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Subject:AW: Buying an '82 Vanagon Westfalia
From:Robert Keezer
Date:Fri, 16 Aug 2002 23:42:55 -0700

Part number 068 911 023 M Vanagon Diesel Starter.  
After removing the starter try to run it off a battery- it could be something other than the starter that's bad. Careful, it has a lot of torque and can easily jump away from you while testing it with jumper cables.

Robert K
1982 Westfalia (formerly Diesel)

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Von: Chris & Kelly DeVoto
Gesendet: Friday, August 16, 2002 7:50 PM
An: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Betreff: Buying an '82 Vanagon Westfalia

I have a huge favor to ask, and I'm going on blind faith on some of this.
I'm going up to Wisconsin in a couple of weeks to pick up the afore
mentioned '82 Westfalia.  The engine in it now is a diesel, was rebuilt
about a year ago and was originally out of a Rabbit.  That's all I know
about the engine.  Here's the kicker, the starter went out a couple of
months ago and the thing hasn't moved.  My friend who currently owns it is
the farthest thing from mechanically inclined and knows nothing about it
mechanically.  Now that I've rattled on here's the question, how many
different diesel engines would fit the West and a Rabbit?  I don't want to
go up there armed with 53 different starters, unless I have to, and I don't
want to wait to get up there to buy the starter because I don't know how
hard it will be to get.  Anyway any help at all is appreciated, I'm a
pretty decent mechanic but this will be my first VW experience.  Thanks to
everyone.

Chris and Kelly DeVoto
gratefulded@netzero.net
devoto@worldnet.att.net

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