necessitated a new larger drain plug with a different thread pitch...
• Re: 87' Vanagon
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 7 Oct 1997 21:33:26 -0700
  >Jack, What plugs did you use? If you used Platinums that's the direction I'd go after. In the years that I've...
• Re: Vanagon Spark Plug Wires
  Historical mailing list - pdooley
  Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:50:43 -0500
  ...Vanagon Spark Plug Wires Just wondering if anyone out there knows of a good source for "performance" spark plug wires for the Vanagon. I...
• Spark plugs
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Fri, 5 Feb 1999 01:06:17 -0800
  Don't work for 'em, but FWIW, NAPA is having a sale on Bosch plugs. $.99 ea with a $.30 rebate for up to...
• Re: 3 probe plugs
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Sat, 1 Jun 2002 11:32:04 -0400
  I just finished an experiment with the 4-prong Bosch plugs and K&N air filter on my '90 Westy. On a 3,100...
• Re: Oil Drain Plug, 1.9 vs. 2.1 ?? Plug removal Success !!!
  Historical mailing list - Joe Glisson
  Sat, 31 May 2003 15:04:10 -0400
  ...They worked perfectly on my totally messed up oil drain plug. I had even tried a chisel on it and it was totally screwed...
• Spark Plug Sockets
  Historical mailing list - Peter Linsley
  Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:27:22 -0700
  ...Anyone know off hand? I want to pick the socket on the way home tonight and I don't have the plug with me...
• Re: Splitfire plugs
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 06 Oct 1995 09:34:59 -0400 (EDT)
  Splitfire plugs??? Worthless as tits on a bull. Ric
• SPARK PLUG WIRE PLACEMENT?
  Historical mailing list - Chris Winesette
  Thu, 2 May 2002 18:55:59 EDT
  which spark plug wire goes to which cylinder.
• Re: Oil plug
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Thu, 11 Jul 2013 17:58:12 -0500
  ...There is a guy who sells extended length plugs . > > Every water boxer engine should have one of these in it. . The > > original plug is...
• Re: Check Compression: Warm or cold engine?
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Mon, 12 May 2003 19:13:12 -0600
  Stan, In my aviation mechanic days, we ALWAYS removed plugs from a hot aluminum cylinder head for a compression check, but NEVER re-installed...
• Jerk made oil plug 5/8 thread - I guess I�m screwed!
  Historical mailing list - Jutta & Christian Knust
  Sun, 3 Jun 2001 17:01:08 +0200
  ...Well, the answer came when the oil plug came out to be an ordinary pipe end plug, with no rim or sealing ring or...
• Oil Drain plug is stripped
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Lincoln
  Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:28:23 -0500
  OK, gang when I changed the oil in Grover 2 weeks ago some of the threads from the drain plug came out with the...
• Oil drain plug problems-Help!
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Sun, 3 May 2015 18:09:45 -0700
  ...Went to do the first oil change on my son�s �87 and found it has an 8mm hex key (Allen wrench) plug that...
• Stripped spark plug threads!!!! (No vanagon)
  Historical mailing list - Captain Ray Nemo
  Thu, 16 Dec 1999 08:18:03 -0800
  ...I tried another plug, no dice. I even bought some new plugs (just praying at that point), still no dice. The plug was otherwise...
• Re: Manual transmission lesson request
  Historical mailing list - Gene P
  Wed, 22 Jun 2022 09:47:36 -0700
  ...I found the drain plug no problem. Where is the fill plug? I’ll probably find it with the next trip under the van...
• Re: Spark plug gap
  Historical mailing list - Holm
  Tue, 7 Mar 2000 17:43:48 -0600
  ...Spark plug gap >Stupid question, maybe. > >In Bentley, it lists the spark plug gap for my 84 1.9L waterleaker as 0.28" >+ 0...
• Re: Spark plug wires - Embarrasment to follow
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:30:18 -0700
  ...Who'd a guessed I would > have plugged the #3 cylinder into the coil plug and visa versa. Believe it > not the van ran...
• Spark plug wire
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Wed, 22 Apr 2015 14:05:59 -0500
  I am in need of a 7mm silicone tiger tail a5 plug lead. I have one of these on my 2.1L WBX because...
• Re: Fresh Water Tank Drain Cap - Non VW replacement source?
  Historical mailing list - Karena Prater
  Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:19:07 -0700
  Bill, this is fantastic -- thanks! We just bought a Westy with a missing drain plug -- I thought it would be easy to order a...
• Re: Cut you sparkplugs
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Madsen
  Thu, 27 Dec 2001 14:03:46 -0500
  Multiple electrode spark plugs do not create multiple sparks. The extra electrodes are there just in case the other ones fail. So in this...
• Re: Oil drain plug now with heli-coil
  Historical mailing list - Joe
  Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:54:39 -0800
  Ben huot wrote: > Same for me, the oil drain plug is somewhat fragile, my van as 140k km and > it was strip for a...
• Re: Rear Heater Core
  Historical mailing list - dennis lockwood
  Sun, 21 Apr 2002 18:53:25 -0700
  FYI, I plugged my hoses with some PVC pipe plugs that I obtained from my local home improvement store. Note that the difference in...
• Re: Spark plug torque
  Historical mailing list - pensioner
  Sun, 26 May 2002 10:12:27 -0700
  ...For all intents and purposes there is no significant force on the plug. Similarly the plug is not designed as a joining device so...
• Oil Drain Plug Removal - unable to remove plug
  Historical mailing list - gary hradek
  Tue, 20 Aug 2002 09:25:45 -0700
  ...Oil Drain Plug Removal - unable to remove plug We currently have a problem with our 88 Vanagon where the local VW mechanic (independent) that...
• Re: Spark plug recommendation?
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:12:16 -0800
  Jay - W7CC0 plugs are hard to find, but Bosch W7CC is an accepted replacement by both Bosch & VW. Some places use the Bosch 4...
• Re: 3 probe plugs
  Historical mailing list - DaveC
  Sat, 1 Jun 2002 10:53:32 -0700
  ...The life of the electrodes is increased by a factor of 3 (for the 3 electrode plugs) because they trade firing duty. As one...
• Final Drive Plug Size--Solved
  Historical mailing list - Bill
  Mon, 4 May 1998 23:03:48 -0600
  Thanks for the overwhelming response to the final drive plug size. It is 17mm. The added bonus was from Mark McCulley, in that, I...
• stripped oil drain plug
  Historical mailing list - gary hradek
  Sat, 28 Jan 2006 12:27:15 -0800
  ...stripped oil drain plug Stripping the oil plug seems to be a common problem so I stopped removing the plug all together. Pumping the...
• Re: Diesel Westy Glow Plug LED
  Historical mailing list - Strano Foreign Car
  Thu, 7 Nov 1996 12:06:38 -0500
  At 02:50 PM 11/5/96 -0600, you wrote: >At 02:37 PM 11/5/96 -0600, Robert Zezoff wrote: >>The glow plug...