I highly agree! I have worked on early bus, breadloaf bus, and early AC Vanagon. The waterboxer version is the easiest to work on even though you will have to put a pan under it for many jobs that involve taking a coolant fitting loose to work on something else (just put alternator mount on a 1.9l engine today and you can't get to the bolts without moving a coolant pipe out of the way). In fact I would say the Vanagon waterboxer is one of the most easy to work on vehicles I have ever dealt with. I have worked on Fords, Chevys, Nissans, Mazdas, etc. Most of them require special tools to do really simple jobs. I went to replace the alternator on a Mazda MPV. I foolishly thought it would be similar to changing the alternator on a Vanagon waterboxer (10 mins). Instead it took me over five hours or grueling, painful, wrenching that I did not enjoy in the least. It involved pulling the passenger side CV axle! Be thankful you are working on a Vanagon and not anything else. -- Thanks, Ken Wilford John 3:16 www.vanagain.com Phone: 856-327-4936 Fax: 856-327-2242
On 4/11/2011 3:51 PM, courtney hook wrote: > OK, after working on a 84 WBX engine for the last few days I don't wanna hear anymore snivelling about access to things like the alternator or general engine work compared to my 77 Westy India rubber man contortionist engine access. :-) > I'm gettin' me a WBXer man! > Courtney > |
Please note - During the past 17 years of operation, several gigabytes of
Vanagon mail messages have been archived. Searching the entire collection
will take up to five minutes to complete. Please be patient!
Return to the archives @ gerry.vanagon.com
The vanagon mailing list archives are copyright (c) 1994-2011, and may not be reproduced without the express written permission of the list administrators. Posting messages to this mailing list grants a license to the mailing list administrators to reproduce the message in a compilation, either printed or electronic. All compilations will be not-for-profit, with any excess proceeds going to the Vanagon mailing list.
Any profits from list compilations go exclusively towards the management and operation of the Vanagon mailing list and vanagon mailing list web site.