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Subject:Re: Wasserboxer Reputation . long
From:Jeffrey Schwaia
Date:Mon, 9 Dec 2002 23:16:02 -0800

Do you actually believe that Japaneses engines last an "average" of 300k?

-jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: David Beierl [mailto:dbeierl@attglobal.net]
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 11:11 PM
To: Jeffrey Schwaia
Cc: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Wasserboxer Reputation . long

At 11:52 PM 12/9/2002, Jeffrey Schwaia wrote:
>All I was trying to say, is that a "correctly" rebuilt and maintained WBX
>motor will not experience any problems that couldn't be expected on other
>water-cooled engines during the course of the engines lifetime.

Sure -- it's just that the Japanese engines have lifetimes looking at 300k
miles, with a lot less fussing around.

david

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