Anyone want a very straigh Prinzaguar, year 2005, 1.9 turbodiesel

 

BigBlock - another one for your collection?

Spider1V

Just getting up off the floor.......(from laughing)

What's all that white stuff I can see in the pictures? None of that down here.

Spider1V

Just to update this motor is from raf honnington, ecu is fried as wiring loom, engine and gearbox is siezed, also loads of bits missing inc torque converter etc as it has been used on a xmas tree at the base, not been touched since 2010 , from the scouse insider, broad sword calling danny boy rodger over and out.......

Tyres? - Wrong sort of Snow!

 

You are partly right because the tyres could not get any grip on the icy track which is what caused me to slide off the road in the first place.The reason I could not get moving again was not because of the tyres though it was the large rock that was stuck under the rear diff.

I had the front and rear diffs locked and was trying to slowly move either forwards or backwards but the embankment was giving way under the wheels and the Pinz was starting to tilt over. I reckoned if I carried on it was about 50/50 chance of getting unstuck or rolling over so because I like my Pinz I phoned for a tow .

There is quite a bit more snow forecast over the next few days so I am sure I will be able to get it stuck again, maybe somewhere a bit more interesting next time.

 

Its the motor you'd find in the following :- vw Lt95, vw t4, vw t5, good engine too

 

LOL - oh Mr Perfect, how we miss you.

Spider1V

 

Everyone else was to polite to say that .

Incidentally, we never built any Pinzgauers for the MoD (or for anybody else, for that matter) with a 1.9 engine. It's a 2.5 VW 5-cylinder unit. And if any of the electronics are missing, somebody will have a nightmare of job restoring it........

Yawn .........

to answer your question big block:

 

the original petrol pinz 4 cylinder is a superb engine for offroading in the pinz. As you said it, the gearbox and transfer box were all designed for offroading in mind. The engine's power range is exceptionally well-calibrated with the gearing for offroad work.

 

I don't know much about the 5-cylinder unit as mine has the old LT-6-clyinder engine, which hasn't stalled on me yet for being too steep an angle for too long. As far as I'm aware, they did fit a larger sump and bigger oil pump than the standard LT engine and slightly detuned it for power and upped it for lower and longer torque band. Mine doesn't have an intercooler so lag isn't so big a problem, but (and there is always a but), you need to keep the revs up constantly or it will stall in difficult situations. From what I understand the petrol is better for highly technical off-road manoeuvres.

The die hard boys who do the Transylvania trophy stuff swear by the old petrol engine, but if you talk to them that is also because it is easier for them to fix and buy bits for. On road, the petrol is hard going: and also very thirstly. For all round work, even they will tell you that they'd prefer the TDs.........but only after a few beers does this come out.

 

Ph