[Vwdiesel] rare turbo kit

[Doyt W. Echelberger]

>Sitting on a skid in Ohio, I have the entire engine and tranny 
>pulled from my rusting 1985 Jetta TD.Sitting on a skid in OhioS

I parked the car four years ago after the engine started overheating 
and ftom oil showing in the coolant I suspected a leaking head gasket 
.....but didn't pull the head and replace the gasket because the car 
also needed shocks and fenders and the wipers were slowing down and 
the fuel tank straps were ready to let go, the front bumper cover was 
off, the plastic grill was cracked, the floor boards were rusting 
out, and the jack points were rusted, risky and unreliable......etc.

But I salvaged the entire engine and transmission and air 
induction/air filtering system.

I planned to swap it into another Jetta I owned....a rust-free 100k 
mile 1989 Jetta NA diesel with a nice clean interior and good floor 
pans. But that little basic diesel ran so nice I never got around to 
doing the swap.

Now I see interest in this turbo kit at roughly 900 bucks, and it 
doesn't have the turbo-modified injector pump or the high-flo 
injectors or the oil squirters or special pistons and rods......so I 
wonder what my entire engine and tranny is worth or if there is a 
market for it.  It has all the parts in the kit, but the parts are 
stock and not subject to the manifold design problems of the 
kit......so it must be at least as valuable as the kit.... which has 
an asking price $895.

Anybody want to help me try to evaluate it? I'll probably never 
execute my plans...I'm 83 years old and don't do heavy work on my own 
cars anymore. And this list is probably the only place people who do 
this stuff can discuss such things.

Doyt