Date:         Tue, 2 Dec 2003 11:00:06 -0800
Reply-To:     Peter Igo <printmasterstudio@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Peter Igo <printmasterstudio@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Have you ever replace your heads??!!
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Dear fellow Vanagon owners,

   Have you ever replace your heads??!!  I wanted to
know what your symptoms were before you replaced
them???  Were you simply having some coolant leak off
the engine??  was your coolant resevoir low??  Or were
you having "missing" problems?? or power failure??
    My symptom is that the engine is "missing"
intermittantly. I can drive it for 30 min and it may
not "miss" once, but then I might just drive around
the block and it might "miss" once or twenty times.
    I want to make sure I am using the correct
termonology here: when i say "missing" I mean that I
will be driving my '87 VW vanagon Syncro along, at any
speed, everything is going smoothly, and then there is
an instantaneous loss of power, just for about a
quarter of a second. The whole van "shutters" for an
instant, then its back to driving smoothly, except
that this effect may happen repeatedly.  And I think
if I put in the clutch and look at the guage, that the
rpm's drop way down almost to nothing when it
"misses".  It may be at that point that the only thing
that keeps the van going is its momentum, which
essentially "roll starts" the engine back on again??
(not, when the cluch is in tho, I mean when its out).
      I have had a small amount of coolant leakege for
several years, but only minor.  This missing just
started recently.
     I took the van to a vw repair shop here and he
flatly said that i needed new heads, and that would be
$1800.  I want to make sure it is the heads, before I
replace them.

    I can get a whole new rebuilt engine for $1800,
(plus installation).  I would rather do that, but I
first want to make sure it is the heads??
   If its really an electrical problem, for example,
replacing the engine won't do a bit of good!
    Thanks for any responses,

Peter  '87 VW vanagon Syncro 110K

Peter@santafe-websitedesign.com



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