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Date:         Fri, 25 Sep 1998 10:42:34 -0600
Reply-To:     Larry Hamm <ldhamm@XMISSION.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Larry Hamm <ldhamm@XMISSION.COM>
Subject:      Re: What to buy
Comments: To: "J. Andersen" <janetda@CRIS.COM>
Comments: cc: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM
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J. Andersen wrote:
>
> In the last week I have been offered a 1982 diesel Westi and a 1986
> Syncro at what I feel are great prices.


If you camp, road trip, or evacuate for hurricanes, get the Westy. Yank
the engine and replace with I-4 VW watercooled. Leave the trans as-is
and add some big-assed tires. You'll have a vastly improved Westy with a
bulletproof, cheap-and-easy-to-work-on engine. You'll also not have to
invest in expensive drive train maintenance as in the Syncro. (No
flames, please, I'd love a syncro Westy myself, but then I do all my own
wrenching.)
Larry
'82 diesel->Jetta Westy w/big-assed tires
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