The Demise of my diesel

[Edison]

Hi everyone,
My little white diesel of hope (as opposed to my little red car of death, named by loon) is most likely dead i think..
It had oil in the water forever, suggesting a cracked head or gasket, and it's finally failed, preceeded by a vaying idle speed, and difficulty idling when cool. (it had to be held up with the pedal, and would do the up and down by itself thing) the varying idle speed was at about 1 or 0.5 Hz or so.
Now after a bit of a roll down the long hill to start it, the water is unreasonably pressurised, and can spit some out if opened...
anyhoo, looking at the cost of a gasket/head and all, i think i may be better off heading towards the brighter horizon of an electric (100%) vehicle. I have a 3hp motor ! 8-) 36v maybe i can ssqueeze out more than 3hp peak,... and I think i may be able to get a bigger one from america, I can get a good battery bank, and will need to go onto the electronics forum for help with the controller...
In a Vw? of course, maybe the little white one, ideally, one I don't have which would be is it a t3? a vw bus i saw the other day it was Sooo big inside and hey it was Vw! 8-)
Ed.

[Golf Loon]

sad to hear of the demise Mik.
Sharkey has posted on herre a few times, he has an electric powered golf in the US.

[brackie]

Sharkey has posted on here a few times, he has an electric powered golf.......

But it has a lot more that 3hp My God, in 1927 the Austin 7 had over twice the power! And Mr Sharkey's rig is a hybrid that tows the front half of a diesel Rabbit to charge the batteries up.

Get the tool kit out mate......Fix the head. We don't want another 1.5 diesel motor going to the tip

[Golf Loon]

Yeah at least fixing the head is achieveable. Rip it off and I`ll hook you up with a cheap head reco mob and plenty of help available on here

[syncro]

Go and see Ron at C & S, Padstow and see if he has any second hand bits laying around.

[smithy010]

If you're going to go down the road of a fully electric golf, check out www.electroauto.com
They have a full kit for conversion of a golf to fully electric (about 70miles range).

And if you're going to sell your diesel parts, make sure you sell them here!

[brackie]

Wow!!!! You could buy a lot of diesel for the price of a kit for a Rabbit!

Voltsrabbit Kit$7,995.00

That's USD so it translates into ~AUD10,000

I reckon a new head and other bits and bobs would be a little bit cheaper

[syncro]

You don't build electric cars for economic reasons.

[peter_j_g]

It could be just the head gasket, I've had the same happen on two different VW diesels and in each case the head wasn't damaged, only a new gasket was needed.

Certainly worth lifting the head to see what's happened...

[Golf Loon]

Yeah Mik, pull the head off. Its up to you now.