I had a 1959 barn door panel van with the original 36 hp engine. Probably the only vehicle I ever owned that a 240D could outrun.
That being said, it was geared in a way that allowed it to do quite well off-road, along with the high ground clearance. And the only thing it *could* pass was a gas station... Dan Sent from my iPod On Aug 7, 2010, at 8:44 AM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: We are talking about an engine that was really designed to pull around the Rabbit right? Sort of makes sense it wouldn't handle a Vanagon for very long. The great Bob Hoover (not that Bob Hoover, the other one who is into aircooled VWs) said he loved the diesel Vanagons because they were the only thing slower than a split window VW bus. -Curt Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 21:58:35 -0400 From: Allan Streib <str...@cs.indiana.edu> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] extra-slow 240D Message-ID: <m11vab9oac....@cs.indiana.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mitch Haley <m...@voyager.net> writes: That's right Curt, Back in the 50's my father drove Mack diesels over the road-he has always said to me about diesels- 'drive it as if you stole it'. At 89 he still tells me that. But if you do it to a Vanagon it blows up? Yeah, a 1.5 liter, 50 hp VW diesel of that era is just not a robust engine when you're asking it pull around a 4100 lb vehicle. Allan -- 1983 300D _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
