On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Ken Korn wrote: > Lot's of BAD experiences with GEX motors. Just check the archives. > Last fall we had our '82 aircooled Westy motor overhauled (it was a > GEX with about 60k miles on it), and it was junk. They even used two > different case halves without align boring them. Shortly after I got the engine I posted to the list that I suspected that my engine too was made up of two different case halfs. When I called GEX about it they feigned ignorance about it; in fact, as I recall, they pretty much expressly denied it. Now I'm not so sure. At some point I'll post my findings about this engine. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Young young@sherlock.SIMS.Berkeley.EDU Lafayette, CA 94549 '81 Vanagon --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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