On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote: > re > "If this Westy has the original diesel Vanagon > tyranny, you may find the gearing too high. (engine revs higher than > needed. Especially at highway speeds) Something to consider. > > that would be high numerically, but commonly ......when it's revving it's > guts out at 62 mph in top gear .......that's called 'under-geared.' > > too high gearing is when it hasn't got enough beans to pull a gear , > especially a top gear, properly. >
D-oh. Got the part about the tranny backwards. Meant to say gearing might be too low. And "....diesel Vanagon tyranny...." ? Is there such a thing? <grin> Thanks Scott. Neil. -- Neil Nicholson '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco" http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/ http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines |
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