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Hey Team Spatula!

Was there ever a final resolution to this issue?

Cheers,
Avo

p.s. thanks for the camper conversion pics!

Woo-Hoo! We have first fire! As could have been expected, a hot block and well maintained glow plugs did the trick. Two hours on the block heater, hotwiring the glow plugs for 12 seconds, then turning it over with the throttle wide open ( as posited by coke, elsewhere iirc) snd the cold start cable ...

Oddly enough, when I hook up my idiot light to the oil pressure switch on the oil cooler, it doesn't ground and light up, even though I can ground to the switch using the battery. Must be too much resistance to light it up compared to what the stock sender would send, but that's surprising given the...

Finished body work with the help of a friend, at least in the "welding and grinding" and structural aspects. Still need to do beauty work. Installed the new Kennedy high torque starter. Got engine to turn over but not start. Turned on the block heater for a half an hour and afterwards it s...

I hope to post the tale of converting my 1971 VW Camper over to a turbo diesel here. We'll see how much I post... I've been considering this conversion since ~2000. In the winter of 2004/2005 I found a donor engine on thesamba.com: a 1984 Jetta TD with 276k miles on it for ~$350 or so. Strong runner...

I'm fairly certain that the check valve is just above this piece, connected by a 2" (5 cm) piece of hose, so unless it's redundant, I think I'd probably go with your first assessment that it's there to limit oil flow. But wouldn't oil only get out of the top of the pump if the diaphram were to ...

If this is the rotor style vacuum pump (the small canister style) instead of the large drum style diaphram style pump, the honeycomb material is likely to try to keep oil separated from the air that moves through this line. I believe some people have had issues with oil getting into the brake boost...

Greetings all, In pulling the brake booster hose off my 1.6TD, I seem to have broken the plastic piece that goes through the top plate of the vacuum pump. The piece appears to just be an air port, but has a weird, white-honeycomb (ceramic) innard. Is there a source for a new one of these? Or am I sa...

Excellent. Thanks!

Is the blue wire that comes out with the two charging wires the infamous "W" terminal, or just the connection to the idiot light on the dash?

I'm looking for the bracket that is attached to the vehicle which the coolant expansion tank mounts in.

This is for a 1.6TD from an 1984 Jetta.

Greetings all! I'm a complete noob to the world of diesels, but I'm up to my elbows in a conversion project, so I'm quickly learning. One thing I am trying to figure out is in examining the wiring into the back of my alternator, I see that the charging and idiot light (I believe) wires go into a plu...