No, I do not have power steering, nor air conditioning. It's
an 83, the very first generation watercooled vanagon in USA.
But it has a California Somg system in it, if that makes a
difference.

David

--- On Thu, 2/19/09, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:

> From: David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: Replace 1.9 with a 2.1 WBX
> To: dtkao0205@yahoo.com
> Cc: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009, 8:51 PM
> At 11:44 PM 2/19/2009, David Kao wrote:

> If you have power steering and can do without it...the pump
> sucks up a surprising amount of power.  Ken Wilford wrote
> quite a while ago about his surprise at the difference in
> pick-up with and without.
>
>
> -- David Beierl - Providence RI USA --
> http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
> '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage," '85 GL
> "Poor Relation"