1979 Vw Rabbit Owners Manual
Posted By admin On 30.01.20ENGINE Details: Number of Cylinders: 4 Bore x Stroke: 3.01' x 3.15' / 76.5mm x 80mm Displacement: 89.7 cu. Inches / 1471cc. (1.5L) Compression Ratio: 23.5 to 1 Valve Arrangement: Overhead cam, spur belt-driven Horsepower: 48 @ 5000 rpm Maximum torque: 56.5 ft.lbs @ 3000rpm Fuel requirement: No. 2 diesel fuel Ignition: Compression Ignition Design: Cylinder block in line, cast ironCylinder head, aluminum alloy Cooling System: Water-cooled, Electric radiator fan, thermostatically-controlled aluminum radiator, cross-flow design, closed and pressurized. Fuel System: Spur belt-driven distributor-injection pump, diesel injectors, 'swirl chambers' and glow plugs. DRIVE TRAIN: 5-speed, transverse, front-mounted, fully synchronized transaxle 1st gear: 3:45 to 1 2nd gear: 1.94 to 1 3rd gear: 1.29 to 1 4th gear: 0.97 to 1 5th gear: 0.76 to 1 Reverse: 3:17 to 1 Final Drive: Front wheel drive, double-jointed drive axles with constant-velocity (CV) joints. Clutch: Single disc, dry CHASSIS & SUSPENSION: Frame: Unitized body/chassis, bolt-on front fenders, two-door and four-door hatchback models.
Front Suspension: Independent coil/shock absorber struts, negative steering roll radius Rear Suspension: Independent stabilizer axle with coil/shock absorber struts Service Brake: Power-assisted, hydraulic, dual-diagonal circuit, disc front; drums rear; Brake-pressure regulator, rear. Only on models w/automatic transmissions.
Got it from the original owner. Rear Disc Brake Conversion ($459.99) JOM Coilover's ($449.99) Axis Oldschool Wheel's ($200ea) http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o31/Daze07/L3727.jpg. Non Working Blinker's Hazard switch or Fuse if fuse is good switch is bad, also check the hazard relay in the fuse box. Disconnected Radiator Fan Switch Test the fan directly by jumping 12V to the fan on one pin and ground on the other. Usually the switch goes, but I have seen a fan quit, as well as the fuse that powers it.
Non Working Horn (Wire's Disconnected) Already commented. Non Working Hazard's Fuse, Switch or turn signal relay. The hazards and the turns have separate fuses but share the turn signal relay and the hazard switch. Do not buy a Wagner relay.
I have the pictured manual, its not as good as a bentley. However, since your car runs the book you pictured is good enough to keep it that way.
Another that I recently picked up, printed 1981 is a Clymer manual, its nearly as complete as the Bentley manual. And the rarest is the last pic below, was issued to those training for vw diesel cert. You can get the glowplugs from NAPA for around $12 each. Stay away from the cheaper autolite, etc brand from other places. Here are some pics of good books: http://onespeedfast.com/rabbit-forums/pro-training.jpg. Any possible way of showing me in picture's?
The addition of a 'fuel cell' in the wheel well isn't covered as it was a non-factory option.JC Whitney sold them in the 80's along with some other stuff. What I miss, and I wish I could locate a new one is the rear shock over load spring kit, that I bought for my Rabbit from them.
I could fill my trunk up with crap, as well as the back seat with people and the car never had the droopy rear end that others did. Hell I could get a bazillion dollars for that kit today on flea-bay. First, here is a electrical primer that you need to read: It explains the basics. You need to buy a cheap digital Volt meter.
Harbor freight sells them for about 8 bucks. The Coil is on the firewall of the engine bay. It's center lead goes to the center lead of the Distributor. I would verify that you have 12V and Ground at your instrument cluster before going any further. Moulding Clip's With Sealer's (50) $13.76 Windshield Washer Nozzle With Seal $12.25 Hatch Damper $34.50 Meyle Wheel Cylinder $17.00 Brake Master Cylinder $40.45 Bentley Diesel Service Manuel $68.95 Bentley Diesel Owner's Manuel $39.95 http://www.bentleypublishers.com/volkswagen/owners-manuals/vw-rabbit-diesel-1979-om.html. Golf Mk1The Volkswagen Golf (Mark 1 and Mark 5 badged as Volkswagen Rabbit in the United States and Canada, Caribe in Mexico) is a compact car / small family car that Volkswagen manufactures.
The front-wheel drive Golf was Volkswagen's first successful replacement for the air-cooled Volkswagen Beetle. Historically, it is Volkswagen's best-selling model and the world's third best-selling model, with more than 25 million built by 2007.
