Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 12:00:55 -0400
Reply-To: "kenneth wilford (Van-Again)" <kenwilfy@COMCAST.NET>
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From: "kenneth wilford (Van-Again)" <kenwilfy@COMCAST.NET>
Subject: Re: new head, etc all ok so far
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Mark, glad you got back on the road. That damage is so strange to me. I
was thinking the freeze and bust thing too, since I have seen so many
Vanagons with overheat and never seen one that has the kind of damage you
experienced. I don't know if you do this or not, but to be sure someone
else isn't "borrowing" the van when you are back in the USA, you might want
to write down your mileage before you leave and then compare it to when you
get back. I know they could just unhook the speedo cable but it is worth a
try. There might be a reason behind why the storage guys were being so
nice. The van may have a tale that it could tell if only it could talk.
Hopefully I am wrong about this, but the damage is really baffling me.
Hope you folks enjoy the rest of your trip.
Ken
On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 1:45 AM, Mark Drillock <modrillock@gmail.com> wrote:
> So with the new head and 2 new pistons/cyls we are doing fine so far. About
> 900 miles since the repair in Amsterdam, crossing Germany into Poland. We
> visited the Auschwitz site yesterday. Today we cross south into Czech and
> hopefully meet up with another Vanagon owner who lives there just inside
> the border.
>
> So why did our head and cylinder crack in the first place? When it was just
> the head crack I assumed it was from coolant freezing during the winter it
> was stored. But the split in the cylinder wall doesn't seem like it could
> have been from that. The freezing pressure would have been on the outside
> of the cylinder wall, compressing the cylinder rather than trying to split
> it open. In any case it was with fresh 50/50 mix before the van left the
> USA. We put about 10,000 miles on the van in the 3 months before storing
> it. No known issues at that time.
>
> I have big travel plans for the next 2 months so with any luck my van
> engine work is all behind me. I hope to install a new poptop canvas in the
> next week or two. Last year we suffered in a lot of heat and the single
> window canvas made it worse. The screen is in tatters and bugs meant we had
> to leave the flap mostly closed. I should have put in a new canvas at home
> but ran out of time last year before shipping the van
>
> Mark.
>
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Thanks,
Ken Wilford
John 3:16
www.vanagain.com
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