Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 09:08:32 -0700
Reply-To: Bob Stevens <mtbiker62@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Bob Stevens <mtbiker62@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: The curse of the Syncro....
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"this is also what you get when you never power wash the
drive train when you live in the rust belt. i wash my cars at least once
a week to avoid this, and not just the top side."
... precisely. I do this once weekly as well here in Salt Lake, and we have
nothing at all like the weather you all have in CA (not Ca) and Michigan.
The other side is that there are a few things needing lubeing when you keep
power-washing it off.
Thanks for the macabre pix, Ben ;) Good comment about Cousteau, Robert! I
wouldn't have thought that the Merrimac had an anchor.
bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Farrugia" <jfarrugi@UMICH.EDU>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 11:21 PM
Subject: Re: The curse of the Syncro....
> this is what engines in michigan look like thats why we don't have any
> vans here :(. this is also what you get when you never power wash the
> drive train when you live in the rust belt. i wash my cars at least once
> a week to avoid this, and not just the top side.
>
> jonathan
>
> On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Robert Keezer wrote:
>
> > Hello Ben,
> >
> > Is this the engine you found on a Cousteau adventure?
> >
> > I have never seen an engine that looks this bad. Just
> > needs head gaskets, no?
> >
> > Robert
> >
> > 1982 Westfalia
> >
> >
> > --- Benny boy <huotb@VIDEOTRON.CA> wrote:
> > > Who in the name of god would want a Syncro.....with
> > > all those gadjet;
> > > booster heater, air, sub frame........all those
> > > complication....poor little
> > > engine...
> > >
> > > http://www.benplace.com/vanagon_engine5.htm
> > >
> > > Compression: #1-35, #2-85, #3-40,
> > > #4-70...pfffffffffff....
> > >
> > > It take twice the time to remove a Syncro engine
> > >
> > > Cheers, Ben
> > > http://www.benplace.com/
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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