It is not impossible to have the water entering your engine.
Or a sudden break of the rings.
Or one of the valve guides are broken.  I had that.
Or something else that some other guy says...
Zoltan
----- Original Message -----
From: "dawn" <dmoroughan@ATOMIC.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 6:54 PM
Subject: power loss then blue smoke!

> Driving my vanagon this morning to work about 25 min into trip  had a
moment
> loss of power then all I seen out the back was a curtain of blue smoke.
> She will turn over on the side of the road  but not start.
> After she cooled down about an hour later she would start up and clack
with
> blue smoke only to shut down after
> a moment or two .
> any ideas?
> Darrel 88 gl 100 miles a day daily driver.