Hey guys,

Yesterday My brother took off all my belts, and we ran the engine up to the
vibration zone.  Today, at Matthew's suggestion, we took off all the belts,
and ran it briefly up to the RPMs that had been giving me trouble, and no
vibration!!!!!!!!!  NO VIBRATIONS!!!!!!!!!!  Yea!!!!!!!!!  Anyway, I was
very relieved that it was not the actual engine causing the problem.  Some
of you are familier with my nagging problems.  Anyway, it has been vibrating
something fierce for the last 5 months, with the last month being the worst.
We kept loosing the bolts off the compressor.  The compressor bracket was
also twisting under the pull of the belts.  The last straw happened when it
left me on Hyw. 34 at 1:00am.  The locktight held, but the vibrations
snapped my new bolts.  Broke the Compressor bracket in four places also!
Yikes!  I had it welded back together, and dropped it at my brother Steves
shop where I wouldn't be tempted to drive it anymore!  Matthew found a
Jetta/Golf belt set up for me, and hopefully I can get it installed in the
Rastafalia next weekend.  We head to Florida in less than a month!  We will
also get to attend Everybus in NC on the fourth of April!  We just happen to
be driving by on the first night of the event, and will need a place to camp
for the evening anyway.  Fate is an interesting thing isn't it.  : )

Julianna
90 VW Vanagon Westfalia-Tiico Conversion (The Rastafalia)
76  VW Automatic Bay Westfalia  (Pea Pod) Soon to be going home with Brent
and Laura!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Ensing" <Kjmmensing@AOL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: vanagon with ticco engine/vibrations

> Remember the steel "brick" in the front bumper of the diesel Rabbits?
Maybe
> you can start playing with counter balancing that resonance.?
> Jeff
>