[T2] type 2 and vanagon engines

[Jamie]

John Anderson wrote this recently,,,

No real issues, sort of...  As I recall, and Dolan had a www page somewhere 
I thought...

First and obvious, unless you got a '79 exhaust system, you aren't going to 
have heat without a lot of effort to plumb vanagon boxes, in point of fact 
pretty impossible/improbable without mucho work.  And to keep the vanagon 
boxes even if you rigged something down to them, would need to plug bus fan 
shroud ports.  People do run the vanagon shroud for better cooling on bigger 
T4's, perhaps one could run the alternator and modify the tin there, I've 
never looked at that closely.

So you need a plan for exhaust ('79 boxes or head swap) and alternator (bus 
presumably with bus shroud.)

Dipstick, keep both (ie. make sure you get the vanagon one, it is quite 
acessible) or drive a tapered pin in with some JB weld on it.

Oil filler is not an issue, use the bus one.

Engine bearer holes tapped M10, overdrill your bearers or helicoil the holes 
but it will be a double helicoil I think I recall.  The vanagon bolts are 
too long, have a good metric hardware place at hand.

Breather, get the vanagon one or you got to rig something over the flared 
snub.

That is it as I recall.  Only the exhaust/head issue is a real problem.  For 
anyone so interested BTW I have a German NOS '79 box BTW, don't recall which 
side, bought from BD 12-15 years ago, would part with it for what I gave at 
the time ($299 same as Dansk currently and this is VW German.)

Sure nothing wrong/problematic if the Vanagon mill is solid low mile, and 
you got a good source for a '79 exhaust on the cheap or intended a new one 
$$ anyway.

John
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Tarka"
>I received the following email from Robert who is wondering how 
>interchangeable an 82 vanagon engine is with a 78 bus, both fuel-injected.
>
> I said that the exhaust and heat exchangers would be most of what he has 
> to worry about, but I'm an early-bay guy.
>
> Anyone else want to chime in?  His transmission shouldn't need anything 
> new, right?

> --------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Veterans Agent VeteransAgent at abingtonma.gov
>> Date: Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 8:03 AM
>> Subject: Re: type 2 and vanagon engines
>>
>> Hi Tom,
>> That makes perfect sense my bus is a 78 W. team Champagne addition fuel 
>> injected and the Pentagon is an 82 fuel injected engine too so that makes 
>> perfect sense do I have to change transmission still willemite my 
>> transmission work on that engine thanks bye.
>