Complete, all-inclusive kit to install a TDI starter on your Vanagon.
Kit includes:
Starter - Brand new, powerful 2.0 kw gear reduction starter from 1996 - 2003 manual-trans VW TDI diesel cars. No core charge. 1-year warranty.
Adapter - Adaptors mate the modern 2.0 kw gear reduction starters to the air-cooled Vanagon bellhousings, manual and automatic WBX bellhousings, as well as the Vanagon/Syncro diesel bellhousings.
Pigtail - Locking connector splices to the stock Vanagon starter wire to provide a secure, factory-like electrical connection to the starter.
- Note - This high torque gear-reduction type starter is slightly longer than the stock WBX starter, and has a self-supporting shaft, so it no longer requires the pilot bushing to position the shaft end. On Syncro applications with a locker, a 3/4" notch will be required in the diff-lock bracket, and you must use the longer (2.25") type bracket and corresponding locker pin.
- Note - In addition to the WBX, these adaptors will work with ALL conversions using a Kennedy, Eurospec, late-SmallCar, Vanaru, or Tiico engine adaptor plate and stock-diameter ring gear + WBX (will not fit the very early Small Car cast bellhousing with the small diameter starter hole). The manual, non-diesel version of the adapter will also work on 1975-up manual Buses.
- Note - The automatic version adaptor is essentially a thicker version of the manual adaptor - and has been shown to be a good fit for the earlier Bus or Beetle manual transmission (70's) so we've got you covered there as well.