AFAIK, the typical VW gas inline engines use a different rod nut, except
for the supercharged Corrado which uses the diesel rod nuts you are
looking for.

Mark

James Felder wrote:
> Good point. I know that the diesel rid bolts are a desirable replacement fir the waterboxer bolts, but I know that the diesel bolts and nuts are a pretty odd size an are very high quality.
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> Does anyone know?
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> Jim
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> On Aug 21, 2011, at 2:06 PM, "pat "<psdooley@verizon.net>  wrote:
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>> Jim, are the diesel cap nuts different than the gas motors?
>> I always read that VW's inline is so stout that not much was changed for the
>> diesel app.
>>