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Date:         Wed, 23 Mar 2005 08:07:08 -0600
Reply-To:     Warren Lail <wlail@OU.EDU>
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From:         Warren Lail <wlail@OU.EDU>
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Jbrush wrote:

>>If I could get past the phobia of the dropped valve seat that has been threatened many times here, I would certainly sleep better :-)<<

Although I drove my 81 Air-cooled Westy more than 200,000 miles over 13 years I was only stranded once. Yep, you guessed it. It dropped a valve seat while I was on vacation in Moab, Utah. It happens. I don't know what I would have done without Tom Arnold at Tom-Tom's Volkswagen Museum (junk yard).

(I remember being told by Leonard at AVP that on his rebuilds he strengthens the valve seat. I never had a problem after I installed the AVP engine.)

Warren Lail

88 Westy "Billy Bones"

I accidentally came across this bit of trivia we all ought to appreciate it: If you go to the Encarta Dictionary of the English Language and type in VW it comes back as "abbreviation of very worshipful."


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