Date:         Sat, 17 Aug 2002 13:54:17 -0500
Reply-To:     Harmon Seaver <hseaver@CYBERSHAMANIX.COM>
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From:         Harmon Seaver <hseaver@CYBERSHAMANIX.COM>
Subject:      Re: Buying an '82 Vanagon Westfalia
Comments: To: David Brodbeck <gull@CYBERSPACE.ORG>
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   I had a '78 diesel Rabbit which badly needed new glow plugs, wouldn't start
at all when cold, but we just parked on a hill and rollstarted it. Which worked
pretty well, and it didn't need much of a hill either.


On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 01:04:47PM -0400, David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Matthew Libby wrote:
>
> > Is it a manual, cause then you dont need no stinkin starter.
>
> I push-started a friend's Dasher Diesel several times while the engine was
> hot.  I don't know as I'd want to try it with a cold engine, though,
> especially an unknown one that hadn't run in a while.  If the injector
> lines have been off since it last ran you might have to push a long time.
> ;)
>
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