Looks like a great opportunity for flames here, but lets avoid that.
Just send me your address and I'll ship you a free brick to go behind
your rear wheel, I might even thrown in a bucket so you can recycle that
antifreeze each morning.

Stan Wilder

On Tue, 20 May 2003 19:27:37 -0400 Dennis Haynes <dhaynes@optonline.net>
writes:
> Everytime I get to work on an air cooled beast, I am quickly reminded
> of
> just how great the Water Boxer is.
>
> Dennis
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On
> Behalf
> Of Stan Wilder
> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 7:54 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Oil Leaks due to Synthetics
>
> oh wait 84 is air-cooled huh?
> -------------------- Clip --------------------
> Go ahead and laugh!
> If I find a decent Wasser Boxer Westy with a dead engine I'm going
> to
> plug one of my Air Cooled engines in it. An Eberspacher heater will
> fix
> the one fault.
>
> Stan Wilder
>
> On Tue, 20 May 2003 16:55:36 +0000 Joseph Fortino
> <fortinoj@SPEAKEASY.NET> writes:
> > well it has to take after the " aircooled brother " my bug has a
> > sticker
> > that says " oil dripper " ohh something about syn oils and
> crapping
> > out the
> > seals on older types, sometimes if you change oils what you talk
> of
> > happens
> >
> > oh wait 84 is aircooled huh?
> >
> > Joe
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Ed Hinchey [mailto:EJHin@AOL.COM]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 12:52 PM
> > > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > > Subject: Re: Oil Leaks due to Synthetics
> > >
> > > I have an '84 Westy with about 200K miles (the odometer broke
> in
> > 1991 with 104K on it) on the original engine.  I never used
> > synthetic oil and it has leaked from just about every possible
> > orifice since I bought it.  I always seem to be one leak behind.
> > >
> > > Me thinks that most Vanagons leak oil, and some leak more or
> less
> > than others - the type of oil probably doesn't make any
> difference.
> > >
> > > cheers,
> > >
> > > Ed
> > > '84 Westy in Syracuse
> > >
> >
> >
>
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