[Vwdiesel] Timming loaner kit

[82 Diesel Westy]

Kind of nutty with the front and back of the cam
having timing belts or drive belts.  I am sure it is a
very simple motor and lots of low end torque, my 79
5000S had tons of that and only 5 pistons.

Sounds fun, but lots of work as anything is like this.
Sounds like you have to flip a coin as to how the
motor will be then.

Bryan

--- LBaird119 at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 1/11/2007 1:30:38 AM Pacific
> Standard Time, 
> toensing at wildblue.net writes:
> 
> > 1)Volvo, during the early '80s when they imported
> diesels to the USA, used 
> > VW 6 cylinder truck diesel engines.   2) I heard,
> but don't know how true 
> > this was, that these VW truck diesels needed an
> overhaul about every 130,000 
> > miles or 200,000 kilometers. For my own knowledge,
> I would like to know how true 
> > my info is as to the longevity of these engines.
> > 
> 
>   It's just a 6 cylinder version of the Audi 5
> cylinder engine.  
> I've seen both go "bores out of spec" in under 100K
> miles and 
> I've heard of 250K miles with no problems.  
>   I found one I can HAVE if I want it.  About 200K
> miles, blown 
> head gasket.  He tore it down and has a lot of extra
> body parts 
> and such and THINKS he has all the head parts in the
> basement.
> Looks in good shape, just don't really NEED another
> car.  Hard to 
> resist though!
>     Loren
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