I don't know many details, but there is a guy with a Mercedes diesel in his
vanagon.
He just stripped the teeth off the flywheel, I think he had a vanagon
flywheel on it, 
And that didn't work, and has since adapted to get a proper benz flywheel on
it I think.
Even the four would be huge in there, but they don't have a lot of power, I
think he has a five cylinder in there. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Karl Mullendore
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 9:08 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: diesel Vanagon vs. MB, Volvo, other diesel VW

The blocks on all VW diesels are similar but not exactly the same as the
gassers.

There is one guy on the TDI-Conversion yahoo-group that has successfully
swapped in a Mercedes diesel, not sure if it's a four or five though.
Probably a four, the fives are huge.

Allan Streib wrote:

> OK, I had heard otherwise, not talking about the TDI but the diesels
> they put in the Jettas and Golfs in the '80s and early '90s.  I recall
> hearing or reading that they were fundamentally a gasoline engine
> block that had been converted to diesel.  But, I will admit that I
> can't cite the source of this, nor do I know that it was reliable.
>
> Has anyone ever successfully transplanted an MB diesel into a Vanagon?
> I'd guess they would be too tall.
>
> Allan
>