I've certainly seen some blown diesel ones .. generally I regard the gold sticker 'rebuilt in Canada for VW of America' to be a red flag . I am successfully operating a 2.1 wbxr right now with one of those tags on it, fwiw. On 4/20/2012 1:50 PM, neil n wrote: > Yah scary indeed. I be a lot of these engines are long gone though. > Still this post from Mark Drillock is interesting and something I'd > possibly heed if need be: > > http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0006A&L=vanagon&P=R19735 > > granted that was way back in '02. IF subsequent remans built by > Cummins were any good, my conjecture and questions may be moot. > > Neil. > > > > On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans > <scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote: > >> very interesting. >> thanks for posting this. >> the Boston Bob stories are scary . ..how 'off' somethings that are supposed >> to be right can be. >> >> On 4/20/2012 10:21 AM, neil n wrote: > >> Does anyone have an approximate time line of when this happened? >> >> It was interesting to get some insight via the archives. Here's a post >> from the esteemed Bob Donalds (may he RIP): >> >> http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0410A&L=vanagon&P=R3349&m=188659 >> > > > |
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