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• 2.1L for sale
  Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
  Fri, 28 Jan 2000 07:06:12 -0600
  ...He is selling the complete 2.1L engine, including, ALL engine electronics, digitool, power steering, ac compressor, alternator, and the engine compartment cooling system...
• Re: Radiator Design
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Fri, 28 Jun 2002 12:39:38 -0400
  ...If the Tiico guy accidentally crossed his hoses in the engine compartment, it would still work, but probably run hot. Jay Ed McLean <email99...
• Re: Screeching when cold
  Historical mailing list - Chris Turner
  Tue, 30 Sep 1997 13:37:58 -0400
  ...engine and the engine is cold, it will idle at about 400 RPMs and a high pitch screech will sound from the engine compartment...
• Re: What can go wrong.....
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 15 May 2017 12:46:17 -0400
  ...I had left a rag in the > engine compartment >
• Re: Automatic Transmission Dipstick Location?
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:44:43 -0600
  In the engine compartment! Driver's side toward the front. How long have you had this van? :-) Larry A. On Sun, Nov 15, 2009...
• Re: No Subject
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 30 Jun 1996 00:44:13 -0400
  ...Cianciolo) writes: << I have a noise from my 1986 Vanagon engine compartment. Upon further investigation I find that the waterpump bearing has a lot...
• Re: Waterpump Blues
  Historical mailing list - Dave Johnson
  Wed, 3 Jul 96 13:54:17 PDT
  ...Cianciolo" <PaulC@esslink.com> > > > >Hello All, > > > >I have a noise from my 1986 Vanagon engine compartment. Upon further > investigation I find that the waterpump...
• Re: Copy of: QUIT BLASTING THE GAS HEATERS!!!!
  Historical mailing list - John Anderson
  Wed, 30 Oct 1996 19:14:26 -0500
  ...I'm not sure if you > could mount the heater in the vanagon engine compartment or not. Anybody > else know? > No way, the BA6...
• Re: Leaking power steering fluid
  Historical mailing list - CanineWolf
  Thu, 26 Feb 1998 20:19:17 EST
  ...YAHOO.COM writes: << Is there a rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr sound coming from the engine compartment, directly proportionate to RPM? If the power steering pump is noisy...
• Isolator, where to put it?
  Historical mailing list - Mitch A.Miller
  Thu, 21 Jan 1999 16:43:18 -0800
  ...extra battery from the isolator (if it were mounted in the engine compartment) is there another place? Any help would be greatly appreciated Mitchell...
• Re: Help Ordering Parts
  Historical mailing list - Larry Hamm
  Fri, 18 Aug 2000 12:14:20 -0600
  Eric Giroux wrote: > But, > > My understanding is that Ken's kit will get you fixed for the engine > compartment only. To do a thorough...
• WTB rear window (AC?) vent
  Historical mailing list - Kevin Davis
  Thu, 5 Apr 2001 21:44:10 -0400
  ...the rear side window, just forward of the vent to the engine compartment. Anyone have a driver's side one they would like to...
• Re: 500W portable computer?
  Historical mailing list - pensioner
  Mon, 10 Mar 2003 17:09:57 -0800
  ...RVC (that 90A alternator is not spec'd for continuous duty at engine compartment temperatures.) p
• Re: Black Box Relay question
  Historical mailing list - John Meeks
  Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:05:24 -0400
  ...On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 2:24 PM, John Meeks <vanagon@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Group ~ > > In the engine compartment right above the...
• Re: bleeder valve
  Historical mailing list - John Lauterbach
  Fri, 21 Apr 2000 14:43:33 -0400
  Matt, if you are talking about the valve between the two big coolant hoses at the front of the engine compartment, nothing drains from...
• Re: sound deadening
  Historical mailing list - Warren.K.Lail-1
  Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:53:01 -0600
  I've always used carpet padding cut in a single large piece that fits from my engine compartment to down under my rear seat...
• Re: 102mph - Turbo vs. -- now 1.8T photo
  Historical mailing list - Paul Guzyk
  Wed, 23 May 2007 07:03:40 -0700
  ...On one conversion I saw they used the area to the right of the engine cover for a slim storage compartment. Stephans shop info...
• Re: Engine choices: 1.9 TD, TDI, or 5 cyl TD? (European...
  Historical mailing list - Gary Shea
  Tue, 4 May 1999 10:02:54 -0600
  ...much complexity you want to add to your engine > compartment. If you replace the engine with a new 1.9l TD (I sell these...
• Engine lid insulation material?
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:04:45 -0700
  Hi all Had some good hot/noisy/smelly "open engine compartment" test drives on my Jetta conversion recently, so am now cutting and tubbing...
• Re: battery in engine compartment
  Historical mailing list - Mark C
  Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:18:55 -0800
  ...battery in engine compartment > > How to start.. > > well all of the Diesel vans put the battery on a shelf in the engine > compartment for...
• Need "obsolete" and rare bleeder for 83.5
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey R
  Mon, 7 Aug 2000 21:32:17 EDT
  ...On the 83.5 it's in the top front left quarter of the engine compartment. It attaches to two small 3/8 inch...
