Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 12:52:35 EST
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From: Michael Avrea <Vanadiesel@AOL.COM>
Subject: Questioning 1.9TD Swap?? (New info)
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Hi all and thanks for those who responded to my previous posts on this
subject!
I was all but decided on going for the swap to the 1.9TD when I ran across
this post on the VW water-cooled newsgroup. Has anyone else heard or
experenced this problem with the TD? I'll include my previous post after this
for those who have not followed this thread.
Thanks,
Michael Avrea
82 1.6 Diesel Westy
Ventura, California USA
>>Subject: Re: Cooling system on Turbo Diesel Transporter
From: " Hees" <chees@wiesbaden-online.de>
Date: 2/3/99 2:02 PM Pacific Standard Time
Message-id: <79ah1e$pa5$1@news.rhein-zeitung.DE>
Hi David,
as Vlad Hachinski wrote: check your head-gasket.
Normally the the gasket -or even worse- the head itself is the reason for
the bubbling water in the reservoir.
Not the cooling system but the engine is an error for the bus/vanagon.
I had to change my cars head too and so i had to learn that there are not so
many turbo-diesel transporters that cross the 100.000km/60.000miles-border
without a new head!
(The price for a brandnew head with valves and camshaft and so on
("plug-and-play") is about 1100.-DEM plus taxes (16%).
If you are able to understand German you should have a look to the following
web-sites:
http://home.t-online.de/home/t3-aktuell which is a special site for the
T3-Transporters or -for any VW-Bus
http://homes.rhein-zeitung.de/~dstiegel with an interesting summary of
links, or , in English:
http://www.vanagon.com.
Hope, you don't have to change the head, even you cars one.
Bye Christoph<<
>>In my previous post I wrote:
Hi all,
My 82 Diesel Westy with 75k on it is about to spew it's last blast of
smoke. I've somewhat settled on going to one of the gas inline vw engines. I'm
looking for input on things to conceder, which engine to use etc... My budget
is tight so I don't think it will afford going to a big enough diesel engine
(1.9 TD) to make me happy. I don't want another 1.6 it's just to slow! I'm
figuring on a used one. I'm not a mechanic so I will be paying for the labor @
$12 per hour. I will be doing the leg work.
In another posting following the one above I stated I had decided to
make the switch to an inline VW engine and was looking for input on which
engine and transmission would make the most sense. Yesterday I bought a 89
wrecked Golf (front end damage but engine OK) with only 48,000 miles and in
very good shape cosmetically except for the wrecked front end. I only paid
$500 dollars as the owner just wanted to get rid of it.
So I bring it home and have my mechanic over to check it out and now
he wants
the car! He says it's a shame to take the engine out of it as he could fix the
damage himself and have a nice low miles car. He also says that the engine in
that car will be some work getting set up in my Westy as it has the Digifant
fuel injection system. It is the 1.8 RV engine rated at 100hp @ 5400rpm.
He has connections in Germany and has been looking for a used 1.9TD
for me
but up till now hasn't come up with one. Will now he tells me he has and it is
low mileage and he just so happens to be going there (Germany) in about a
week. He says he'll get the 1.9TD for me and make some sort of a trade for the
Golf roughly straight across the board.
Either way I'll have him do the swap as he works very reasonable ($12
hr), is
trustworthy and knows his stuff. He worked for VW in Germany as a line
supervisor for 30 years. What would you do???<<
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