Karl, Glad to hear you had an exciting trip, but sad to hear the engine kicked the bucket. I beleive that it should be possible to make a reliable and economical powerplant of the 1.9lTD for the Vanagons/ Synchros/Westy's, but it may take a lot of work and collective experience to get an optimal installation figured out. When/if you do find out what put the nail in the coffin for your engine please let us know so we don't have to learn the hard way also. The turbo hose problems you had are quite common. I use water hose, because that's the only prebent hose I can easily buy. However, the compressed intake air gets a lot hotter under full load than water hose is made to stand, hence they tend to break. Good luck at getting your bus running again. /Martin -- Westy 1.9l Turbo Diesel Quantum 1.6l Turbo Diesel Martin Jagersand email: jag@cs.yale.edu Computer Science Department jag@cs.rochester.edu Yale University Slow down and visit the VW diesel Westy page: WWW: http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/jag/vw ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Please note - During the past 17 years of operation, several gigabytes of
Vanagon mail messages have been archived. Searching the entire collection
will take up to five minutes to complete. Please be patient!
Return to the archives @ gerry.vanagon.com
The vanagon mailing list archives are copyright (c) 1994-2011, and may not be reproduced without the express written permission of the list administrators. Posting messages to this mailing list grants a license to the mailing list administrators to reproduce the message in a compilation, either printed or electronic. All compilations will be not-for-profit, with any excess proceeds going to the Vanagon mailing list.
Any profits from list compilations go exclusively towards the management and operation of the Vanagon mailing list and vanagon mailing list web site.