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Date:         Wed, 26 Jan 2005 13:01:42 -0500
Reply-To:     Mike Collum <collum@VERIZON.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mike Collum <collum@VERIZON.NET>
Subject:      Re: model year differences?
Comments: To: Roger Sisler <rogersisler2000@YAHOO.COM>

This ought to make it fun.

My '85 Westy has the cast iron lower control arms ... and metal coolant pipes that run under the van. It also has 1 throttle control switch like the later vans instead of the 2 switches found on early 1.9Ls.

Mike

> As the owner of 2 1985 vanagons,I can state some differences between early > and late 85 vanagons. I think the changes were made around november 85. > the late 85 has plastic coolant tubes that fit the 1.9.,but not the 2.1 > (rare?). The late 85 has the cast iorn lower control arm suspension found > in 86 and later vanagons.Since I have both vehicles,I can say that the > later suspension gives a far superior ride.This lower control arm acts > like > a flywheel and stores many of the bumps and shocks rather than transmit > them into the passenger compartment. However,the early sway bar(21mm > verses > the 19mm)is still used in this late 85 vanagon.The early sway bar can be > used in 86-91 vanagons if you change the inner and outter sway bar > bushings > (will this improve drivability?).There are many more small differences > ,but > I cant think of them now.Oh yeah,I think the price went up.


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