Date:         Fri, 29 Oct 1999 03:54:40 -0700
Reply-To:     Max/Joyce Wellhouse <maxjoyce@IPA.NET>
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From:         Max/Joyce Wellhouse <maxjoyce@IPA.NET>
Subject:      Re: You could be fooled (story of low oil pressure)
Comments: To: KENWILFY@aol.com
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Ken:  Quit stealing Mark Knofler's lyrics without giving him due credit.
Opps, I need vanagon content here uh   uh uh  yeah, that bug was squashed on
a vanagon windshield while playing Dire Straits' and Mary Chapin Carpenter's
versions of the song simultaneously.  yeah, that's the ticket....

DM&FS
-----Original Message-----
From: KENWILFY@aol.com <KENWILFY@aol.com>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Thursday, October 28, 1999 5:34 AM
Subject: Re: You could be fooled (story of low oil pressure)


>Greetings to Finland,
>
>I actually had the reverse problem here in the US.  Our dealers are so
afraid
>of Vanagons that if you have almost any problem at all they say, "needs a
>rebuilt engine".  I went to look at a van parked at the dealership one day
>when going to get parts.  The van was very nice and I asked the dealer
about
>it.
>He said that it had a headgasket leak and that the owner wanted to sell it.
>I came back a few days later, told him that I would give him about half of
>what he wanted for it because of the head gasket leak.  He called the owner
>and they said OK.  When I went in to sign the papers the dealer says, "Oh,
by
>the way, it not only has a head gasket leak but it also has a low oil
>pressure problem.  I must've forgotten to mention this the other day :)"
>Well I decided to take a chance on buying the van anyway.
>
>That was over 20k miles ago and it is still running great.  Dealer said
leaky
>heads and low oil pressure.  I have found that the heads don't leak at all
>(haven't added more than a couple quarts in 20k miles) and that the low oil
>pressure problem was really a bad sender.  Just shows what some Vanagon
>knowledge and a good prayer life can do for you :)
>
>Sometimes you're the windshield and sometimes your the bug :)
>
>Thanks,
>Ken Wilford
>http://www.vanagain.com
>John 3:16
>Phone: (856)-765-1583
>Shop:   (856)-327-0027
>Fax:     (856)-327-2242