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Subject:Re: Exploded views and parts lists
From:SDF ( Scott Daniel Foss )
Date:Fri, 24 Jan 2014 19:04:32 -0800

it's pretty good.
I looked for a syncro vanagon part that many parts places would have
trouble getting right.

it's the single contact screw-in Temp Sensor for the temo gauge ..
any year syncro vanagon ( I just used 1987 ) ..
syncro's have aluminum thermostat housings...not the plastic one 2WD 2.1
wbxr vanagons have ..
and their gauge sensor is screw-in,
not push in a hole with an o-ring and then insert a clip like 2WD 2.1
wbxr vanagons have.

if anyone wants to..
see if you can find an aluminum Syncro Vanagon with 2.1 wbxr engine
t-stat housing,
and then the screw in singe contact sensor for the gauge.

so far I don't see it.
and then ....I see a diesel engine and a wbxr engine shown in the same
diagram ..
trying to get t-stat housings and sensors for more than one type of
engine, in one picture.

Still ...pretty useful overall.

what ! no Mercedes ?? what's up with that !

jim Lahey,   Sunnyvale Trailer Park

On 1/24/2014 4:44 PM, Dick Wong wrote:
> This may be an old topic.  Just stumbled across this.
>
> www.partsbase.org
>
> Pick your brand and drill down to the part you are looking for.  Also shows
> alternate/option parts.
>
> -Dick-
> 78 Scirocco
> 87 Vanagon Syncro
> 12 Golf TDI
>