In a message dated 11/17/98 9:13:25 PM, mgajewski@MANVILLERUBBER.COM wrote: <<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>> Sorry, but this isn't quite true. Properly maintained, you can expect well over 100,000 miles, and there are listmembers out there with over 200,000. There is no reason a rebuild shouldn't last as long as a new engine would. No doubt that GEX build engines that are only designed to last a day or two longer than the warranty. They cut the corners and take the risk. GEX can always blame you later on or claim your engine overheated. I only had to rebuild my brand new GEX engine 3 times, and I now have about 15k on the latest rebuild. I consider myself lucky to have gotten that many miles. 60k? now that's living on borrowed time with a GEX. Steve '74 Campmobile |
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