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Subject:Re: Temp II sensor o-ring confusion
From:Stan Wilder
Date:Sun, 26 Jan 2003 19:17:53 -0600

You Wasserboxer guys are everywhere now-a-days.
I'm taking that as a personal warning not to reply to anything that
doesn't say Air Cooled or something else to tell me its a real VW.

Stan Wilder
83 Air Cooled Westfalia

On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 19:29:48 -0500 Marc Perdue <marcperdue@ADELPHIA.NET>
writes:
> Dang it, Stan, you ought to know by now that I drive an '87
> water-actually-cooled, water-actually-warmed-in-winter Westy!  Of
> course, I
> should'a mentioned that I suppose . . .  My family used to have one
> of them
> air-cooled monsters . . . a '62.  Drove it up Tehachapi Pass at 25
> mph with 8
> miles of cars behind us . . . burned up two sets of valves in two
> years . . .
> pretty much worthless POS . . .  Funny how now that 21-window deluxe
> microbus
> would be worth a small fortune . . .
>
> Now, where's that asbestos underwear?
> Marc
>
> Stan Wilder wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to figure out what you guys are talking about.
> > If it is a Type IV FI Air Cooled Engine in a Vanagon it just
> screws into
> > a threaded port in the head that is a blind hole.
> > Absolutely no chance for a leak since there is no flow of anything
> or
> > pressure from anything at that port.
> > That goes hand in hand with it being the Cylinder Head Temp sensor
> that
> > goes in the drivers side head.
> > I'm also not familiar with any Temp II sensor, just a Temp
> sensor.
> > I'm thinking that you guys are discussing some weirdo sender /
> sensor for
> > a water pisser.
> >
> > Stan Wilder
>
>

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