Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 09:30:58 -0700
Reply-To: Robert Dalton <dieselsong@YAHOO.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Robert Dalton <dieselsong@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: Going back to air cooled!
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Hi All,
If you ever need an engine for those air cooled VWs,
and are anywhere near Dulles airport (VA, MD, DC,
...), I believe I have a good one. It's a 2L CV long
block out of a 1980 Westy. Email me at
<robandjeanne@access4less.net> $590. It ran great,
never overheated, had good oil pressure and got good
gas mileage (23 mpg on the flat). Unfortunately it
dripped oil on the driveway from leaking push rod
tubes. Finally at my wife's insistance I had another
motor put in, which worked OK but didn't get the gas
mileage of the original. In retrospect I should have
just had the push rod tube leaks fixed, but this
looked hard to do with the engine in the van.
Rob
--- mike ingle <mikei@ANCORE.COM> wrote:
> I am new to the list, but sorry to see you go.
> I also have a 74 2.0 914. And O how wonderful she
> is. If you can't be
> driving a 914 you might as well be diving a giant
> brick.
>
> Mike
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim Spotted Wolf"
> <spottedwolf@CYBERTOURS.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 7:37 AM
> Subject: Going back to air cooled!
>
>
> Ho to the list... This is an update to my 1984 head
> gasket/overheating
> saga... After nearly two months of having this bus
> sit in my yard due to an
> over heating problem and after spending several
> hundred dollars trying to
> track down the problem, plus many days under and
> over this beast I finally
> got it to cool down when running.. sounds good?
> yeah, it did until I went
> to recheck all the head bolts and rocker arms bolts
> and found coolant in the
> valve cover !!! Heart broken I replaced the cover,
> pushed the van down into
> my lower parking area and called my local VW repair
> guy. My words were
> simple... I AM DONE!!! My bus is for sale as of
> now! I will never own
> another water boxer, EVER! I am going back to my old
> favorites .. AIR
> COOLED.... I should of listened to my gut and all
> the common complaints I
> have received in this list about the head problems
> associated with this
> vehicle... Sometimes it does pay to listen...
> hehehe..
> So, I am back to driving my Porsche 914, with it's
> beautiful 2.0 engine and
> sleek design.. Plus, it's air cooled!!! I will put
> my 71 van back on the
> road now that the new beams are available..
>
> What this all means is I am leaving the vanagon
> list.... I wanted to thank
> all of you for your attention to all my problems and
> listening and offering
> advice.. you people are the best! I am going to go
> find a Porsche list
> serve to get involved with.. hehe..
>
> Thank you and have fun with your head stuff and all
> the other myriad of
> problems associated with what I am now convinced is
> VW's worst design....
>
> Peace to you and yours! See you on the road... If
> you see my little black 74
> Porsche 914 cruising by.. wave!!!
>
> Soft winds...
>
> Tim
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