L&A Johnson wrote: > Ken, I would agree with you if the engines were "remanufactured" but they are > not. They are "rebuilt". > > > However lately I have seen alot of evidence to the contrary. > > Why is it that so often a Vanagon that is being sold has had a rebuilt engine > installed within its last 20-30 k miles? Is there a message here? > Larry Are there waterboxer engines that ARE remanufactured? On a similar note, I've been looking at engine options. All the conversions I've heard about, I can't get any Long Term data on any of them. Most have been done in the last 1-3 years (more towards the 1 year). At least we already know the problems for the waterboxer. Thus far to me, it's been like voting...the lesser of the two evils... -- Please remove "faux." from my reply-to address above in order to send a reply. I'll try anything to try and foil the junk email mutants. |
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