[Vwdiesel] Wasserboxer Westy

[ralph meyermann]

There are a few out there with inline turbo diesels, and Subaru has a turbo
diesel engine for around 6k if ya want to keep it diesel? Or find a 1.6 na
westy and upgrade like I have recently done?


Velma 82 na diesel westy
On Aug 13, 2013 10:54 AM, "James Hansen" <jhsg at sasktel.net> wrote:

> Hey Tad.
> Coolant system was an issue. The head has very narrow sealing ridges where
> it meets the head gasket, corrosion was a real issue if coolant was
> never/seldom changed... and they are like a 305 head, too narrow to skim.
> When you are shopping, if the owner gives you a dumb look when you ask when
> the coolant was changed last, consider passing, or price out what heads and
> gaskets cost these days.  If it looks like it has had ANY stop leak product
> used, pass, as it's probably sick already. Coolant pipes to the front were
> prone to corrosion as well.
> They were an excellent powertrain otherwise... By now, there are quite a
> few
> around that have a sick motor, bad head gaskets, etc, and are good
> candidates for a diesel or other conversion. Saw a marvelous synchro on
> Vancouver Island a few years back with a 911 6 cylinder shoehorned into the
> back, lift kit, roo bars all round, big warn winch hanging out the front,
> it
> was awesome.
> If Andrew Libby is off playing a gig on a mountaintop or something and
> doesn't catch this, be sure you get to pick his brain before you go
> looking,
> especially a synchro, he's btdt.
> On a personal note, I looked at wasserboxers for years.  I have never seen
> stuff that held value for so long.  I still have my 73 westy that I
> restored
> while in university, and wanted to move up to the slightly more spacious
> interior with a real fridge. The wasserboxers were the next logical step,
> it
> was around 1996... and I saw so many bad ones, I sort of gave up and went
> the truck camper route since we could use my parents old one that I camped
> in with them as a kid, they had gone to a 5th wheel trailer.  We've moved
> up
> from that to a larger truck camper 5 years ago which was a huge mistake,
> because it has a shower, and if we lost the shower to go back to a westy
> after the kids no longer camp with us, that would be most most most
> unpopular, except maybe for a weekend getaway.
> -james
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com [mailto:vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com] On
> Behalf Of Tad
> Sent: August-12-13 5:40 PM
> To: VW diesel mail list
> Subject: [Vwdiesel] Wasserboxer Westy
>
> Hey all - not strictly diesel content, but ya'll seem to know everything so
> I figured I'd ask.
>
> I'm thinking about looking for a VW camper van, probably a wasserboxer.
>  Thinking maybe end of summer would be a good time to pick one up from
> someone who's decided to move on to bigger and better things.
>
> So, I'm looking for suggestions/ideas as to what to look for and where to
> look for it, weak spots, known issues, etc.
>
> Any thoughts or comments greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tad
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