Date:         Sat, 28 Mar 1998 20:44:53 -1000
Reply-To:     Peter Zendzian <peterz@GTE.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Peter Zendzian <peterz@GTE.NET>
Subject:      Re: "Extraordinarily bad engines"
Comments: To: Patrick Dooley <pdooley@gte.net>, Vanagon@VANAGON.COM
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Only made it 79,000 the got a cracked head.  Bought it from the po that way.

Pete
peterz@gte.net
83.5 Vanagon
>Maybe someone could organize a list survey.  Use 100,000 miles as an
>acceptable engine lifespan.  Lets see how many wb's have made it past 100k
>w/o headgaskets.  The results would be interesting.  Personally, if I could
>get 170k out of a rebuilt wb, I certainly wouldn't be screwing around with
>engine swaps.

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