Better yet, go directly to Bob's article, "A Gearhead's View: So You Have A Fresh
Engine and You Want It To Last" at:

http://www.bostonengine.com/articles/fresh.html

Marc Perdue

"Karl F. Bloss" wrote:

> Go to the Boston Engine web site: http://www.bostonengine.com
>
> Bob has good insights on new engine break in.  He builds a good engine as well,
> of course.  :-)  You might want to pay particular attention to valve preloading
> and back them off if the rebuild shop set them to final specs already.
>
> -Karl
>
> > Hi volks
> >
> > I just get my 88 transporter out of the garage with a rebuilt engine.
> > Apart from all the common advice from the garage in order to take care of
> > the new baby, I d like to know your secret advice that you can tell me
> > cause of your experience in that matter ? Anyone ?
> >
> > Other point, I going to start a trip over US and Canada (starting from
> > Montreal) and my trnasporter is not a westy, as it s quite hard here to
> > find some westy interior so I decided to build my own. Once again any
> > advice or good ideas from people who did the same. If you have pictures,
> > then it s perfect....
> >
> > Thanks !
> >
> > Jp.
> >
>
> Karl and Kristina Bloss, Trexlertown, PA
> '87 Westfalia Weekender  "Beverley" - 197K miles
> http://www.enter.net/~bloss/vw/
> PA/NJ Vanagon owner's mailing list: http://www.enter.net/~bloss/vw/pavanagon/