Going up a hill north of my house in Phoenix, my Doka droops to around 45
mph.  No surprise there, but I found last spring that if I'm hauling 2500
pounds of sand, it still drops to around 45 mph.

Odd things, those diesels.

Karl Wolz

|-----Original Message-----
|From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
|Jason
|Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 8:50 PM
|To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
|Subject: Re: FS: 5 Speed Diesel Tranny
|
|I used to daily drive a 1.6TD vanagon with stock gearing.  Even with larger
|tires I would bounce it off the rev limiter all day long at 110-115 kph.
|On
|the other hand, it would do that with the car dolly/racecar  in tow as
|well!  :)  Anytime my foot was on the throttle the boost was full on.
|
|Jason Ewing
|
|
|On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <
|scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
|
|> well, they are kinda funny.
|> in a stock diesel vanagon you get to right about 52 mph, and it 'feels'
|and
|> sounds like it's time for the next gear - power drops off, and revs are
|> high........but .....shoot ! 'I've been in 4th gear since about 35 mph !"
|>
|> surely the lowest geared car or van ever sold in the US.
|> and funny thing is ........it doesn't seem to help that much anyway, such
|> low gearing.
|>
|>
|> ----- Original Message -----
|> From: "Jake de Villiers" <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
|> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
|> Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 7:04 PM
|> Subject: Re: FS: 5 Speed Diesel Tranny
|>
|>
|>  That's nicely put Scott - "desperately under-geared".  =)
|>>
|>> On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <
|>> scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
|>>
|>>  that's juss what ah figured.
|>>> I like that................. 'the dreaded DZ.'
|>>>
|>>> I have only seen one DM, it's *slightly* better than the DZ. ,like not
|>>> quite
|>>> so desparately under-geared.  and they never came in Westy's I don't
|>>> think.
|>>>
|>>>
|>>>
|>>> ----- Original Message -----
|>>> From: "mark drillock" <mdrillock@COX.NET>
|>>> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
|>>> Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 4:28 PM
|>>> Subject: Re: FS: 5 Speed Diesel Tranny
|>>>
|>>>
|>>>  You can tell by the shallow ribs on the top of the case that it is not
|a
|>>>
|>>>> DK from an aircooled. It must be a DM or the even more dreaded DZ,
|both
|>>>> 82 diesel versions of the 091 4 speed.
|>>>>
|>>>> Mark
|>>>>
|>>>>
|>>>> Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote:
|>>>>
|>>>>  so the next question is ..........( since I think the ad said 80 to
|82
|>>>>> vanagon transaxle ) ....
|>>>>> is it a DK,
|>>>>> or is it an 82 diesel 4 speed ?
|>>>>> it has the DV bell housing on it , but it doesn't look like a DK to
|me
|>>>>> ,
|>>>>> but DK's are useful.
|>>>>> I suspect it's just an 82 DV 4 speed..........the least desirable of
|>>>>> all
|>>>>> vanagon manual transmissions.
|>>>>>
|>>>>> at the right price..
|>>>>> the Bell Housing and input shaft are valuable.
|>>>>>
|>>>>>
|>>>>>
|>>>>>
|>>
|>> --
|>> Jake
|>>
|>> 1984 Vanagon GL
|>> 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
|>>
|>> Crescent Beach, BC
|>>
|>> www.thebassspa.com
|>> www.crescentbeachguitar.com
|>> http://subyjake.googlepages.com/mydixiedarlin%27
|>>
|>