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Some wasserboxers were plagued by water jacket gasket failures (often erroneously referred to as head gaskets) due to several design issues. Engine failure was also a result of poorly placed sensors, corrosion in the cooling system, often caused by using phosphated coolant, and many areas were
386:(Transporter T3 / Caravelle / Vanagon / T25), having never been used in any other vehicle. Volkswagen contracted Oettinger to develop a six-cylinder version of this engine. Volkswagen decided not to use it, but Oettinger sold a 506:, which is a very different design as compared to most engines. The top of the cylinder liners is pressed into a recessed cut-out in the cylinder heads, that are sealed with compressible metal rings, to prevent leakage. 359: 525:, produced in Brazil until 2013, was changed to water-cooled engines on 23 December 2005 in response to Brazil's emission laws; the power plant used in the previous-generation T2 was an 1014: 1266: 1261: 928: 503: 1007: 1271: 1256: 1251: 1000: 450:. The entire mechanism is internal to the engine, so there should be no concerns regarding wear or replacements, as long as the 32: 1114: 90: 513:
The switch to water-cooling for the boxer engines was made mid-year in 1982, because Volkswagen could no longer make the
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90 bhp in USA and Canada; also used until the end of Vanagon importation into the USA and Canada in 1991
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via a small steel gear on the crankshaft, and a large aluminium one on the camshaft, so there is no
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The wasserboxer, as with all Volkswagen boxer engines, directly drives the three-bearing
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Digijet (Digital-Jetronic) fuel injection, vane-type air flow meter
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version of the 1.9-litre, both variants sharing the same
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