Hello, Bob and welcome back. I was wondering how your conversion was
holding up when I saw the post from you forwarded to the list. Your web
page from 2 years ago inspired me to do a similar conversion to my 82
Westy. I put a new 1994 Jetta 1.9TD motor into it and have been driving
it for a few months. I changed the tranny to a DK(air-cooled, 4.57 rp)
and I am running 215/75/15 tires. It pulls these tall gears just fine
and gets about 25 MPG if I keep it under 70. I took it to Southern
Mexico and just returned after 5000 miles, never even opening the engine
cover. I used 1 quart per 2000 miles, acceptable but I hope for even
better with more break in. What are you using for oil? My next big
project may be converting my 82 to a Syncro drive train. The one gearing
improvement I think I could use is the Syncro granny gear as now first
is a little tall when starting on a steep hill. I may just put a Syncro
tranny in but I hope to put the Syncro front suspension in also.

Mark Drillock

"bob (by way of Ron 'Coyote' Lussier)" wrote:
>
> Coyote,
> I've been off the list for quite a while now but miss everyone and
> wanted to give you guys an update on the 82 westy diesel I converted to
> a 1.9l TD. After putting about 18k miles on it, it just gets stronger
> and better. Mileage also improved from an original of 22.5mpg to a
> current 25 mpg. It originally used about a qt of oil every 1k miles. Now
> the rings have seated and uses none. An interesting point however, I
> bought a 2000 Golf TDI and VW won't let you change the break in oil for
> at least 5k miles. Perhaps I shouldn't have changed the oil so
> frequently when I was breaking in the Westy...
> In any event, Hello to all and if anyone wants to get ahold of me, I can
> be reached at: bajatrvlr@aol.com. I think I bunged up the return address
> on this server to bypass spam.
> Thanks,
>
> Bob Bellanca