> >valve adjustments pretty often? My Diesel has now 150,000 km > >and I had no need for valve adjustments. I would not say any > >wrong, but there should be hydraulic lifters. > > COMMENT: I believe that later VW diesels had hydraulic lifters. Too late for Vanagon, > though. > Too late in the US, but diesel Vanagon continued indefinitely? in Europe, hence probably recieved the hydraulics in '86? Anyway round why would you want one save to put a gas engine in. Of course Ron's Parts imports them new 1.9l diesels with the D port heads, supposed to be pretty snappy in Golf GTD conversions, might almost make that diesel Westy and appealing sort of thing. Anybody try this yet? John vwbus@netbiz.net
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