Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 11:45:39 -0400
Reply-To: "kenneth wilford (Van-Again)" <kenwilfy@COMCAST.NET>
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From: "kenneth wilford (Van-Again)" <kenwilfy@COMCAST.NET>
Subject: Re: quick and dirty head swap
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Just to let folks know, anyone who buys their engine gasket set or heads or
both from me, I have a step by step head gasket install write up that I
send along with the heads. This is written for the do-it-yourselfer and it
is from my 16 years of experience of doing this job over and over, learning
all of the pitfalls and tricks. I have never published this info online, I
reserve it for customers who buy their parts for this job from me. I even
have a video I am working on at the moment but I will probably reserve for
customers as well.
I leave it to you folks. I want to share with everyone for free and I try
to do that as much as I can, but then people don't donate or buy parts from
me. They watch the video or read the info and then find the stuff from the
cheapest place they can. They might save fifty bucks or so but they save
hundreds of dollars using my info to do the job themselves and doing it
right the first time using my help. Isn't it worth an extra $50 on the
price of parts just so I can still be here next year, making more videos?
If it isn't I understand. However you need to understand that eventually
that will mean that people like me will have no choice but to move on to
other things so they can feed their families. I hate to be a downer, but
that is where all of the Vanagon specific vendors are right now. The vote
of whether we are here five years from now or not is up to you folks.
Sincerely,
Ken Wilford
John 3:16
www.vanagain.com
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Tom Carchrae <tom@carchrae.net> wrote:
> Thank you so much Alistair! You say 'quick and dirty' - but that looks
> pretty clean to me.
>
> I am still looking with fear at my van and have not yet had the guts to
> pull the heads off. I'm going to order a gasket set sometime soon. Aside
> from JB weld, the gasket set ( http://www.busdepot.com/025198009b ) - is
> there anything else good to have on hand?
>
> Tom
>
>
> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 10:43 PM, neil n <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Marble-ous!
> >
> > I know. < groan >
> >
> > I bet this job will hold up longer than you need.
> >
> > Nice to see the detail in the images!
> >
> > Neil.
> >
> > On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 8:21 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
> >
> > > I've just started on the chore of swapping in a couple of heads on my
> > WBX to get, I hope, one more year out of my engine to give me time to
> get a
> > Subie 2.5 up to scratch. Make no mistake, I'm not doing a proper job,
> just
> > a "buy me some time job".
> > >
> > > Anyway, I've posted some pics of the start of this here:
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://shufti.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/vanagon-quick-and-dirty-head-reconditioning/
> > >
> > > alistair
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Neil n
> >
> > Blog: tubaneil.blogspot.ca
> >
> > '88 Westy http://tinyurl.com/c8rlw6p
> >
> > '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco" http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/
> >
> > Vanagon VAG Gas inline-VR Engine Swap Group:
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/d7gd5ej
> >
>
--
Thanks,
Ken Wilford
John 3:16
www.vanagain.com
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