Date:         Sun, 2 Sep 2012 16:28:09 -0700
Reply-To:     Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Conversion Choices
Comments: To: mark drillock <mdrillock@cox.net>
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I just spent an hour today weighing it all and the Diesel engine doesn't have any extreme left side weight problem that I can tell.. Way-off balance? Has this been a problem I never knew for 17 years til now?

I have all the loose components an weighed them all.

Cylinder head weighs about 33 lbs, intake manifold 10 lbs, exhaust about 12 lbs. 
Thats about 55 lbs left of the crank shaft.

 These parts I just weighed together that are to the right of the centerline:
Oil pan, oil filter mount, oil filter, oil cooler, water pump, alternator, alternator bracket,oil filler tube, aluminum engine mount, bonded rubber mount, right carrier bar-It weighs 47 lbs.

Sure, the longblock with nothing on it is right-heavy-but the additional weight on the right counterbalances it .
As for the engine compartment or the rear vanagon weight distribution, a 35-40 lb battery , the battery box, the expansion tank, coolant and engine oil balance maybe over balance the passenger right side.

Robert

1982 Westfalia




--- On Sun, 9/2/12, mark drillock <mdrillock@cox.net> wrote:

From: mark drillock <mdrillock@cox.net>
Subject: Re: Conversion Choices
To: "Robert Keezer" <warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM>
Cc: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Sunday, September 2, 2012, 3:50 PM

It is no illusion. The inline 4 engine is way off balance to the left when mounted in the diesel position. The left side is much heavier. That said the diesel vans put the battery back there in the far right corner of the engine compartment so that compensates for the left leaning engine. How perfectly I can't say.

Mark

Robert Keezer wrote:
> I have never considered the engine balance  in thestock Vanagon Diesel  compartment as nothing about it looks unbalanced, except mine does, as it has a Jetta intake manifold that reaches the left firewall.But I think it's just an illusion.
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