It does sound like GEX is cutting corners...but if my memory serves from my old '72 westy isn't 60K about all you can expect from the aluminum aircooled motors hauling around a big bus? I'm not too up on the vanagon air-cooleds, were they longer lived than the older bay windows? mark Ken Korn wrote: > My 82 Westy had a 2.0 aircooled GEX rebuilt engine, installed about 60k miles > earlier by a previous owner. I have all of the records from PO's on this > vehicle going back to 1983. The engine still had the GEX paint and stickers > on the crankcase. > > This engine was a piece of junk to put it mildly. If GEX still builds them > this way, I'd recommend staying far away from GEX engines > > The Vanagon (and more so the Westy) puts a tremendous strain on the engine. A > shortcut rebuilt engine just won't last. I guess GEX just wanted to put out a > cheap product. > > Ken Korn > 82 Westy > Austin, TX |
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