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Inline 5cyl Petrol engine tech / Manual Transmission options for a 1995 5-cyl

« on: September 20, 2018, 01:10:06 pm »

So I think my 5-spd transmission has just shit the bed with zero warning signs on my 95. Just wondering what my options might be as far replacement tranny's go. Finding the one from the '95 is I'm sure going to prove to be impossible, so just wondering. It sounds like maybe the transmission from the 93 might work?

Think I saw some chatter from Cole on this in the Yahoo Group, but I'm just out of town on a roadtrip and was not at all prepared to be dealing with this catastrophic of an issue. Were in Thunder Bay, Ontario if miraculously anyone here has a line on one in the Manitoba/Alberta/Ontario region by some stroke of luck do let us know!

jordan@jordanlloyd.com

Cheers,
Jordan

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Inline 5cyl Petrol engine tech / Pistons for a '95 ACU engine rebuild

« on: November 29, 2016, 10:42:15 am »

I'm looking at an engine rebuild for my '95 EVC, the ACU engine. Does anyone have any tips or experience with tracking down any third party pistons to use in a rebuild? There are apparently some left from VW directly, but the price is pretty outrageous at something like $300/ea. The shop is having some difficulty tracking some down, which I realize why now as they're quite hard to find now.

Anyone know what the deal is with DiamondPower? They look to be one of the only places left to source these. Someone also seems to have come across this Amazon listing, but looks much to good to be true no?

https://www.amazon.com/VOLKSWAGEN-EUROVAN-2-5L-SOHC-Pistons/dp/B00HAND32M - also is that spec correct that these pistons work in the AAF, ACU, AET, AEU engines - that seems like a broad range spanning a lot of years? Or does that sound correct. Not saying I'll buy these, but if it looks like they're coming from DiamondPower I wouldn't be surprised if the ones I get from directly from them would essentially be the same thing?

Any help would be appreciated. Really starting to feel the rarity of having a van with this engine!

PS van has 325k KM on it, and is in otherwise great shape so will be biting the bullet to get her back on the road hopefully.

Thanks in advance.
- Jordan

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Inline 5cyl Petrol engine tech / Engine Surge/Shudder/Hiccup only at certain speed

« on: June 09, 2015, 11:20:56 am »

My relatively new-to-me '96 Eurovan (manual, 2.5L) is experiencing a weird surge/shudder/hiccup when reaching a certain speed. It'll happen pretty much everytime you hover around 95-100km/hr (~60mph?) and again at around 115km/hr, but nowhere else. It you just avoid cruising at these speeds you almost wouldn't know this problem exists. The van will hiccup and chug for a second or two when it happens, until you get out of these pockets.

There's a bit of a patch job on one of the hoses that I think is leading from the secondary air pump up to the air intake/cleaner housing (?). It looks like it had split a bit and was potentially letting some air in.

There's a picture here, I've attempted to reseal it in the meantime just in case this was the cause, but the problem still persists, so this could be related or not to the problem. What's the best way to fix this connection? I can't seem to track down if I can just replace the part it's connecting to, or if the whole air cleaner housing is one big piece (which it appears to be), which doesn't seem to be too readily available to replace.

Any tips on what to look into would be appreciated, obviously a bit of a newbie with this stuff!