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Date:         Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:22:50 -0400
Reply-To:     Greg Potts <greg@POTTSFAMILY.CA>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Greg Potts <greg@POTTSFAMILY.CA>
Subject:      Re: Air/wasser swap
Comments: To: Mark Hineline <hineline@OCOTILLOFIELD.NET>
In-Reply-To:  <DC151932-F86F-48BA-8C25-C9A479D81E73@ocotillofield.net>
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Hi Mark,

Leaving the transmission in place, you should be able to swap the engine and cooling system from the donor without much hassle. If you swap the transaxle as well you may need to bring along the shift linkage with it, as there were differences between aircooled and watercooled and diesel setups in that regard.

But if I were you, I'd look for a later model 86-91 donor van with a 2.1L digifant setup. The cooling and FI are better engineered than the 1.9L equivalents.

The diesel vanagon used a different rad than the later models but I am sure you can adapt the cooling hoses to make do, or else swap the rad as well.

Overall, it's MUCH easier to just drop the 2L and repair it; the waterboxer might make more power but it's not without its own demons.

Happy Trails,

Greg Potts Toronto, Ontario Canada 197x Westfakia "Bob the Tomato" 1987 Wolfsburg Weekender Hardtop (ND Graphics graphics wrap) 1988 Wolfsburg Weekender Hardtop (Colleen's ride) Engine conversion blog: http://www.pottsfamily.ca/wordpress/ www.pottsfamily.ca

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IOn 10/27/2011 2:53 PM, Mark Hineline wrote: > I have an '82 that started its life as a diesel but was converted to > aircooled at some point in its life. I have reason to believe it was > in the early '90s. In March, the bolt holding the fan to the > crankshaft sheered off. I managed to drill through the remains of the > bolt, but then broke an ez-out inside (the twist drill kind, not the > square kind). I've been fooling around with this thing for months and > decided to throw in the towel and call a welder. The welder said: drop > the engine and bring it in. He has a machine that will disintegrate > the ez-out. > > So fine. It's drop the engine time. > > I've had nothing but bad luck with these 2.0L aircooled engines. I'm > thinking about swapping in a 1.9 waterboxer. > > Remember, this was a diesel. Everything that was diesel is gone. But > it's also a Westy. Enough said? > > If I pick up a running vanagon with 1.9 engine in it, can I do a > straightforward swap? I assume that I'll replace this and that as I go > along, cooling hoses especially, but otherwise is this pretty much an > unbolt and bolt-in job, front to rear? > > Thanks. > > Mark >

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