I don't care so much about the power steering, but now that my van is in
very good shape I keep noodling on the idea of installing that Behr under
dash unit boxed up in my shed.

Jim

On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 2:53 PM Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@hotmail.com>
wrote:

> I have a customer with the 1.6 turbo motor. It goes OK although 70 really
> seems to be an upper limit and it takes time to get it there. They have
> travelled cross country and they love the fuel economy. For myself I would
> rather pay more for fuel, enjoy the quieter ride and have AC and power
> steering. I'm spoiled.
>
> Dennis
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
> Of Roy Nicholl
> Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2016 9:53 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: new guy
>
> Ken,
>
> You put a turbo on that 1.6 … actually on the JX version of the 1.6 and it
> was just fine - some might argue better than the higher-revving 1.9TD(i)
> engines - in a fully loaded westy.
>
> I would like to try and put the 2.5l TDi from the 1996 - 2005 LT into a
> Westy.
>
> Roy
>
>
> > On 27-Aug-2016, at 15:58, kenneth wilford (Van-Again) <
> kenwilfy@COMCAST.NET> wrote:
> >
> > I grew up with VW diesels.  My first car was a sweet 82 Diesel Caddy
> > (Rabbit Pickup).  After that I owned diesel Rabbits, Golfs, Jetta
> > pretty much exclusively until mid 20s.  I bought my first Vanagon
> > which was an 85 1.9l waterboxer but I really wanted a 1.6l diesel
> > Vanagon.  They were rare even back in the late 90s.  After working on
> > Vanagons and driving them daily for about 3 or 4 years a customer came
> > by with a diesel Westy with a recently rebuilt engine.  I was excited!
> > Now I was finally going to get my favorite engine in a Vanagon.  I
> > just had to drive it down my street to realize that while the 1.6l was
> > great in a small, light car, it stunk in a large, heavy, van.  It was
> > scary to pull out into traffic at the end my street and there really
> > is no traffic here.  I thought maybe it was just that van, but since
> > then I have owned a few and worked on several here at the shop.  I
> > have one customer who bought his new and keeps it pristine and treats it
> really nice.  The 1.6l powerplant is just too weak in the van.
> > You can't keep up with modern highway traffic (65-70 mph), the engine
> > is being pushed to it's limits all the time so they don't have the
> > long life they have in the cars.  I would never recommend a 1.6l
> > diesel Vanagon to any person.  If you want to do a conversion and put
> > a TDI in there, that is a whole other story.  There are circumstances
> > where that might make sense and you have the power comparable to the
> waterboxer with more torque.
> >
> > It's just my opinion but I really wanted to like them and instead I
> > came to almost hate them.
> >
> > Ken
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 27, 2016, 2:12 PM Karl Mullendore
> > <tdiguru@westyventures.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> In a heartbeat. Although preferably the factory JX turbodiesel that
> >> should have been sold here. Great success in Europe, but I guess the
> >> US buyers weren't quite 'ready' for diesels. The beauty is that every
> >> inline gas/diesel 4-cyl VW engine from 1974-1999 will bolt in when
> >> the original 1.6NA expires, which is hastened most times by heavy
> >> right feet and impatient drivers.
> >>
>