Subaru Conversion. New Owner.

[Connor84Westy]

Hi, recently picked up a 1984 VW Westfalia Wolfsburg Edition. I have the original water cooled 1.9 engine, when I brought her home and prior to even forking over the cash, it ran pretty good just needed a tune up and no black or blue smoke coming from the exhaust!

Before tune up:
Exhaust Leak and rust repair.
New expansion tank + Coolant bleed
New air intake boot.

After tune up: Spark plugs, Ignition wires, rotor, and cap. Doing the oil change tomorrow and installing a new ignition coil.

After I did the work I started to get black smoke coming out at higher rpms.
I am going to start with some additives to help out but, I'm just unsure on how worried I should be. I was planning on either the ej22 or ej25 Subaru swap down the line just wanted to hold on as long as possible so I could address some other things. will more than likely have a follow up post another time.

Any info would be helpful as I am quite young and wan't to do most work myself! Thanks.

[TDCTDI]

Welcome to The Samba!

You will find more info in the “Vanagon” threads.
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