Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 13:40:51 +0200 (SAT)
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From: Wouter de Waal <wrm@aztec.co.za>
Subject: Dunno, really :-)
Hi there everyone
I get the digest, and I'm catching up 'cause I fell behind, which is a
terrible thing to do with the kind of volume of email I get (VintagVW,
Vanagon, Porsche)
SO:
Martha, great borscht recipe <chuckle>
Eric, yes I can use a Type IV FI engine, but if you thought
California was far away...
Somebody wanted to know about 5 cylinder syncros in South Africa. Yes
that's what we have, the Audi engine gets a modified bell housing to the
engine (aftermarket guys either get this bell housing or use an adaptor
plate) This setup can adapt either the older 2.2l carb engines or the
newer 2.5i engines to the transmission, syncros too. So right now there
are two different engines available, the 1800 Golf/Jetta/Rabbit engine
(entry level) and the 2.5. Panel vans get (I think) only the 1800 and
Syncros/Caravelles only the 2.5
My speedo on the Puma was reading wrong too. So I matched speed with my
wife (In her car :-) and checked my indicated speed when she was doing
100 km/h. Now here comes the kludge. Disassemble the speedo, hold the
little cup thing still with the needle pointing at whatever your
incorrectly indicated speed was, then move (bend?) the needle to indicate
the correct speed. (make sense?) Well now my speedo is correct at two
points, 0 and 100 :-)
And I sorted out the strange vibrations I had at 2000 rpm, by dropping
the engine & transmission, and fitting the transmission the right way
(Fingers & eyes crossed, full moon at 12 noon, sacrificed a black goat
the previous evening ... :)
THOM! I just remembered, _this_ is actually what I wanted to say (hope
you're still with me.... My alpha test 6V->12V converter is charging a
3.6ah gell cell right now. Seems to deliver around 1A max, and hasn't
blown up yet :) (This is for an alarm for a friends 6V Karmann Ghia, the
alarm also gets some surgery, but it'll work...)
Wouter
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