Date:         Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:29:13 -0700
Reply-To:     Jeffrey Schwaia <jeff@VANAGONPARTS.COM>
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From:         Jeffrey Schwaia <jeff@VANAGONPARTS.COM>
Subject:      Re: SF East Bay Machine Shops?
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If you're willing to ship to Seattle, send them to L.A. instead, RIMCO
(Riddle Machine) is hands down, the best VW/Porsche machine shop around.

http://www.rimcovw.com/

Cheers,

Jeff
www.vanagonparts.com



-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
Of Stan Wilder
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 2:03 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: SF East Bay Machine Shops?


I've heard that Northwest Connecting Rod company in Seattle area is about
the best around for VW, Porsche.
They're not internet folks. Get their phone from information.

Stan Wilder
www.engineceramics.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Young" <tomyoung1@COMCAST.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 3:30 PM
Subject: SF East Bay Machine Shops?


> Hi all:
>
> I pulled the head off of one of my vehicles due to somewhat low
compression
> on that side and notice that one of the spigots (head/barrel interface)
has
> an irregular wear point.  Otherwise the head looks to be in pretty good
> shape.  I'd say this head needs a compression cut here to clean things up.
>
> Anybody in the SF East Bay area do good work on TypeIV heads?
>
> TIA.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Tom Young                       '81 Vanagon
> Lafayette, CA 94549         '82 Westfalia
> ---------------------------------------------------------------