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• Re: source for spring clamps for fuel lines
  Historical mailing list - Paul Guzyk
  Sun, 11 Dec 2005 10:45:15 -0500
  ...partssystems.com/shop/categorydetail.html?section_id=28 >I'm looking for the spring clamps for replacing my fuel lines in the engine compartment.
• Clear hose from top of air filter box
  Historical mailing list - Wesley Pegden
  Mon, 4 Feb 2008 00:57:36 -0500
  When I was in my engine compartment earlier, I noticed that the clear hose coming off the top of the air filter box was...
• unidentified cylindrical object
  Historical mailing list - Robert Young
  Tue, 6 May 2008 18:27:15 -0700
  ...One line comes from the air filter and the other one goes back into the engine compartment at the right side, under the air...
• Re: CO Adjusting Screw, Throttle Valve Switch Test Light Video etc.
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Wed, 27 Jun 2012 08:58:03 -0500
  Ok, so we are supposed to spray a flammable liquid or a flammable gas into the engine compartment to check for leaks? Isn't...
• Re: Magnets and Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Mon, 31 Jul 2017 11:20:08 +0000
  ...Hi folks,         For some time I had a battle with a led light I wanted mounted over the bed over the engine compartment.  I...
• Re: syncro fuel gauge sender ground
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Fri, 7 Sep 2012 08:11:44 -0700
  ...My best guess so far is that it grounds out (with others) on drivers side of engine compartment. >> >> thanks >> >> alistair >>
• 88 Electrical/ light questions
  Historical mailing list - Paul Dierze
  Wed, 12 May 1999 17:16:47 GMT
  ...Is it the small junction box under the drivers seat or in the engine compartment somewhere? While I'm asking electrical questions: In the...
• Re: Should the fuel pump always run with key on?
  Historical mailing list - Gerald Masar
  Fri, 21 Feb 2003 11:51:21 -0700
  ...There was an official VW recall on some years to replace all of the fuel lines in the engine compartment. Might check with a...
• Re: Volvo B23 (B230) inline 4 in a T3 Syncro
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Sun, 7 Nov 2010 11:19:19 -0800
  ...Some custom work for the tranny adapter, engine mount, coolant pipes, exhaust, etc. Interesting thing is it fits the engine compartment. I've only...
• Re: Does back closet have a floor?
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Mon, 6 Aug 2012 20:54:20 -0700
  ...The stuff in it fell into > the engine compartment when I removed the engine cover! > > > > Stuart > > '85 Westy, lots to do
• Re: Relocating the battery in an '84
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sun, 23 Feb 2003 14:23:34 -0800
  ...it is a good idea to put a battery in the engine compartment. > Cars do it but I saw a Eurovan that had a...
• Re: So thar I was (Engine wouldn't start)
  Historical mailing list - Don Spence
  Thu, 6 Dec 2007 10:38:23 -0700
  ...that any early Honda's had such a button in the engine > compartment, but perhaps a few did.=20 > There is one car with...
• Re: Areas of vacuum in the engine compartment?
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:23:22 -0800
  ...I am thinking that the Sprinter intercooler will be as long as the engine compartment is from front to rear and still leave some...
• Re: strange Clicking Noise from engine compartment (??)
  Historical mailing list - pickle vanagon
  Sat, 12 Jun 2010 22:32:44 -0400
  ...I guess there are some relays against the back of the engine compartment (towards the front of the van) that could possibly be the...
• Re: Reenforced Deluxe splitties (also soundproofing buses)
  Historical mailing list - Maher, Steve (SD-MS)
  Wed, 26 Jul 1995 10:23:00 -0700 (PDT)
  ...I bought two sheets, and used 3M contact cement to fasten it all around the inside of the engine compartment. Some of the cement...
• Re: Good news for 1.9l T-A ECU owners
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 30 Dec 2010 22:52:16 -0500
  ...the engine compartment, subject to lotsa vibration, dust, dirt >and engine room heat. 2.1 ECUs are usually mounted in the passenger >compartment underneath...
• Re: Infrared thermometers
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 23 Sep 2018 20:34:27 -0400
  ...Most everything in my West engine > compartment is matte, or dirty/dusty. Wouldn't that make emissivity > reasonably close to a black body emitter...
• Re: Tencentlife Oil Cooler
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Fri, 8 Apr 2011 13:11:03 -0500
  ...mcneely > > over the instructions with my the engine compartment open in front of me, > and it seemed quite straightforward. Whereas it took Darrel a...
• Re: Hot A/C Wire
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:14:56 -0400
  ...Given engine-compartment temps, VW is violating those limits by fusing a 6 mm^2 wire at 50 amps. Yours, David
• Re: last minute checks
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 13 Jul 1995 12:52:54 -0700
  >Eugene, can you tell me how I can get a hold of one of those Kragen >lights for my engine compartment? Thanks, Jim >-- >James...
• Re: A/C Hoses-Thanks For the Warning!
