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Date:         Tue, 22 Feb 2000 09:24:42 -0500
Reply-To:     Donald Baxter <onanov@MINDSPRING.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Donald Baxter <onanov@MINDSPRING.COM>
Subject:      Re: maiden trip on rebuilt 85' GL
Comments: To: chestnuts@USWEST.NET
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Greg:

I installed a remanufactured engine in my '85 GL four years ago, and now, 70,000 miles later I can happily report that the investment was worth it. If your rebuild has been done carefully I'm sure you'll experience the same. Even now mine cruises happily at 70-75 mph, gets 19-21 mpg in warm weather (I've gotten as much as 280 out of a tank before i got nervous and refilled--but then I don't operate at the elevation you do). It uses about a 1/2 quart of synthetic in 2,500 miles and seems to be leaking no coolant aside from the where i installed that lousy Prestone flush valve in a heater hose (and then only in very cold weather).

Congratulations! I love my van--I break out in hives when I think about buying something else.

_________________________________________________________ Donald Baxter onanov@mindspring.com (home) 404 325 1991 donald.baxter@transcore.com (work) 770 246 6261 www.mindspring.com/~onanov

"It's not the end of civilisation--it is, however, the end of civility." Mrs. Cage


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