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You're probably right, Steve, but just for grins next time you put it in, slide a box-cutter knife blade fragment between the starter and bell housing before you tighten it down.

sorry, forgot courtesy protocol: 82 Vanagon, 1.9 naturally aspirated diesel, DK transmission.

I had similar trouble getting a new starrter to work on my diesel vanagon. After installation, it turned the engine the first time I tried it, but afterward only spun noisily but didn't turn the engine. Took it out and tested it, bendix and motor worked fine outside bellhousing. Put it back in, same...

Thank you for your response. It's a 1.9 liter VW diesel, naturally aspirated rather than turbocharged. I gather from reading that an engine like it has been used in Seat cars. My engine is an ADG, which is actually an industrial version. I suppose it might have been intended to run a pump or some si...

I have been lent a dial guage to precisely tme my 1.9 NA. I'm told the deflection on the 1.9 TD is 8.7, but can't locate that spec for the 1.9 NA. Anyone have it?

gramp

I recently found a DK transmission from junked vehicle and replaced the DX that I had been using with 1.9 NA in '82 vanagon. Huge improvement. former top end was 63. Now a bit above 70, and 65n feels relaxed. A bit slower to get there, but not too bad. No trouble at all to install it. I'm getting be...

Thanks, Stopping.

I retrieved a link off a junker and installed it. Amazing the difference in handling and steering with that bar moored at both ends. There's also a bushing at the base of that link that rusts away. Will need to get a better replacement for that also.

Right, my vanagon, and I presume all of them, has coil springs all around. It also has a thick torsion bar across the front that ties the right and left sides together, to damp vertical motion. When I was a kid we called them sway bars or anti-sway bars, Bentley calls it a torsion bar...whatever you...

The steel link that fastens the end of the torsion bar to the front suspension, driver's side, snapped off. My question is, since I can't see any way to slide that part of, with its rubber isolator, off the torsion bar, is it necessary to replace the torsion bar and the links as an assembly? Or is i...