Date:         Tue, 28 May 2002 09:04:01 -0500
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Aircooled upgrade
Comments: To: hilltech@NETINS.NET
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Lets have another toak off that joint!
I thought I heard you say "Put an Air Cooled in a Waser Boxer Body".
On that conversion I'll just bet you could get all of the bad points from
each engine / vehicle and not a single of the good points from either.
I think the established fix for dead Waser boxers is Saburu or I 4
conversions.
The established fix for rotted out Vanagons is the old demon crusher
after the engine and tranny core have been striped out.
If you try to alter the natural order of recycling you'll regret it.
I've stripped down both Waser Boxers and Air Cooled Vanagons getting them
ready for the crusher and what appears to be a few differences when
viewed from the curbside turn into a hundred and fifty pounds of bolts,
nuts, hoses, flapper valves, engine mounts and Yada Yada Yada! when you
get your salvage stack built.
It could possibly be a good project for inmates in a prison with nothing
to do for a few years and never planning on driving the vehicle.

Stan Wilder
83 Air Cooled Westfalia

On Tue, 28 May 2002 06:40:20 -0500 Chuck Hill <hilltech@NETINS.NET>
writes:
> Let's discuss installing an aircooled engine in one of those poor
> broken-down Wasserleakers.
>
> In the midwest, you can find plenty of 80-83 bodies that have gotten
> too
> rusty to love any more that will donate parts for a drive train,
> etc.
> and there seem to be some newer bodies around that would be great
> with a
> new engine.  Why not put an aircooled engine in the newer body?
> Simon
> Glenn even wants an aircooled Syncro, having broken down in the
> Sahara
> desert with cooling problems.
>
> OK List, new thread, at last.
>
> Chuck Hill
>

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