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Date:         Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:53:21 -0800
Reply-To:     Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Was Can you run without coolant...Now How Badly Can You Abuse
              a WBX? (Very long)
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On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Peter T. Owsianowski < pnoceanwesty@gmail.com> wrote:

> Wow. I freaked out driving our 2.1 up the hill and back into barn with no > coolant once. >

"Rubber Headgaskets"? What were they thinking when they built that? I can see now why anyone who still has a running WBX motor might be a bit 'gunshy' about running a little low on coolant....and why those motors have such a reputation for reliability issues and frequent expensive rebuilding of the top of them..

I have heard this mentioned before...the O-rings to keep the coolant in....I guess I need to look sometime at a Bently for the WBX motor and see how the stock motor was put together.. Sounds a bit 'iffy'....but I guess they work well enough...

Does anyone know why they never brought the South African inline motor to world wide production for the vanagon? Just curious if that motor had issues, too, that precluded it being adopted world-wide, since even VW dealers of old would say...."Waterboxers have weak heads" or some variation of that....

Don Hanson


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