On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@hotmail.com>wrote:

> Sounds like they drive to hard, too fast, for too long.
>

  "Too fast"??? In a diesel Vanagon?  Impossible!   The one I drove in, you
could have put a cinderblock on the Go Pedal and been just fine, probably
never got over 50mph.   My 57yr old S.O. passed us as we drove it up a 7%
grade, floored.....she was on her bicycle!  She's a strong rider, but
passing a motor vehicle, going uphill?..

  I realize, from my reading of course, that some of the other diesel VW
motors do have to be driven with care because they can be blown up, but the
normally aspirated 1.6 diesels I have been around...rabbits and caddys and
vanagons...those seem like you just floor em and sit back...get there
eventually....My 36hp 1957 splitty bus was a lot faster....but it blew up
every few years...

  Oh well...sounds like a candidate for a gas inline transplant
there...grin.
  Don Hanson