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Subject:Re: parting out '82 diesel vanagon.. want to put a inline 4 gas or diesel in ur van?
From:neil N
Date:Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:12:26 -0800

I thought the same. It seems like linkage only But near the end of the
thread, he mentions keeping the pan etc. for his van. There is also
mention of a diesel starter.

Maybe he has the engine supports too?

And googling area code 609 gives me New Jersey. (says the Canuck --- ;^)

Neil.

On 1/17/08, Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
> That's not what it is, if I'm reading the right ad.
> It's a diesel 4 speed trans with linkage.
> i.e. not that useful.
> He confuses it with 'convert your.....'
> Etc.
> Believe me, if you had an auto trans in a vanagon, you sure would not want
> to put in a diesel 4 speed and linkage !
> For a person who has that set up already, a spare might be nice. He doesn't
> say where the **** it is, except there's a phone area code. Might be Canada.
>
> Scott
> www.turbovans.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> JordanVw@AOL.COM
> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 9:58 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: parting out '82 diesel vanagon.. want to put a inline 4 gas or
> diesel in ur van?
>
> for those who are lookin for the diesel setup to convert your waterboxer
> into
> a inline 4cyl gas or diesel...  this guy is parting out a '82 diesel
> vanagon...(manual trans diesel bellhousing, motor mounts, etc, etc)  $450
> for it all..
>
> not mine, just a heads up..  heres the link:
>
> http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=3618015
>
>
> **************
> Start the year
> off right.  Easy ways to stay in shape.
>
> http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489
>

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