From what I was told by one of my German military suppliers is that the
1.6L TD wasn't NATO spec due to the turbo so a 1.7D was built
instead.� I have never seen a 1.7D in a civilian van, only the 1.6TD,
but every military T3 I have seen is either the 50hp 1.6D or the 70hp?
1.7D

David Marshall
VW Adventure Driver and BMW Adventure
Rider
 
http://www.hasenwerk.ca

On Thu, February 12,
2009 12:24, Evan Martin wrote:
> 
>>  In 87 a special
1.7 diesel only used in Vanagons was added to
>> replace the
very first 1.6 that was used in all the cars too.
> 
> 
> I always had it in my head that there had been a 1.7 T3 but assumed
it was
> the 1.7 T2 lodged in my memory.
> 
> I
was thinking about it and although I don't have the brochure, I'm
pretty
> sure the petrol 1.8 I4 was introduced in South Africa in
alongside the 2.1
> WBX in 1990 as an less expensive alternative
to the 2.1; the 2.6(?) I5
> came
> along in 1992 with the
discontinuation of the 2.1.
> 
> Legend always had it that
VWSA had built prototype I5 T3's long before
> 1990
> (the
I5 being common to the also locally-produced Audi 100) but could
>
never
> get the go-ahead from Wolfsburg.
>