Sounds like maybe you have a 'normal' 85 in that it has plastic main coolant
pipes with metal inserts in the ends, and that's what you are looking at -
a stock 85 plastic main coolant pipe/s.

'early 85's' still have the earlier style metal pipes. There's a VIN split
I'm sure.
I've found that if I just tell the parts supplier 'it's a very late 85 with
a 1.9 waterboxer engine' they still 'have a problem'.
But that's what you need....'normal' hoses for a 'normal 85 with 1.9 wbxr.'
Unfortunately that means they have to have two styles of hoses for that one
year only .....
( since 86 is a 2.1 wbxr and whole other layout, that makes 85 a
two-things-fit year.  .......but they had to use up the 6,000 sets of metal
pipes they still had left over from 83 and 84 vanagons with the 1.9 wbxr
somehow ! ) 
Oh ! ....if you say it's an 84 you won't have a problem !!
Scott
www.turbovans.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Jay Brown
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 2:52 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: '85 Coolant Hoses

I just pulled the main coolant hoses off my '85 Westy and noticed that there
is a white plastic covering over the hard coolant tubes thru the firewall.
Is this normal for an '85 1.9L, or is this likely something that the
previous owner hooked up?  I am getting new hoses and want to make sure that
I get the right size.

Thanks in advance,

Jay Brown

'85 Westfalia

'72 Riviera

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