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My 1982 Vanagon 1.6L Diesel started acting strange, so I decided to check the compression. The front most injector well was found to be eroded substantially by the injector and down to 200 psi while the two pistons at the other end of the head were at 475psi with the other one 400psi. I bought a new...

The engine is in my Vanagon. I actually repacked the CV joints a few months ago. The shuttering happens when I am not moving or moving. It is kind of shaking sideways as if I am running the engine at to low RPM for a second or two.

If I let off the fuel quickly the engine shutters a bit driving me nuts. I don't remember it doing this in the distant past. I thought maybe the oil pressure was dropping too low. I changed the oil and filter and bought an oil pressure gage that screwed into one of the extra pressure switches on the...

Engine: 1900cc NA diesel four speed tranny. A couple of months ago, one night I noticed it was hard to put it into first gear. That seemed to gradually get worse off and on, so I replaced both the master and slave cylinders thinking that one was getting bad. It took some time to finally get all the ...

Actually, my valve cover looks very similar to the one on the old 1.6L NA engine. It is a nice shiny stamped sheet metal part. It has four holes along each long side of the cover and a metal piece that sits on the edges under the nuts where the studs are to insure that it is seated uniformly along e...

My 1.9L NA engine in my Vanagon had a bit of oil leakage. The valve cover was leaking a bit, so when I ordered a new starter, I also ordered a one piece rubber valve cover gasket which I installed. The next time I checked oil I was down almost a quart. I traced it to the valve cover which allowed oi...

Today, I put in a new starter (I am now sore). It was not very easy getting the lip of the starter past the bracket that holds the clutch hydraulic cylinder. I used the marine bulp pump to prime the pump, and she started right up. One thing that really helped was the speed of rotation of the new pum...

Today, I bought a marine bulb pump (per Josh's suggestion) and put it between the fuel filter and the injector pump. It moved fuel pretty well. My starter also gave up today, so, when it stops raining, I will need to take it out (not very easy to do when you have to lay on the street with the back o...

I have now inserted Tygon tubing (clear) between the injectors and up to the pump. The main hose from the fuel filter is also clear tubing. I have also noted that the injector nearer the front of the car seems to be wet around the bottom whenever I look at it. A neighbor just happened to have a bran...

Continuing saga: Lately, the car starts different depending on the phase of the moon. Even when the temperature was warm outside I had to try and start it about 8 times. Eventually it will start. I have the best success when I do not pull out the advance, and push the pedal down to the floor and wai...

I found a belt number online for the old 1.6L NA engine I used to have: Continental 068109119E which would be good to verify for others. What is the the 1.6L belt length and number of teeth? But I can't seem to find the belt length, number of teeth and part number of the 1.9L NA engine that I now ha...

Today, I measured the voltage drop between the relay end of the 50 amp fuse and the first glow plug (which is tied to the other glow plugs). The voltage before I energized the glow plugs was 12.6V and during the 7 seconds that the glow plugs were on the voltage varied from about 0.62V to 0.66V which...

When I timed it, after I put the rebuilt pump back in, I put a large box end wrench to turn the engine forward and backward. It was not too hard to turn eitherway, except when a piston was at max compression. It did hurt the fingers after awhile. It never felt loose. The nut is a little rusty now, s...

I have never heard of that. If the pulley has moved since I set the cam and timing, then If I check it all over again I should see that. If the pulley was moved prior to me setting everything, then it shouldn't matter as long as it does not move since then. Now the crankshaft is tied directly to the...

HISTORY: I bought the van new in Feb 1983. It came with the 1.6 NA Diesel, which always started instantly for years. Then the California additive to the Diesel fuel made my valve stems smaller in diameter and one valve head broke off and got rammed into the head! I had it rebuilt, but after a year i...