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Date:         Thu, 6 Apr 95 10:19:38 PDT
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         David.Kao@Eng.Sun.COM (David Kao)
Subject:      Re:  76 engine dead

Richard wrote:
>>
>>itself are in in there. For only a couple hundred more dollars, you can split the
>>case, and have EVERYTHING re-machined and new bearings put in. To not do
>>so, from what I have seen, is only a very short-term, and expensive solution.
>>YMMV
>>IMHO
>>Richard
>>


I have seen an article regarding align boring (sp?) might not do any real
good to VW air cooled engines. The author said so based on his statistic
data that such machining did not result mostly in satisfactory results.
The resaon, the author concluded, was that unless the machine shop had the
precise equipment and skill to do a critical precision job, such machining
were mostly wasted. Buying a new block is a better choice. I would replace
all bearings without doing an align boring.


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David Kao
dkao@eng.sun.com
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