Hi TIICONAUTS,
I don't pretend to have any answers here but do have my own experience with
this conversion. I bought my current ride with 2400 miles on the 2000 Jetta,
fresh-out-of-the-box engine in it. Ed Rogers of Vee Dub Service in Ogden, UT
did the installation. In business 30 years and he has done his own
conversion into a Syncro van. He has now done 8 or 9.
The ONLY problem with mine was that it still had the interior
rumble/resonance when the tach got to about 3K, then would stop when it got
to about 4200 rpm. The fix was the snorkel in the left D pillar. That
symptom is entirely gone.
I have NO broken exhaust parts, no vibration problems but DO have what I
call a bearing noise that gets amplified by the crummy TIICO bracket that
acts like a drum. When I put a stethoscope (long handle socket wrench) on
the bracket, it is louder than putting it on any other part on the engine or
components attached to the bracket. I believe putting on the brackets I have
for the PS, alternator and AC would eliminate this, but have not done it so
I don't really know.
Just my $0.02
Bob Stevens
'87 Syncro Westy
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Cromwell" <tortugasmarinas@YAHOO.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 7:31 AM
Subject: Re: vibrating TIICO engine

> Among a bunch of more serious problems I had with my TIICO
> before giving up at 17k was the one where I had to have the CAT welded
> seven different times where it broke off, that was corrected by
> having a trio of "L" brackets welded on it. We ended up removing
> the AC compressor and re-bending the bracket Matthew correctly
> refers to as "junk". It helped a little. This engine is seriously flawed.
> I do remember a thread a year or so ago in which a lot of advice
> was given which should now be in the archives. Basically the advice is
> what
> Matthew said, go to the corresponding VW Golf brackets.
> Dave Cromwell
> '82 Westy 1.9 diesel "la ballena azul"
>
>
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