FWIW, I found that all the cooling parts from an '85 donor bolted up
to my air cooled '81. Except for.......

the heater core.

As per Mark Drillock's comment, if your Westy has the air cooled box
behind dash (very unlikely), assuming it has the fresh air fan, a
heater core will fit, but you need to make foot heat flaps.

(my page on air cooled box mods I did):
http://sites.google.com/site/tubaneil2/heatercoreinstallmods   The
water cooled box would be the way to go obviously.

Likely I'm the only human on earth to have installed his long steel
coolant pipes in reverse (L/R orientation) but I'd suggest having a
look at pics of how the pipes should be positioned. Suffice it say,
they should be the opposite of what I did:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-hm8YdVc3plA/SqHZ_TIyKrI/AAAAAAAABYI/dQkbEmoDBMM/s720/LongBrakeLinePlug.jpg

Of course if the WBX engine were in place, my guess is that it would
"dictate" pipe orientations.

If not present or get lost, clip nuts (my term) for the lower rad
bracket should be available at your local FLAPS. Pic of lower rad
bracket and fasteners:

http://tinyurl.com/5vta9oj

I have also installed a WBX transmission + linkage and am happy with that swap.

Hope that helps.

Neil.

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Mark Hineline
<hineline@ocotillofield.net> wrote:
> I have an '82 that started its life as a diesel but was converted to
> aircooled at some point in its life. I have reason to believe it was
> in the early '90s. In March, the bolt holding the fan to the
> crankshaft sheered off. I managed to drill through the remains of the
> bolt, but then broke an ez-out inside (the twist drill kind, not the
> square kind). I've been fooling around with this thing for months and
> decided to throw in the towel and call a welder. The welder said: drop
> the engine and bring it in. He has a machine that will disintegrate
> the ez-out.
>
> So fine. It's drop the engine time.
>
> I've had nothing but bad luck with these 2.0L aircooled engines. I'm
> thinking about swapping in a 1.9 waterboxer.
>
> Remember, this was a diesel. Everything that was diesel is gone. But
> it's also a Westy. Enough said?
>
> If I pick up a running vanagon with 1.9 engine in it, can I do a
> straightforward swap? I assume that I'll replace this and that as I go
> along, cooling hoses especially, but otherwise is this pretty much an
> unbolt and bolt-in job, front to rear?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Mark
>

-- 
Neil n

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