Re: Here we go again. 1980 Vanagon, stock, California - Parasites
Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2017 10:31 am
I'm about 97.23% certain that the 90 A alternator on page 27.17 is the one introduced with the wasserboxer.
The page states that this alternator was installed "starting in October 1982", which would have been a few months into the 1983 model year run. The wasserboxer was introduced mid-year 1983, usually referred to as "1983 1/2". I suspect that it wasn't exactly "1/2", but what were they going to call it: "1983 1/3", "1983 124/365"?
The pulley image on 27.16 is just plain wrong for the air-cooled Vanagon. It was probably copied from some other manual (Bentley does this often enough to be annoying. For example, the line drawings for the Vanagon CV joints are lifted from the photos used in the Beetle Bentley, and there are subtle differences in the two that make it confusing whan you're holding a Vanagon joint in hand and trying to figure out how to install it). The real air-cooled pulley and heater fan detail is a few pages later.