Where you be?
Carbs in California is the kiss of death. You will not get it through the
CARB inspection.
All US vanagons had FI. (as far as I know).

Parts is pretty easy. No worse than your 83 (watercooled I suspect?).
Perhaps even easier as the 83 1/2 was kinda a one off in the cooling system.

Of course if it is carbed, you can pull a FI system from a junkyard bus and
learn the real ins and outs of the injection system!

Worse case, you can take many interior parts off and make your 83 a 'hardtop
westy'.

tim o'brien (seeing stars)
81 Westy (lump)
83 AC 7Pass
84 Hardtop Westy weekly driver

>Hi all- just a few quick questions, regarding aircooled vanagons.
>  I have a chance to pick up an 82 westie cheap(really cheap) how bad are
>these to work on? Supposedly it had a new motor put in it 4 yrs ago, but
>the
>couldnt get it to run right. Owner says mechanic told him something was
>wrong
>with the carb(?)
>Were the aircooleds carborated? I thought it would be a digi-jet!
>I am going to look at it tomorrow-- Does this sound like something i should
>mess with? How is parts availability for these??
>Thanks for your help
>brian
>83 urabus
>maybe 82 aircooled???

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