Test drove a diesel to gas conversion while in CA. In principle it is not
a difficult process of swapping the diesel for an inline 4 cyl Rabbit
engine (this seems to be the best way to go). Unfortunately the one I saw
was a mess, did not start and a had faulty clutch take up which made
driving difficult. I believe soemthing called an "idler" later broke on
the poor soul who bought the thing. DC

Joel Walker writes:
> 
> On Tue, 10 Jan 95 14:12:45 CST Dave Kautz said:
> > A friend of mine is curious about converting a diesel Vanagon to gasoline
> > power. Hasn't somebody on the list done this? Is there some info in the
> > archives? Same friend is also curious about turbocharger kits for the diesel.
> 
> for anyone who is interested, i have a couple of magazine articles about this
> and for the price of an email message (be sure to include your address and
> zip code, boys and girls!), i'll mail you a copy of them.
> 
> as to the turbocharger, there was a fellow who wrote a couple of articles in
> the VWCOA Autoist about doing just that ... he loved it, but it was a bit of
> a headache for his mechanic, as the manufacturer of the kit hadn't really
> intended it to be used on vw buses. he finally got it all sorted out, though.
> what about the possibility of taking a turbo diesel engine from a jetta??
> might it not fit?
> 
> joel
> 

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