  Historical mailing list - Carter
  Thu, 13 Aug 1998 20:39:53 -0700
  Pursuant to recent posts, I checked my A/C hoses where they leave the engine compartment for their vertical trip up and found where...
• Re: 89 vanagon burning plastic odor
  Historical mailing list - Gary Kovach
  Mon, 8 Feb 1999 23:29:25 -0500
  ...burning plastic coming from the rear of the van, not the engine > compartment, almost from behind the tire. nothing was found stuck in > there...
• Re: Not starting mistery...
  Historical mailing list - Benjamin Tan
  Wed, 3 Jan 2001 09:47:52 EST
  ...I used an old golf club snaked through the engine compartment. It beats (no pun intended) having to crawl under the vehicle to do...
• Where's Cylinder # 1?
  Historical mailing list - Wognacious
  Sat, 22 Jan 2005 17:12:21 -0800
  ...If I'm standing behind the engine compartment is it the cylinder closest to the rear seat on the passenger side? Bentley doesn't...
• Re: 87 Syncro Westy poltergeist
  Historical mailing list - ERIC ZENO
  Sun, 15 Dec 1996 02:53:18 -0500 (EST)
  ...I simply traced out every wire in the engine compartment from the computer to the engine. Found the temperature sensor not making a connection...
• Re: Considering an engine swap for the past decade, but WBX just keeps going
  Historical mailing list - Rob
  Wed, 26 Nov 2014 16:56:44 -0800
  ...have been there all along and it looks GOOD in the engine compartment! Rob vwrobb@gmail.com vw enthusiast! On Wed, Nov 26, 2014...
• Engine ground straps
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
  Sun, 6 Jun 1999 17:53:13 -0700
  Today I started cleaning up and checking ground straps in the engine compartment, and found that the right side cylinder head did not have...
• RE: 1600 in a 73 - round 2
  Historical mailing list - William R. Kennedy, NJIT CIAT, 201-596-5648
  Tue, 2 Jan 96 18:22:45 EST
  ...to make new engine tin to fit a Type 1 engine lost in the cavern of a Type 4 engine compartment. Not hard. Pop...
• Re: Rear hatch vibration Why all vanagon sound alike
  Historical mailing list - Jim. Felder
  Tue, 13 Apr 2021 17:44:41 -0500
  ...It covers most of the steel area of the rear hatch and seems > > to work fairly well at reducing vibration noise and engine compartment...
• Engine Compartment Fire - Brake Lights Not Working
  Historical mailing list - Christopher Gronski
  Mon, 9 May 2005 10:10:17 -0400
  ...Then I pulled off the rear cushion and opened the engine compartment. It appears as though the main wired leading to the distributor cap...
• Re: Martha's Stroy about Gas Smells
  Historical mailing list - Glen Buhlmann
  Fri, 12 Apr 1996 15:20:47 -0700
  ...and to check: >Remove the round metal cover >on the side wall of the engine compartment near the regulator. >With a full tank, jump...
• Re: Looking for an 86-up instrument cluster w/tach
  Historical mailing list - Skip
  Sun, 2 Feb 2014 18:27:50 +0000
  ...String a wire (16 or 18 gauge is fine) from the Cluster area to your Engine Compartment. Connect the Engine side of the wire...
• Re: was: Valve Adjustment NOW: Hydraulic
  Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
  Thu, 10 Jun 1999 08:27:36 PDT
  ...how many out there have hydraulic valves? There is a >little sticker in my engine compartment that says something along the lines >of "Don...
• Re: Batteries don't die, they get murdered
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:49:49 -0800
  ...Judging from that and the fact that everything else that was supposed to be in the engine compartment was accounted for, we deduced that...
• Re: Computers on board?
  Historical mailing list - ray landers
  Sat, 10 Sep 1994 20:49:34 -0700 (PDT)
  ...fuel injected engines-- VW had a computer they used > for diagnostics and which plugged right into some receptacle in the engine > compartment. That might...
• Re: little green box
  Historical mailing list - Marshall Ruskin
  Sun, 11 Jun 2000 11:50:18 -0500
  >Hi Volks, > >While poking around the engine compartment today a few things caught my >eyes. Any input? > >What is the little green box on...
• Re: Magnets and Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Dug Smith
  Sun, 30 Jul 2017 19:47:58 -0700
  ...the light was handy for folks seeing the back area at night or for night view of the engine compartment. The velcro adhesive refused...
• Re: oh crap! Beeeeep-screeeeeeech-thump-crack. (i flattened a dog)
  Historical mailing list - Bill Davidson
  Wed, 22 Nov 2000 15:22:50 -0800
  ...other than that it's in good shape,i've got > some of the coolant hose in the engine compartment > 'upgraded' to some galvanized...
• Sourcing a few parts...
  Historical mailing list - Marc Perdue
  Sun, 21 Dec 2014 23:27:51 -0500
  ...vents back on, the ones that vent the heat from the engine compartment, two of the plastic clips where the screws attach were missing...
