Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 13:54:51 -0800
Reply-To: Scott Daniel <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Organization: Cosmic Reminders
Subject: Re: High beams not working-lighting upgrades!
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You may want a somewhat worn engine for that Mark ...to make pull-rope
starting easier.
I'm about to pull a perfect 1.6 diesel candidate engine for that
too...worn out to the perfect degree. Fires right up.
( solar powered glow plugs perhaps ? )
My first VW and VW Van had crank starting through the rear sheet metal
to the crank pulley bolt. There were two ears on the bolt the crank
handle to engage with. I don't think VW sell taht special crank pulley
bolt for vanagons.
That was a 56 VW Bus, Commerical with side doors on both side, 36 hp
engine originally.
I might have even started my 40 hp 1200 that way once.
not quite fridae ..so can't say much more.
I was very impressed to see a heavy duty lifeboat with a diesel engine
once ..
and starting was by compressed air.
You operated a long lever back and forth 50 times or so until air
pressure was built up in a tank.
Neat .....the only external energy needed was muscle power ...applied in
small amounts many times.
Think what that would do for the general population's physical fitness
and reduction in fossile fuel consumtion !~
"oh heck ...it takes 9 minutes of pumping to get enough air pressure
to fire my car up ..
perhaps I don't need to go to the store right now."
Content seems to have wandered a long way from the subject line.
Nicely bright and sunny in southern oregon right now.
Scott
On 11/21/2013 12:36 PM, mark drillock wrote:
> Yes, they don't need many electrons to run but diesel Vanagons are
> pretty hard to start by hand. Maybe a rope around the crank pulley would
> do it? They do have an extra belt grove on the outer edge of the crank
> pulley, maybe I can cut a notch for the knot in the end of a rope and
> give it a try.
>
> Mark
>
> Angus Gordon wrote:
>> Modern cars tend to use electric fuel pumps and fuel injection so you
>> need some electrons anyway. If you want to ditch the ignition system,
>> buy a diesel.
>>
>> Angus
>>
>>
>>
>> On Nov 21, 2013, at 2:52 PM, JRodgers <jrodgers113@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>
>>> Airplanes do - why not cars?? LOL! Well, actually - nowadays there is a
>>> lock on the master switch in many of them. Plus cars don run on
>>> magnetos
>>> which do not require external power to operate in the same way a
>>> distributor does.
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>> On 11/21/2013 11:58 AM, mark drillock wrote:
>>>> Do you want an additional manual switch that could be switched on with
>>>> the key out?
>>
>