>> Water cooled Vanagons have been available from 1980 on. >> However these were of the diesel variety. >I should have been more specific. My Canadian customer's alleged 1982 >Vanagon is a 1.9L wasserboxer. This I can confirm because I have shipped >him parts for it. >-Ron Salmon > The Bus Depot Ron's right again, the 1.9 waterboxers 60 & 78 hp were delivered in europe from 10/82 (official date), from that date aircooled was history for us. But as carburated engines they didn't pass the smog laws in US, always w/o cat. So you still got the 2.0 aircooled injections until the 1.9 digijets arived (option in europe). Sounds strange, but that's it. Michael Germany, 20 mls from Wolfsburg 58 split 77 westy 2.0 carb 90 caravelle digifant |
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