• Re: Air scoops
  Historical mailing list - JRodgers
  Sat, 13 Apr 2013 14:40:29 -0500
  ...In my opinion these do work at getting more cooler air air > to the engine compartment. You can see the temp sensor drop qiuckly...
• Maico $399 respray any good?
  Historical mailing list - Jon Sykes
  Mon, 11 Mar 2002 11:04:26 -0500
  ...Can anyone comment on Maico and the quality of their work? $399 seems pretty cheap? I wonder if they also spray the engine compartment...
• Re: Batteries and solar panels!
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 5 Jul 2015 01:23:28 -0400
  ...For the Westfalia the engine battery box has a screw on gasketed cover and is vented into the wheel well. The aux compartment on...
• Re: Coolant Hoses (was Coolant - What color?)
  Historical mailing list - SyncroHead
  Tue, 9 Dec 1997 02:38:48 EST
  ...worth of hoses in your engine compartment, did you? And I didn't even replace the radiator hoses up front or the hoses to...
• Cooling hoses: generic
  Historical mailing list - Judith Barr/Leo Girard
  Tue, 20 Apr 1999 00:58:37 -0400
  ...worth of hoses in your engine compartment, did you? And I didn't even replace the radiator hoses up front or the hoses to...
• Re: Burnt Vanagon of the Week
  Historical mailing list - Mark Tuovinen
  Sat, 4 Mar 2006 12:07:41 -0900
  ...the entire engine and engine compartment with fuel before the > fireeven starts and then any and everything in the engine > compartment is ablaze > including...
• 911 in 69 westy
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 30 Apr 1996 21:37:22 -0500
  ...require any adaptions? YO>If the engine is too big to fit in the standard engine compartment how YO>hard would it be to...
• Re: 1985 Vanagon 1.9l gas - starter type ?
  Historical mailing list - Wesley Pegden
  Sun, 12 Mar 2006 01:39:24 -0500
  ...battery ground, engine compartment ground (goes to the left of the the compartment), and the transmission ground strap, from the front of the tranny...
• 1984 automatic starter just clicks
  Historical mailing list - VWNut Hawk
  Fri, 17 Jan 2003 09:28:18 -0600
  ...The engine does not turn over. I have checked the electrical connectionals. The smaller red wires that go into the engine compartment are cooroded...
• Re: 2.1 conversion warning-more solution comments
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Fri, 15 Sep 2000 07:54:44 -0700
  ...This would keep the engine compartment temps down and might be enough to keep the engine cool enough. > > Another Option: > > Simply use the 2...
• auto tranny questions
  Historical mailing list - Philip R. Hanlon
  Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:04:33 -0500
  ...As John Anderson mentioned, the torque converter oil seal must be going, because the front of my engine compartment does have a fine coat...
• 93 EV Fuel Line Problem Survey
  Historical mailing list - Richard Golen
  Fri, 10 Sep 1999 10:57:09 -0700
  As many of you know, my EV had an engine fire last weekend. I've since had a close look at the engine compartment...
• Re: Oil Seal Question
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:07:51 -0800
  ...Question is, if the > leaks are small (getting some spray in the engine compartment?) can those > seals have a sudden, complete failure and really...
• Van Dies, Relays clicking...
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 15 Mar 2000 10:49:08 EST
  ...He hears relays clicking several times(like the two in the engine compartment) while he is turning it over. Then cranks it again with...
• Re: So thar I was (Engine wouldn't start)
  Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
  Tue, 4 Dec 2007 18:29:32 -0800
  ...A list member p-mailed and suggested that rain may have entered the engine compartment through the air vent on the side of the...
• Re: Zip Ties Everywhere (& heater hose in place of coolant pipes results)
  Historical mailing list - Captain Ray Nemo
  Sun, 26 Mar 2000 19:27:48 EST
  ...The whole mess of > coolant hoses from the engine compartment to the > radiator is held on by zip-ties. Just did the gas tank...
• PS Hose kit - a cautionary tale
  Historical mailing list - Cecil Eastman
  Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:48:02 +0000
  ...White smoke and loss of power assist ensued, as well as a really gooey engine compartment. So check the length of the low-pressure...
• Coolant hoses for 87 Syncro
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 28 Oct 1996 20:58:35 -0500
  ...worth of hoses in your engine compartment, did you? And I didn't even replace the radiator hoses up front or the hoses to...
• Re: Syncro Tranny Removal Procedure/tips
  Historical mailing list - Stanley, Kerry
  Fri, 24 Dec 1999 13:13:36 -0500
  ...Loosen this coolant ring from the plastic holders so it can droop down into the engine compartment. When I did some coolant work I...
• Re: A/C resuscitation - where to start?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Sat, 30 Jun 2007 22:54:21 -0700
  ...run through the passenger compartment (there's a reason they call that thing a 'firewall'); and while an engine compartment may get hot, it...
• 1987 Westy Fuel Line hoses inside diameters
  Historical mailing list - Arkady Mirvis
  Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:08:40 +0100
  ...All other fuel system hoses in the engine compartment . What material line # 4 , marked ** is made off? Plastic, metal? What purpose the canister mentioned...