Karl,

Glad to hear you had an exciting trip, but sad to hear the engine
kicked the bucket. I beleive that it should be possible to make
a reliable and economical powerplant of the 1.9lTD for the Vanagons/
Synchros/Westy's, but it may take a lot of work and collective
experience to get an optimal installation figured out. When/if you do
find out what put the nail in the coffin for your engine please let us
know so we don't have to learn the hard way also.

The turbo hose problems you had are quite common. I use water hose,
because that's the only prebent hose I can easily buy. However, the
compressed intake air gets a lot hotter under full load than water
hose is made to stand, hence they tend to break.

Good luck at getting your bus running again.
/Martin
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Westy 1.9l Turbo Diesel
Quantum 1.6l Turbo Diesel

Martin Jagersand                 email: jag@cs.yale.edu
Computer Science Department             jag@cs.rochester.edu
Yale University

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