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Bottleworks wrote: "When you opened the water drain on the filter, it sucked air in instead of draining? If yes... Sounds like you have a clogged fuel filter or an obstruction in the fuel line or fuel tank." Maybe. I have a marine primer bulb in the return line and it has a really hard tim...

I completed my Vanagon to TD conversion in the spring. I've been driving it all summer with no problems. Injectors rebuilt with new nozzles, engine reringed, all new bearings, new glow plugs. Today I started it fine then after about three seconds it started to run rough like the cold start was not p...

"Although it is possible to sleep in the back, the height of the roof could cause claustrophobia."

He should've cut down a westy.

In my 83.5 wbx, the electrical connection box in directly in the path of the route through the firewall that libbybapa suggested. I made a 2" ABS u-bend with a short length of pipe to a cone style filter just above the cam cover, all still in the engine compartment. I put some ABS tees to conne...

I've just returned from a 1000 mi trip. About half way through, I noticed a trail of drips in a parking lot which led directly under my engine. Diesel fuel! Back at the campground I found it was leaking pretty bad from the plunger measuring bolt hole on the IP. I tightened it up a bit and it started...

I think I know what it is. The other day I was pulling away after starting it in my driveway. As I accelerated gently, the engine coughed a bit and so I let up on the throttle. It was fine after that. The other two times when it stalled, I was accelerating after startup. A minute later it started an...

Bump. I just took it out of town to a bluegrass festival. No problems. Rides really nice, good power. EGT 600-700 cruising at 60mph, 1400+ if I really give 'er on a hill, but only for a couple of seconds. What's with that "no compression" I experienced a couple of times in the previous pos...

This morning I backed out of the driveway and as I pulled up the road in first gear the van kind of popped and stalled. When I turned the starter the engine spun abnormally fast like the valves weren't opening at all. I waited a few minutes and then started it normally. Lots of blue smoke. No proble...

In an effort to find a good welder I had the guy at the muffler shop weld a 3 in extension onto my transmission mount. He did a great job and for free too since I had already gotten an estimate from him for the exhaust. When I tried to jack the transmission higher, I found that the shift rod interfe...

Well two months down the road now and all four plugs are burnt out. Autolite. Don't pay 10 cents for them! I relaced them with, (tearing my hair out in anticipation,) four used plugs. Two bosch, two unknown, but not Autolite. So, for the record, do all VW TDs use the same plugs, and are they fast or...

I'm in the process of trying to raise the front of the transmission to level out the oil pan. Michael, you mentioned in another post raising it 3-4in. While there is clearance to raise the transmission that high, the frame cross member that the transmission mount bolts to interferes with the shift l...

Would over-advance cause poorer fuel economy, or is it just my heavy foot?

Johann

More info... I timed the pump with the dial indicator to 1.00mm. It would start only with the cold start lever pushed in. If I pulled it out and cranked, the car would buck like it was too for advanced and trying to run backwards, against the starter motor. When it started, with the cable in it woul...

I put four new plugs in my AAZ in March. It started great until about two weeks ago when it got really hard. Now it won't start at all unless I spray the dreaded quickstart. I pulled two plugas that showed infinite resistance. They are Autolite plugs. One has this strange swollen appearance and they...

I currently have a k24 on there. Although all advice was to use the k03 that i also have, I had already rebuilt the k24 and the k03 is quite stiff to turn by hand. When I have time to rebuild the k03 and can find a flange or aaz downpipe to splice the exhaust to I'll swap it over. I'm glad to hear t...