Date:         Fri, 14 May 2004 22:19:31 -0700
Reply-To:     Michael Brenner <brenner9@YOSEMITE.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Michael Brenner <brenner9@YOSEMITE.NET>
Subject:      Re: Vanagon Project FS
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Well where we last left our hero, a mild manner engineering estimator for
the local electrical utility and part time bass player for the infamous rock
and roll band the blacksheep, he had stared the mountain in the face,
chickened out, and compromised his original intentions for a mere $2500.
However, having sufficiently ingested enough external stimuli to provide the
necessary focusing agent, the original intentions were started with the
ceremonial draining of the oil. While performing the initial task, an
interesting thing happened. While the motor was only started a handful of
times and probably less that 5 miles on the reassembled engine, instead of
the oil being relatively clean, what drained out instead was a whole lot of
gasoline. I mean a lot. Maybe about 2 gallons. Something is pumping gasoline
at a high rate into the crankcase somehow. Does anyone in the digital stream
have an idea's?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Brenner <brenner9@YOSEMITE.NET>
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 18:29:51 -0700
> Subject: Re: [VANAGON] Vanagon Project FS
>
> > Kicking around selling my Vanagon project. So here is what I got: 1984
> > Westy
> > Wolfsburg edition. Had the classic head leaking syndrome but ran great,
> > so I
> > replaced the heads with some rebuilt AMC's (?). Never ran right after
> > that.
> > Will start up fine, but it stalls once warm, and will not re-start, not
> > even
> > with ether. Soooo I procured an 82 Diesel Vanagon with an overheated
> > motor,
> > to do a I-4 conversion. And located (but have not purchased a 88 Fox
> > for
> > $500. OD shows 95K, however it was towed behind an RV most of it's
> > life).
> > Looking at the mountain ahead of me, I thought, ya know if someone came
> > along with $2500, I'd let this go. So that's the deal. I am located in
> > Mariposa, California which is just outside Yosemite National Park (a
> > United
> > Nations Heritage site). I do have pictures of the Westy, that I can
> > send.
> > The interior is great, however it took a header into a very large pine
> > tree,
> > after the wife decided to test the laws of gravity on it. ("Well I know
> > you
> > said the emergency brake didn't work, but I didn't think it would roll
> > down
> > the hill if I left it in neutral" - so, what are you gonna do?) The 82
> > turned out to be in suprisingly good shape, sort of bought it sight
> > unseen,
> > and it looks really good. Was going to scavenge a lot of parts off of
> > it for
> > the Westy.
> > I really hate giving this project up, the ole Vanagon's are the
> > vehicle's
> > you hate to love, and will probably end up buying another down the
> > road.
> > Serious inquiries only, have a very slow internet connection, so it
> > will
> > take a while for the pictures to send.
>
>
>