Most production of the Golf has been in the 3-door hatchback style. Other variants include a 5-door hatchback, station wagon (estate / Variant), convertible (Cabrio), and a 4-door Volkswagen Jetta saloon (sedan). A touring (wagon) version of the Jetta has also been available. They have filled many market segments from basic personal cars to high-performance hot hatches. The Golf's success popularised the use of the hatchback in the C segment of cars and began the entire Golf class.
Like its predecessor the Volkswagen Beetle, the Golf has proved to be influential. In continuous production since 1974, the Golf was one of the first widely successful front wheel drive hatchbacks. In the USA, the Rabbit would spark another generation of VW-alike American compacts, such as the Omni, Escort and Cavalier in the 1980s, just as the Beetle inspired Falcon and Corvair in 1960s and subcompact Vega and Pinto in the 1970s. The Golf's performance also defined the hot hatch before youth started tuning their imports. Replacing the Beetle was a vital goal for Volkswagen's continued survival. By the early 1970s, the company had fallen into financial woe.
The novelty of the Beetle had worn thin. Sales were in terminal decline.
The front-engine, rear drive small cars like the Toyota Corolla were refined enough to woo customers away from Volkswagen's noisy underpowered engines and dated styling. The Type 3 and Type 4 fastback and squareback failed to attract much interest, whilst the NSU-developed K70 was a failure. The solution arrived with Auto Union.
They had attracted a small following with their technologically advanced Audi front wheel drive medium sedans. Volkswagen had acquired the Ingolstadt-based company in 1964 from Daimler-Benz. Audi's expertise in water-cooled engines and front-wheel drive would be essential in developing a new generation of Volkswagens. FWD offered more performance with lighter weight and more room in a smaller package. The Audi technology in the Golf would regain for Volkswagen the engineering lead over rear drive cars that Ferdinand Porsche had bestowed on the original Beetle over its large conventional peers. The small Golf had to succeed in replacing the high volume Volkswagen sedan. The upmarket Dasher/Passat would be VW's first front wheel drive car, and it was relatively well received for its lower volume market.
The Golf would adopt an efficient 'two-box' layout with a steep hatch rather than a formal trunk, which would be later added in the Jetta. The water-cooled engine would be mounted transversely in the front. Work on the Golf began in 1969, shortly after Kurt Lotz became head of Volkswagen. The first Golf (VW internal designation Typ 17) began production in 1974, although it was marketed in the United States and Canada from 1975 to 1984 as the Volkswagen Rabbit and in Latin America as the Volkswagen Caribe.
It featured the water-cooled, front wheel drive design with the addition of a hatchback. The Golf was Wheels magazine's Car of the Year for 1975. The name is short for Golf-Strom, German for Gulf Stream; it was named for that oceanic current to reflect its international character. The Golf was designed by Italian automobile architect / designer Giorgetto Giugiaro, of the ItalDesign design studio.
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In 1978, Volkswagen began producing the North American 'Rabbit' version of the Mark 1 Golf in New Stanton, Pennsylvania, thus becoming the first European car manufacturer in modern times to produce a vehicle in the United States. (The plant was called Westmoreland because New Stanton was in Pennsylvania's Westmoreland County.) Former Chevrolet executive James McLernon was chosen to run the factory, which was built to lower the cost of the Rabbit in North America by producing it locally.
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Unfortunately, McLernon tried to 'Americanise' the Golf/Rabbit by softening the suspension and using cheaper materials for the interior. VW purists in America and company executives in Germany were displeased, and for the 1983 model year the Pennsylvania plant went back to using stiffer shocks and suspension with higher-quality interior trim. The plant also began producing the GTI for the North American market. ('Rabbits' were built in Pennsylvania until 1984.) The first VW Caddy pick-up, based on the Mark 1 Golf, was also created at the Pennsylvania plant. The GTI version, launched in Europe in 1976 and in the U.S. In 1983, virtually created the hot hatch genre overnight, and many other manufacturers since have created special sports models of their regular volume-selling small hatchbacks. The idea behind was rather straightforward - take a basic-transportation economy car and give it a high-performance package, making it practical and sporty.
It was one of the first small cars to adopt fuel injection for its sports version, which raised power output of the 1588 cc engine to 110 PS (81 kW/108 hp). In 2004, Sports Car International declared the Golf GTI Mark 1 to be the 3rd best car of the 1980s. There was a minor facelift in 1980 which saw the adoption of larger rear lamp clusters (more in line with Giugiaro's original concepts), revised bumpers, a new dashboard with a more modern-looking instrument display, and for US versions square headlights. The convertible version, named the Golf Cabriolet (or Typ 155), was sold from 1980 to 1993 (a convertible version of the Mark 2 Golf was not made, so the Mark 1 Cabrio with slight modification was produced until the introduction of the Mark 3 Cabrio). It had a reinforced body, transverse roll bar, and a high level of trim, and interestingly kept the pre-1980 style of rear lamp clusters. The Mark 1 Cabriolet is of unibody construction built entirely at the factory of Karmann, from stamping to final assembly; Volkswagen supplied the engine, suspension, interior, etc.
