Dont sell Stella! Shes only got one problem right?
And youve replaced almost everything else, making it a
newer vanagon.
Phil 84' all white westy
"millenium falcon"
84' all brown Westy/Wolfy
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Kate  wrote:
> Wow I haven't had to write in for a while now.  I
> missed you all!  Well
> I am having a moral dilemma.  I have this great
> vanagon named Stella and
> I am very attached to her, so much so that I have
> had the  head gasket
> replaced 3 years ago, a new transmission 2 years
> ago, new brakes $500
> ago, new hoses and a cat converter $787.54 (not to
> mention 3 weeks ago),
> and two days ago I saw the dripping of the
> anti-freeze again.  I drooped
> it off to Euclid foreign Motors in Euclid, OH and
> the owner said it was
> probably the head gasket again.  He also told me
> that I could drive it
> as long as it was cool out, but no extended trips
> and not driving when
> it is hot out.  My options are as he put it:
> 1)  Sell Stella
> 2)  Put in a new engine (A VW Re-built)
> 3)  New head gasket
>
> Now here are the symptoms that I got out of him:
> Stella is not leaking bad, but the coolant is not
> getting back from the
> engine, hence the overflow tank empties after
> driving, he did a
> compression check, and he could not identify a leak,
> but it's dripping
> slowly, so it has to be in the compressor.  I asked
> him if the water
> pump is OK and he said yes, (it should be, that was
> about $250 ago and
> if it was after the transmission).  Well I have read
> up on the head
> gasket info on the Vanagon site, now I'm doing it
> again.
>
> Now I am in luck in one manner, I do know a guy who
> worked for the
> mechanic that is currently looking at Stella, and he
> has offered me some
> very cheap labor, cases of beer!! What a deal, but I
> am a full time
> student and I work in a bar, so I will have a money
> cap.  My other
> probelm is I am moving or Ashland, OR after I finish
> up classes this May
> (no I was not planning on driving out there)
>
> So my dilemma is:
> I love Stella, but I am not a millionaire, I would
> love to keep her.  I
> have heard talk and rumors about putting in other
> than VW engines, but I
> know little about that and my mechanic has never
> heard of any such news.
> So any one with any information, suggestion, or
> millionaires looking to
> adopt a grand daughter and Stella, please, I beg you
> for some input.
>
> Thanks again
> Kate

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