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Title: gas to diesel?? how much work?
Post by: superman293 on February 10, 2007, 06:04:01 pm

I was thinking about buying a 81 rabbit truck with a gaser and swaping itout for a 1.6 diesel, It would seem to me that's it woudln't be much differnt, am i wrong??
thanks

Title: gas to diesel?? how much work?
Post by: 745 turbogreasel on February 10, 2007, 07:48:02 pm

It runs on one wire....
With practice, a one day job to have evrything working.

Title: gas to diesel?? how much work?
Post by: burn_your_money on February 10, 2007, 08:10:51 pm

The hardest part would be retrofitting the glowplug wiring, which if you had a donor car would be quite simple

Title: gas to diesel?? how much work?
Post by: Ziptar on February 13, 2007, 03:14:29 am

It can be a fairly simple swap,  I am going to do a Gasser A2 Jetta to TDI-M. I could do it simpler but, I have gotten it in my head to swap over just about every O.E.M. diesel specific part I can including the wiring harness but, the car has a history with me so I wanna do it special.

It can be done very simplly with a 1.6 IDI in an A1 though and pretty quickly.

Some links
http://www.dubnetworks.net/showthread.php?t=457
http://www.vwdieselparts.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2189&postdays=0&postorder=asc