At 12:42 PM 6/1/96, RON SALMON wrote: >I am in the process of trying to put an '82 Vanagon 2L motor in a >'76 bus. I expected to do a lot of changing over - fan shroud, >alternator, etc. - but one thing I did not expect is that the bus & >Vanagon heater boxes seem completely incompatable. In other words, >the Vanagon heater boxes won't fit the bus, and the bus heater >boxes won't bolt to the Vanagon motor's heads. Has anyone done >this installation before? What is my solution? What other >problems should I expect trying to make this Vanagon motor work in >the bus? Unfortunately , the solution is to use the '76 heads. Other than that, everything should work fine. My '73 bus engine is a hybrid - '72 case, '73 fan housing, '74 heads (two right heads!), '81 engine internals (pistons, liners, hydraulic lifters, cam, pushrods). A true mutt, and I luv it. :) Oh, I suppose you could use the '81 exhaust on the '76, but that might not be an option for you.
-David ============================================================================ David Schwarze '73 VW Safare Custom Camper (Da Boat) Dallas, Texas, USA '73 Capri GT 2800 (Da Beast) e-mail: ddes@anet-dfw.com '87 Mustang Lx 5.0 (13.986@100.81) http://www.anet-dfw.com/~ddes '93 Weber WG-50 (Da Piano) ============================================================================
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