All the NA Diesel Vanagons had a factory placed sticker on the engine
that read "Not Suitable for AC Installation". If the Diesel had so much
torque, then why do all VW Diesel vehicles have ridiculous low gears?

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
Of TJ Hannink
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 8:48 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Diesel Vanagon Questions

On Fri, 30 May 2003 16:49:35 -0700, Rex Merriweather
<hihorn@DSLEXTREME.COM> wrote:

> Has anyone tried installing AC on a 1.6 diesel
> vanagon? How about with a turbo from a Jetta. Logic
> tells me that the "High Torque" VW diesel engine
> should find it easy to run the AC. With a turbo
> added I could see some cooling issues but, with all
> the heavey duty coolers on the market, why wouldn't
> this work.

There is article on this very subject in the lists
file archive, see the link that follows:
<http://gerry.vanagon.com/files/articles/turbo-diesel-aftermarket-kit-in
stallation-with-ac.txt>

Good luck,

=====
TJ Hannink
Goldibox - 1987 Vanagon Camper, Wolfsburg Edition
Winter Park, Florida
http://home.earthlink.net/~tjhannink/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wolfsburg_campers
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