Date: Fri, 23 May 97 11:04:05 EDT
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From: jag@cs.rochester.edu
Subject: Re: Gas->Deisel?
>
> Hi, I was given an 81 Vanagon L. I drove it all the way from Mass. to
> south central PA. It's a 2.0L gas motor that seems to have a leak
> between one of the cyl. and the head.The local VW specialist said it
> would be very expensive to repair. It's not a camper or anything, but
> just driving it home we've kind of bonded. :) What I'm wondering is if
> you've ever heard of anyone putting a deisel int a van like that? I just
> got rid of a freebie dasher (79) that had the motor mounted one way, and
> now have a rabbit (81) that looks like it has the same motor, but
> mounted the other way.(valve cover front to back vs. side to side)
> The van is real nice other than the motor problems, but has had the
> entire interior removed and plywood put down from the back of the front
> seat back. I kind of had high hopes of turning it into some type of
> camping vehicle (not sure how equiped). Got any ideas!?
> Thanks for your time. I've really enjoyed your site.
>
> Jim
> jimchamp@innernet.net
>
If you have a diesel engine you need a few things from a diesel
vanagon (check your junk yards):
Bell housing
Oil pan, oil pump (or at least the lower part of the oil pump
with the pickup tube)
The motor mounts and beams.
Transmission (it has different gearing)
I think the easiest swap is to buy the whole engine+driveline
from a crashed Diesel vanagon and swap it as a whole package.
Fixing your gas motor would not be very expensive either if
it's just the head gasket and you do it yourself.
There are several email-lists with VW bus/vanagon owners:
For VW diesel discussion:
vwdiesel@pas.rochester.edu
For Aircooled bus/vanagon:
type2@home.ease.lsoft.com
For watercooled vanagon:
vanagon@lenti.med.umn.edu
The latter may move soon. For subscription information (you need to
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Good luck,
Martin Jagersand
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Martin Jagersand email: jag@cs.rochester.edu
Computer Science Department jag@cs.chalmers.se
University of Rochester
Slow down and visit the VW diesel Westy page:
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