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Date:         Tue, 7 Aug 2007 11:03:04 +0000
Reply-To:     Jeff Stewart <fonman4277@COMCAST.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jeff Stewart <fonman4277@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: Inside a GEX 2.0L engine, not pretty.

My first Westy, a '76 with a highly bastardized 1.8 that had a single Weber carb, was a GEX rebuild. If the PO was correct, it had 75K on it when I bought it. On it's first oil change by me, chunks of what looked like crumpled aluminum foil came out in the oil! I thought for sure it's days were numbered. But, I figured what the hell, I'm gonna drive it til it blows-6K later it was still going strong! Then I sold it to a guy who drove it 75 miles a day to work and back for a year, then he sold it. That engine never did quit-as far as I know anyway, I lost track of it after that. It would have been rebuilt sometime around 1996-1997. I've heard at one time GEX did do decent work-a long,long time ago. Jeff


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