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Date:         Tue, 10 Jan 95 17:44:06 EST
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         dcarment@ccs.carleton.ca (David Carment)
Subject:      Re: Diesel to Gas conversion

Test drove a diesel to gas conversion while in CA. In principle it is not a difficult process of swapping the diesel for an inline 4 cyl Rabbit engine (this seems to be the best way to go). Unfortunately the one I saw was a mess, did not start and a had faulty clutch take up which made driving difficult. I believe soemthing called an "idler" later broke on the poor soul who bought the thing. DC

Joel Walker writes: > > On Tue, 10 Jan 95 14:12:45 CST Dave Kautz said: > > A friend of mine is curious about converting a diesel Vanagon to gasoline > > power. Hasn't somebody on the list done this? Is there some info in the > > archives? Same friend is also curious about turbocharger kits for the diesel. > > for anyone who is interested, i have a couple of magazine articles about this > and for the price of an email message (be sure to include your address and > zip code, boys and girls!), i'll mail you a copy of them. > > as to the turbocharger, there was a fellow who wrote a couple of articles in > the VWCOA Autoist about doing just that ... he loved it, but it was a bit of > a headache for his mechanic, as the manufacturer of the kit hadn't really > intended it to be used on vw buses. he finally got it all sorted out, though. > what about the possibility of taking a turbo diesel engine from a jetta?? > might it not fit? > > joel >

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