Yeah,...
will just work up a diesel vanagon starter powered by compressed air ..
pump a while to build up air pressure ..
fire it off.
   Just need to change the fuel shut off solenoid to something
non-electrical.

convert from alternator with diodes in it to a good ole generator.
that should giverunning lights with no solid state devices involved.

also ..for gasoline..
magneto igntion.  Purely magnets and metal I believe ..nothing solid state.
Early aircraft are like that..
unground mag so there's ignition, spin prop by hand.
you're running .
No battery, noelectronics etc.

if you push start a diesel vanagon ...
the 'one thing' it needs to run is the fuel shut-off solenoid needs to
be re-done so no electricity is needed...
After that..all major mechanical systems are purely mechanical.

as is the case, come to think of it, on early diesel Benz's..
they had a pull knob that turned on fuel I believe..
further pulling made a switch contact to energize the glow plugs.

And oddly ...up until 1975 ..on a 220D ...there are 5 glow plugs in
series ..
4 in the engine,
one in the dash ...when you see that dash thing glowingas you hold the
knob pulled out against spring pressure
you know the engine glow plugs are glowing too.  So crude ..
no electronics though.

scott

On 11/2/2012 6:44 PM, David Beierl wrote:
> At 06:34 PM 11/2/2012, Anthony Egeln wrote:
>> What parts of the vanagon would be toast in an EMP burst, and how
>> could one provide some
>> protection for those parts.
>
> I'm not very knowledgeable here.  Given that, I'd expect ECU, idle
> stab, tach, ignition module on a 1.9l, DOPS board, Westy LED panel,
> GPS, computer, stereo, transistor-driven LEDs, maybe all LEDs, maybe
> ignition coil, maybe alternator.  Depending on strength, maybe other
> stuff.  Best protection - be somewhere else.
>
> If you want to run after an EMP, I suspect your best bet is an
> old-fashioned mechanical-injection hand-cranked diesel.  And don't
> have a pacemaker or defibrillator installed.
>
> Yours,
> David
>