Date:         Thu, 28 Oct 1999 18:41:11 -0700
Reply-To:     Mike Miller <mwm@LANSET.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mike Miller <mwm@LANSET.COM>
Subject:      Re: Who wants a set of used 2.0l P&C's????
Comments: To: Tom Young <young@SHERLOCK.SIMS.BERKELEY.EDU>
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Kind of in this vein, anybody have any idea how difficult/expensive it is to
go from 1.9 to 2 liter?

Mike
'85 Westy [ And it won't break if you don't drive it...I think]

----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Young <young@SHERLOCK.SIMS.BERKELEY.EDU>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 5:13 PM
Subject: Who wants a set of used 2.0l P&C's????


> Hi all:
>
> As you may or may not know, I rebuilt a couple of 2.0l Vanagon engines
> during the last year.
>
> After I did the first clean up of this set of P&C's I said "All right, I
> can reuse these!  Good looking cylinder bores, only cosmetic scuffing on
> the pistons, yippie!!"  But after spending all the money I did on the
> rest of the engine (heads, align bore, bearings,  rods, cam, etc., etc.)
> I figured I'd be penny wise and pound foolish to reuse this set; I was
> well past the "economical rebuild" stage of the game.
>
> Anyway, rather than throw them away I figure I'll offer them to the
> lists; maybe someone who's doing a "bucks down" rebuild can use them.
>
> I was carefull to keep wrist pins/pistons/cylinders together so the
> established wear patterns won't be disrupted.  I did a pretty good
> clean up of everything before oiling the bores and putting everything in
> baggies, so they're pretty much ready to go.  You'll need a new set of
> rings ond one C-clip (or come find it in my garage.)
>
> I'm asking $13.95 plus actual shipping costs from my zip (94549) to
> yours.  (Let's see... find a box, wrap them up, drive to the UPS station
> in Concord, have a burrito at the local stand.. Damn, no profit left!)
>
> Caveat:The P&C's look good to my semi-educated eye and I honestly
> believe there's lots of miles left in them, but I don't have the tools to
> mike them properly, so no guarantees.
>
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> Tom Young               young@sherlock.SIMS.Berkeley.EDU
> Lafayette, CA  94549    '81 Vanagon
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