[Vwdiesel] Glow Plug Monitor

[Sandy Cameron]

At 09:56 AM 22/12/04 +0000, you wrote:

>A VW purist sure to be more approving then changing buss bar, adding led's,
Vw timer relay lobotomy, Ford starter relays etc. Although I should practice
what I preach--.
>

MODIFY ! ! !

There is very little in the VW to be commended outside of the diesel engine.

Electrics that rival Lucas for reliability.

I have removed, changed, discarded, modified, almost everything on my 87
jettaTD, back windows no longer work, front doors replaced with manual
winder types, A/C long gone,
switches and leds on dash permitting continuing motion regardless of what
fails in the relay box.

The under carriage seems fairly reliable, with 2 year brake replacement
intervals, front wheel bearings from time to time, but I would mount it on
casters with a single drive wheel to keep it going.

Now close to 500,000km and still drives like a sports car.

Regretably, the lower frame channels are disolving from the outside in. I
wonder if injecting them with urea foam would slow this down?

Bore a big hole at each end, blow warm air through for a day to dry it, then
pack with foam-in-place urea. Might be structurally strong enough to hold it
together after the steel has gone away.

Sandy