[Vwdiesel] Replies to Taygan & Shepherd, recient posts

[Terry Briggs]

ahh .... you need a molex connecter release tool. try searching for 
that, I think you can even get them at radio shack.
On Nov 29, 2007, at 7:14 AM, mark shepherd wrote:

> Hi William,
> How's that Dasher coming along?
>
> RE that wire tool, I've not located it over here in the UK (yet).
> However the link to my baked bean tin took 5 minutes to make and as 
> seen in
> the picture the tool has worked fine. Look at the link below this line:
> http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/6991/quantumterminaltoolxw8.jpg
>
> With regards the later production of Caddys. They are Caddys in name 
> only,
> and are probably shareing no components at all with the mk1/mk2
> Rabbits/Golfs.
>  If you look up Caddy on ebay (UK) you will get lots of pictures of 
> them. My
> engine I just put in my gasser Quantum had been stood for 18 months 
> full of
> diesel and paper plugs in the holes... Well it started up first time...
> marvellous.
> Regards
> UK-Mark
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "William J Toensing" <toensing at wildblue.net>
> To: <vwdiesel at vwfans.com>
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:50 AM
> Subject: [Vwdiesel] Replies to Taygan & Shephard, recient posts
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>
>> One of the posts refers to buying tools from NAPA Auto Parts, but I 
>> think
>> the party asking the question lives in the UK. I don't know if NAPA 
>> has a
>> presence in Canada or the UK but they are a large auto parts chain in 
>> the
>> USA. I live in California, but some of our contributors live in 
>> Canada &
>> Europe. What might be available in one part of the world may not be
>> available elsewhere. Also, the parts or tools might be known by 
>> different
>> names in different countries.
>> One poster indicates a VW Rabbit pickup or "Cady" imported from Europe
>> might have to be modified to be driven in the USA. Since 1968, as I
>> recall, cars could not be sold in the USA if they did not conform to
>> government DOT/EPA regulations. Prior to the early '80s, cars could be
>> brought into compliance by shops specializing in this. These were 
>> known as
>> "Gray Market" cars. After the early '80s (another story), legislation 
>> was
>> changed so that auto manufacturers could state whether a particular 
>> model
>> met DOT/EPA standards or not & could thus keep a car out of the USA 
>> market
>> for what ever reason they had, even if the car met American 
>> standards. It
>> then became extremely costly & difficult to import "non-conforming" 
>> cars
>> into the USA.
>> However, it is my understanding that either laws or regulations were
>> changed, sometime in the '90s I think, to permit the importation of 
>> any
>> car over 25 years old, without having to meet our DOT/EPA 
>> regulations. So,
>> as of 2008, it should be possible to import any 1983 or older car 
>> into the
>> USA without having to meet these regulations. Therefore, I wouldn't 
>> think
>> it would be necessary to modify any 1983 or older car. Were any VW
>> "Caddy's made after 1983? I thought production of VW Rabbit pickups
>> stopped when VW closed the Westmoreland plant in Penn. By the way, 
>> where
>> did the VW Rabbit pickups get the name "Cady or Caddy"?
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