With seven grease-covered days behind us, Jacqui and I finally paused to proudly observe our completed motor installation. It was late in the day and we were exhausted, which added to our decision to wait until morning to start up the engine. After all, with a conversion of this magnitude, there were bound to be hiccups and I didn’t want discovering them to pollute my night’s sleep.
Little did I know, any start up issues we were about to encounter would pale in comparison to what was lurking in our near future.
Aircooled Vanagon to M-TDI Swap Part 1: Pre-Swap Prep.
Fall 2014. New cylinder heads on our 2.0L aircooled motor.
Why on earth would we take that perfectly good running air-cooled motor that I recently put brand new cylinder heads on, and throw it out for a completely different power plant? (Side note, it's for sale.)
Well for one, if the PennyWagon was simply a weekend adventure vehicle, I wouldn't; but she's far more than that.
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