I have one.

It never really has broken in and it has more than 20,000 miles on it.
Still uses oil.  AVP says that they've only ever had this happen once before
and will re ring it for me on guarantee.  They've been straight forward
about the whole thing and the rest of the engine has been fine so far.

YMMV.

Mike

On 2/10/03 2:08 PM, "John Lunetta" <blun1432@OPTONLINE.NET> wrote:

> Has any one on the list ever installed a AVP 2.1 waterboxer engine in their
> vanagon? Or does any one know if these are good rebuilds? Who is AVP? The
> price seems reasonable enough.
> John 1990 vanagon gl
>