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Subject:Water Cooled, was Re: Temp II sensor o-ring confusion
From:Marc Perdue
Date:Sun, 26 Jan 2003 21:07:02 -0500

I think you've been down in that Texas sun way too long.  Why don't you
bring that air-cooled Westy of yours up here to the frozen north and see why
wasserboxers are the real thing?  Yeah, we got heat, oh yeah!  :^)

Cheers,
Marc

Stan Wilder wrote:

> 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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