Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:46:25 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: Tune Up or Not?
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1. the tune up parts themselves, in waterboxer vanagons, especially if real
Bosch ones, last REALLY well, and are not the weak link at at.
2. it takes about 4 to 6 minutes to look under the distributor cap and
remove one spark plug for inspection.
3. whenever you touch or work on a car, you introduce opportunities for
something to be different, or not right, when it might have been just fine
beforehand. I would not, for example, change the fuel lines and then hand
the van over to someone to go on a trip.
That is REALLY asking for trouble. You don't truly, truly know your fuel
line work is good until the thing has worked properly for a few weeks, and
you've inspected your work a time or two in the meantime.
4. Really............here is a Scott Foss Turbovans Shazam quote :
"It's not the parts, it's the workmanship."
people think 'changing parts' is fixing cars. It's not. The real repair and
improvement, or restoration back to full health relies about 80 % on
workmanship, and only 20 % on the parts installed.
Example : .......tdi sycnro Vanagon, Symptom : horrible 2nd gear sycnro
action. A shop changed the pilot bearing, which was toast........The shop
installs a waterboxer pilot bearing with just *nothing* for a pilot bearing
dust seal. That pilot bearing will just turn to dust, like the first one
did, in maybe two and a half years, and then like the first incorrect pilot
bearing, it'll contribute to tearing up the 1,500 dollar or whatever it was
sycnro transmission rebuild job.
A proper diesel pilot bearing with built in dust seal is the right part.
About half the waterboxer clutches I take apart..........the felt dust ring
seal is missing, because the little metal ring that retains it is missing,
likely because it was removed by the machine shop to surface the flywheel.
They of course forget about that tiny part. The shop forgets about it, It
goes back together with no pilot brg. dust seal..........and a few years
later, the little rollers are rusty dust.
I see this ALL THE TIME.
it's the Workmanship, not the parts.
And when I work on vanagons, I find myself restoring this or that, treating
rust, replacing things left off, tightening loose stuff , or whatever.
There is far, FAR more to REALLY fixing and restoring back to full health
than just installing a part or several.
I'll even say this, installing whatever part........is really only 40 % at
the most, of 'REAL repair and bringing back to full health' is.
do good work, have fun !
Scott
www.turbovans.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Sullivan" <sandwichhead@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 9:50 AM
Subject: Re: Tune Up or Not?
> Well, my kid wants the van for the weekend, so will do the lines on
> Wednesday so I don't regret it. Thanks all.
>
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Stephen Grisanti
> <bike2vcu@yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>> I applaud your intentions, but have always found that doing something
>> uncalled-for generally results in the unintended and unwanted. But that
>> could just be me.
>>
>> Stephen
>>
>> --- On *Sun, 9/14/08, Michael Sullivan <sandwichhead@GMAIL.COM>* wrote:
>>
>> From: Michael Sullivan <sandwichhead@GMAIL.COM>
>> Subject: Tune Up or Not?
>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>> Date: Sunday, September 14, 2008, 5:01 PM
>>
>>
>> Kinda feeling lazy today and was gonna replace rotor, cap and plugs. I
>> will
>> be doing the fuel lines in a week or so. Van is running great and wonder
>> if
>> I can do another chore and just keep the tune-up parts on hand. Just
>> don't
>> know when last done from PO and don't want to make trouble later on, but
>> if
>> it aint broke.... Opinions?
>>
>> --
>> Michael in San Antonio
>> 91GL AT 'Gringo'
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Michael in San Antonio
> 91GL AT 'Gringo'
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