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Date:   Sat, 23 Oct 2004 17:51:55 +1300
Reply-To:   Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
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From:   Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject:   Re: Air cooled diesel Vanagons
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>Are the diesel engines from the early '80s based > > on a Type 4 gas engine?

No, they are Golf engines. VW never produced an aircooled diesel, though a prototype diesel Beetle engine WAS made in the 60s, and someone in the States has made a replica, converting a gas Bug engine to diesel.

You COULD try converting a Type 4 engine to diesel, but it'd be abig job, and with a 3-mainbearing crank I doubt it would last very long (flexing under compression loads) would chew-out the center bearing.

>Are there other things besides the fuel injection > > that would need to be retrofitted into another car to make this work?

-- Andrew Grebneff Dunedin New Zealand Fossil preparator <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut


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