Good ol' "Bad Larry" has 175k with rebuilt heads at
some point...and still running like a champ!
hopefully won't need a rebuild till i can afford one
of those subaru conversions or perhaps an audi or
porche engine...something faster!!!  vrooom vrooom!!!
Go Larry Go Go...Larry be Badddd!

--- Sebastian Hill <sahill@QUALCOMM.COM> wrote:
> At 11:01 PM 11/8/01 -0800, Joel Sell wrote:
>
> >        I'm also wondering how many people are on
> this list with more than
> > 200K on
> >their vanagons. Sure, you hear secondhand stories
> about VWs that live
> >forever, but I would like to talk with actual
> people who have had this
> >phenomenon occur to them.
>
> My '87 wolfsburg has 187K on the original motor
> (heads replaced at 124k)
> and is still running strong. Burns a bit of oil,
> about a quart every 1500
> miles or so...  It should make 200k, but its going
> to be replaced/rebuilt
> shortly after that...
>
> my two cents.
> -Sebastian Hill

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Myc [84' Westy "Bad Larry"]
westyvanagon@yahoo.com
Mesa, AZ / Worcester, MA
Celle': (508)735-3487
In a Vanagon Down by the River
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