• Fwd: Re: Re: Fwd: Re: gas odor in engine compartment
  Historical mailing list - Mike Riley
  Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:11:18 -0500
  ...gas odor in engine compartment > > > > > > >I have done all that and am still coming up blank. > > > hoses 6 months old > > > new injector seal 6...
• new low milage gas
  Historical mailing list - L.V.Bauer
  Fri, 14 Jun 1996 17:02:01 -0700
  ...The vary reason I'm asking this question, I adverted the dredded engine compartment fire reciently. The carb. was leaking from the float chamber...
• Re: Tiny Drops of Coolant
  Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
  Wed, 20 Nov 1996 08:07:34 -0800
  At 08:42 PM 11/19/96 -0600, bob tickle wrote: >I looked all around the engine compartment and could not find any leaking...
• Re: Air intake "scoops"
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Thu, 16 Dec 1999 01:00:32 +0100
  Paul Schiemer wrote: > Also, a thing to remember about moving air into the engine compartment; it > has to have a place to go afterward...
• Re: 1987 Ground strap question
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Fri, 14 Apr 2000 08:06:49 -0700
  ...Erik Feddersen wrote: > > Hi, > > 1987 non-synchro. > > I have half a braided ground strap connected to the left hand side of > tbe engine compartment...
• Re: fuel pump sanity check, 1990 GL
  Historical mailing list - don spence
  Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:05:35 -0600
  ...There's no water in > the engine compartment, and the distributor is dry. No loose wires. Check the distributor cap for signs of arcing...
• Mystery Wire('81 Westy)
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 27 May 1996 16:42:04 -0700
  Hello all, Whiling away the time cleaning the engine and compartment, I came upon a wire(cable) with a connector that has three pins...
• FS: 78 CA camper
  Historical mailing list - K W
  Fri, 25 Sep 1998 21:42:07 -0700
  ...The engine had no compartment seal, looked greasey. Didn't look at tires. The sign said : original owner bought in Germany 101K last 18...
• Re: fuel pressure test connection size?
  Historical mailing list - Bill Davidson
  Tue, 6 Feb 2001 09:49:42 -0800
  ...I'm thinking of installing a permanent fuel pressure gauge (available at local speed shop) in the engine compartment...... so it seems from the...
• Westy found in Junk yard!! Maryland
  Historical mailing list - Mike Ray
  Thu, 30 May 2002 11:23:19 -0700
  ...while but they didn't make it into the people compartment. Only the engine bay. It also had AC. Stuff doesn't stay there...
• Re: Built-in Fire Extinguishers
  Historical mailing list - Anthony Egeln
  Tue, 17 Jul 2007 06:57:27 -0700
  ...one where you don't have to raise the engine lid to cover the compartment with suppressant. David (dsl82westy) --------------------------------- Never miss an email again...
• Re: Temp Gauge Saga is Worse
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Thu, 13 Jul 2000 22:46:57 -0700
  ...The coolant sender for the gauge is in the engine compartment and is a far more meaningful indication of engine temperature. The engine can...
• Idea for engine-fire warning/control system
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Tue, 3 Aug 2004 23:36:57 +1200
  Someone on the Vanagon.com list asked whether a temperature sensor in the engine compartment would be a good idea. I think so... Install...
• Re: Dan's Diesel Rebuild Part 9
  Historical mailing list - Dan Snow
  Thu, 6 Dec 2001 12:05:21 -0800
  ...I made a sawhorse out of scrap 2X4 boards that straddles the engine compartment in the van. I looped some strong rope around the...
• Re: engine seal/tin holes
  Historical mailing list - William R. Kennedy, NJIT CIAT, 201-596-5648
  Fri, 24 May 1996 09:41:05 EST
  ...throttle, oil tank, ignition, space for induction system, heater ducts, exhaust, engine compartment air seal, vacuum for power brakes, fuel line and return) The...
• Re: how to put out engine fire?
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 15 May 1999 08:50:22 EDT
  ...These are great on fires and when you get done they don't mess up the engine or engine compartment like the chemical exstinguishers...
• Re: fire extinguishers, custom mounts etc
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Thu, 1 Aug 2002 09:23:25 -0400
  ...unit in the engine compartment or some sort of access hole/passage to direct > a hand-held unit at an engine fire. > > Has anyone...
• Re: Looks like Chevy built the first mini-van Syncro!!!!
  Historical mailing list - Stevie Havoc
  Mon, 28 Jul 2003 09:11:33 -0600
  ...Then the rest of the engine compartment with no place > to vent > except the cab? I am reminded of our old Dodge van with...
• Strange sounds...Help!
  Historical mailing list - John Wallace
  Sun, 18 Dec 2005 19:58:14 -0500
  Dear list members, After a round trip to my folks today (120miles) I heard a strange noise from the engine compartment when I rolled...
