Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 16:46:43 -0700
Reply-To: mark drillock <mdrillock@COX.NET>
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From: mark drillock <mdrillock@COX.NET>
Subject: Re: Conversion Choices
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I have quite a bit of experience with diesel Vanagons, my family having
owned about 10 of them and my having swapped motors in all of those at
least once, some 3 or 4 times. I have a bunch of complete DV engines
sitting here on carts. I move them around way too much.
Merely weighing the various parts doesn't take into account their
lateral distances from the crank center line when installed. The engine
assembly is way off balance to the left. As I said I don't know how the
overall vehicle balance is affected since the heavy battery and other
items are on the right. I don't consider it much of a problem either way.
Mark
Robert Keezer wrote:
> 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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