[Vwdiesel] Gas to Diesel conversion?

[Harmon Seaver]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 02:47:08AM -0400, LBaird119 at aol.com wrote:
>
> The gauge clusters are different, but that is not too
> > big of a deal.
>
>   The nice thing is that most of the wiring should be there.  :)  Pretty
> much,
> just plug in a diesel cluster and tada!  A1 cluster would just have a glow
> light instead of an oxs and the speedo says diesel fuel only I believe.

   I was helping someone trying to get an '85 Audi 5000 (gasser) running
yesterday. While looking at the relays and fuses, we discovered it had a socket
for the "diesel pre-start glowplug" or somesuch name.

>
> Another issue is inspecting a diesel registered as a gas car. If
> >  they check emissions, then the car will most likely fail.
>
>   That would be an issue without getting information on how to straighten
> that out first!  We don't have inspections here so it wouldn't be a problem.
> It'd sure be tough explaining it to a know-nothing inspector though.
>

   I've lived in 3 states in recent years and none had inspections -- WI, MN,
and AL. I think making a swap would be a legal problem in only a few areas.

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Harmon Seaver
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