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Date:         Sun, 17 Sep 1995 23:44:10 -0400 (EDT)
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From:         Lawrence Stivers <lstivers@freenet.columbus.oh.us>
Subject:      RE: 87 Westy questions

On Thu, 14 Sep 1995 tschlaile@vnet.ibm.com wrote:

> I have an '87 Vanagon Camper and I can think of a few things that you may be > interested in checking out. 1) front rotor thickness (mine were worn pretty > good and the ones I saw in the junk yard were also worn past min thickness) > 2) Intermittent hesitation durin long trips (appears to be a miss caused by > plug wires shorting to the engine? or a bug in the "brain"?)3) pop top > canvas mildew 4) pop top sun roof operation (mine is a no-op as the thing > needs to be replaced) 5) overheats upon long idles (this can be checked in > a short period of time) That is all I can think of now, maybe more later. > > Tim Schlaile '87 Vanagon Camper

as to the overheating on long idles, I believe the problem with my '85 is that the cooling fan situated over the spare tire is inoperative.

I have yet figured out how to fix it though. larry '85 Westy


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