Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 06:00:31 -0800
Reply-To: Todd Last <Rubatoguy@COMCAST.NET>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Todd Last <Rubatoguy@COMCAST.NET>
Subject: Re: Engine woes - what to do?
In-Reply-To: <CAFnDXk2KS4QbLhFBhw73+VZOyD-ugELcbKN-L4BAe=ujCocMxw@mail.gmail.com>
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I have no idea what the LULZ is.<br>
My engine is not burning oil, but I can't pass the emissions test.<br>
No leaks outside the engine.<br>
My assessment is that there is leaking from the gasket into the
combustion chamber.<br>
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Todd<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/23/2013 1:21 PM, Jim Felder
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">***FLAME ALERT***
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<div>Todd must be "doing it for the LULZ"</div>
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<div>Google it.</div>
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<div>But seriously Todd, if your compression test reveals head
problems AND your engine is not burning oil between changes or
leaking seriously, then just change the heads or have yours
rebuilt. If doing the work yourself, you could get out for
less than $500 and get at least another 100,000 miles out of
the car. Or, you could buy new heads and have somebody else do
the work and spend up to $2000 and get another 100,000 out of
the car. Then you will have plenty of time to look for a
bargain, maybe ten years.</div>
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<div>You will have a good chance to change lifter and water pump
and the fussy little hoses to the oil cooler that always pop,
and for almost free.</div>
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<div>The bottom ends almost never give up if treated OK.</div>
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<div>Jim</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Todd
Last <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:rubatoguy@comcast.net" target="_blank">rubatoguy@comcast.net</a>></span>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0
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almost 230,00 miles my '88 Vanagon is displaying symptoms of
a head leak - I have not yet confirmed this or done a recent
compression test, but plan to do so. I have concluded that
one of the worst things you can do to your van is not use
it. Bad things happen when they are left sitting!<br>
In any case I am looking at my options, and started out
thinking about replacing the heads, then thought if I was
going to do that, I might as well put in new piston rings
too, and well, once you do that you might as well go a step
farther and do an engine rebuild. Of course, once you get
there, the question becomes, stock, modified (like GoWesty)
or engine swap. In looking at these options, it looks like
a cost of $5,000 or more. From what I have seen, Subaru
conversions can reach over $10K. Yikes!<br>
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I was wondering if I could get opinions on the best course
of action in this situation, not wanting to spend tens of
thousands of dollars. Would list memebers give me their 2
cents worth and if possible, what the aproximate costs for
the various solutions range from? I'm not sure if it makes
more sence to just install new heads and hope for the best,
or go full bore and swap the engine.<br>
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What does the voice of experience say? Anyone out there have
opinions on the GoWesty performance engines vs. a Subaru
transplant?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Todd<br>
'88 Westy<br>
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