Hi all. I was so excited to hear the Jetta engine run with the exhaust all mounted, (homemade + Walker "Quiet" model Vanagon style muffler.... and 2 custom muffler brackets!) I thought I'd report in about the progress on my conversion. It sounds great! Quite quiet in spite of the shorter exhaust run, idles steady, revs up nicely, though I think the lack of air filter is affecting the mid band sustained RPM's after gunning it from idle...... (the MAF is likely getting too much air flow) but I digress. The filling of the cooling system went very well. I used this ("stolen" from the Samba list): http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=234192&highlight=cooling It worked great. Can't say enough good things about it. It helped as I didn't have enough room to jack up rear of my Westy. The only problem using it (as a newb) was that I filled it too much at the end and when revved up, coolant barfed back up the pipe. Niiiiiice. This is ok, as I consider this a christening of my Westy as a water cooled beast. --- ;^) Figured out the position of heater core hoses. (I had it right the first time but as a former air cooled owner, had no idea how they went in) And....... The heat!!!! REAL heat!!! Distant are the memories of newby camping in eastern WA scampering to find a campsite... at 9 PM ..... late spring.... still some snow on the road higher up and me with no heat desperately "white knuckling it" trying to find the site that wasn't! (actually I found a nice little lake side camp site) Still have to install the gas tank, and wire up the rad fan, heater control cable and a few other niggling details, but things are lookin' good. It starts/restarts after a few turns, the engine sounds fine, clutch engages in all gears, there's no leaks, rad got warm-hot, pressure in system, upper rad hose hotter than the bottom one which warmed up up in due course. All good so far. And did I mention the REAL HEAT? --- ;^) Cheers, Neil.
-- Neil Nicholson '81 JettaWesty "Jaco http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines http://web.mac.com/tubaneil http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/ |
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