Club 80-90 Forums

Ok, tdi sounds like a hell of a lot more effort than I originally thought! Don't really want to convert it to petrol as mpg isn't great and LPG tank takes up a load of space. 1.9 1y seems to be the winner by the look of it. Are they better than the cs? I don't need it to fly, but it needs to be able...

Thanks for all the help guys. I think a tdi is the way forward, the van came with a 5 speed 6 rib box, so I'm guessing that could be used? I've found a ahu (?) complete engine for sale locally. How much fabricating and fiddling is involved in fitting this? Once it's in, is it a case of getting an au...

Rats.
Thanks for the info, is there anything else that can be done to it to make it a bit perkier?

Ok, well I have the non turbo 1.6 diesel whatever the code is for that

I've just bought a 1.6 jx diesel powered Westie. It's soooo slow though that it's taking the fun out of driving it. The thing is, just before I bought it it had £1800 spent on a new head, injector pump etc etc etc so I want to keep the engine. Can I buy the tirbo parts off of a 1.6td and simply put ...

I'm not particularly bothered by a late 80's work van no.

I have eight vw's ranging from 61 to 77, bay window vans and beetles to spend my time and money on, but thanks for the heads up on my "old car" preferences.

ECU made it a lot better, firing on 4 and running alright, still not there though.

Lost interest in it and flogged it to the guy with the ecu who breaks em!

Thanks for all the advice guys, sadly it was just too annoying in the end

After a lot of poking and prodding, it does indeed seem to be the injector signal dropping out, all circuits up to the ecu are good and constant.... so its a new ecu today... i shall let you know the outcome. On another note, i cant believe how much these things are worth now, i sold my 86 Autosleep...

Got a guy coming to look at it today... If it still won't play ball it's either getting a carb or going to the scrappy.

It's holding it's future in it's hands!!

Cheers mark, will snaffle a toothbrush and get on that tomorrow!

Ok, the reason i think the injectors are intermittent is because i made a test light that fits to the connector and it goes out as the engine stutters and comes back on as it picks up. This is accompanied by a blast of smoke as it takes up again. The reason i initially thought the van was overfuelli...

I've cleaned all earths snd injector connections, do you thing it could be dizzy related?
It does periodically and rhythmically run on all four then drops out then perks up etc

Now running better but still poorly, seems the signal to the injectors is intermittent.

Any ideas?!

It was putting oil in through the breather which accounted for some of the smoke, problem is it won't run for ling enough to see if it will clear. I changed the temp switch on the side of the housing (blue top) When it dud try to run, it hunted badly and plugs are black... It's hard to tell what the...

Hi, i have just bought a 2.1 dj van which has some issues with the engine. I can get it running (badly) but it smokes like and East end villian puffing out massive amounts of thick acrid white/black smoke. Im thinking its over fuelling massively, and the smoke is the product of this issue, as it has...