Electronic Mail Correspondence Date: 6/11/96 Time: 3:11 PM Subject: Diesel Vanagon/Westi Ref: Saw both Gerry's and Cetin's post regarding diesel vanagons. Summary of my experiences regarding performance and milage - my van is a plain 7 passenger model, and has very consistantly gotten 30+ mpg, in town , on trips, loaded to the max with more stuff and family than any of you might rationaly believe, or unloaded just running around town as well as any/all combinations of the above. The only time I had soot deposits was when the original engine was reaching "end life" and blowby from the cylinders to the crankcase was forcing oil and soot out. A longblock took care of that. Although I have had the van up to 65-70, I'm not comfortable with prolonged running at those revs/output power levels from this small powerplant.
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