For Karmann to install. The vinyl or cloth tops were insulated and manually or automatic operated, with a heated glass rear window. As of 2006, Volkswagen of South Africa still manufactures two variants of the Mark 1 Golf, the five-door Citi Golf and the Volkswagen Caddy pickup. On September 22, 2006 in order to celebrate the continued success of the Mark 1 based Citi Golf in South Africa, Volkswagen SA announced the limited edition Citi R which is powered by a 90KW (120HP/123PS) 1.8L fuel injected engine with a five-speed manual transmission as well as a GTI trademark red outlined front grill.
There was a special version, named LX with 1.1L engine, which produced more power than 1.3L. This version had a tuned GTI-like front grill, four front headlights, spoiler, alloy wheels and Recaro seats. VW South Africa currently (2007) manufacture a large range of Mk1 variants, namely the Citi Golf range. The range starts with a standard Citi Golf, in either 1.4 or 1.6 litre fuel injected models. Many variants of the standard version are/were available with different extras packages, which included the Citi Rythm, Citi.com and so on. The current range topper is the VeloCiti, also available in 1.4i and 1.6i, made as sportier versions of the standard Citi to replace the previous sports version, the Citi Life.
The latest Citi Golfs produced feature modern features, such as a new dashboard adapted from a VW Polo, and minor body 'facelifts' such as revised tail-light clusters. The Citi Golf is still one of the best-selling and most popular small cars in South Africa. The Volkswagen Rabbit GTI, the North American version of the high-performance Golf GTI, debuted in Canada in 1979 and in the United States for 1983 model year. Assembled from parts made in Mexico, Canada, Germany and the U.S. In Volkswagen's Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania assembly plant, it had the same Mark 1 chassis, and the same A1 body type as the Mark 1 Golf GTI that had been on sale in Europe since 1976, with a few exceptions. Key distinct features of the Rabbit GTI were its squared front end styling, and its alloy 'snowflake' wheels.
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The interior came in red or blue felt and leatherette trim. The squared styling of the front end, particularly the wraparound direction indicator lights, gave it added safety and slight improvement in performance.
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Under the hood, the engine was a JH 1.8 liter 4-cylinder petrol engine that ran on unleaded fuel. The JH 1.8l was transversely mounted, and it would peak in stock condition at 90 HP, delivered through a close-ratio five-speed transmission. Claims for gas mileage of near-perfectly tuned Rabbit GTIs range between 25 and 30 miles per gallon. When the Rabbit GTI first appeared in Canada, it featured the 1.6l engine and five-speed transmission. It was initially available in red, white, and black. These Canadian cars were German-built and were nearly identical in bodyshell and interior appearance to the 110hp Golfs built in Europe.
Unfortunately for enthusiasts, the entire driveline and running gear was identical to the other Canadian versions. Five-MPH bumpers were fitted as well as anti-intrusion bars within the doors. The integral towing eye fitted to the front of the European car was deleted as the crashworthy bumpers had towing facilities as part of their design and the car had been crash-tested for Canada with the North American front apron. The car was very attractive but drove no better or worse than a Rabbit of the same era. Only with the arrival of the American GTI was a faster Golf available in Canada, and it was down 22 horsepower compared to the 1.8 litre Golf GTI Mark I. Ah funny you should ask, as I have a couple of things that I have done over the years. What look are you going for?
Chrome, Gold, Color? We are going to assume that you want white letters on black background. Clean the lettering, allow it to dry. Buy a can of Fusion (krylon) Gloss white. Spray the entire thing do not mask.
Apply 3 coats to get a nice even build up. Allow to dry between coats and for a day after the final. Now Spray gloss black over the entire badge 2 coats allow to dry for a day. Using a cookie sheet filled with water. Place a sheet of 2000 grit wet or dry to the bottom of the cookie sheet grit side up. Now wet sand off the 2 outer layers of black off the letters by placing it upside down, and carefully sanding it as a whole unit. You can add the black lines back on the bunny with a sharpie fine point marker.
Second option is mask and spray. Spray the entire piece of badge with white 2 coats, then use a exacto knife and tape to tape off the letters and cover spray with black. Third option. Spray the entire badge with black allow to dry for a day.
On the letters using a very fine paint brush, paint the lettering only with Gold Leaf Adhesive. Do not get it where you don't want stuff to stick.allow it to dry over night is good. Using your choice of foils (they make Gold, Silver, Copper) and you can buy it at hobby lobby. Lay it over the lettering.
Then using a dry soft brush, brush of the excess. Areas where there was too much glue. Now for the final, where there are little bitty areas of leaf that you want to cover up. Use a sharpie marker. To seal, use the Clear coat that is for Gold Leafing.
Or leave it bare. If you use any other clear for the sealer it will dull the leaf. And make it look plastic.
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