Hi Steve,
83 and 83 and 1/2 half mean the same thing , as far as waterboxer
vanagons are concerened.
PS was not available, even as an option that year. As I posted the other
day, the bosses  to mount the PS pump bracket  on the right cylinder
head are not drilled and tapped even.
 Pretty clever on ducting the AC forward.....
however, since it was a Westy Camper.............how did that work with
the top up ???
  Maybe you ducted around the side perhaps rather than down the middle.
- yeah, that must be it.

as far as I know, most 85's and later have the Z bed - passenger vanagons.
of course all Westy's have a two-person rear seat that folds out to a
real bed surface.
scott

Steve Cotsford wrote:
> Well, thanks for the insight Guys.
> The camper I used to have was indeed a wolfy as it had the badges on the
> side and I'm pretty sure it did have power steering. It was right at the change
> over to waterboxers and had Digijet injection. I may be remembering the year
> wrongly, perhaps it was 83 1/2. I had the thing for 4 years and I know all
> about  the phosphate free VW coolant so I can assure you it was water cooled.
> Besides,  I replaced the water pump on it. It was a dark brown with a light brown
>  upper half and the poptop was the same light brown colour. Brown dash,
> mirrors  etc, Nice cloth upholstery too, sort of brown and white and the front
> seats  rotated.
> I wish I still had it after seeing what it would be worth today.
> It had a/c in the back and I ducted it up to the front and installed a
> ducting in the front ceiling from a passenger van.
> Anyhow, I think I will be looking round for something definitely with PS as
> I think the effort required when parking would give my wife trouble.
> What years did they have the rear bench that folded down to make a  bed?
> The one I saw yesterday had a folding rear bench but it  folded forward. It was
> actually an 83 I believe.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Steve
>
>
> In a message dated 6/7/2008 1:44:39 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> syncro@GMAIL.COM writes:
>
> On  6/6/08, Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@turbovans.com>  wrote:
>
>> I'm sure some models, like Woofy Westies only  game with PS. - an 84 is
>> like that I believe.
>>
>
>
> I have an  late production 84 NON-Wolfy with powersteering. I was pleasantly
> surprised  to find that out
> two years after buying the van. Apparently not all Wolfies  got them
> either. My buddy just acquired
> an 84 Wolfy which does not have  PS. We could find no trace that it ever had
> PS.
>
> PS was on all 2.1  wbxr engineded- Vanagons  and Syncro's from 86 and up.
>
>>  scott
>>
>
>
> This would be on US spec Vanagon only. My 89 Syncro has no  PS. My 88
> Canadian 2.1 had no PS.
> Have an 85 German Syncro -- no PS  there. In Japan they called some T4's
> Vanagons so you can't
> argue on the  basis of the name "Vanagon". I don't think they were ever
> called that in  Europe or  RSA.
>
>
>
> BenT
>
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