Date:         Fri, 16 Aug 2002 21:15:26 -0700
Reply-To:     Jim Arnott <jrasite@EONI.COM>
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From:         Jim Arnott <jrasite@EONI.COM>
Organization: http://WetWesties.org
Subject:      Re: Buying an '82 Vanagon Westfalia
Comments: To: Chris & Kelly DeVoto <devoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
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BTDT. It's sitting in the driveway as I write.  Rabbit Diesel covers a
lot of ground.  In my case, it means a 48bhp, 50lbsft, 1471 cc motor
that makes exactly 53 mph WFO. At the end of a 6 mile flat straight. It
also means that the injection pump may or may not clear the engine
cover.  It further means that you may have a mix of 'fast glow' and
'slow glow' parts.  Too, it may mean that it has the Rabbit intake
manifold which does not clear the body.

As far as how many... all of them. Fortunately, there's only one Vanagon
Diesel starter.

Tread carefully Grasshopper.

The upside is that it will fairly easily accept a 1600 Diesel, a 1900 NA
(naturally aspirated) Diesel (Canadian), a 1600 (Rabbit, Jetta)-2000
(Late model Passat) gas motor. The possibilities are endless...

Jim



Chris & Kelly DeVoto wrote:
> I have a huge favor to ask, and I'm going on blind faith on some of this.
>  I'm going up to Wisconsin in a couple of weeks to pick up the afore
> mentioned '82 Westfalia.  The engine in it now is a diesel, was rebuilt
> about a year ago and was originally out of a Rabbit.  That's all I know
> about the engine.  Here's the kicker, the starter went out a couple of
> months ago and the thing hasn't moved.  My friend who currently owns it is
> the farthest thing from mechanically inclined and knows nothing about it
> mechanically.  Now that I've rattled on here's the question, how many
> different diesel engines would fit the West and a Rabbit?  I don't want to
> go up there armed with 53 different starters, unless I have to, and I don't
> want to wait to get up there to buy the starter because I don't know how
> hard it will be to get.  Anyway any help at all is appreciated, I'm a
> pretty decent mechanic but this will be my first VW experience.  Thanks to
> everyone.
>
> Chris and Kelly DeVoto
> gratefulded@netzero.net
> devoto@worldnet.att.net
>
> "What a long strange trip it's been..."...rh
>
> .
>