Send that dog to the bone yard or part it out.
There are plenty of nice vehicles of the Vanagon Type out there with
decent prices on them.
I'd think that you can buy a good running Diesel Vanagon for less than a
rebuild engine and all that life stealing labor you'll have to invest
yourself or enslave yourself to an employer to earn the money for.
Dead is Dead, if it were a Westy I'd say make the effort but absolutely
not for a seven person hauler.

Stan Wilder
83 Air Cooled Westfalia

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 20:41:49 +1200 Andrew Grebneff
<andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ> writes:
> >Another option would be to get the 1.9 diesel longblock from Parts
> >Place/Overland Parts/Vanagain
>
> Take the list's warnings and avoid the Parts Place like the plague!
> It's The Place to go to get ripped off...
>
> If you buy from them you may find your "new" engine has wooden
> pistons...
> --
> Andrew Grebneff
>

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