[Vwdiesel] Jeff Rakus - and 1989 jetta (turbo?)

H .Hagar h_hagar at prcn.org
Sat Mar 29 14:18:09 EST 2003


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Your scanderhoovian is rusty but I understood ---yes this is where you find=
 some people with lots of hands-on experience.I am a newbie to Rabbits but =
not to diesels. (no not a mechanic).
Where does fixing become playing with ? a Rabbit.  Seems to be more fun tha=
n work to me ----so Hagar is hooked.

My experience here is that Val Christian is good on brake calipers  and Rog=
er Brown is good on glowplugs. and Loren is good on a lot of things. The re=
al expense is dealership help if you are driving older machines . 1982 1.6L=
 NA Rabbit injection pump 5000 dollars canadian.(dealer quote)   ---and on =
and on.So rolling your own is one way to beat the high cost of fixing VW di=
esels.Hagar was grounded last january , with a worn out injection pump   --=
-then I got an Email from Gary Orlando saying that an old 1.5L pump would d=
o the trick.(bingo) that made fools out of the nay sayers.

have fun while you fix and save money.             Hagar
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