Well Sam, I'm operating off of 15 year old info and an insomniac's
lack of sleep, but I seem to remember these plates as being the same
for both gas and diesel inline engines of that era, including the 1.6L
diesels in the Vanagons.  Though, if there were a difference, you
might find that the plates used in the longitudinally placed engines
like the Dasher/Quantum, Audi Fox/4000 and VW Fox would be more akin
to the Vanagon Diesels.

On 1/4/06, Sam Payne <bungeegull@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello random part collectors,
>                I'm looking to buy a used intermediate plate from a diesel
> vanagon (i.e. the stamped sheet metal part which gets sandwiched between
> the transmission and the engine and keeps road crud out of the the clutch
> housing--section 13.23 in my Bentley manual). I will build one from sheet
> metal if I have to, but would prefer to use the stock part (would diesel
> Rabbits use the same part?).
>
>          Please let me know asap--I'm going to be putting the engine in
> the van very soon (Audi 2 liter into a '86 vanagon at 50 degrees)

Casey
Olympia, WA
Biodiesel: "I drive in a persistent vegetative state"
'87 300TD intercooler (211k)
'84 300D (207k)
Gashuffer:
'89 Vanagon Wolfsburg Edition (186K)