Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 11:13:02 -0500
Reply-To: Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM>
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From: Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Guy's got a low-mileage 2.1 engine for sale-rebuilds
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If I recall the failure experienced was a melted/burned piston. That was not the result of a bad rebuild. Somehow the combustion process in that cylinder was not right and there she went. Who knows why the first engine was replaced and it is likely the cause for failure was not adequately addressed. From experience cooling system failures tend to take out the heads first and over advanced ignition timing and/or an injector or other mixture problem melts the pistons.
Dennis
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From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of John Rodgers
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2015 10:46 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Guy's got a low-mileage 2.1 engine for sale
I had an '88 GL I bought on a used car lot with 80,000 odd miles and had an engine failure in 1999 in late October at about 96,000 miles. When the engine was pulled, the mechanic and I found a yellow tag that said "Remanufactured by Volkswagen of Canada". Apparently, that was engine number two since the car was new - two engines in less than 100,000 miles
- roughly an average of 50,000 miles each, not a good service life at all.
And I was about to put in the third engine! Three engines in 100,000 miles
- not a good record.
Got good life out of that third engine and still am. But engine #2 I wonder about. Was it a fluke or a poor quality rebuild? I guess I will never know!
John
On Jan 31, 2015 11:05 PM, "James" <jk_eaton@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hopefully Frank Condelli can chime in on this, as there were some
> fresh 2.1s brought into Canada from Germany somewhere around
> 2010-2011, and I think Frank led, or was part of, the group that brought them in.
>
> The VW of Canada 'factory rebuild' program was some years earlier, I
> understand.
>
> James
> Ottawa, ON
>
> > Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 08:54:17 -0600
> > From: jim.felder@GMAIL.COM
> > Subject: Re: Guy's got a low-mileage 2.1 engine for sale
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> >
> > Someone who actually knows what they are talking about may chime in
> > here, but if they are the engines I am thinking about, they were
> > water boxer engines contracted for rebuild by VW in Canada and, for
> > all the effort
> put
> > into them, had a dependability rating about even with the guys at
> > the Firestone store down the street.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Rocket J Squirrel <
> > camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Not mine, he lives too far away for me to visit.
> > >
> > > <http://bend.craigslist.org/pts/4868614159.html>
> > >
> > > What's a "Canada `Gold star' sticker engine"?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
> > > 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
> > > Bend, Ore.
> > >
>
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