Mark Magee said concerning Vanagon Fan Switch: > Therefore you have a small window in which to work with in operating the > >fan manually. Furthermore, this spread was carefully thought out by > >engineers back in the Fatherland... Cary Chiang said: > "Carefully thought out by engineers back in the Fatherland"??? Hopefully > these were not the same engineers who carefully thought out the waterboxer > head gasket design!! No, this was a completely different engineering team! The Vanagon head gasket design was actually sub-contracted out to the East Germans (then commies) who borrowed it from the Russians (Zuguhli) who bought it from the Yugoslavians (Yugo), who swiped it from the Italians (Fiat). Apparently none of them could get it to work either. Mark Magee 87GL 82 Diesel Westy 96 Suzuki 4WD Kemah TX |
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