Salut Benny,  You have a great friggin' site! Awesome! Thanks!

I am a FROG from the old country.  I grew up in Citroen van down by the river.....No that is not funny Ok,

I consider myself a quasi (that is Latin but used comonly in French for "almost") competent mechanic and understand the dark side of our beloved vans.

I can translate anything written in technical French to readable English. With the great pictures on Benny's place that should really make it easy.

I have notice that you Canadiens use a slightly different word than the French for some engine components and probably other car parts.
Example:
 Can French "gasket de tetes"  
 Froggy French "Joint de Cullasse"  not close at all

Go figure they've got a different word for everything! said Bill Murray
 
I did grow up working with my dad for 15 years in his VW repair shop. He cussed in French so I know those words too.  "Zut" is a mild word.

I am here for you and this list.  Let me know what you would like me to translate or redact.

By the way, if you do read French there is a great resource similar to Bentley from the group ETAI.  There is a maintenance book on the Diesel Vanagons and one on the Air/Water cooled.
Sorry no Syncro.  There is one also for the Eurovan and EV Diesel. These can be found under the Technical Reveiws or "Revue Techniques".  I would bet that there is something like this in German too.
http://www.etai.fr/go_to.asp?go_m=pas&go_s=3

Cheers,
Joel Cort
89 Syncro Westy
Rochester NY
Westies at Watkins 

----- Original Message ----
From: Benny boy <huotb@VIDEOTRON.CA>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Sent: Wednesday, March 7, 2007 8:51:18 AM
Subject: If you could read French

I spent 2 days on that page:
http://www.benplace.com/conversions.htm

Because i was tired explaining all the differences between
stock/rebuilt/semi rebuilt engine and conversions (2 that i like).

If anyone here is fully bilingual and want to translate this page i would
gladly make it available in English, but i'm to tired to do so now. I think
it as good tech info overall on one page.

I still use MS FrontPage to edit my page so most people have FP, i could
easily shoot you the Html

Anyway, let me know.

Ben

 
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