Greetings listmembers,

I purchased my 1987 new in Germany at one of the "drive around europe
and ship it home" purchase plans.  While driving in Europe, I found
the van to use 1 quart of oil every 1000 miles.  I asked a mechanic at a
VW
dealer in germany what was the problem and he told me that it is
acceptable for Vanagons to use as much as one liter every 1000 KM's.
I accepted his answer and the van ran fine, using a quart every 1000
miles for 193,000 miles.

I recently had a rebuilt engine installed and now the van uses a quart
of oil every 900 miles.

Thoughts?  Anyone else use a lot of oil in their wasserboxen.

By the way, the oil seems to be blow-by ... the air intake near the
AFM is very oily.  Blow-by could be rings that didn't seat properly.

Tim Hurlbut
87 Vanagon
90 Vanagon GL

PS.  The 90 uses about 1 quart every 2 thousand miles.  145,000 miles