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Subject:Re: In vehicle head gasket fix!!!!
From:Aristotle Sagan
Date:Sat, 1 Mar 2003 11:40:27 -0800

You are kidding, right?
If not, put me on the list of people who never want to buy one of your used
vehicles.

Let's see, we got Dr. Tim on one side of the maintenance spectrum, we got
EMZ on the other. That means most of us fall somewhere in the middle, where
we belong. And I thought using JBWeld on a stripped out spark plug hole was
bad.

Wow.

tim in san jose

>From: EMZ <vw4x4@FYI.NET>
>Reply-To: EMZ <vw4x4@FYI.NET>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: In vehicle head gasket fix!!!!
>Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 14:42:11 -0500
>
>     Vanagonits,
>    I think I'm on to something.  This spring I'm going to try this....
>I'm going to take a thin stiff putty knife, and jam it down between
>the head gasket and the block, to scrap out the corrosion where the
>Vanagon engine head gaskets leak.  I'm hoping that this will be good
>enough to stop the leak but not do much damage to the gasket.  I've
>done this with a small screw driver, so far, on an engine, sitting
>on my work bench.  Looks to be a good temperary fix?  Anyone would like
>to try this with there leaker?
>
>             Eric                   86-VW4x4
>             vw4x4@fyi.net          86-SS Syncro
>             Pittsburgh, PA USA     1936-Chrysler
>                                    92-Jetta GWC
>             www.fyi.net/~vw4x4/vw4x4.htm

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