• Gas heater help, 69 camper
  Historical mailing list - Timothy D.F. Maddox
  Mon, 5 Sep 94 23:52:00 EDT
  ...I pulled the engine and trany and a wire that runs across the front ("front means front") of the engine compartment that connects the...
• Re: Westfalia Noise (Vehicle engineering little VW)
  Historical mailing list - Maher, Steve (SD-MS)
  Thu, 13 Jun 1996 10:37:00 -0700 (PDT)
  ...panel in the van? If not all, which ones? Panels around engine compartment, I would guess? Sheet steel panels in the body? Roof? _______ /\ o...
• Re: Rear hatch vibration Why all vanagon sound alike
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Tue, 13 Apr 2021 16:27:59 -0700
  ...It covers most of the steel area of the rear hatch and > seems > > > to work fairly well at reducing vibration noise and engine > compartment...
• Black Box Relay question
  Historical mailing list - John Meeks
  Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:24:54 -0400
  Hi Group ~ In the engine compartment right above the coil sits the black box with 2 relays inside. Is the Power Supply relay the...
• Re: idle stabilizer
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Wed, 27 May 2009 18:27:31 -0400
  ...Is he right? It's on the left wall of the engine compartment, between the igniter module and the ignition coil. Black or green...
• Gas heater wanted...
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Rosen
  Thu, 5 Oct 1995 18:09:37 -0700 (PDT)
  ...Guess I'm not happy with the potential for conflagration already lurking in my engine compartment -- I need more. If anyone has one (Eber...
• Re: Mystery Hose
  Historical mailing list - Karl M
  Thu, 20 Apr 2000 14:08:33 -0400
  ...Karl M ----- Original Message ----- > Dave Williams wrote: > > > > I was poking around in the engine compartment of my van (87 Syncro GL) and I > > came...
• Having difficulty with the archives...but..my westy won't start...
  Historical mailing list - stu schwartz
  Sun, 10 Sep 2000 22:25:32 -0400
  ...All the electrical stuff works fine...clock didn't stop Key turns and I believe I hear the "vacuum" open in the engine compartment...
• Used parts needed
  Historical mailing list - vw4x4
  Sun, 12 Jan 2003 21:52:15 -0500
  ...from the middle to the engine compartment. 5 - Non syncro air cleanned pipe. This is the thin plastic tube that runs from the air...
• Fuel lines...
  Historical mailing list - David Maurio
  Sat, 19 Jul 2003 17:42:44 -0400
  Where are the fuel lines that I should check? Is it that little "T" like connection toward the rear of the engine compartment? if...
• Re: Update on the New Engine Timing Issue..
  Historical mailing list - Dan Barrett
  Fri, 11 Jun 2004 12:33:09 -0400
  ...the distributor running clockwise as you stand over the engine compartment. Start with the engine at TDC (aligning the case notch with the big...
• Comment on 2.1 WBx vs. 2.2 Sub vs. Tiico (was The problem with TIICO)
  Historical mailing list - John C.
  Fri, 29 Mar 2002 11:09:09 EST
  ...to the front of the engine, so the engine is located where it belongs in the engine compartment. And it wouldn't take up...
• Re: roof top storage / leveling blocks .ramp / fuse block cover / 3rd battery
  Historical mailing list - Mark Belanger
  Thu, 10 May 2018 16:27:48 -0700
  ...Considering placing the starter battery in the engine compartment and > keeping the two batteries under the seats for every thing else I have not...
• Re: Why did this mod increase my fuel economy?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
  Tue, 28 Mar 2000 23:51:18 EST
  ...It has carpet and a bed cushion over the engine compartment. I thought that is one of the reasons why I barely hear any...
• Re: 87 HELP!!!
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Thu, 14 Nov 96 16:26:43 CST
  ...Part >(again I thought) is at top of coolant expansion tank in rear corner of >engine compartment. New part doesn't look like old...
• Re: Radiator hoses in air cooled?
  Historical mailing list - Carrington, Tom
  Thu, 13 Jan 2000 13:48:55 -0500
  ...I traced the hoses back to the engine compartment > where the have fittings that are taped over with electrical tape. What is > going on...
• Ground wire woes
  Historical mailing list - Erin Randolph
  Sun, 8 Aug 2004 23:59:03 -0700
  ...If you are looking down in the engine compartment from the rear of the van...near the top of the passenger side head there...
• Automatic Transmission Coolant Hose
  Historical mailing list - jbange
  Wed, 6 Apr 2005 10:46:11 -0700
  I'm preparing to change out my engine and want to replace all the coolant hoses in the engine compartment (some of them are...
• RE: Oil Splatters in Engine Compartment
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 1 Aug 95 13:52 PDT
  me too! same (1600 DP) engine. It's really confounding. Sometimes I think it's the oil bath air cleaner (the source I mean...
• Re: Clutch slave r+r from bracket: What Works?
  Historical mailing list - John Reynolds
  Fri, 17 Aug 2007 01:48:41 +0000
  ...The rachet is now 2 to 6" above the rear floor of engine compartment. For the bolt, which is facing upwards, the head inside...