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Cool, thanks for the suggestions. Maybe I'll give Giles a call and see what he thinks about the pump he sold me.

Hi everybody! I'm looking for suggestions on what injection pump to use with JX 1.6 turbo engine in my '82 westy. I'm running it now w/o turbo. It has a N/A pump that I sent to Giles for rebuild and hotrodding last year. It runs great but I want to put the turbo back on for a little more push. I don...

Hi, I have an 82 diesel vanagon that's eating glow plugs. I got this van about a year ago with a dead engine. I found a used rabbit 1.6 D engine for it and got it rolling again. It was starting hard so I put new glow plugs and relay in it and it started great after that. After about 6 months or 3000...

thanks guys, i'll see what I can track down.

Hi, I recently did a complete engine swap in my '82. Its another 1.6 na similar to the one I took out. I have gotten it going and put just a few miles on it so far. One thing I notice is that when I shut it down, the column of fuel in the line slowly creeps back from the IP to the filter until its n...

Hey thanks for the reply/info. Ever hear of such a scenario being limited to the oil pump? I might be trying too hard to remain in denial here but was thinking that since my oil pressure does eventually seem reasonable and considering it probably has straight 30 in it now, maybe I would be lucky eno...

Hello, I recently got my hands on an '82 Vanagon Westy Diesel and could use a little advice. I've never owned a vw diesel before this one but do have a basic understanding of engines in general. One frightfull thing that I noticed right away was that the oil pressure light on the dash stays on for w...